After a week of off again, on again cellphone and computer malfunctions I am at last up and running with both and I think I even have my camera working again!!! I'll be test driving that shortly.
Comments regarding the Cougar Experience run from "Oh Great" to "Are you shopping for a Condo yet" and "Don't Get Eaten!!!"
I am taking measures with the last in mind. Bulldozing out a lot of underbrush has started and will continue. I li
Comments regarding the Cougar Experience run from "Oh Great" to "Are you shopping for a Condo yet" and "Don't Get Eaten!!!"
I am taking measures with the last in mind. Bulldozing out a lot of underbrush has started and will continue. I li
ke the wild roses, Saskatoon berry, Oregon grape and the snow berries etc. but where they are very thick makes great slinking around and hiding area for Cougar. A little less of that is the plan.
Photo at right is Anita Supervising "DirtWorks"
(My chair at left love that thing!)
Al, the DirtWorks driver is very good, fun to watch.
Next photo, Bobbi supervising "DirtWorks"
Yes, as to be expected, Bobbi DID get to ride on the thing!
Some of the DirtWorks results...
This is looking west from the original parking/camp spot. There is a circle drive kind of thing back into the spot where the cougar hissed at me and where I will put 'something', improved camp or cabin etc.
But back to the "Don't Get Eaten" thing..
I am sick of listening to myself sing! Variety of reasons on that. I don't sing well, I know about three songs other than Christmas Carols and it takes a lot of energy to sing when I am trying to get something done! (Like cleaning up 'stuff' left around in the wake of the bulldozer.) My singing was never great but sometime in the last 40 years it has deteriorated and when 'winded' it is truly strange.
The little jingle bells they tell you to wear are crazy making and I have never been one to have a radio on as background noise. I want to listen to the creek as background noise! For crying out loud! And play in the creek for hours without looking over my shoulder every second and having three kinds of pepper spray strapped to my body while carrying a 308. I don't own a 308 but that may change.
In all honesty it makes me angry that my image of what I could do on the property has been in some ways ripped out from under me.
Building some huge cage that I can be INSIDE that the cougars can't get in would work. It would need to be quite large, about 50' of creek, with a lid on it. It could be a covered bridge, it just wouldn't have a bottom. Fish and Game are not going to be charmed.
I'll think of something.
I'm over here for a couple more weeks. Some leaves are starting to turn color and I saw a LARGE group of wild turkeys about a half mile down Libby Creek from the property yesterday, really must have been about 30 of them. I hear that the tend to gang up into larger groups in the fall. They seem to think it is fall and I am in agreement.
Still lovely days, mid 80's but getting quite cool at night. Heater coming on a few times at night in the RV.
I have a final bid on moving a shipping container onto the property but am still undecided if I am going to go that route or actually build a cabin. Insuring a container is posing to be a hurdle but I may have that handled. Nothing final.
The week after the Great Cougar Experience I was truly un-nerved. I am getting past that and back to loving it here.
R
Photo at right is Anita Supervising "DirtWorks"
(My chair at left love that thing!)
Al, the DirtWorks driver is very good, fun to watch.
Next photo, Bobbi supervising "DirtWorks"
Yes, as to be expected, Bobbi DID get to ride on the thing!
Some of the DirtWorks results...
This is looking west from the original parking/camp spot. There is a circle drive kind of thing back into the spot where the cougar hissed at me and where I will put 'something', improved camp or cabin etc.
But back to the "Don't Get Eaten" thing..
I am sick of listening to myself sing! Variety of reasons on that. I don't sing well, I know about three songs other than Christmas Carols and it takes a lot of energy to sing when I am trying to get something done! (Like cleaning up 'stuff' left around in the wake of the bulldozer.) My singing was never great but sometime in the last 40 years it has deteriorated and when 'winded' it is truly strange.
The little jingle bells they tell you to wear are crazy making and I have never been one to have a radio on as background noise. I want to listen to the creek as background noise! For crying out loud! And play in the creek for hours without looking over my shoulder every second and having three kinds of pepper spray strapped to my body while carrying a 308. I don't own a 308 but that may change.
In all honesty it makes me angry that my image of what I could do on the property has been in some ways ripped out from under me.
Building some huge cage that I can be INSIDE that the cougars can't get in would work. It would need to be quite large, about 50' of creek, with a lid on it. It could be a covered bridge, it just wouldn't have a bottom. Fish and Game are not going to be charmed.
I'll think of something.
I'm over here for a couple more weeks. Some leaves are starting to turn color and I saw a LARGE group of wild turkeys about a half mile down Libby Creek from the property yesterday, really must have been about 30 of them. I hear that the tend to gang up into larger groups in the fall. They seem to think it is fall and I am in agreement.
Still lovely days, mid 80's but getting quite cool at night. Heater coming on a few times at night in the RV.
I have a final bid on moving a shipping container onto the property but am still undecided if I am going to go that route or actually build a cabin. Insuring a container is posing to be a hurdle but I may have that handled. Nothing final.
The week after the Great Cougar Experience I was truly un-nerved. I am getting past that and back to loving it here.
R
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