For Easter, we decided to go to the farm and enjoy His creation in thanksgiving for His work. We left around 1:00 Friday afternoon and went buy Moultrie (to get lock on legs for the feeders), Lowe's (to get some more stakes for feeders), and the grocery store for weekend groceries....now more stuff in the Tahoe than last time. We made it about 7:00 down there, exhausted. The place has really changed in two weeks as Spring progresses towards the heat of Summer. We had about 5" of rain in those two weeks and the pond had come up a lot! It was now only 12-18" low, which was so refreshing to see. It looked great! We had fried fish, hush puppies, and slaw for dinner followed by an intense weather following night as tornadic activity was all around us according to WSFA out of Montgomery. It was heavy duty rain but we never even lost power.
Sawtooth Oak by house booming since last trip with greenery:
The pond is up higher than it has been in a long time!!
The next morning the I went out and had no luck to start, called up a hen and then after walking a mile or so, got to the other side of the property where the only gobbling I heard all morning was happening. Set up just right and here they came on in....with gun up and everything set for a great kill, they come into view and one by one come closer to where I was sitting....four Jake's gobbling and strutting and sporting their 2-4 inch beards. It was still a great hunt, and they circled me at 5-10 yards, shock gobbling and making me jump every time.
Amy Grace trying to start crawling:
After breakfast, we started putting out the feeders and checked the game cameras. Got some good pics as we continue to play with the different setting options for the cameras. This time we had tried 30 second and 1 minute pic delays...and of course got a ton of pics. We definitely backed off this time. The deer have about devoured the two protein blocks we set out and just in time as next trip we plan on loading the feeders for the first time and put out some more blocks. We got back and spent the whole afternoon on the dam fishing, smoking some deer and turkey on the grill, and drinking cold beer. We caught 20 or so little to mid-size bream, and decided to keep 8 for a mini fish-fry sometime. Also, maybe taking out some every time we fish will help lower the fish population and increase the size. It had been a long time since I had cleaned a fish, but we managed.
Star Baby checking in: 
Sunday morning was quite windy so I did not chase turkeys too much...and hunted a couple hours against a tree near the house. Had a few gobbling way off, but it was uneventful other than some good reading time. We had breakfast and put up the last feeder, then hit the road.
Passed out:
Game Camera pics:
We need to kill some coyotes:
Game Camera pics:We need to kill some coyotes:
Lot of Jake's being seen/called in this year, should be good for next year if we can hold them on property:
I am going to set some traps here and get these coons:
Same buck from last pics coming back several more times to have some of the yummy block:
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