Jason Raven

Scout Cam Update 12/11/2009

 

 

 

 

Scout Cam Update 12/02/2009

Barring some decent snow in the next week and a half, I'm probably done hunting this year. I had an exciting last day of rifle season, seeing half-a-dozen deer. Unfortunately, the weather was so miserable that I was unable to see them through my rifle scope!

I'm catching up on some of the videos I've gotten over the past few weeks and haven't had a chance to upload until now. Unfortunately, there was nothing as awe-inspiring as the monster from my last update.

Here are a couple of coyote videos, which was a first for that camera location:

 

And here is a decent buck:

And a couple of baby bucks, with the latter having exceptionally long spikes:

 

 

 

Scout Cam Update 11/20/2009

I'm in Belfast on a horrible wi-fi connection, so I'm not uploading all of the videos right now. I've got to get some of these up so Codge can see them right away, though.

Poison ivy comes a creepin'

My delinquency in updating is getting embarrassing. The scout camera, hunting season, my "weigh-in pledge"... none of those provide ample incentive, apparently. I'd like to thank my good friend Roger for hurling an epithet or two my way and nudging me out of my blogging torpor.

Scout Cam Update 10/4/2009

The weekend got off to a rocking start, with Joe and Ritchie coming over for some The Beatles: Rock Band on Friday evening. Joe, Angela and I played around with the new harmony thing using 3 mics and I realized that it would be PERFECT for letting the kids play along with us. As long as ONE of the 3 people hit the notes, the band gets credit.

Scout Cam Update 9/27/2009

I finally got a chance to head upcountry to tend to my camera this weekend. After a battery change, I was able to get the remote control to work so I could fix the date/time. Please disregard the timestamps on the following clips. Next time, they'll have the proper numbers. I had many videos of turkeys and a couple of does (and a skunk... and a cat...), but I'm only going to show the four buck videos. You've got to look quickly on a couple of them - you can really see a difference between the does and bucks in how much they'll tolerate the camera's red light. The bucks are much cagier.

On an island in the sun

This weekend was dominated by my friend Richard's wedding. Although the ceremony was yesterday on Chebeague Island and we got home late on Saturday night, it really did have a major impact on my Sunday. I'd like to thank my wife for driving us home.

The Weight

I know that I just posted a blog entry last week, but I've come up with a compelling reason to do so even if it breaks my comfortable routine of waiting longer and longer between updates. No, it has nothing to do with North Yarmouth Fun Day, which went off pretty well yesterday. We had beautiful weather in the morning and it never really started raining hard until we had everything put away. The drizzle forced us to shut down the bounce house much earlier than we wanted, and the rest of the game area somewhat early, but I think that we still did ok. We seem to have blown through the prizes much quicker than last year, so that's all I'm going by. The numbers haven't been tallied yet.

August and Everything After

Here we are one week into September already, and I'm a week late making the weeks late post that I had promised myself. I guess my September recap will be just be that much shorter.

On August 8th, we hosted our first non-birthday party in years. It wasn't quite the same as our old Fourth of July parties, being lighter on adult beverages and heavier on pre-adults. There was a lot of Rock Band, some kids running under sprinklers, a tremendous mess in the playroom and overall - a good time for all. Unfortunately, not everyone was able to make it, but it was as close as we had come to having the whole old gang back together in probably four years.

Farm Share 2009 – Week 9

Blurry image of red onions, basil, beets

summer squash/zucchini, 2 lbs red potatoes, cucumbers

2 heads lettuce

tomatoes, purple and green peppers, purple and yellow beans