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Morning..
Raining like hell here after 2 weeks of not. Of course the day I want to return to the woods it does this.
Like this is a big suprise.....
So I'll sit and drink coffee.
Will take the boat for its final run tomorrow. Then pickle it. Not sure if there is room
In the storage area this year so going to prep it to sit outside.
Time to wake up and get the winter prep started.

 

Bows and coffee

 

I've got to chase down a leak today under the kitchen sink today. I hope it's just a joint and not one of the new drain baskets I put in. Then I'm going to make some more window screens. And I'll see what else after that...

 

Side work on the opening day of archery sucks!

 

Morning all. Just made it to the Oregon house, time to go to sleep

 

Yea... I feel your pain...

 

Word of the day, Ruger, Ruger, Ruger....

 

Good morning. Leave for a week hunting in 7 days. Hopefully be on the road by this time next Saturday and get a few miles in the woods before dark. Will spend the weekend packing and getting ready.

Have a friend that named his dog Ruger.

I was planning on staying in a cabin in Isebella, Mn. where I have stayed the last couple years. Like most towns in that area population density is %0.0 people per square miles. Friend that lives near there found a cheaper place this year about 20 miles away so going to try it out. The number of wolves has been skyrocketing last few years once the Feds stepped in and protected them again. And they aren't afraid of people like they should be anymore seeing more and more of them. Really doesn't matter where you go in Lake and Cook Counties it is the same problem. This happened the other day. I'll be keeping the dogs close hope the new pup plays well with that plan.

""""""""""""""""Justin Bailey of Keewatin was hunting ruffed grouse near Isabella on Tuesday morning when a wolf chased his hunting dog out of the woods. "He was coming at me 100 miles per hour, and right behind him was a wolf, biting at his heels," said Bailey, 33. "They probably passed 5 or 6 feet from us."

Bailey was standing at the edge of the road with his son, Andrew Bailey, 3, and his nephew, Brock Bjelland, 5, of Marble, whom he had brought along for the day of hunting. The wolf chased the dog, Henry, a 1-year-old German wire-haired pointer, back to Bailey's pickup in the road, he said. "The dog jumped in the window of the truck, and the wolf did a quick lap around the truck," Bailey said.

That's when Bailey noticed two more wolves coming out of the woods at the edge of the road. Three more came out about 100 yards down the road, Bailey said. "I think we saw six total," he said. "I was yelling at the one that went around the truck. He wasn't very timid, that's for sure. He was 15 feet from the truck and turned around and watched me put the kids in the truck." During the encounter, Bailey fired one round from his 20-gauge shotgun into the air in an effort to scare off the wolves. "They didn't even flinch," he said. His dog was not injured, Bailey said.

The incident occurred about 11 a.m. Tuesday about four miles from Isabella, he said. Bailey's nephew had seen a grouse at the edge of the road run into the woods. Bailey pulled his truck over and let Henry out. "I sent him into the woods to find the bird," he said. "He did one pass in there and got on point. I was on the road... He had the bird pinned down (pointed). Then he made this awful screech — it was like a cross between a yip and a cry. He must have been about 30 yards away." That's when Henry came charging out of the woods with the wolf nipping at his hind legs. Bailey said the wolves "looked pretty healthy." "They're starting to put on their winter coats," he said.

Bailey said he never thought about shooting at any of the wolves. "I played it back in my head," he said. "Yes, I would have shot at the wolves because the kids were there, but it happened so fast it didn't even cross my mind." In Minnesota, gray wolves were most recently classified as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act as of December 2014. Wolves may be not be killed except in defense of human life.

Bailey and the boys continued to hunt during the afternoon in an area about 10 miles from where they had encountered the wolves. Bailey shot one grouse. The boys seemed to find the wolf encounter fascinating, he said. "They thought it was the coolest experience in the north woods," he said. "They were seeing all kinds of wolves all day long." The encounter has made Bailey rethink hunting grouse with Henry.

"It makes me not want to bring my dog in the woods anymore," he said. "It makes you think twice." Henry apparently had made up his own mind after the incident. "The dog refused to leave the truck," Bailey said. "I couldn't get him out of the truck the rest of the day." """""""""""""""""""""""

 

Hell no fiber is what food eats!

 

Very good.. You learn well grasshopper...

 

getting cooler up here 49*
cut the grass most likely for the last time.
now to undercoat the truck nextweekend

 

Good morning, cooler weather, fall is in the air. Enjoy the day.

 

Good morning friends...

Weather is similar here - cool, some showers today. Coyotes are bad enough. I can't imagine what it would be like with Wolves. I guess they aren't as cute and cuddly as the shows on PBS make them out to be???

 

No actually