We can shoot on our property,
and enjoy all the benefi ts of country living. The views are stunning, our neighbors are great, the animals are constant companions and there’s the work too. Oddly enough, Suzi and I fi nd the hard, physical labor needed to keep SUMARO House fulfi ll- ing and healthy. Yup, we named the place. It’s based on the fi rst two ini- tials of our family member names, SUzi, MAdison and ROy. Always wanted a house with a name. Tools are a critical part of the
equation in the country. Our John Deere 3320 tractor (with loader, thank you very much) is the back- bone, and various mowing machines, welders, chain saws, axes and the hundred other tools needed to keep the place going are all pretty much in constant use. Around here it’s a “do-it-yourself” proposition, and I always enjoy watching my wife Suzi (city girl from South California) fi re- up the tractor, run the ATV with a rough-cut mower, or knock down a tree with a chainsaw, rarely asking for help unless the job is too big for one set of hands. At the end of the day, a shower, a
glass of wine and family-visiting in the kitchen as we make dinner with fresh vegetables from the garden — and venison harvested from a doe last season in our Walnut grove — always makes us smile. We wouldn’t trade it for the world. And neither should you.
Dangers? Some wonder how dangerous it is
to “live in the sticks like you do” as they often say, especially if they’re from California or some other ur- ban-sprawl area. And the answer is easy — it’s vastly more dangerous for them when it comes to the 2-footed predators. Out here our neighbors know one another and a stranger sticks out like a piece of blaze orange on a hunter’s jacket. And nobody around here is the least bit hesitant to confront people and demand to know what they’re up to if they don’t recognize them. “Who are you and what are you doing on Roy’s prop- erty?” would easily come out of the mouth of any of my neighbors. One other thing is important too;
everybody out here is armed at some level. It may be an ancient single- shot, break-open 20 gauge or .22 rifl e, or an up-to-speed AR-15 with a light system. But everyone has a little — or big — “something” tucked away. When we fi rst arrived we were
exploring some woods to the east of our home and I had on an old
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Okay, maybe the boots and shorts may border on, as his daughter says, “dorkish,” but the boots are to keep snakes and ticks off. The chest rig holds the Model 25 for snakes, rats, feral dogs and whatever. The funny tool Roy’s holding harvests walnuts off the ground, there in the walnut grove. Work or play? We haven’t decided yet.
IT’S MORE THAN JUST
BAD GUYS
Roy Huntington, Editor American Handgunner Magazine
“Tanker” type shoulder holster for a 1911. I wasn’t sure what was out there, so I wanted to be armed. We popped up to the north of our for-
est and ended up right in the back- yard area of our nearest neighbor. It turns out he and his family were having a barbecue.
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