Sunrise and a track

Last Saturday i took these pictures in Nanafalia. While we were hunting...

Sunrise :)

 

Went to Nanafalia again today, and run a hog a long way... This is all we got of him...



A new Pillow!

So, my friend Lisa Tucker bought me a new shirt for my birthday. Turns out it was one of those shirts that is supposed to suction cup to your body. Well, I don't do suction cups lol. I made it into a pillow instead. It's a little lumpy now but it will soon look like a real pillow!

Mary's first hog adventure...

So, we caught a hog in a trap today... sounds pretty easy, right? Wrong!! Leave it to me and Mary to make things so much more complicated than they really are...

So this is the hog...

 

To understand this story, you must first understand the building of this trap. The door opens repeatedly from tthe outside, but you cannot open it once inside. So, we had the dogs on the back of the truck when we rode by the hog. They noticed it, but they didn't jump off after it. We decided to let the dogs off and get in the pond to cool down. Well, that was a bad idea. Jase took off, but i was able to call him back. Later, they were running off through the woods so we cranked off and begin to drive away because they always come back to me leaving them. They come right on back, right past us, and straight to the hog. We got there in time to keep Jase out, but we were too late for Charlie. He had already found the door and was inside with the hog. It felt like an hour before dad arrives, but it was only like 5 minutes. He caught, and got plenty of practice. This is what both looked like afterwards....

 

None of that blood is his...

sticking his tongue out at that hog

Oh, and this Mary... Hiding behind the truck... :)

3 little piggies

So, dad has been sick this entire weekend. Got up Saturday to go to Nanafalia and after we got everything loaded he said that he really didn't want to go. But we already had the dogs and everything loaded up so we went anyway. We got there way to early so we just kinda killed time in the truck till first light. When i stepped out of the truck I stood there getting the tracker ready and stuff. Little did i know that i was standing in a big old red ant hill. They crawled up my jeans and tore my legs up!! Anyway, we hunted all morning and came up empty handed.
We skipped hunting Sunday because we had breakfast at church. Later on that afternoon we went to the sandbar and hung out on the river. Well, me and my friend Angelica went for a "nature stroll" around 7pm. Well, of course, it got dark faster than we expected an her mom freaked out because we walked back in the dark. Big Deal!?! Not!!
Monday, Labor Day, we had a little bit better luck with the hog population. Started off slow, we kinda thought we were gonna get skunked, but we didn't. First thing, Black Betty left on a hog and we just thought she was running a deer so we left and kept on hunting. Little further down the way Hound Dog got on a track and bayed not 5 seconds later. Turned my younger pit loose and he wouldn't even catch! Anyway, I ran in there and caught him and brought him out. He was pretty tiny so we put him in the dog box. We left there and hunted some more. We got on another hog. They jumped him outta the bed. We could hear him grunting from the ranger. I don't know what happened in there, but they left the big boar and caught another pig. Dad and I both fought the briars and got him out. We also put him in the dog box. So, we kept on hunting. We have been wanting to break the terrible twos so bad!!  Well, we finally did it! We got down beside this big ole slew and loe and behold there was Black Betty. She musta been barking because the rest of the dogs took off to her. We cut off the ranger so we could listen. They bayed solid. We started runnin. Got to the slew, decided we didn't want to swim it, ran back to the ranger, and drove back and around to the other side. Good thing we did cause they had a good size sow bayed in the road. Igot out and flipped her. Dad finally decided he would come hold her so I could tie her. We were pretty much done for the day. We got back to the truck and had to tie the other two pigs so we could put the dogs in the box. I let Sherry tie one just so she could say she had tied one. She didn't like it as much as she thought though.

This is Gregg and Sherry along with her children Kobee, Angelica, Evan, and Mallie. She is the mother that freaked out Sunday night. And the two oldest accompanied us on the hunt Monday.

Bottom to top in order of catch.