Latest visit to the farm

Well Lois and I made another trip to the farm on the 4th of July, it was a beautiful day, the temperature was great. Just a great day. We didn't do any work, we just fished and downloaded pictures from the game camera. I also put Gracie's blue bird house back up after fixing it. Hopefully it will have birds in it next year. The last time we were at the farm fishing we didn't do very good, Lois caught the biggest fish but I caught the most, which was a total of 4 fish. This trip we ended up keeping 11 fish







The red eared sunfish were big and I was surprised that we caught so many of them, which Lois caught most of them and I caught the crappie. I also caught a couple of bass, this one was on a top water lure which is always fun to do .







We also downloaded pictures from the game camera, here are some of the pictures, this one is of a young buck in velvet







This next picture is of the newest addition to the farm.














This picture is of the local coyote who doesn't look very good, a little mangy







Here's a picture of another coyote who looks a little better, he looks younger also







There were 243 pictures on the game camera and I will be updating the other blog soon. When we were leaving the farm across the road there was a doe with 3 fawns. Didn't get any pictures of it but it was cute.

Latest trip to the Farm

We went to the farm on June 19th, yes I said we, this is the first trip for Lois since March 11 and we planted all the trees. Today's visit was to try out the new fathers day gift I got, a weed eater that you can use to cut brush and small trees. It worked out great, you can cut brush/trees up to 3" thick with it without any problem. We also had a temporary electric fence that the renter had put up to keep his cattle in, he had taken it down but had not picked up the actual wire, I had asked him twice to pick it up. Well I picked it up today and it is now part of the metal going to the recycling company, I figure if I have to pick it up I will get the most from it, exercise and money. They had also baled the pastures, we counted 28 large bales down by the gate going to the neighbors property.

Had to change the front tire on the golf cart, it was flat the last time I was to the farm and I didn't have any tools to change it. That was a new experience, had to use the jack from the Trailblazer to do it. Once it was changed we were off to show Lois how much things had changed at the farm.

3 azaleas out of twenty had died which isn't to bad, 1 hazelnut nut bush was cut down when they cut the grass for hay and it should come back. Other than that most of the plants looked good. The rhubarb plants were still growing.

We did fish in the ponds, but didn't get started until late in the afternoon about 2:30 and Lois caught one crappie and I caught 2 crappie and one small bass. Didn't keep any of them.

We did download the pictures from the game camera, there were 262 pictures on the camera. Still not any fawns showing up yet. These are the new things on the camera, saw two new dogs, a rabbit, first rabbit we have seen on the property and a three legged deer.

While we were there fishing by the pond at the barn I heard a bob white whistling, we left that pond and went to the other pond to fish, when we came back to the barn a quail flew across the road when we were almost to the barn. Then he stayed out in the open for us to watch for about 3-4 minutes. I just love to watch and hear them. I also had to pick up Gracie's Blue bird house as it had come apart. The blue birds had nested in it, hopefully it had not come apart while they were in it. I will build it a little stronger this time and put it back up.