Day 253 - Wildlife on the Property

all right let's go for a walk we have kind of a war zone out here obviously um Lean 2 has been super nice to be able to grill out whenever I want we got to get all this this driveway stuff figured out if you haven't noticed everything's wet rainy season here just continuously rains and rains and rains and rains and rains what you up to um can I use my own earrings for my lolll you want to put your earrings in your dolls here are the holes already pierced in the doll yeah sure go for it all right what was I just doing I'm trying to get more concrete wash out because this stuff is good this red sand stuff is good for establishing form and shape and then I want to put the wash out on top of it and the reason is the wash out doesn't really allow water to go through it it just rolls off the top of it which is what I want I want to shape everything with the sand and then protect everything and build it up with the wash out so when when the time comes for the wash out which will hopefully be next week then I'll have to scrape some of this gravel away put wash out on top and put the gravel back and I've got more gravel over there anyway this is ah this is this is just part of it on this side over here all this material that I pulled away from the structure this was just to kind of sort of let the guys who are building the shop have a little bit more access here and basically what I did is I scrape the goo away leaving low spots that hold water which is not what I want so I've got to pull all this low spot back up to the shop these peers are getting a little bit I'm a little concerned about these peers not having enough material on that side and them shifting so I've got to get this done sooner rather than later it's just too wet to to really do anything So the plan is to go uh maybe a a lane and a half maybe maybe one really wide lane and then dig a SW wh left to right or I'm sorry right to left in this orientation um basically in the middle of this all this muddy mess so that the water can go into the sale and get out over there now water will get out over there if I give it a place to go to get there the problem is I've got all this other stuff in the way so this is a complete order of operations thing I need it to dry out and I also need all of these logs and root walls or whatever I need to start putting them into the shooting range burm backdrop as as quickly as I can I got to I got to get these moved so that I can focus on water getting out so today is what Tuesday when I'm recording this Tuesday the 17th Thursday we're supposed to have the beginning of 5 days of no rain here's my little bridge over here to take the dogs so Thursday 5 days of no rain hopefully during that 5 days of no rain I can focus on the outside stuff getting this going um the inside stuff is what we're Focus focusing on today and tomorrow um soon as I get back from putting this out I want to put this right in front of the uh trail camera that I have because we've already got a bunch of wildlife on camera here's that that natural ditch I was talking about this is the original four-wheeler Trail and it it takes water all the way out of the clearing that way so I just have to basically tie into it and create a couple swailes in here to to funnel the water this way but all this stuff is too burnt too chewed up to whatever to be used taken off on the saw at for a sawmill so it's going to be perfect material for the backd drop of the shooting range yeah we need to facilitate this this water path a little bit more on this side of that opening right there on this side I want to cut this ditch a little bit deeper and keep it going because about a as far as you can see that way where it get gets the uh dents back into the woods on the left hand side of that is uh another rut system from old four-wheeler trails that does take the water out of here this is the spot that we initially wanted to have our fruit Orchard I actually put it in one of our videos uh I think it was the lane shark video where I was clearing this trail with the lane shark I think as I turned this corner I had the camera over there and I shined it back over here and as I drove through I had future uh fruit Orchard displayed on the screen so all this was supposed to be fruit Orchard but everything worked out better for the other side to be the fruit Orchard so this is back on this side of the clearing looking back that way man that shop looks good over there in the distance ah yeah yeah yeah one of the things that I want to do and of course there's 15,000 things on the I want to do list is start walking around with my um walking around with my camera with some photography lenses on it and just start taking more pictures right I'm I'm documenting everything with video but it'd be nice to kind of freeze some memories and and freeze some uh moments I guess you could say get some good photography shots this I've got to work on getting it uh water out of here because on this little Trail right here we have more Old Logging tracks or something or other this one has a a crown in the middle and two ditches and on this side right there is the start of a past um agriculture drainage they they did tiling drains around this property so here's the start of a man-made ditch it gets the water that way hey here's the Christmas tree I cut down still haven't moved the base of it just yet I got to get all the limbs and sticks off of this and that's some pretty good usable cedar posts let's go this way this is another um good resource to have on the property is all these cedar trees they're I forget the exact type of Cedar type of juniper um but these are the ones that the the Heartwood smells so strong the real aromatic Cedar so it'd be cool to basically wood chip all this into a pile to where we could really utilize the wood chips for this for like dog bedding or something some place that doesn't really smell the best to make it smell better I don't know if it's showing on camera but this this Trail's got a wonderful crown on the top always no matter how much rain the top always stays nice and dry well it's not dry right now but it's not soggy this is day I think day three of five consecutive days of rain no it's day four of five consecutive days of rain something like that tomorrow is our last day of rain now right I don't know if the camera's showing it well but right in front of us the trail goes to the right but it also looks like the trail goes to the left the trail itself goes to the right but the left is an animal run a deer run so this is how I found the the location to put the uh trail camera up so they're coming through over here visually I can clearly see I don't know if it's show up on camera visually there's a clear path right there the animals are coming through and this was just super chopped up with with deer tracks there's some right here actually now it's too wet so they're they're just getting mushed back together but I noticed I was like wait a minute this is animals there's all kinds of deer coming through here's let's figure out where it comes out on our existing trail system so this is this is a trail that was always here that I just kind of Unearthed by running through here with a tractor and rotary cutter still need to widen it out a little bit to get it back to its original state looks like it's just overgrown but this is clearly a trail trying to find tracks there's all kinds of there's a deer track right there deer track these are these are pretty fresh fresh more fresh Trail tracks so we have seen I believe we've seen a fivepoint a Sixpoint and a seveno buck on here it's kind of hard to determine to determine that the image quality of the camera is not the best all right that's a big old spider web let's get the spider web down all right so the trail camera is right there on the pine that just got exposed right there there's the trail camera so this original Trail kind of dead ends into the man-made Trail the one that I cut through here myself let's jump over here what was that I think a frog just jumped in there oh big old spider on me that spider web stuck with me I think I just knocked it down that or it's in my shirt sleeve one or two so that's my camera this is the trail that I cut through here so the deer never knew this Trail existed and then one day they showed up and they're like wait a minute there's another Trail so what I'm seeing is a lot of the deer will come from behind me get to right about here where they're like wait a minute and they're looking left and right they okay this is a little bit different and then they go so another thing that told me that there's a lot of deer running through here is I don't know if you can see it but in between these two bigger pine trees there's two other saplings in between those two and right in the middle of that on the ground is a deer tree climber right a a hunting tree climber there you go you can see it better here so half of it up at the tree half of it's down at the ground I went over there a month ago and yanked up the piece that's on the ground it's been there for for a long time many seasons there was all kinds of roots and stuff growing through the uh uh the metal base that is on the bottom side so somebody was hunting here years ago it hasn't moved and it's clearly hasn't been used in in in a long time so they had they had a good position deer's always coming from behind us going through this way going into that field that's a I don't know 20 to 40 acre field that put soybeans in uh this PL this past season so they're coming through here naturally this is a great hunting spot my camera picks them up as they're coming through here and what I think I want to do is put this shooting directly this way and it looked like on camera that this would be a good spot right here it's a little bit high no standing water I think it'll be fine and this is such a small one I I did like a a Walmart pickup and I didn't realize how small this was I just clicked on the one that I saw all right let's see if that gets anything new on camera I think I'm going to end this video by just playing a bunch of of the footage that I've caught on the camera we've got deer raccoons um bunnies uh one or two foxes a pair of coyotes many dough a few bucks a lot of lot of wildlife right here oh I think there's also a posum on there too but anyway that's it for this video I will catch you in the next one you guys have a great day e for e for e [Music] for for for right [Music] [Music]