random update

It is still hot in Houston.  Today it is 106 and tomorrow it is supposed to be 105.  I didn't think anywhere got this hot that wasn't in the desert.  It will still not rain.  We got a not beneficial lightning storm a couple of days ago but shocking, it did not make my grass turn green again.  When will it end?  It's almost September...
In other fascinating weather news, Maryland is bracing for a hurricane.!?/%&!  Huh?  That's right, a hurricane.  The same thing that hits places like Florida, Louisiana and Texas.  Crazy, I know.  I really hope that it isn't really bad up there.  I don't think it will be as far inland as Frederick, but I think it could be bad on the coast.  Coming from someone who grew up knowing nothing about hurricanes and then living through Hurricane Ike, let me say that they are no joke.  I hope everyone is safe in the Northeast and we'll be thinking about you all! 

That said, today I went to the lease again.  (This is becoming a weekly occurrence)  Every feeder has been trashed by the bacon.  They are running wild up there at the lease and something has got to be done.  I think something will be done next weekend but I'm not going to say anything until I know for sure.  My deer aren't getting a chance to eat because pigs are eating all their food.  I do however have proof that there are something other that hogs there...

  
Oh my...  They do exist!  Now if only I can figure out how high to hang the stupid camera...  It really shouldn't be so hard.  There were also 10 pictures of hogs, 1 doe and a tree falling (oooooooohhhhhhhhh).  I'm not sure if it made a sound but I got to see it...   Bow season is 35 days away and I am ready. 

As ready as I am for Bow Season, College Football is almost BACK!  I can't wait for that either!

I have also finished my first week of school.  It was actually really good.  I want to be positive this year but we'll see.  I have a little while to go still...

PIGS

I went to the lease this morning and moved the feeders around, tried to pick out some spots for hunting season, shot my bow and checked the camera.  Pretty productive day.

Just like last time, hogs have cleaned me out.

 
Different spot, same result.  Awesome.  I'm feeding pigs.

This is a new spot.  I just want to see if I can get something else to come in.  This is a perfect place for bow hunting.  I can climb a tree like 15 yards from this feeder.

 
Where I moved the other feeder to.  If deer come to this one, I'll have a 20 yard shot.  Perfect.

Back to my old spot.  I know I said that I was feeding the pigs and now I have proof!  (These are my pictures.  I swear.  The computer wouldn't read the card for some reason so I had to put the card in the Wii.  It worked, but I had to take pictures of the T.V. Screen.) 

  

So there it is.  I knew it.  I gotta get them outta there.  I guess it's getting ready to be pig season...

Lease, I thought...

Instead of going up to the lease this morning, I have been forced to stay home due to school.  It's already messin up my plans!  OK, well I wasn't really forced.  I have to be at school today at 1:00 for an open house.  (and so it begins...)  This means that I wouldn't be able to "play around" at the lease for a long time.  I have pushed the lease back until tomorrow with a helpful suggestion from Carly.  Hopefully my cameras will have some pictures on them.  I know there are animals eating my corn!  Unless it's so hot, the corns just blowing up which is possible too I guess.  Oh well, we will see tomorrow I guess.  Plans for lease include but are not limited to, moving the feeders and the cameras, shooting my bow and picking a couple trees for bow season.  Stay tuned...

Baby Baugher

That's right.  We, Chris and Carly Baugher are expecting!  Baby Baugher should be here around the end of February.  Here is one picture of the beautiful little boy/girl!  More to come...  It's late and it's been a crazy day!

 
OK, here is another one.  I can't stop

That's just not right....

How is it even possible that summer is over and it is 100 degrees, EVERY DAY?  I'm not even going to be able to take all my wonderful children outside at school because it's like code black everyday.  (code black means if your outside for 30 minutes, you just die.  You just topple over and melt into the ground.)  Outside feels like a Mortal Kombat fatality move where fire shoots out of your hands and you burn your opponent to death.  I can't drive because my steering wheel melts in my hand.  If I grab it too tight, I get blisters.  I'm very sorry to everyone in Houston that has leather seats.  How can you even sit down???  Today Carly and I talked seriously about moving our bed into the kitchen because it's always cool in there.  We decided against it though because we didn't think it would be good for the shape of our body...  A bed in the kitchen???  I'd never even have to stand.  I'd like to apologize to everyone too because starting tomorrow, traffic in Houston will get a lot worse.  Awesome.  I'm sorry.  Kids don't come back to school for a week so starting next week, I'll attempt to bring "child humor" to these post things.  I usually cry laughing at least once a week at the kids at school for saying/doing something hilarious, so stay tuned for those updates.  In the mean time, try not to melt Houston and watch out for those fire coated steering wheels! 

hunting season

I went up to my deer lease this morning just to check some stuff out real quick.  I wanted to check my feeders and see if I can start figuring out these deer a little better.  That way when October 1st comes, watch out.  I gotta have a plan of attack so I can be on these deer in bow season.  So far I have two main spots that I already know I'll be hunting.  One in bow and one in gun season, mainly.  The bow spot is crazy but I'll get to that later.  Let's see if I can paint a picture for ya.  My gun spot is REAL thick overgrowth.  Like you might get lost if you go in there more than 20 feet.  It will be a little less thick later on in the year when the plants start dying.  There are about 5 good deer trails coming out of it that I could hunt.  Gotta see where they're coming out at for sure though.  Where the overgrowth starts, there is a massive trail.  I have a feeder about 50 yards up the trail with corn and a salt block where I would head up the trail.  The deer are cruisin in the overgrowth fields cause they think they're safe.  They are for now...  About 200 yards from the start of my overgrowth plot, is the start of my other area.  You turn off the road and go about 100 yards back in the woods on another road.  I can hunt anywhere on that road.  Good sign today, as soon as I parked the truck and took about 5 steps back the road I heard a deer blow and saw a pretty little white tail going through the woods.  That means they are there!  At the back of this section, there is about a 50 yard by 30 yard clearing.  That's the spot.  There are so many tracks in that opening, it is ridiculous.  I'm thinking that the deer come out, feed around in the clearing and then go back in on the other side where I'm standing when I took this picture. 

I have a feeder up where the trail goes back into the woods.  You can see the feeder in the next picture.  All it is is a 5 foot PVC pipe tied down to a tree filled with corn and covered with whatever I could find in my garage.     

Pretty crazy trail.  Told ya.  Anyway, when I get to the feeder today, I find this!

Serious...  Look at this!

At first, I'm thinking deer on steroids.  Then I calm down and realize what really happened here...  HOGS.  The other feeder that I had up had the same thing happen.  You can kinda see the scuff on the side of the pipe from the hogs demanding more food.  Now I have a new plan, hog hunt before deer season.  Good thing about Texas, you can hunt hogs year round.  There is no season.  If your deer hunting and see a hog, shoot it.  Turkey hunting and see a hog, shoot it.  They want them gone.  This is two weeks in a row that they have left they're mark on my spot.  Now it's time for revenge.  The entire road back to the opening was torn up by hogs.  I'm guessing that with the drought, they are looking for food and water wherever they can get it.  They found it in the form of my deer food.  Stupid hogs.   

It's coming...

School.  Next Monday, I have to go back to work.  The kids don't come the following Monday but still, going back to school again kinda sucks.  It doesn't feel like summer is over due to that fact that every single day in August has been over 100 degrees.  Seriously?  That really sucks.  This is the temperature right now outside...

I mean come on...

With school coming back in comes the useless trainings that I am "required" to go to .  I find it funny that the other P.E. Teachers at school are "required" to go to them to and for some reason, I am always there alone...  With school coming back in, I also realized that it was time for Shaggy (ME) to get a haircut.  It was my first haircut since May which means that my hair was mighty long.  It looked like this...

Gross.  I told the barber that I was sorry before I even sat down.  Her response to me when I told her what I wanted her to do to my hair was, "Wow.  You haven't had a haircut in a while."  The insults kept on coming when she was done.  She told me that I looked like "a man again."  Apparently, when I got in there I didn't.  I found this out because she also said, "You looked like a little boy when you got here."  Thanks.  I did it because I wasn't sure how many more haircuts I had in me before the "buzz" started.  From the looks of my hair now, there is 1 maybe 2 left.

I don't care.  At least I look like a man again...  Right SuperCuts girl?

I had to get a hair cut now because I'll admit, I didn't look very professional with that mop that I was sportin! 

In other exciting news, MICHIGAN FOOTBALL IS ALMOST BACK!  That's right, 9 maybe 10 wins this year.  Mark it down.  Go Blue!

It's like a heat wave...

Wow it's hot outside!  For some intelligent reason, I decided to mow the lawn today around 1:00 and then fix the sprinkler system.  I came inside a little after 3:00 and for a second, I seriously though I was on fire.  Seriously.  If not on fire, I was smoking a little bit for sure.  It probably took me about 2 hours to stop sweating.  Awesome feeling.  I want a pool.  I'm not sure if I want a pool or I actually need one.  That would be so nice.  I really can't complain because it has been just as hot at home for some reason this year.  Actually, it's been hotter up north a lot of days this summer than it has been down here.  It's hot everywhere.   

Which is why it's hard for me to understand why I have a sinus infection right now?  Summer colds suck.  Bad.  I have literally been taking pain pills the last couple of days because my right cheek hurts so bad.  I was telling Dad today and he pointed out that while the pain pills will take away the pain, it will not cure the problem.  The man is a genius I tell ya.  So it's back to Claritin for me and hopefully that will do the trick.

I'm going up to the lease again tomorrow to see if what I did last time is working at all.  It better be.  I hope that right now, there are deer, hogs and turkey all eating corn from the feeders that I made for them.  Better yet, I hope that on October 1 they come back to eat again.  October 1 for all of you that don't know is the first day of bow season in Texas.  That would just be splendid.  I put up a camera too so hopefully I'll have some pictures of some wild animals to show everyone!