Jan. ‘10-Trap Shack Showroom is warmed with the heater that’s been blasting all day for us. It’s end of 2009 inventory time. It’s a carefully selected time to count the remaining trapping and coon hunting supplies. Hawken busied himself digging in the waxed dirt with a shovel. An hour later-we had a large part of [...]

 January  ’10-Tampa FL Electric Company provides an Environmental Education Building @ the Manatee Viewing Center. The winter season is a time to observe the manatees as they bathe in the warm waters from the power plant. Tom and I were fortunate to visit this viewing area on two seperate occasions while in Florida.
70 degrees and [...]

Jan. ‘10-A think tank gathering for people interested in sharing views on human health, soil and agriculture prompted Tom and I to travel to Florida on my 40th B-day.
Ding Darling Wildlife Preserve on Sanibel Island, we visited twice. I step out of the rental car and I’m woozy from the blend of air travel and [...]

Jan. 13, ‘10-It’s been the usual lively days @ Welcome Home Farm. Tom carefully set two cage  traps to catch the opossum that was after the poultry. He baited it with Greg’s Great Coon Bait. Tom was successful and captured the animal. Let’s just say he didn’t get over to get the animal out of the cage [...]

Jan. 14, ‘10-Smeary pink smatterings of soft pink seem to sink into the sunrise. Later a layer of soft pink floats suspended above Arcadia in the Eastern sky. Stars capture my attention as I walk in below zero darkness. The quarter moon offers diffused light that shines at a creek corner. I’m settled into the [...]

     The WTA District 5 Winter Meeting will be held Sat. Feb.6, 2010 at Bud Pierson”s Fur Shed starting at 1pm. The fur shed is located at W22051 Wagner Rd. in Treampealeau,  Wisconsin. This is always a great afternoon of comraderie with fellow trappers-there is never a shortage of stories! For those of you not [...]

 
 
   Fisher season closed for us Dec. 31st so we pulled our winter line for now. Even though we had tracks we did not catch any fisher but we did catch 5 large and very prime coon. All were caught in square white buckets set with Belisle 160 traps and baited with our Muir Creek Greg’s [...]

Jan. 6, ‘10-Welcome back and be sure to read “Steep Hills=Big Thrills” first.
Lovely lacey snowflakes slumber silently as I swoon over the sights and sounds. The sights are brushing the cold away and the silence is a reminder of where our  journeys began. All of us-you and I standing together in spirit, simply waiting for [...]

Jan. 2nd, ‘10-My hubby Doc Tom has described how invariably the front end of a snowstorm produces a weather system that causes cattle to calve.   A   client of Tom’s had a small herd of cattle nestled @ the bottom of a steep hill. I’d heard the story many times of how he slid sideways down [...]