Short update on "Z" plot: Rye is growing, deer have all but abandoned the corn feeder according to the game camera. Acorns are thick in the woods, soybeans are available but there are lots of tracks in the Rye grain plot. Computer died and I'm still trying to figure out Windows 10 and how to import pictures. About the time I half way figure something out concerning pictures on the computer the whole thing changed with this new system. We only had a raggedy lookin' spike and a bunch of coons on about 30 pictures this time, quite a let down after averaging several hundred per week for many months.
Treefarmer
The weather is coolin' down in the panhandle. It was 56 this mornin'. Been hearin' of a few archery deer being taken. Parts of the Z shaped plot are under water as we experienced around 9 inches of rain during the past week. The Rye usually can't take much standing water but there should be plenty for Bambi and company.
Pictures certainly make our forum posts more interesting and I have run into several snags in the last few months. Learning a different way to post pictures, then tryin' to learn, as I mentioned last week, Windows 10, no progress :no . Will return the new PC and have a new hard drive with Windows 7 put in the old computer, then hopefully back on track with pictures of what's goin' on. It's difficult to be so hamstrung when it comes to such things as computers and other important things like knee surgery, etc. Being a maintenance foreman for over 25 years you feel like you can fix about anything that comes up. I found that it ain't so anymore.
It's only 15 days till the start of our short 4 day rifle season on Thanksgiving Day. Maybe by then I'll be back up with some deer and food plot pictures.
Treefarmer
Going to put in plot next year
The plot is doing well, the card from the camera showed there is still a decent buck back in the area. Having only set 3 afternoons during the short thanksgiving season, I saw no deer at all. I didn't feel like going with the M/L last week and of course this mornin' I should be in the shootin' house but this sciatica thing has me kinda' hamstrung. Maybe I'll feel like going in the afternoons for about an hour, kinda' like I used to do before retirement.
Still don't have my PC repaired and am running Miss Joy's laptop and don't know how to do pictures on this device.
Got a doctor's appointment on Jan. 5 to see about all this fun I've been having on my left side.
Treefarmer
Here's a quick update on the "Z" plot. Haven't felt like climbing the ladder to the shootin' house, but the sciatica issue is much better, maybe in a few days I'll go sit and see what's happenin'. I had a a great idea but Miss Joy wont cooperate. In the past , I've had her raise me up in the bucket on the tractor that has the loader. I have cut a lot of tree limbs like that but some how she thinks it would not be safe to raise me up as high as the loader will go and let me step off onto the shootin' house ladder, might even lift high enough to just open the door and step in. So much for that idea, she muttered something about "an ol' fool" when she walked away :no .
My camera is still on daylight saving time and the deer have been there just a little after 4 most afternoons. Haven't had any of the "good" ones in the daylight for a while but there are several shooters that are showing up. The rut usually brigs the big boys into the open when the does are present, or have traveled to the feeder or across the rye patch. They'll trail 'em like a hound dog.
These were there the other evening.
Treefarmer
