Turkey week

 First let me say, "Happy Thanksgiving" to everyone. I thought about going duck hunting today but decided to stay home. Holidays are a toss up, usually they fall on my days off and when they do they negate the reason I work when I work. Because everyone is off and usually out in the field, so I usually stay home. Anyway that's what's going on here today, I already made my turkey and turkey soup yesterday. So there's no cooking to be done just hangin' out and being lazy. 

 

Now, let's go back to last Saturday. As we all know I work on the weekends and when I get home I take off my boots, take a shower, go into the kitchen to get supper warmed up. While that's warming I always look out my kitchen window into my back yard. 

Well, this is what I saw....

 

Someone had burnt off all my underbrush and nearly caught my shed on fire, which truth be told would've been a good thing, I do need a new shed.

Back to Saturday, I was furious that someone would have the sack to not only go on my property, but to burn it off without even consulting me first. I was so mad I had a hard time getting to sleep, but I realized all the questions would have to wait until my week is over.

When Sunday came around I had to get ready for a hunt on Monday so I didn't have time to query any of my neighbors. 

After my hunt...

I headed over to my neighbor Bills to ascertain what had happened. He told me the guy across from me, not the one I had initially thought had done it, had started the fire to burn out leaves and a stump and for whatever reason just left. Well, I found out this guy is 3 sammiches short of a picnic anyway, and the fire just got out of control and he freaked out. The neighbor who I initially thought had set it was actually the one who called the fire department. Yes, apparently they had raked the leaves away from my shed and when they saw it was a loosing battle, had called the fire dept. When fire got to the property they had a pump truck watering down the shed and putting out the fire. It was going so good they had to go down to the road and get more water to finish putting it out.

So at the end of the day there was really no one sane to blame it just is. I only hope my black berry bushes come back in.

Tuesday I went to a local lake for a duck hunt, this was supposed to be the coldest day of the week with a chance of snow. Well, that forecast didn't disappoint, the day started at 27 degrees and after 8 the snow started. Unfortunately it didn't help the duck hunting but I did get one before I called it a day. I didn't get a pic because of the snow but if I had it would've looked something like this.

 Yesterday it rained all day so I stayed home and cooked, today well.... we already went over that. 

Happy Thanksgiving 😀 🍗 😴

wasted week

Monday too tired to go out and I forgot to set my alarm.

Tuesday went out saw 8 ducks and came home with nothing to clean.

Wednesday forgot to set alarm from getting up early on Tuesday, made boot and sock drying station.

Thursday tooo windy and warm to go out, can someone please send winter my way????

Good news goose is in next week 😌

Why is everyone happy with this heat????

Since it was spose to be damn hot on Monday I decided to do my house stuff. Which this week consisted of shopping, running to get my deer and delivering to my landowner. As I was going over a paved road and onto a dirt road all of a sudden my car was making alot more noise than usual. I pulled over and got under the car to see what had broken now. My muffler had rusted off right behind the catalytic converter and dropped onto the dirt road. As I'm trying to figure out what I need to do to make it home, a truck was rollin' down the dirt road with a cloud of dust enough to cover a semi. As he got closer he started to slow down, I looked a little closer and it was my long lost minion, you know... this guy.

Well, we hung out for a couple minutes and shot the shit about his hunting season. I "fixed" the issue and continued on to my landowner's, who wasn't home so I headed home. After an hour or so of workin' on my muffler it is sounding better than it has in years, under 20$ to "fix" the issue. 

Tuesday was a little cooler in the morning so I got out and watched 4 ducks, then I went home. Wednesday was cool also it was also a fairly cloudy day, so I stayed out til after noon. Glad I stayed because I actually got to, not only shoot at a duck but bring one home with me.

Today was the coolest of all 3 days however it also brought the fog, which was really thick at times. I worked a couple singles but nothing wanted to come in.

Off to the right you couldn't even see 50 yards it was also slick calm most of the day. For the most part slick calm is something you just don't want to see. 

I can only hope next week yields better results.

I tried to hold out

 I did... I really did try to hold out but I just couldn't pass this deer again, it's like he wanted to die. Monday I was in my stand and had a yearling doe start down the trail from my right to left. While I was watching her I kept an eye on where she came from, and sure enough out pops a buck. Well, this buck was taking the same track the doe was until he stopped... Then he just ran for no apparent reason all the way to the left of me. He knew something was wrong just not sure what it was, until I slid the bolt behind his front shoulder. He only made it 25-30 yards before he went down, the good thing is now the pressures off and I can start concentrating on duck and goose season. 

I forgot my camera and took this one with my phone, if you look you can see the exit hole in shoulder.

Tuesday I went back down to Fort Wayne for a little duck hunt before getting my tires rotated and balanced, then after that I had an appointment to get my brake controller connected. I looked and looked and could not find the plug in for the supposed plug and play controller. It only took the professional about 15-20 minutes to find it and cost me 15$, best 15$ I spent this week. Oh yeah, I didn't see a bird on Tuesday.

Wednesday I went over to Loon lake for my second first outing with the boat. This day went much better then last week, I actually made it across the lake to my spot and was able to put this guy in the boat.

When I got home I trimmed my hedges and bushes and mowed my lawn, hopefully for the last time this year. Then I headed over to Jake's house for some grill pizza's and steak, good friends and good eats. I'll probably head out during muzzleloader season to try for a doe. The other thing is I am really going to try to let the smaller deer pass next year and take a bigger one. I realize I say that every year but I am going to put more faith in the power of Halloween and the first week or two of November next year.