After fighting through that mess, there's nothing like a Texas sunset in your rear view mirror on the way home to serenity.
It's all good, though. We have the annual squirrel hunt in a week; I hope the cool weather cooperates. As a tune-up, Brian and I "hunted" in the yard on the opening morning of squirrel and rabbit season. I got six pecan stealers from my stool under the magnolia, and Bri-guy snagged a couple of those swamp rabbits.
He got the big one as it sat mesmerized by Critter Watch (Buck's little memorial out back). Ole Bucky came through for his best friend, it seems.
I haven't been real active on the picture taking front, but I did snap a couple of a fishing trip with Vince a week or so back. We fished from sunrise to almost sunset and only scratched up about 20 fish...3 nice reds, 5 flounders, 10 specks and a random sand trout and large croaker. Sorry - no fish pictures.
I hope to get in a few more trips now that the weather is cooler. One of the spots we'd like to target is Sabine Lake, conveniently located close to the Johnsons Bayou property. Denise and I went down to take a look one Sunday evening. They're slowly rebuilding the area; here's the church and the school.
Meanwhile on the back ridge, our new neighbor down there looks like he's generating a little extra income with a mini RV park right by our driveway.
We do have a few hackberry trees, some small pecan trees, and the un-killable bamboo forest back on the old home place.
The fenceline back to the marsh is also clear, but the flies were bad that day and I didn't venture back there (not to mention I was in street shoes).
With a little maintenance and improvement, we could get that place up and running again. It would be a great spot to park the 5th wheel and spend some time in coastal Louisiana when the weather is nice and the fish are biting (fall through spring). We might even be able to do a little rabbit and duck hunting again. BTW, most of those low greens are dewberry vines. (the big tall weed clump on the left is all that remains of the giant elm tree...so sad). Otherwise, it's wild and wooly out there once more.
Well, that's about it for now. I'll finish up with a critter cam picture. Right after I put Buck on critter watch, what shows up but...a buck.
Go figure!
