South of the cabin is seeded

This is really a short update

Sue, Floyd and I went out to the cabin this morning. We stopped in Lake Bronson to buy some rye (56 lbs for $11.00). At the cabin we hooked two harrow sections one behind the other and worked up the area south of the cabin. We then seeded the whole bag of rye and followed up with the harrow.

We are supposed to get rain tonight. It probably would be good for the area we seeded but the farmers don't need it. The crops currently look great!

We are also looking for a "Spring Tooth" implement which will help us work up more food plots. It would be nice if we could find one near the cabin but if we can't we will trailer it up.

Today we also put fresh batteries in the 5th trailcam and mounted in on a post on the fence line just north of the old cabin. The camera is looking southeast across the clearing.

I called Glenn Anderson to see if our bills were paid and they are.

Hope you are all doing well.

Bob

"It's a little bit of heaven out here." - Floyd Sanner- 9/9/08

Sue and I just arrived in Lancaster late this afternoon. Before supper, Floyd said, "Why don't we run out to the camp to check on the seeding." We loaded the ATV and went out there. Tomorrow Floyd, Sue, and I will go out and seed the area south of the cabin.

This is at the Northeast corner of the pasture looking east along the south end of the 120 acres.
Floyd and I checked for tracks along the way. We saw lots of track but I would expect to see more as the stuff grows more and as it get later in the fall.

This is the stuff coming up by the pond; looks good. Floyd said it all looks "fabulous".

This is just northwest of Matt's stand. Looks awesome!

This is about 150 yards east of Matt's stand.

Down by the pond on the northeast end of the pasture. I did this picture to get a close-up of the clover type plants.

By the pond stand.

On the right side of the picture you can look down the east side of the 80. On the left side you can see the southeast end of the dozing.

Pretty cool,

Bob

Trail Cam videos of deer

Sandhill Cranes on trailcam

The rye is up!

Good Morning,

Sue and I are at Lon and Mary Jo's house and I have a few minutes to send some of the trail cam pictures from earlier this year. When I initiated this post I was hoping to send one or more of the video clips. When I discussed this with Lon last night, he sent an e-mail to Lonnie who told him to use "U tube" first and then pull this into Blogger and Lon made it work.

So . . . the rye is up! Floyd had been out to the cabin and noticed it was up about 2". We wasn't able to get to any of the other areas but we can expect the others to be similar.

The pictures below are some from the trail cam by the cabin earlier this year.


Two deer

A buck and a doe. The doe looks pretty skinny, but this was in the spring time.

Here's a deer trying to decide if it want's to take on the raccoon that's in the feeder. This spring we had two raccoons climb to the top of the power pole just to the north of the feeder and electrocute themselves.

Just a nice picture at dusk.

This is an ATV we've noticed; probably some curious kids. We have two additional pictures, one nighttime and one daytime.

We are looking forward to more and better pictures and video clips. As we've mentioned earlier, we've moved some of the cameras and are anxious to see what happens as the rye and deer specific stuff starts to grow. Would also be nice to see a bear, wolf, etc.

Bob

Pictures by Chris

Sunrise again on the east end of the original 80


Sun Rise over Lake Sanchijebanobe

Cody & Ole at the camp

Sunset over the new cabin site

Bob, Kayla, Paige, Jeff chill'in at the camp

Seeding, Trail Cams, Hunting dogs, Next Gen Hunters

Sorry this has taken me so long to post. As I've thought about this past weekend I've been thinking how much Floyd has been involved in Sanchijebanobe. Also this past weekend we had four generations of partners and families associated with this growing partnership. Who would have imagined when we started 22 years ago what we would have today. Can you imagine what this will look like in another 20 years?




It was about 22 years ago when Floyd said there was 80 acres for sale south of Israelsons and as a group of 10 we decided to buy it and start Sanchijebanobe. In this picture we were at the End of the Line Cafe having lunch after seeding at the camp.



Here are Floyd and Sue standing on the new cabin site.



Here are Floyd and Sue checking to see where we could seed. They are at the north east corner of the pasture moving west. You can see the dozing on the south end of the 120 acres behind them.



Seeding included an ATV with Dick's pull behind seeder and Floyd's ATV where he's pulling a harrow section. This worked really well. We seeded rye along with a deer mixture of perennial clover, and other annual seeds. Seeding this time of year gets the plants started this year.


Here Chris is loading some deer type seeds. From left to right are Kyla, Sue, Chris, Floyd, and Jeff. The cabin site was seeded with both rye and deer candy. This day we seeded the cabin site, the east side of the 80, the area around Matt's stand and two worked up areas east of Matt's stand, and finally a plot worked up towards the north end of the 120 acres north of the trail into the state land. In this picture we have four generations represented.

We unloaded pictures from five trail cams. We got a lot of nice pictures including some video clips. When I tried to attach a a video clip of a family of Sand Hill Cranes, I couldn't do it.

Here' s Jeff with his new Browning Citori. He is anxious to start hunting pheasants (as are all of us). There's also a discussion of a fall trap league in Blaine.

Here's Paige learning how to shoot. Matt bought a B-B gun and both Paige and Kyla had a fun time learning from their dad.

Matt & Jeff with Jeff's shotgun.

Here's Kyla holding the BB gun in a safe position.

Matt and his hunting crew.

This is Matt's hunting dog, Cody. While we were out here a ruffled grouse walked out and Cody came to a beautiful point. I think Matt is pretty excited about hunting with three dogs this year; Jeff has Ole, Matt has Cody, and Chris has Jack.

Ole has been trained for hunting. Here Jeff is demonstrating how Ole retrieves.

Here are Ole and Cody each listening to their masters.

Here's the start of a campfire. The dogs are playing and you can see the old cabin in the background.

Here's Paige making sure the fire is ok. This was the end of a very busy Saturday. Sunday morning was for putting fresh batteries in the trail cams and relocating them if necessary.