Jan 1-31 January 2020

January has pretty much sucked so far. I have been moving things off Mack Creek and bringing home. It hasn"t helped that we have had a lot of rain, I was able to get my trailer home and set-up before it got too wet. Since then I have had to pretty much mud stuff in, I did set up a deer feeder  in the pasture and put a camera on it. I checked it after two days and I had 3 does, 5 coons and 1 squirrel coming to it.  Club volleyball has started for all three granddaughters.  We have somewhere to go every weekend now.  We still haven"t replaced our floors from Imelda,  we are going to redo our bathrooms first or at least the guest bath. We had a guy come and he refurbished the bathtub. He is supposed to give me a quote for our shower stall and sinks.  Once we get that done we will get the new floors down. Susan went to Adams for about six days. I finally got all my stuff moved off the lease. We had a good run of 53 years. Lots of good memories.  On another note since I no longer have a horse I have started taking down the fence on the back pasture, its old and I have no plans to put any animals back on it, Since its so wet it has been easy to pull up all the posts.  Even so, after two days my back is killing me so I'm thinking to let it dry some where I can use the tractor bucket to pull up posts. Old age is not fun sometimes.

Kenna got her first car

Ashley

Sammi"s  first volleyball game

refinished tub

Dec 26 2019 - Jan 1, 2020 Junction

The day after Christmas we headed for Junction.  Regan and Kerry left before we did as I went to town to get the oil changed in the car. We did manage to get away by 9:00. Adam also went with us . We meandered our way thru 290 and finally back to 1-10 where 290 ends. After 4 stops we got there about 4:00.  We pretty much just chilled for 4 days. Kerry and Susan went to Kerrville one day. Regan Adam and I just piddled around the ranch doing some small jobs. I really didn't hunt as I didn't need any more deer meat. I did all my hunting from the back window of the house.  Regan did shoot a cull buck which is a funny story but too much typing for me to put in here.  The weather was the warmest we ever had at this time of year but it did finally get cold enough the last 2 days to have a fire. The highlight of the trip was the last evening we were there. Regan and Adam were hunting in stands and I was hunting from the back door. I saw 14 deer, 10 does, 3 bucks and 1 uncertain. I had a nice fire going in the fireplace and was cozy. The deer had moved on and it was getting dusky. I went ahead and put my gun up and then was going out the side door to get more wood. I picked up some movement along the creek bottom so I went to get my binoculars, With the naked eye you could not make out anything , It turned out to be an Axis Buck, Not just a buck but the biggest Axis I have ever seen. I told Kerry and Susan to come see, Kerry said oh that's probably Big Daddy, we see him sometimes, when she looked thru the glasses she said good lord that's Grandpa, never seen him before.   It was just too late for my camera phone to get a picture and no gun available to get a closeup picture.  He never came to the feeder. You have to wonder where hes been and where hes going as no one has seen him before. I have never done a full shoulder mount but I would have this time.  We left a little earlier than normal and went to Adams near Corpus Christi. We left there New Years day and came home.

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Finally cold enough for a fire

watching deer for the back door window

watching some turkeys from the back door window

Regan Buck

Chester hiding from the thunder

Chester likes riding

Cooking a little supper

The beginnings of a little rock dam to collect water

Looking back fro top of the hill, Thats the neighbors place

Regan mulching a little cedar

Headed up the hill to ride around