I don’t know how I feel being assigned more projects, I have a lil problem with the number of projects I’ve invented for myself.
Fall so far...
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I know you work pretty hard at living your life, so I don’t feel too bad for you.
I’m not hunting today, just scouting, body is feeling the hike I did yesterday, so there that.
I get a chuckle when you young pups say things such as this.
Vince Pagliaroli
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Tod,
I really enjoyed your post and the photos. Paradise comes at a price that balances things out, it's just pretty much the way things are. Your doing as much as possible as soon as possible cuz ya can. The first years of retirement are like that. The enjoyment of everyday living where your meant to Be is very rewarding.
Best regards
Vince
Looks pretty awesome Tod. My wandering was taking me to Colorado as a younger man but as far as I got was Arkansas for 13 years then a few years in Florida before returning (God only knows why) to Illinois. A couple of friends had issues with their out building barns with poorly constructed buildings. Mainly roof issues with loose screws, screws missing trusses and not chalking empty screw holes causing many, many leaks and openings the wrong size for overhead garage doors.
Chuck J
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Thanks, yes, balance is important. Unfortunately, I'm not retired - yet. I still have a year and change, but we are on sabbatical this fall, so pretending and working hard to be ready to jump into retirement.
You're doing it right Tod!
Tod
Your absence was noticed but who can blame you. Gorgeous backdrops to your adventures. Tell me about the duck hunting. Any competition? Is it all open public land or is it more like a WMA situation with a lot more rules that plain public land? By the way, the house and shop look nice.
Your absence was noticed but who can blame you. Gorgeous backdrops to your adventures. Tell me about the duck hunting. Any competition? Is it all open public land or is it more like a WMA situation with a lot more rules that plain public land? By the way, the house and shop look nice.
Tod,
That is crazy. My wife Heather and I had a fantastic experience with Morton Buildings. It was literally the most stress free project we've ever had. Morton Buildings took care of it all; we literally never had to sub contract anything. The best part was they were done within a couple weeks. RM
That was our experience with our building in CT for the most part, this one is a whole different thing. Your building is the same colors as our CT building
Don’t think I haven’t been watching and keeping an eye on everybody.
Wyoming is definitely not a waterfowl destination, but coming from Connecticut with the bar set so it’s been pretty good. Everything I’ve done is been on public no WMAs or anything like that in this part of Wyoming. in Wyoming the landowner adjacent owns the bottom of the lake or river, so that makes things a little bit tougher sometimes. Pretty much everybody hunts from shore that I’ve seen. I’ve only seen one other boat and it’s a guide with a big duckwater. There’s a lot of access so just driving in parking and throwing your decoys out. no marsh hunting at all that I’ve seen so you don’t need a boat. For me I just need a chance to get a couple of ducks every time I go out and that’ll make me happy. I’ve never been to volume with ducks.
I’d scouted up a good bunch of ducks yesterday and felt pretty good about this morning but they all blew out overnight so I’m basically hunting in a bathtub. I knew that I was screwed when I didn’t move any rafts of coots in the dark, they just vaporized.
Duck hunting sucked today, but at least it was cold and miserable and I got the boat filthy.
I was out washing the boat a minute ago and it is the golden hour when the deer are all melting out of the nooks and crannies in the sage. This doe and her fawns were really interested in watching Beaver and I. I really like having these guys around. They don't get hunted at this time of year, so they are very tame.
Tod,
You may change your mind if you ever decide to plant a garden or a few apple trees. Our attrition rate is about 50% loss on anything we plant in rural MN. Agree that they are beautiful and fun to watch. Every evening they drink from Heather's birdbath that I made her even though there is a lake less than fifty yards away. Better than watching television.
RM
We have lived with super abundant whitetails for decades with a huge garden and had a nice orchard behind a 7' woven wire fence we put around a 1/4 acre of our CT property, so pretty familiar dealing with them and the issues they cause. Well worth having them around and doing what you need to do to coexist (ground squirrels and prairie dogs, however, there is no coexisting).
I don't think will will be growing anything outside other than grass for the deer and maybe some hay for horses. I don't think there are any fruit trees suitable for our desert conditions and the fact we are plant hardiness zone 4a/3b. Not really worth it, plus been there done that with fruit trees.
Next major project with be a heated 30x50'ish double wall poly greenhouse for Jen.
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Excellent idea; she'll love it!