We spent yesterday working at the ranch.\u00a0 Ugh! to the heat.\u00a0 Yay! to the ranch.\u00a0 We took the 5-gallon buckets of tree shreddings I made earlier this year and spread them on the road.\u00a0 We took three buckets of used kitty litter to spread on the road I call the “mountain lion bait area.”\u00a0 Hubby had a bucket of rocks for an area we are reinforcing.\u00a0 In short, everything went toward road bed reinforcement.\u00a0 With our sandy soil, we have some terrible erosion problems.<\/p>\n
We also have mucho encroachment from foliage onto the road, so the green stuff scrapes the side of the trucks when we drive in.\u00a0 We\u00a0 begin cutting it back early on, then get too hot when we get half way back (the ranch is one mile deep from front to back).\u00a0 Those of you thinking ahead at home know this means the front half of the road isn’t too bad, and the back half is getting really bad.\u00a0 I think I’m going to head out next week and start working from the inside out on the trim back job.\u00a0 I figure it will take 2 – 3 days of work to get the job done.<\/p>\n
I also dragged the motorcycle trailer out there, and we pulled the KLR out of the covered car trailer and brought it back to town.\u00a0 My motorcycle trailer is a five bike trailer designed for little dirt bikes.\u00a0 My KLR 650 is really too big for it, but, when I needed a motorcycle trailer to haul the bike from Maryland to Texas back in 1992, that’s what I was able to find and buy in my budget.\u00a0 The trailer is incredible sturdy, and that’s one thing I like about it, but my back tire doesn’t really fit in the rail, and I long for a more appropriate replacement.\u00a0 And hubby wants something that will double to haul a Jeep with.\u00a0 So, we’re looking for a dual axle, enclosed, 12-14 foot trailer with a drop down ramp, tie downs, and removable or collapsible motorcycle chocks.\u00a0 But, now that I’ve brought the bike into town, I believe I can sell this motorcycle trailer.<\/p>\n
This brings me to my post title:\u00a0 Deer.\u00a0 We’ve owned the ranch for eight years now, and I’ve seen signs of deer but never the real thing.\u00a0 Yesterday, I saw THREE.\u00a0\u00a0 First, on the way in when I turned the corner to drive up to the house site, a big 8-point buck ran across my path.\u00a0 Beautiful deer.\u00a0 Then, on the way out, about half way, two deer ran out of the woods in front of me, bounded down the road and back into the trees.\u00a0 I didn’t anything but the hind end of the front deer, but that trailing doe was gorgeous.\u00a0 So.\u00a0 After eight years of no sightings (hubby had seen some before this), I catch three fine specimens in one day.\u00a0 Delightful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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