Well we made it to the farm last weekend, had a very enjoyable time. The weather was so nice. The trip to the farm was the best, we have found a quicker way to the farm. The leaves are changing and it was a beautiful ride. See some of the pictures.
Once we got there Lois wanted to drive down to a neighbors place to visit them, so I stayed at the farm and installed the electric toilet, yes we got it back and it is installed and working. It is amazing, if you have a place that you don’t have running water but you do have electricity this is the way to go. It is called Incinolet; you can find it on the internet http://www.incinolet.com/index.htm. We have made a small bathroom and put it in it.
While I was working on the toilet, I heard a noise outside the barn, being from Illinois originally and having hunted pheasants for some 35 years, I thought to myself that sounded like a pheasant. So I walked to the door on the barn and sure enough there stood a pheasant about 20 ft away. I backed into the barn got my phone out and took a picture of him. This is unusual to find a pheasant in Tennessee as they don’t live here. He stayed near the barn all day long. Later Steve, the guy that cuts hay on our property, stopped by and I asked him about the pheasant, He said that some man down the road had raised a bunch of them and had gotten tired of feeding them so he turned them lose. Remember that you can click on the picture to enlarge it.
We put up a porch swing on one of the oak trees down by the entrance gate, Lois just loves it. She can go down there and relax whenever she wants to. We have two more to put up; one is going down on the dam of the pond by the barn. On our way home from the last trip to the farm we stopped at a flea market and found an old wooden porch swing. I have fixed it up and stained and sealed it and it will go down by the other pond.
We have cleaned up around the barn and it is looking a lot better, check out the before, during and after photos.
We have cleaned up around the barn and it is looking a lot better, check out the before, during and after photos.
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During
After
I also started fixing some of the fences, we have had several elm trees that are dead fall onto sections of fence. So I want to make sure the fence is up and in good shape. We also put up numerous “No Trespassing, hunting or fishing” signs at certain spots around the property. Not that it will keep people out but let’s hope so.
Downloaded pictures off the game cameras, the main one on the back side of the property decided to quit working. I installed new batteries into it and it would not work. These were fairly new batteries. So I took the camera down and brought it home with me. Once home I bought brand new batteries and it still wouldn’t work. So it is off to the Moultrie to be worked on. Thank goodness it still had 20 days left on the 1 year warranty. I am usually not lucky like that. We did have some good pictures from the camera, one of the big deer again. I will post these on the other blog site at, http://htfgamecamerapics.blogspot.com/ . Enjoy them.
We also met with the Tennessee Area Forestry Agent. He was meeting with us to let us know that we were all set up in the new Eqip Forest Habitat Program. He had gone to the farm earlier and done a Stewardship program for the farm. It gives us suggestions that we need to do to improve our forests and things to do to help the wildlife. We now have even more work to do but we are excited. We learned a lot from the agent, he was a wealth of information. He also showed me where there was a pecan tree on the property. He said he could not believe how many pecans were on this tree, as we have been in a drought since last year. He also showed me a white oak tree that was just loaded with acorns, unbelievable how many acorns were on this tree. One of the things Lois and I want to do is learn the type of trees and mark them some way so we will know what they are.
I didn’t get to fish this time as we did a lot of work; I cleared some of the area below the dam by the barn. With the wood that was cleaned out I built a brush pile to help the wildlife. This is one of the things that the stewardship programs calls for. We also were given some old duck decoys by a dear friend of ours. We took them to the farm and Lois used some of them to decorate with, we also took some and put them out on the pond by
Downloaded pictures off the game cameras, the main one on the back side of the property decided to quit working. I installed new batteries into it and it would not work. These were fairly new batteries. So I took the camera down and brought it home with me. Once home I bought brand new batteries and it still wouldn’t work. So it is off to the Moultrie to be worked on. Thank goodness it still had 20 days left on the 1 year warranty. I am usually not lucky like that. We did have some good pictures from the camera, one of the big deer again. I will post these on the other blog site at, http://htfgamecamerapics.blogspot.com/ . Enjoy them.
We also met with the Tennessee Area Forestry Agent. He was meeting with us to let us know that we were all set up in the new Eqip Forest Habitat Program. He had gone to the farm earlier and done a Stewardship program for the farm. It gives us suggestions that we need to do to improve our forests and things to do to help the wildlife. We now have even more work to do but we are excited. We learned a lot from the agent, he was a wealth of information. He also showed me where there was a pecan tree on the property. He said he could not believe how many pecans were on this tree, as we have been in a drought since last year. He also showed me a white oak tree that was just loaded with acorns, unbelievable how many acorns were on this tree. One of the things Lois and I want to do is learn the type of trees and mark them some way so we will know what they are.
I didn’t get to fish this time as we did a lot of work; I cleared some of the area below the dam by the barn. With the wood that was cleaned out I built a brush pile to help the wildlife. This is one of the things that the stewardship programs calls for. We also were given some old duck decoys by a dear friend of ours. We took them to the farm and Lois used some of them to decorate with, we also took some and put them out on the pond by
the barn. Hope you can see them in the pictures
I also took some pictures of the trees on the farm, so enjoy. 
