Dec 5-9 Fish Fry at Mack Creek

Well the deer have completely stopped moving in the day time, I have been steadily hunting in the woods but only seeing squirrels. At some point I may do a little squirrel hunting. Now that December is here it has been mostly Me , Callahan and Kevin here. Kevin starts back to work today so it will be just a few of us except on weekends. Saturday night Little John cooked fish, shrimp and hush puppies
for everyone. It was really good. Also on Saturday Kyle put a new Primary clutch on the Ranger.  It turned out to be an easy job. Now the Ranger is back and running fine again. I came home Sunday evening because I have a dentist appointment Monday. Will head back to lease after that.

Yolanda Susan

John  Skyler

Holly  Scarlett

Jen  John

Lil John, Kyle, David, Kevin, Carson
 

Nov 5-Dec 5 Hunting, Thanksgiving and " The Bernina Mystery"

Our first two weeks of deer season was not bad, We saw deer and killed a few. After that the deer got into night mode and we just didn't see any. We still had plenty of night pictures to prove to us there was still deer. We had really good cold weather to hunt. On Thanksgiving we went to the lake house and spent the day.  Sammi got to go to Freer Tx with Adam and she killed her first hog and a doe. She was very excited.  The biggest thing that happened was Susan started having problems with her Longarm Quilting machine.  Some times 3 of her quilting programs would stop working.  The owner of the Vintage Owl (where she bought it) came and checked it out. Of course it worked fine when he was here.  Later it quit again. I came home and we took it to Silsbee and got a loaner. We didn't get 5 miles down the road when Stephen called and said machine was sewing fine. We turned around and went back to shop. It indeed was working fine. Stephen and I talked about possible issues at home. We got home and machine did indeed work for awhile. Then it stopped working again.  I came back home and we took it to Silsbee again and got a loaner. When we got home the loaner did the same thing as Susan's machine.  I checked everything that could be causing problems. Stephen thought it might be electrical but I checked everything but no problem found.  I finally got a generator and hooked it up and still had the same problems so that ruled out any issue on house power. Finally I asked Susan the right question "What tells the program to start stitching" . She said there were two lights which came on under material ( sensors ).  I watched and only one light would come on and sometimes the other would flicker. We took the slider off she was using and the machine started working fine. Problem solved.  She had just started using this slider but didn't think that had anything to do with the machine. One more trip to Silsbee to take loaner back and get her machine and everything is great again. Now I can go back to the deer lease and hunt in peace.

Checking Cameras

Walking along Mack Creek

Nice and cozy on a cold morning

Maggie is snuggled in

Eddie, John and Kevin

David killed a Great Buck

Sammi"s  Hog

Sammi"s  doe

The culprit  

The Machine

Oct 27-Nov 4 Opening Weekend of Deer Season

On Wednesday I finally got the Ranger running just in time for the season, its using oil but that can wait till January. I went home to do a few things and had water well issues so it was Friday before I rolled back into Camp.  The weather was nice and cold with clear blue skies. By Friday night we had a full camp. We had a good opening weekend. We killed 6 deer and 2 hogs. We ate good and enjoyed the company.  Peyton and Holly had a blast playing around camp. Peyton also got to help track a deer that I shot. Maybe by next year both Holly and Peyton might be able to start shooting.  All in all we had a great weekend.

Starting to fill up at Camp

Jen is happy to get here

Peyton loves to dig

Holly and John

Becky

Yolanda,Susan Peyton

Kyle

Yolanda, John, Susan Eddie

Peyton wearing Colton"s police badge

Peyton,John,Jennifer,Holly ready to clean Jen"s doe

Oct 16-Oct 26 Ready for Deer Season And School Volleyball is Over

The cooler weather has been very nice. Everything at the deer lease is ready to go. Well except for the Ranger, it will  not start for some reason so I have been troubleshooting but no luck so far. I have a lot of deer pictures but they are 97% night time which doesn"t bode well for hunting.  Kevin did catch a hog in a trap, a nice sow about 125 lbs.  We also went to visit George and Delilah at Toledo Bend. We had a great time visiting.  We also made a few volleyball games. Ashley played her last Jr High game. They were undefeated in district.  Mackenna also finished her JV season and they were also undefeated in district.  Sammi is playing softball and has two more games.  We have a volleyball break until the last of December when club ball starts.

Caught a porker

Aubrey and Ashley

Ashley

Jr High District Champions

Mackenna

Mackenna

Sammi

Toledo Bend

Maggie and I are chilling

Sept 25-Oct 15 Its Been Busy

We got the house cleaned up and kinda back to normal .  The FEMA Flood adjuster came and did an inspection of the house. He took pictures of everything and explained things to us. We will get an advance payment first and later when the claim is approved we will get the final payment. You also have 2 years for any damage you find at a later date as long as you have pictures to show it. We are not going to get in a hurry, probably will not start till the first of the year, I mean it is fixing to be deer season. I have been splitting time between home and the lease trying to get all things done. Kevin has been at the deer lease working on things till he goes back to work. We also have been making volleyball games as much as possible. We finally got some cooler weather so it has been much nicer. John Callahan has moved in to Mack Creek for the season. He caught some pigs in his trap and has shot one pig so far. Kyle and Peyton came for a couple of days. My work is finished at the lease so I'm taking the tractor home and will start some clean up projects there. I have a few deer pictures but lots of hogs on camera. Last year we didn't have many hogs bit this year we are overrun with them.

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