Back to The Land

No, haven't gone full organic hippy farmer or anything.  The Land is the unimaginative designation for the hunting property up north.  Which is also a huge Keep Busy project.  There will always be things to do.  Clear lanes near the established stands.  Plant tasty deer treats.  My son's family tapped maple trees and boiled down lots of syrup.  There's fire wood to cut.  A rickety garage structure that needs attention.  We should probably build an outhouse for occasional use.  My years of digging up old 19th century privies will at last have a practical use.

With robotics entering Rest Up phase its time to get to work.  There is a narrow window where some of these tasks are easier.  You really don't want to be doing heavy outdoor tasks in hot weather and with a cloud of mosquitos trying to carry you off.

Hank loves these work sessions.  He is the Happiest Dog in Wisconsin when he's up there.  Off leash, so many smells, so very many sticks....  He carried this one around for quite a while, clunking me in the back of the legs multiple times.

He's is not the only single minded life form to be out on a warm mid April day....

That little villain is a "deer tick".  Ixodes Scapularis if you prefer.  Yep, the ones that carry Lyme disease and various other cooties.  Hank is at least helpful there.  He gets a monthly dose of medication that ensures that tick bite him and die.  Wish they had that for humans.  I just have to take a shower immediately on return to civilization, and put all garments I had on right in the washing machine. I still find a few ingenious ones lurking around.