Meet the Girls

I'm clearing a pile of trail camera pictures from my desktop and into an archive.

As a consequence you get to meet the girls.  Including one with twin fawns...

Food Plot Update

The five food plots we planted just a little over a month ago are doing exceedingly well.  A meatball farming success story.

We got another 1/4 inch of rain last night and with regular precipitation we've had good germination and the sunny days and cooler nights have promoted growth.  A little extra fertilizer doesn't hurt.

The plot above is located within the boundaries of the north/south trail in the far northeast corner of the north plantation.

Feeding Time

In all the years I've run a circuit of trail cameras I cannot recall catching a picture of feeding activity in fawns.  I'm not talking about a deer nibbling some browse in the trail - I'm talking about nursing activity.

Last week I get three different pictures in two locations of this.

Deer Stand

The left-handed bow stand that heretofore has been enshrined in a creaky old willow has finally met the close of an illustrious career.  Constructed of treated lumber, screws, lag bolts and the remained of a pop-up ground blind it has finally succumbed to the forces of nature.  And a very real possibility that the tree itself is almost ready to topple into the trail.

It is unsafe.

So yesterday Sid and Lawyer and I erected a replacement deer stand.

I purchased it online and Cabela's shipped it to the Green Bay location for a convenient pick-up.

While it was a bit of a puzzle to assemble once we had it together we all tried it out.

It's got a commanding view of both the mowed trail and some swampy cover where the deer like to hang out.

Can't wait to see if it produces...

Walking the Dogs

From our morning walk today.

Girlfriend is still on restriction following her knee surgery but once and awhile she's allowed to walk about off lead as long as there's not rambunctiousness.

On the north side of the creek at the ancestral campsite lots of fresh grass to eat and something really stinky to roll-in...

POWTS

Private Onsite Waste Treatment System.

This is how you handle your shit when you're out in the country and don't have a municipal sewer system.  Everything flows down hill in the plumbing to a 1000 gallon tank where the solids settle.  From there the effluent spills into a smaller tank where it is filtered before being pumped into a mound system.  Once in the mound it slowly filters back into the ground water.  Our own miniature sewage treatment plant. 

Got the three year clean bill of health after having the tanks pumped and inspected
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That would be right.  Every three years.

The county sanitarian requires it due to the fractured dolomite limestone bedrock that makes-up the Door peninsula.

No leaking or failing septic systems allowed.

I chatted with this fella as he went about his stinky business.  All I can say is .....Whew!

Motorhead

Yesterday brought the annual harvest festival and car show in Sturgeon Bay.

Met-up with brother-in-law and his Frau and enjoyed an adult beverage or two, lunch, classic and old cars along with a huge collection of hot rods and race cars.  This is an annual event for me and every year I see more and more vehicles that I haven't seen before.

Hard to believe there are this many collector cars in northeast Wisconsin.  Or maybe not.  Here's sampling...