November Journal

Me and the wife, wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving. Keith

She who must be obeyed gave me a watch for my birthday that you have to load the Long and Lat into and it tells me when to go hunting. When I seen all the bucks yesterday and the day before it was flashing so it's pretty close.
It has to get cold here before we would get much sap here. Had some dasy with hard night frost and warm days wonder if they would put out sap. No time to really investigate further.

got the borrow vacuum pump running today after fighting the gas ring pump last year it is out the door hope for a ring pump for next year

It been a rainy day,hard to believe it is Nov 27. I found a worm in the driveway today and there is a frog in the pond by my sap house.It is 57degrees here tonight.

We just finished deer hunting in Wisconsin, the best was an nice eight pointer taken from the Sugarbush swamp edge. My son killed a 400 lb black bear with his bow about 300 yards from the syrup shack, also saw one wolf and a cougar. Now will begin cutting some dead maples for the 2011 syrup season.

Will spend February before the 2010 Wisconsin syrup season helping calve 300 head of black angus outside in the central Montana winter prairie. Not sure why I enjoy that.

southfork no cats this year

Cougars are rare here. Our hunting group has seen three in thirty years and one was this year. Wolves are becoming common, see their tracks and sign everywhere.

Had my first Christmas fair this past weekend and as it was going on I thought I was doing real good. A lot of purchases but after talliying it up sales were down about $250 from the same fair last yr. I realized that even though their was alot of customers they were buying less
Keith

Southfork it's because you love being up to your shoulders in cows. The last cougers I seen was back in Alberta. There were three in a group and the smaller ones were not all that small.
Finally got to work on the evaporator today somewhat. Still cutting up pallets for firewood and trying to get ready for winter also. If it snows as hard as it rains this month I am in trouble . Have to use a ladder to get the buckets down in the spring.

I did nothing maple all weekend. Got most of the holiday lights up. Cut another 2 cord for the house. And believe it or not I had to mow the lawn today. Was getting to high for she who must be obeyed. I have never mowed the grass in November before. Just did not feel right at all. But good news is in a few days another month is behind us. December and January to go then the tapping month arives. Hope all you guys and gals got there stuff ready cause it is almost here.