It is just like hunting. If you have some decent gear to wear and stay dry it isn't that bad. Hopefully I'll be posting some pictures and updates.
The only issue I see is that we likely won't be able to get in the driveway. We are going to have to park on the road and haul our stuff in on sleds. Oh well.
I talked to the neighbors and they said about 15" is on the ground in open areas right now. Less in the woods. But the end of the driveway probably will be a high bank from the town plowing the road.
I'm enjoying the down time right now. I spent a LOT of days afield this fall, and many of them were long dark to dark days with a alot of walking. Sm it's nice to sleep in, its nice to be warm & get some projects done around the house.
And a Summer in New Mexico. And an August in Alaska. Finally get to go bowhunting for a week long trip again. That will more than double my days in a treestand for 2012.
I need another month or so of winter. I'm trying to scout as much as I can while we have snow on the ground. Spring gobbler is always in the back of my mind though!
OK Rick.... to help you out I'll relate this ice fishing story I got in an email today. The Presidential election 2012 was too close to call. Neither Mitt Romney nor Obama had enough votes to win. There was much talk about ballot recounting, court challenges, etc. It was finally decided that there should be an ice fishing contest between the two candidates to determine the winner. After much back and forth discussion, it was decided that the contest would take place on a remote frozen lake in northern Wisconsin. There were to be no observers present, and both men were to be sent out separately on this isolated lake and return at 5 P.M. with their catch for counting and verification by a team of neutral parties. At the end of the first day, Mitt Romney returned to the starting line and he had 10 fish. Soon after Obama returned and had no fish. Well, everyone assumed he was just having a bad day or something and hopefully, he would catch up the next day. At the end of the 2nd day Mitt came in with 20 fish and Obama came in again with none. That evening, the democrats got together secretly and said to Obama, "I think Mitt Romney is a low-life, cheatin' son-of-a-*****. Tomorrow don't bother fishing, just spy on him and see just how he is cheating.' The next night (after Mitt returns with 50 fish), the democrats got together for the report of how the republicans were cheating. Obama said, "You are not going to believe this, he's cutting holes in the ice."
This is how I feel as well...I don't mind having a couple months just to relax indoors a bit...most of the year i'm headed somewhere on weekends....don't mind having a break
I'm not quite ready for spring to get here. I need to find some time to get to the cabin and get a few things done there before it thaws. Hinge cutting and hauling some rock from the piles in our field to a trail that has some big mud holes in it. If I don't get it done this winter, I don't think we'll be able to get the tractor in an area I want to make a food plot this summer.
Because of the clay? If it’s that wet that you can't get a tractor there how will it grow? Just curious. I have an area I would love to put a plot in someday but figure nothing will grow there reliably due to it being pretty wet most of the year and especially after it rains.
Its an old logging road that has been beat up pretty bad by ATVs. There's a stretch about 40 yards long that has some big deep mud holes in it, but we can't cut a new trail around them because its wet ash swamp on both sides of the trail there. We have a small existing food plot about 150 yards past these holes and its plenty dry there and we want to make that plot quite a bit bigger. The deer hammer it and its the only food source within a mile of this section of our property. It gets browsed so bad when it starts to grow that it can't reach maturity. We are hoping to make it at least 1 acre, if not more. This is the same plot that I missed Big 8 from this year.
Gotcha. Have you thought about ditching the logging road so the water drains? I am hoping to do more of that on my logging roads in a few years. The main trail about 1/2 way back is pretty good and ditched with culverts. Then it turns into not so good and as you know it gets rutted up pretty good with the ATVs going through. You will see it in a month or so. What did you plant there last year? Could you put something in that stands up to the browsing better in addition to making it bigger?
