Showing posts with label deer hunting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deer hunting. Show all posts

Monday, September 06, 2010

Labor Day Invasion of Blood Suckers

Picking seed ticks (teeny tiny newborn ticks) from my two year old daughter was not how I'd envisioned spending my Labor Day, but that's just how I spent a big part of my afternoon.

PhotobucketBrien bought a new automatic corn feeder and decided to take it to his deer camp today to set it up. The kids and I chose to tag along because we had a free day. We were on the go all weekend with birthday parties so we took the opportunity to get out of the house and enjoy the outdoors. Even Oscar the wiener dog tagged along with us.  Everyone was excited for a road trip followed by adventures in the woods. All three kids were excited.  Of course, 2 year old Emily was just excited because the other two were.  Tyler has a bit of "buck fever" like his father, so he's super excited to get back out in the woods and look for signs of deer, etc.  Shelby just doesn't want Tyler to be doing something without her, so I think that's why she takes such interest.  Don't get me wrong, she loves spending time with her daddy, but being hot and mostly being outdoors is just not her thing.  She's more of a shopper than a hunter, and she gets that from me!

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Tyler took the opportunity to scope out the land and check for signs of deer and turkey.  He took his gun, of course just in case.  (Don't worry, this is a toy gun!!!)
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Of course while Daddy and Papaw were putting together the feeder, the girls followed Tyler down the path.   Emily and Shelby were enjoying their time together exploring.
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Unfortunately, the results of their exploration were the previously mentioned seed ticks.
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Brien and Ray were working hard to get the feeder put together. It has an timer so that you can set it to distribute the corn automatically for a set amount of time.  Brien forgot to take his game camera, but hopefully he can get it up there sometime this week so that he can get some digital photographs of what's feeding. 

We all managed to make it home a little weary and exhausted, but I think we're finally tick free.  Oscar has the monthly medication that keeps fleas and ticks at bay, so he's fine.  After checking one another like monkeys, I think we're all okay! 

So, how'd you spend your Labor Day?!

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Sunday, February 08, 2009

The Weekend in a Nutshell

Friday afternoon hubby and I planned an impromptu camping trip with the kiddos. He has a deer camp in Cave City. It's a beautiful place and there's lots of woods to ride around in on the four wheeler. Our camper is still there, so we decided to just go home from the office, pack up a few things and spend the night. My wonderful MIL graciously agreed to keep Emily for us so that we could enjoy some time with the older two. Oscar (the wiener dog) tagged along as well. The weather was supposed to be warm this weekend so we thought it'd be the perfect opportunity to head out. What we didn't realize was that the ice storm that hit the state two weeks ago had crippled this city.

We built a fire when we got there and the kids had fun roasting some hot dogs and marshmallows. Brien got some strawberry marshmallows. I did not know they made such. They were really yummy! Shelby and Oscar slept in the back of the camper in the bottom bunk while Tyler curled up in between Brien and myself in the itty-bitty full sized bed. Before the night was over, I ended up on the couch bed. Even the King sized bed at home isn't big enough for the three of us because this child likes to sleep sideways!

Brien woke up bright and early in the tradition of being at "deer camp" I suppose. He got dressed and went to look around. He came back and reported that he had seen nothing. By this time Tyler had woke up and was very disappointed that his daddy had went hunting without him. We couldn't make him understand that it was not hunting season and he could not hunt anything. When he got dressed we went out exploring. I took my weapon of choice, my Cannon Rebel. I had fun shooting all kinds of things. I didn't kill anything, though. I did get some great photos for Looking at the Sky on Friday for the next few weeks. I also got some shots of Oscar barking at cows, like the one below in the Camera Critters meme.

Brien made us some breakfast and we headed out on the four wheeler exploring. As I mentioned before there was a bad ice storm a couple of weeks ago and there were lots of trees down making our explorations a bit difficult. We managed, though and we all had a great time getting out in the woods. The temperatures were in the high 60s and there was still ice in the woods, so that tells you how thick that the ice must have been at one point in time.

We had a lovely time and it was nice to get away even if it was only for 24 hours. Here are a few more photos I took while we were there, if you're so inclined. I've put them in a scroll box to take up less room. To see more photos, you can click over to my Flickr account here.


Shelby in the deer stand.

Tyler in the deer stand.

Deer tracks

Sitting around the camp fire
Shelby & Oscar on the Wheeler


Keeping warm by the fire


The Throne

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Sunday, December 02, 2007

Christmas for my hunter!

My husband loves to hunt. His favorite sport is deer hunting. He loves to turkey, squirrel, and coon hunt as well. Anything having to do with this sport is always a great gift idea for him. The hard part for me is that I don't know what he has and what he doesn't. He's mentioned a couple of times that he'd like to have a pair of binoculars with a digital camera. I've been doing a little research online and there's a place online that sells anything from sunglasses to rifle scopes, night vision, and those amazing digital binoculars! With names that include Bushnell, Nikon, Canon, Swarovski how could you shop anywhere else?! The greatest thing about Opticsplanet.com is that they have free shipping on orders over $29.95.

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Sunday, November 11, 2007

Lil' Hunters

This morning after breakfast my niece, Katie and daughter, Shelby came into the kitchen as I was cleaning up and told me that I needed to be quiet. Okay, I'll try to be quiet I informed them. But, why? Katie said that they had built a deer stand in the bedroom and they were hunting for deer. I went into the bedroom to find this:Their dads will be so proud. When they come home from the deer woods, they'll be glad to know that their daughters were hunting in the comforts of their own home. *LOL*

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Sunday, October 14, 2007

Shelby's accessories

Shelby was getting ready to go away with her daddy for the weekend to deer camp. She wanted to pack some toys to take with her for her father/daughter excursion. I told her that she could fill her back pack with toys. She carefully chose toys that she could maximize the capacity of the interior portion of said back pack. She took a few books, my little pony, Bratz dolls, colors, coloring books, and of course a MUST have in the deer woods: lipstick, eye shadow, and jewelry. Classic! I wish I could have been a fly on the wall when they were getting ready to go to the deer stand and she was primping up.

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