Gardens & Deer

Working at putting gardens to sleep.  Of all things, we have not frozen out yet here on the island, and are still getting beans and tomatoes from the garden here.  At the Ness farm though, it froze out a few weeks ago, and today Nell and I cut the wire off of the trellises, rolled it up, and pulled the posts so Lance can get the whole garden space tilled and seeded with a cover crop.

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As we got that done, we found another gallon of dry bean pods as well.  Growing them on trellises worked really well, and got plants beyond the encroachment of weeds when we started losing time we would have spent weeding.

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Nell and I also dug the last two rows of Red Cloud potatoes.  Maybe another 50 pounds.  Leaves us with a good supply for winter.

12182124_2843314247499_1542003118_nSo there was a nice 10 pointer we had not seen before that went past the camera at what would be early shooting light. 12188590_2843314527506_220474727_n

And a nice 8.12188736_2843314647509_2053302220_n

The big 8 is still sticking to nocturnal hours.12200440_2843314087495_1165450186_n

This guy showed up at dusk.12200498_2843313847489_1749837705_n 12200960_2843313647484_780695781_n

The doe and her fawn are still hanging out at all times of day, browsing the acorns that are all over the ground.12204522_2843313767487_297486958_n

There is that lopsided 8 again.12204936_2843313887490_1428412117_nAnd this cute guy decided to bed down in front of the camera at first light.

My girls are pretty excited about the hunting planned for this next weekend.  With the sheer numbers of different bucks wandering around I have high hopes that we all fill our tags.  The last big food gathering time of the year and it is almost here.

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