Jason Raven

One Week

Big sister and mommy went to Camp Pondicherry today for their first Girl Scout function, so little sister and I took the long ride up to check the scout cam. It was a busy week, but unfortunately... all the deer traffic is at night, which isn't too helpful when it comes to hunting them. I only saw one buck that I was interested in, too.

All mixed up

This weekend was a real mixed-bag of activity. Saturday at noon, we headed over to the Old Town House for the Soup and Cider celebration put on by the North Yarmouth Historical Society. We lunched on a variety of soups and breads and washed it down with some freshly-pressed cider. The kids were too little to crank the press, but they had fun tossing apples into the hopper.

Scout Cam Update 10/19/08

I finally saw something on the camera that got me excited. Unfortunately, the buck seems to have been just outside the infrared illumination area and all I could make out was most of one antler. That was enough to tell me that this was at least an 8-point buck - maybe 10. Unfortunately, I seem to have deleted that photo but my dad saw it, too, so I have a witness! I need to get up there this weekend and look for buck scrapes and maybe create a fake one of my own and put the camera watching it.

Teach your children well

Note: This is a recreation of the entry that I accidentally deleted a few weeks ago. These events actually took place on October 4.

Despite not having caught "buck fever" yet this year, I went out bow hunting at the old farm in Thorndike last weekend. I still haven't seen anything on the scout cam that has gotten me excited. It's actually having the exact opposite effect on me that I had expected when I purchased it! Oh well, you can never be too realistic.

Farm Share Week 18

This was the final week of the farm share. I guess that if you add up the costs for what these organic vegetables would have cost you at the grocery store, it came out to be a good deal. However... I'm disappointed with the way the shares ended. I was really expecting more of a bounty at the end. Being a big squash-eating family, we were especially let-down by the fact that he had a really rough time with his winter squash. Good thing our own pumpkin patch did better to make up for it!

Farm Share Week 17

I had just typed up my longest post in months and it got squashed by my browser. Shame on me for not being more careful...

I'm too tired to go back over it now - maybe later.