Update from the farm

Old Farmer "We have seen a nice 5X5 a few times, usually around the building site on the east farm. We have a 3X3 and about 3 yearling does that spend almost all their time lying in the north tree strip. After driving past the buck about 5 times in about 2 hours, we finally got him to move when one of the guys shot a pheasant about 1 foot from him."

"I just got a phone call from our renters, we had about 1/2 inch of pure ice during the night, he said you can't even stand or walk on a gravel road, but so far no wind, so the power is still on. On Saturday, I was scheduled to pour new concrete footings around one of the big grain bins that the groundhogs had undermined, but will now have to do it the week you guys are here, can I recruit a couple of volunteers?"

"Looking forward to "watching" you guys hunt, the latest opinion from the state is that if my wife is living in Nebraska and is a legal resident there, and I am still married to her, I can't qualify for a resident license. "The qualifying term that GFP uses is 'domicle', not legal residence" I'm tempted to buy a license, send a photo copy to the Kingsbury County Attorney, and tell him to set a court date, so we can get this thing finally resolved. Oh Yes!, the new county attorney is now the attorney that represented me during my last problem."

Nice camo

Sure it's pink camo, but check out how mean she can be. And she's got the "hunter's orange" on her shoes.

Deer stands are up!

Dad's pheasant hunters helped out this afternoon and they got both stands up. Dad says the view is pretty nice... Bang Bang Bang BANG!

Good samaritan

Check out the new hunting coat and gloves I just got in the mail! Someone truly cares for me.

Hunt is on

DeerKiller and I both got 2 doe tags. If anyone wants extras it looks like there are still 400 or so 2 doe tags leftover in clark county just to the north of us. Bang Bang :-)

15 yards anyone?

As you can see from the parking meter and sidewalk, Becca and I had a good shot at this one. She was less than a quarter mile from the 35W bridge in a small park near downtown Minneapolis. Just munching on crabapples, she didn't seem to mind us much.

Can't teach an old dog new tricks

But you can bet that they still know the old ones. The old farmer called and said he got stuck today... in the same spot he got the suburban stuck in last year. Apparently it has rained for a week but when the hunters told him "I think it's pretty dry, you can drive right through the slough." he decided to try it. He couldn't get the big tractor within 400 feet of it and and had to go borrow a bigger tractor to get it out! Gosh, it still sounds like more fun than I had this weekend...

Time to go a meat makin'

Sun and Moon data

U.S. Naval Observatory
Astronomical Applications Department

Sun and Moon Data for One Day

The following information is provided for De Smet, Kingsbury County, South Dakota (longitude W97.5, latitude N44.4):

        Friday  
       21 November 2008      Central Standard Time         

                        SUN
       Begin civil twilight       7:03 a.m.                
       Sunrise                    7:35 a.m.                
       Sun transit               12:16 p.m.                
       Sunset                     4:57 p.m.                
       End civil twilight         5:29 p.m.                

                        MOON
       Moonset                    1:34 p.m. on preceding day
       Moonrise                   1:24 a.m.                
       Moon transit               7:45 a.m.                
       Moonset                    1:54 p.m.                
       Moonrise                   2:32 a.m. on following day

Phase of the Moon on 21 November: waning crescent with 31% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated.

Last quarter Moon on 19 November 2008 at 3:31 p.m. Central Standard Time.

Got your tags?

I put in for mine today. Looks like there are 45 2 doe tags and 75 1 doe tags left for Kingsbury. Should be able to get one. Are Deerkiller and I still the only out of staters? Phil and I are planning to be on the farm sometime on Friday the 21st, maybe even late on the 20th. Then we'll leave maybe Tuesday night. What is everyone else's plan?