Working at the Farm - Took a few I-Phone Pics

[Native Hunter]

That has to be the nicest spot for a deer to live in Ky.

G

Thanks G, and good to hear from you. I've been tagging along with your thread from time to time, and it looks like the fun adventures are never ending for you and Hank.

I would bet the tickseed sunflowers made you think just for a moment about your former life.

Keep the good times rolling on!!

 

[Triple C]

Awesomeness at work...

 

[George]

They sure did. I still have time to smell the flowers.



G

 

[Native Hunter]

Some of the earliest dropping chestnut trees started letting a few fall this week. I picked these up in the road I drive at the edge of the tree planting. There will be enough for me at different trees along the road this year. The deer can have the ones on out in the weeds.

Time to start checking your trees every few days if you want any chestnuts. Otherwise the deer will take care of them for you.

Plots still looking good - no pics today - and hurricane remnant bringing more rain on Tuesday. Take Care.

 

[Brushpile]

Your place is what I dreamed mine would be, but I'm now going 4 weeks without rain!

 

[Native Hunter]

Your place is what I dreamed mine would be, but I'm now going 4 weeks without rain!

Brush, I tag along with your thread, and have noted many times the lack of rainfall that you seem to constantly endure. I can imagine how discouraging that must be. We go into droughts here too from time to time, but we always seem to get back to normal relatively fast.

Last year it was so dry here in the fall, I couldn't get rye to germinate.

I feel for you man. Harvey ended up coming here and now it looks like Irma is headed here too. I wish I could share some H2O with you.

Weather patterns can change over time. Hopefully you will get a chance for the better.

 

[Brushpile]

Very discouraging to have close to 100 apple trees and not have one apple in 7 years. This year I hoped to share Chinkapins and Sequins, but the burs couldn't form a nut.

 

[George]

You sure have got some nuts.

I hear that the old place in Iowa is bone dry.

G

 

[George]

I think that Brad has talked me out of southern Missery. I have a nephew that is talking Ky and he still has my ear.

G

 

[Native Hunter]

I think that Brad has talked me out of southern Missery. I have a nephew that is talking Ky and he still has my ear.

G

I think you have found your abode. At first I couldn't imagine you ever leaving Iowa, and now I can't imagine you leaving where you are. I don't think you could ever be happy with the garlic cheese trout after catching the wild ones in the mountain brooks.

But, if you have ever wondered what a KY sunrise looks like on an NWSG field in September, I took you a picture this morning.

 

[George]

Nice, not too dissimilar from an Iowa tall grass sunrise. Which incidentally, killing off was one of the very first projects of the new tenant.

I would have to take up fly tying, hotdog and a corn pattern.

G

 

[Brushpile]

I think that Brad has talked me out of southern Missery. I have a nephew that is talking Ky and he still has my ear.

G

Missery is hitting the nail on the head. I have given up on trying to even grow a food plot!

 

[Mennoniteman]

Missery is hitting the nail on the head. I have given up on trying to even grow a food plot!

I have a friend in Stover and they're often dry there. Hopefully the pattern changes for you. If everyone would plant more trees it would rain more. Trees draw rain and promote a healthy ecosystem, but everyone needs to work together.

 

[Brushpile]

You sure have got some nuts.

I hear that the old place in Iowa is bone dry.

G

It's like living on the moon! I need moisture enough for my tracking dogs to track.

 

[Native Hunter]

Nice, not too dissimilar from an Iowa tall grass sunrise. Which incidentally, killing off was one of the very first projects of the new tenant.

I would have to take up fly tying, hotdog and a corn pattern.

G

I don't think me or Brad either one will have you as a neighbor. This is a video of what you are dreaming every night:

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[Native Hunter]

I went back to the same tree this afternoon and picked up nearly a gallon bag of nuts that had fallen since yesterday. I checked 10 trees and only two of them were dropping yet.

Look at the second pic below. The tree on the left hasn't dropped a single nut yet. The one on the right is where I'm picking up nuts.

Of course, I had to grab a couple of low hanging pears. These are Kieffers and I will let them set in the sun for a few days before eating.

 

[Buckeye]

How old are those chestnut trees that you are getting the nuts off of.i planted 1 year old trees this past spring.

 

[Native Hunter]

How old are those chestnut trees that you are getting the nuts off of.i planted 1 year old trees this past spring.

Those trees in the picture above are about 13 years old. When I set them they were knee high. They started dropping a few nuts at about 5 years old and it keeps improving every year.

 

[Native Hunter]

Not much going on here habitat wise. I've been putting in a lot of hours at my job and not much time otherwise to do anything. But I did have just a few miscellaneous pictures to post this week.

That's all folks..........

 

[Buckeye]

Couple nice looking bucks and a very cool picture of the bobcat with his lunch.