phenixfalconer

Knock back the flock. 20lbs in the freezer. They barely fit in the freezer bags😅. Still a handful left to do. #farmstr #homesteading #farmupdate #chickens

Tracking day today! The hunter shot a buck with a muzzleloader. Had ok blood. He knew he injured the front leg. Lost blood. Called us. We came out 4.5 hrs later. There was a monster buck out near the hit site when we arrived. He ran off in the same direction the injured deer went. Anyway, we started tracking and pip pulled hard all the way. But i became concerned when she appeared to be tracking the buck we just saw (very fresh tracks). I restarted her but she pulled me in the same direction so i gave her the benefit of the doubt. Sure enough she found several blood spots a while later and deer did a big loop in the woods before coming out to a field and continuing along the edge. Approaching a thick wet area, we flushed 3 does. Pip went a little crazy. So i restarted her and also told the hunters to be ready. I suspected the buck might have bedded with the does and was reluctant to move. We continued on. I had to restart pip again because i thought she was distracted by the doe scent, but she brought me back to the same spot again and further she pulled on! Finally we came a small pond with thick cover and pip pull me through it. She flushed a deer out and a second later i heard a gunshot. The buck was down! Total track length was 1.3 km. #huntstr #hunting

Gm nostr. Im curious to know how many of you know your heritage. I didnt until i had kids. I started looking into all the geneaological research online and compiling my kids family trees. I was blown away. The rabbit hole opened up and swallow me. The doubling of ancestors every generation still blows my mind, and the fact that most people identify their lineage with their surname line... yesterday i found some interesting ancestors going way back to the early 1700s in New york. A Palatine German immigrant that married Mohawk. And there is a fair amount of rich history documented on these ancestors. So amazing.

"Are you looking for the motherlode?" "No! No my child, this is not what i desire, and then she said...." ”I'm digging for fire."

Gm nostr. Check out the #buckskin hoodie jacket I'm working on. This is pretty serious #proofofwork but still a long way to go. All locally harvested deer and traditionally braintanned. #hunting #huntstr

Gm. Here's a video from the tree stand yesterday. I had 8 deer come within shooting range with https://video.nostr.build/aa61c0caa1972dfccfbe419e1cb564b385e362ae3f7661d04e2bce5852455b9a.mp4 in 10 minutes. So fun! #huntstr #hunting