Very sorry about your friend. Sounds like one in a million. I will bet he had some good stories to tell. Corn patch looks real good.
Day 145 Corn patch food plot
An understatment would be , the corn patch is wet.
Last week we knocked down 2 passes to create the 1st shooting lane. 2 passes with the tractor being 6 foot, gives 12 foot wide lane. Rode along the lane several times with the cart and picked up a couple of tubs of corn.
Then it started raining. We have had 3.65 inches since last report. It's getting wet in the woods! Got stuck with the cart last Sunday afternoon before church time and had to walk back to the house. Today I drove a tractor and the pictures will show how nasty this old bottom can get. Would be a great place to "rip and tear" with a 4-wheeler or a pickup truck.
We still intend to pick enough for seed and try to make some corn meal and let the critters enjoy the rest as the weather turns cooler. We are still having visitors, some tracks in the mud and still just at random. When they start hitting it harder, I believe we'll have a better place for a camera. The deer in the picture has just come out of some natural rough woods and is about 50 feet from a corner of the corn patch.
Still about 7 week till it starts. Treefarmer
Day 152 Corn patch food plot
Been 9 days without rain, still boggy in the fields. The peanut harvest is resuming, lots of acres had been dug before it started raining, now it is drying enough to be able to run the pickers across the fields. The peanut patch on our place has not been dug yet, the deer are working on them ahead of the machines.
The corn patch is also very wet, but we have nocked down another 12' wide shooting lane and picking up some of the larger ears to shell out to use in an automatic feeder on our lease. Have a few pictures of the shelling process, all by hand. If I wasn't retired I wouldn't have time to do this time consuming job, but with the price of shelled corn as high as it is, I'll try to salvage all I can. After picking a tub full of corn, it is then shucked, then run through an old David Bradley corn sheller, then it is ready to put in the feeder. Shucks and cobs are either put in a burn pile or composted.
Had at least 2 visitors yesterday right after dinner time. A momma with a spotted fawn walked by the camera. I need to reset the date, the year is showing 2011 on that camera.
43 days till rifle season.
Treefarmer
Day 152 cont'd: yesterday's visitors (need to reset date) Treefarmer
I was sitting out in my driveway this morning in the shade enjoying the cool weather break we're having down here and thought about how nice it would be to have me a spread somewhere to do what you're doing up there. Enjoy your time there brother. I could find at least a 1000 things I'd rather be doing than waiting to go into work living in the burbs...
