Deer hunting December 20-21 2008

Saturday morning I went deer hunting, since this was the last weekend for the season. I got to the woods early since I knew it would be kind of noisy crunchy sort of.

I found a spot that would give me a fairly good view in a couple of directions. It was a nice morning cold grey ice coated the trees which kind of glistened, I even saw a few deer.




As I headed down our lane on my way home from the hunt I followed Andrew and Adelphia. They came over to borrow our generator since they along with 75% of all Fort Wayne residents lost electrical service. We had a nice visit with them. Blake and Apryl and the boys came over too so we had sort of an impromptu Christmas. Had some lunch and loaded up equipment and some water. The headed home shortly after lunch.
Blake and I went deer hunting in the late afternoon Saturday. We tried to set up a drive, but nothing budged. Near the end of daylight we set up on a hill overlooking the farm and watched deer move in and out of some fields quite a ways from where we were hunting. We had Christmas with Blake, Apryl and the boys that evening, at their place. We took my mom and Karen's mom with us. It was a nice time everyone seemed to enjoy the time together.

Sunday morning at 3:00 AM our area and much of the county lost electrical power because of the ice and wind that started blowing during the night. Power was finally restored about 2:30 pm. I spent most of the afternoon trying to make sure things didn't freeze up both at our place and at Clarice's. I was just getting some wiring ready to connect the furnace to a portable generator when power came on. It cycled off and on several time for the next several hours, but it was on enough to get some heat going.

Late in the afternoon I went hunting deer one last time for the season. Did I mention that it was -3 degrees and 25 mph wind? It's a good thing the electricity came back on so I could go hunting. I spent about two hours sitting out on the edge of a corn field in the blowing snow and ice. I was trying to be in an area where we saw the deer moving the night before. I saw a whole herd of deer (18), but none in range. Oh well maybe next year.

Karen's sister Marilyn, and her husband Doug and son Pete stopped by Karen's mom's place in the late afternoon, so we had dinner with them and they exchanged gifts, with Karen's mom. I went back to Clarice and Jon's place to check on the heat and feed the cats. The college girls they have staying at their house, while they are away, have gone for Christmas break so we will be doing the cat chow routine.