Laurel Ridge Farm: Covered Some Ground

Sunday, March 18, 2018

Covered Some Ground - A Couple Sheds

I didn't think about using an app to track my steps until I was halfway thru my third walk of the weekend. The blue line shows me walking the property lines. I have hired a surveyor to do a professional job of marking the boundaries. It's a requirement for a forestry tax abatement program (TOFL). Pike County is having some property tax turmoil and it appears that my taxes just doubled. The red line is my approximation of my route before I turned the app on.

End of the day - 15,000 steps and the equivalent of 35 floors of stairs.

I did find three shed antlers. I haven't had as much time as normal to get out there looking for them this year.

I made a large batch of jerky this weekend.

See the arrow pointing to the platform up on the pond stand. It's about 20' in the air. And, the poop of the week" is up there.

There were actually two of them. The one in the foreground is about cat sized. The one in the background is dog sized. What can possibly be leaving these up here? Lots of roughage in there - not domesticated.

Daffodils at the base of the stairs.

A deer print and a dog or coyote print near the pond.

I ran into this possum in the field. He was not too concerned about me. I'll put a video later in the post with a couple other videos that I took this weekend.

Sunrise Sunday. I was out on the porch playing with the jerky and two gobblers let loose gobbling about 15' away from me. It took me a few minutes to get the phone out and try to video them. I flushed a couple more gobblers on my walk.

More turkey evidence.

It's hard to describe my route for the walk.

I found all kinds of artifacts.

It's neat to see evidence of well worn deer trails that aren't so noticeable at other times of the year.

Broomsedge and cedars taking over old pasture.

More trees down across my trails. I've got my work cut out for me when I can find the time to deal with some of this stuff.

Creek bottoms.

Interesting snags.

Shed antler.

Another snag.

Another skull/skeleton.

Plenty of up and down.

I did some riding too.

Here's a couple links of interest. woman-killed-lion-sanctuary The internet mobs don't seem to be as upset about this one as they were about Cecil. Another one a couple years ago lion-whisperer-kevin-richardson-defends-lioness-who-killed-american-tourist