company on the mountain

[mountainvan]

was out all day hanging tubing and tapping more trees. walked up a frozen stream this morning, down an old logging road to the truck for lunch. walked back up the stream after eating, 5 sets of coyote tracks going up the stream after I had. got close to where I was working, obvious they were hanging out watching me for a bit. had no idea they were there till after the fact. if I see bigfoot tracks I'll get real excited, actually I'll go hide under my bed!!

[super sappy]

When I leave the sugar house at night I can hear the coyotes from 3 locations barking.A couple of weeks ago I was able to get a look at them with the mag lite.If they were to grab a couple of my wifes roosters my feelings would not be hurt since I found one of them roosting on my storage tank yesterday.(as far as my wife knows the coyotes did get that one-He's gone)In the last couple of years the coyotes have been a real problem around here as well as the fisher cats.No more turkeys -ss