Dec 10-22 Hunting and Volleyball and a Huge Shock

This time of year it usually is just Me and John Callahan at the lease. There will be a couple of folks on the weekends. Its still dead during the day with only a couple of deer seen. I have still been getting plenty of night pictures.  I usually walk the woods in the morning just looking around and then hunt some in the middle of the day. I went home for three days as club volleyball is starting. Mackenna had a tournament on Saturday and Sunday.  This year we have 3 granddaughters playing so somebody will be playing every weekend thru May.  I will be heading home on the 20th. I will not be back to Mack Creek till Jan 2, 2020. I headed home Thursday because I needed to pick up a trailer. Kevin had a wheel bearing go out on his truck. We picked his truck up and took it to his Moms. Kyle came down on Friday and replaced the hub. The huge shock was when I got home , I had a letter from F & W Forestry.  Our deer lease has been sold and will no longer exist.  The new owners said we have to be out by Jan 31 ,2020.   After 53 years Mack Creek has been killed.  I spent a couple of hours calling folks to tell them.  Everyone was in shock. There are several kids (now grown men from 25-39) that have hunted here their whole life. I have hunted here the whole 53 years with mostly family and then a few others who are like family.  Ever since I retired I moved in to the lease after Labor Day weekend and stayed thru the first week in Jan.  It wasn"t just the hunting , I enjoyed the tractor work , riding the Ranger , walking the woods and all the fellowship.  These things cannot be replaced. At this point in my life I have no plans to find another lease. Susan has always wanted to travel some in the fall so now she will get the chance.   Life goes on.

Maggie is napping

Night time feeding

Buck chasing a doe

Two bucks together

Pretty Fox