Started out the day by going back out to hunt...Only
3 days left...
I heard toms right off the bat down behind my cousins
so headed to sit right near them as close as I could get...
I did pretty good and had them gobbling pretty intensely...
It helped having a hen with them getting them all fired up...
There was at least 2 toms there...
I expected them to come up the trail but alas they fooled me
again...Unlike normal where they come out of the roost around
520am, they stayed up till 550am...
When they hit the ground the toms went dead quiet...I had the
hen yelp once 10 minutes later more to my right and once I
shifted over 90 degrees, in about 5 minutes out of the corner of
my eye I saw a bird on the next ridge making his way to the power
line about 60 yards away...
Like the past, this group of 4 birds (3 toms) were on a mission
and only looked around when I made sound but never would
come in...
Bill was coming to start the graveling of the entrance road and
hunting was done by 8am...No other birds...
Bill and Jamie started to cut the bank at the bottom of my drive
way and to Bills surprise there was quite a bit of topsoil there...
1st scoop-full...
1st load...
Within the 1st 2 loads Jamie hit an old water line that heads towards
Darrowsville...1.5 inch line and mom thinks it went over to the
old Cooper house or barn...Its about 3 feet below the surface and
was put in long before all the trees grew up on this hill 70 some years
ago...
We worked around it until we knew for sure what it was and by
the end of the day, Bill drew 9 loads out...2 from up top near the
house to help make my turn-around bigger for when I have the
trailer...
The road looks nice and is definitely a nice improvement...We have
rain coming over the next 7 days so this will be a nice test to see the
low spots so we can do some touching up down the road...
End result at bottom of my driveway...
This is where the 2 loads came from that had a little more "grit" to it for traction...
This will help with my turn around area by the garage...
Stumps and any soil Bill couldnt use went into the "bowl" to start filling that
in...
Top of the entrance road...
Lets go for a ride!
We also did a quick fix up with one load of gravel over Charlie and Vie's
brook crossing...They have been so great to us over the years letting us
use their access onto the back lot...
While that all was going on my topsoil came (2 for the front and
1 load for the firepit area)...
By the end of the day I got the firepit area all spread out and ready for seed...
I have extra and will take that out for the front lawn..This is where I had to
repair the bank when the big pine by the house was taken down...The tree
broke the bank when it went over into the "hole"...I also needed to get some
dirt on top where Bill ground down the stump...
After Bill left I went down to out cages around the Hosta so the deer
stay off it for now...Want to let those grow some for the fall...When I
got down there, there was a big doe on the salt lick not paying any
attention to me...She let me shut my truck off, get out of the truck,
get stuff out of the bed and walk up the mound next to the road towards
her and she didnt hardly flinch...I was pounding stakes and she finally
headed off...Ive seen deer act like this before when its really hot but
it really wasnt that hot or humid yesterday...
When I left there I went up to the mountain to place out another
salt lick and there was a turkey acting the same way...Didnt pay me
any attention or anything even when I was up there making all
kinds of noise...Really weird actions...
Last project of the night was to take some time and start to take down
the sheetrock in the dining room...In about an hour I had almost all of
it off except some on the studs and ceiling area...It got to dark for me to
see plus I wanted the air to settle down before bed...I rigged up a fan
for blowing air out of the house and to draw all the dust in one direction
so it doesn go everywheres...It seemed to work pretty good...
Time for a shower and bed...
