Triple C
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Triple C's found a new home! Thanks Todd and others that got this thing started so fast! Thought I would start my new land thread with this week's visit to the farm and then add a few pics from the beginning years our land journey to keep it in chronological order. Left for the farm about 10:45 Friday afternoon and made the 2 hour drive from NW metro Atlanta to the middle of nowhere between Athens and Augusta. I like being in the middle of nowhere. As you QDMA guys know, we just finished thinning our pines. We had to remove part of our entrance fence and gate to accommodate the logging trucks and equipment. As I turned into the entrance I was welcomed with the fence replaced and new gate installed. 20 ft wide to accommodate future logging operations! Brooks never sends pics or even tells me when he's doing stuff. I just show up and find it. I got no problem with that!
Made my way up to the cabin and another improvement noticed - Upgrade to our fire pit. Fire pit previously was directly in front of the cabin. Brooks moved it a little more than a year ago over the the corner of the cabin. Wife and daughter just never really liked it over that as it was on a slight grade and not level with no rock around the pit. Problem solved. Area around fire pit had been leveled with back fill and nice rock placed around the perimeter of pit. Nice to have a son in the grading / landscaping biz! Pit is the end of a propane tank with a grate on top that swivels out of the way to load wood. Be grilling a few venison backstraps on this thing come fall.
Updated pic of new growth in thinned pines. This time last year this would have been a clean pine-straw laden ground cover with very little vegetation. 7 months after first thinning of pines we have an explosion of new native browse everywhere in the thinned pines.
This field was used as a logging deck during timber harvest. I just assumed our clover would be shot after heavy logging equipment ran back and forth thru this field. We've had plenty of rain the past month and the white clover around the perimeter of this field is bouncing back beyond my expectation.
Speaking of native browse...each year I get a kick out of finding pokeberry that just gets hammered by deer. Many say deer never touch it on their place. On our place, for the most part they don't either. But there's always quite a few individual plants that just keep getting hammered as long as new growth is being put on. Here's a pic of a pokeberry plant or poke salad as we call it down south that is only about 3 ft tall due to the deer constantly browsing.
After having late frosts pretty much wipe out our pear fruit for the past couple of years I'm pleased to report that our kieffer pear trees have decent fruit on them this year. The orient variety has 0 fruit. I'll take what we got!
Sorry...wrong pic. Here's the pears.
Rain is a fickle thing in the summer time. Many around us are in near drought conditions. Call it luck, fate or divine providence...but we have been so fortunate for the past month to catch regular afternoon thunderstorms on our farm this year. We were extremely dry from March thru early June but since then we've made up the deficit on rain fall. Here's a pic from "Farm Logs" regarding rainfall on our farm. We are just shy of being back to normal on the 10 year average.
This past week I celebrated my 60th birthday. Saturday, my two sisters, niece and most of our family gathered at the farm for a "chicken grillin". Always nice to have extended family down. After dinner, my wife presented us with my favorite dessert - homemade pound cake. That woman can flat out bake an off-the-charts pound cake! Had a piece or two for breakfast this morning as well...
And finally...the reason we're all on this site. Couple of pics of one of our decent bucks on the property this summer.
That's it for now. Wow...posting pics is easy on this site. Thanks Todd for making this happen!!! Looking forward to reading and sharing with all you guys in the weeks and months to come! Happy trails from the Triple C Farm...
Made my way up to the cabin and another improvement noticed - Upgrade to our fire pit. Fire pit previously was directly in front of the cabin. Brooks moved it a little more than a year ago over the the corner of the cabin. Wife and daughter just never really liked it over that as it was on a slight grade and not level with no rock around the pit. Problem solved. Area around fire pit had been leveled with back fill and nice rock placed around the perimeter of pit. Nice to have a son in the grading / landscaping biz! Pit is the end of a propane tank with a grate on top that swivels out of the way to load wood. Be grilling a few venison backstraps on this thing come fall.
Updated pic of new growth in thinned pines. This time last year this would have been a clean pine-straw laden ground cover with very little vegetation. 7 months after first thinning of pines we have an explosion of new native browse everywhere in the thinned pines.
This field was used as a logging deck during timber harvest. I just assumed our clover would be shot after heavy logging equipment ran back and forth thru this field. We've had plenty of rain the past month and the white clover around the perimeter of this field is bouncing back beyond my expectation.
Speaking of native browse...each year I get a kick out of finding pokeberry that just gets hammered by deer. Many say deer never touch it on their place. On our place, for the most part they don't either. But there's always quite a few individual plants that just keep getting hammered as long as new growth is being put on. Here's a pic of a pokeberry plant or poke salad as we call it down south that is only about 3 ft tall due to the deer constantly browsing.
After having late frosts pretty much wipe out our pear fruit for the past couple of years I'm pleased to report that our kieffer pear trees have decent fruit on them this year. The orient variety has 0 fruit. I'll take what we got!
Sorry...wrong pic. Here's the pears.
Rain is a fickle thing in the summer time. Many around us are in near drought conditions. Call it luck, fate or divine providence...but we have been so fortunate for the past month to catch regular afternoon thunderstorms on our farm this year. We were extremely dry from March thru early June but since then we've made up the deficit on rain fall. Here's a pic from "Farm Logs" regarding rainfall on our farm. We are just shy of being back to normal on the 10 year average.
This past week I celebrated my 60th birthday. Saturday, my two sisters, niece and most of our family gathered at the farm for a "chicken grillin". Always nice to have extended family down. After dinner, my wife presented us with my favorite dessert - homemade pound cake. That woman can flat out bake an off-the-charts pound cake! Had a piece or two for breakfast this morning as well...
And finally...the reason we're all on this site. Couple of pics of one of our decent bucks on the property this summer.
That's it for now. Wow...posting pics is easy on this site. Thanks Todd for making this happen!!! Looking forward to reading and sharing with all you guys in the weeks and months to come! Happy trails from the Triple C Farm...
