11/29/11

Arrivederci my friends.

I just received a CD of the pictures that were on my memory card which pooped out on me.


My mom took it home after she visited and had a camera guy get them off. As a result, I have some new ones for ya, as well as some sweet panoramas I just shopped together. 

Things here on the ranch are great, life is exciting as always. 

For the last week or so I have started my work with Jonathan out at the fight pens. These pens house the pheasant, chucker, and quail which we provide for hunts. 

We started by doing a bit of renovations on the pens themselves. We put up some shade screen around the pen to provide the birds some more cover. We cleaned up the trash, tumbleweeds, and excess supplies. 

So my main job is to change the birds' water every day and make sure their feeders are full. Pretty basic stuff. 

On days which we have a hunt booked however, I get to do much more. 

Jonathan and I walk into the pens with big nets in our hands after the amount of birds we need for the hunt. 

The hunters pay for a certain amount of birds, and we put them out for the hunt about a half hour before the hunt in a specified spot. 

So were catching these birds. Its really, really fun. Birds are flying everywhere, were cracking up, dodging birds while trying to swoop them out of the air with our nets. 

Its great fun. 

We catch as many as we need. For a hunt of say 3 people... 30 birds or so. 

We put them in their crates, and head to the schoolhouse to meet with the hunters, and depending if they hired one, the guide, either rick or bob. 

The hunters hang out, shoot practice rounds, stand by the fire, drink coffee, whatever they want. 

They hang while Jonathan, and I go out to one of the four hunting fields to set the birds. 

We cruise out with the birds in crates in the truck. We grab them out of the crates by the legs, and walk them to some tall grass or brush. The whole time were walking them there were swinging them in circles to disorient them so they wont fly away when we put them down. 

So we dizzy them up a bit, put them into cover, and head back to the hunters to let them start. 

Its a great time really. However, it probably won’t be as cool when its 10° out. We’ll see. 

So I’ve mainly been working with Jonathan since being back from Bisonwerks. It has honestly been great. He’s a great guy to work with, he teaches me so much every day. We also get time to start talking hunting lodge plans. Its a good introduction to his thoughts about the lodge design. 

Unfortunately, I still dont have a functional camera, so no pics of the birdies just yet. 

I asked santa for a camera though, so hopefully, if I’ve been a good boy, yall will be watching some 1080p HD video of birds hitting my face. Yes. 

However, I do have some older pictures off the CD from my old memory card. I think I’ll just caption them...

So enjoy. I think its a bunch of stuff from pouring water tanks and stuff. 

And of course, close up shots of bruze cruze...

Hey bruze.

yea?

Did you know you look like a big ol' donkey? 

A nicely lit one of the backhoe. Could be a damn John deere ad.

By the way, a lot of these pics are worth clicking on to view bigger, especially the panoramas. 

Cooper and Nick using the transect to check the level of the water tank. When completed, the tank has to be level within 1/4". Which took a while. 

Our tank pouring foreman, Cooper. What a boss. 

Thats right baby. Finshed another one. Stuart and I assembled and leveled most of the tanks together. He's feeling pretty proud right now. 

Mr. Leach joined us for the pouring of the tanks. Nice look David. That stash is DERTY. 

Uhhhhh, I'm not really sure whats going on right now. 

Pouring concrete to set the water tanks in position. This has been a long time coming. 

Koda, our mascot, looking unusually sly. 

So yea, the tanks are all poured, we did 5 tanks in 3 days. It was really awesome to see them poured and done. 

Now, the water lines are charged, the tanks are full, and Cooper is leading the charge to finish the pipeline/tanks project. 

Its been a hue undertaking, but really awesome to see it coming together. I know Cooper has been busting his ass on this project. Almost there Coop. 

A cool shot of Jonathan, Michael, Allen, and Nick riding off for a day of wrangling. 

ATTENTION!!!!! THIS MAN IS OFFICIALLY SINGLE AND ON THE MARKET!!! HIS NAME IS ALLEN FERGUSON, HE WORKS AT CHICO BASIN RANCH, AND IS A DREAMY COWBOY WHO'S SHY AT FIRST, BUT HAS A LOT TO OFFER UNDER THE SURFACE. HE LIKES REDSKINS FOOTBALL, LONG HORSE RIDE PICNICS, AND BEING THE MOST BALLER RANCH FOREMAN EVER. REMEMBER, CHICO BASIN RANCH, LOOK IT UP.

Hey mama, hey ceef. 

This should be our new postcard or something. Its a great picture if you ask me. check the heart on the forehead of the mama looking at me.

Now check out these sweet panoramas, the first one, a nice one of a cattle drive over whipple ridge, and the second is just a damn nice sunset one night.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures. I'm pretty much out for now, but I might try to get a cheap memory card at wally world this weekend so I can get by till Christmas. 

I also hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, I'm going to try and get some pictures from the Kenturkey Derby. 

Oh man, that story is going have to wait until the next post. Its a funny one though. 

I have to go to bed now. 

Goodnight world.