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Danno2840 Welcome back young man. I thought you either got stuck in a treestand or your truck finally got you stuck in the middle of nowhere. Did you get a new truck yet or did you go with the maple equipment.
Red my daughter had the swine flue as well a few weeks ago. Doc said that type A is much more to worry about than the swine. She faired it pretty well. Now she has a double ear infection. Doc also said that 8 out of 10 kids that come into her office have tested positive for the swine.
Long day with meetings trying to land some city contracts with service on printing equipment. All I could think about was getting the heck out of their and spending some time with the dog chasing birds around. Faired well though I hope. Got home around 3 grabbed the dog and hunted for 2 hours and never put a bird up. Sure is fun watching the dog do her thing. Got home finished up the deer with some meatballs and snack sticks. Made some maple cream . Test buckets have only produced once so I am in the wait mode again. Heading to secret big buck spot on wednesday and thursday. Iam looking for the 130" one this time, Gotta get #4 in the freezer. Yeah I know Im greedy this year. But with the rising cost in licenses this year Iam getting my moneys worth.
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OOOHHHHH MMAAANNN!!!!! I wish it were sap and not just water!!! cured the refractory cement today everthing worked great!! a few little things here and there but overall very very good. I can't wait to boil sap in it!!!
I didin't even get it up as high as it will go.
3rdgen We can't even get in to see the doc. I have left messages for 2 days. they must be slammed I am sure...I just got back from parent teacher conference...only 10 out of 16 second graders in class today. She doesn't have bad simptoms just really a fever and bad sore throat.
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Okay 3rgen what's a hunting license worth. I have stupid deer sleeping on the lawn behind the house and I can't shoot at them. She who must be obeyed would have me sleeping in the greenhouse if I shot at one. Now the turkeys might be fair game as she figures they are ugly.
It's dark by the time I get home from school so not much get's done during the week. I really need to get moving on things now. Need to figure out how good a solduerer I am.
Did start a batch of pumpkin wine tonight.
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3rdgen - i was in my stand (or one of my friends stands) 24 out of the 31 day bow season, had the chance to kill a big ol doe but a little spotted fawn ran up beside her and right then and there i said "nope" and watched them mill around for 20 min and walk away, i also had a 60lbs skipper come in but that wasnt worth the effort so he walked to. but since the end of bow season 2 weeks ago i went up to the vontrapp farm put their old honda 2wd 4 wheeler in the back of their truck and took it down to my place and have been skidding logs threw the sugar woods since, its been slow going i can only pull 2 6"-8" logs 6 or 8' long at a time with out beating on it so its been 2 at a time. im getting down into the part where im about to roll the thing because of nasty terrain so the last 25 or so logs will be blocked into 4' or 5' so that i can pic them up and bring them to where the wheeler can get at them, no im still on the hunt for a truck, still only have 1000 and we are done work for the year, i talked to a guy i know who ive helped w/ fire wood when i needed $ off and on but hes got enough help this year already, but thats life, i will jerry rig it all together some how, i always manage to do so and make it all work we will see
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oh and i went and toured VTC the other day and they said really all i needed to do was send the application in and i was pretty much into their dairy program, that maid me happy
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Repairs
Hey guys!
Do you prefer to do line repair work now? Are the critters less likely to chew in the winter, so there is a good chance of the repairs staying repaired until sap time, or should I wait until closer to the season.
There is plenty of other things to do, so I am trying to avoid repairing my repairs.
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Being from north west corner of NJ if anyone is familiar with NJ there as so many deer they are like city rats, or field mice. they are everywhere. a few years ago they started a program called earn a buck where you had to shoot a doe before you could shoot a buck they killed 75,000 deer that year, thats almost the estimated deer population of new Hampshire in 1 season. now they avaerage around 35,000 to 45,000 deer a year.
when I was still living down there I think our best year was around 12-14 deer. between my dad, brother and me. and I got 5 of them. 2 with bow and 3 with shot gun. you can't run out of tags down there if you get a deer check it in get another tag. when I was home a few years ago my parents had been in the house for a little over 20 years I counted all tags we saved and we had shot over about 100 deer. average 5 deer per year. and none of it went to waste!!! now they are having bear problems and the animal activists won't let them have a bear hunt.
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We carry a roll of good electrical tape in the spring when we tap and repair critter damage that we can find .Then make one or two more trips through the bush when the vac is on and finish the repairs
Works for us
Jim
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Jeff E,
I like to do as much repair work as I can before the snow falls. That way I can get anything that is on the ground back up again before it gets frozen down. I still go back through a week or two before I tap to make any final repairs. I tap with my vacuum pump on and flag anything that I cant fix while tapping.
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Michelle, sap hauler/wife, shot her first deer today. She's been hunting for years and never got one. 128 pound doe ten yards or less. She's very excited. Sorry about getting off topic.
Keith
