Deer Camp 2009

Deer camp started out warm and sunny. Was a great day to catch a few trout out of Eagle Lake.


Ken with a beautiful Rainbow Trout.


Lots of stories told by the camp fire.


CO and Rick preparing the steaks for the annual dinner put on by CO.


CO the grill master.

Dinner is served.

We didn't shoot any bucks but we did take quite a few does.

A first this year was boning out a deer and grinding some up to make chili later and grilling some for dinner.

Grinding the venison.

Ken is a master at grilling venison steak.

This is what a big buck looks like. Brian shot this Wednesday night in the hills.

Grandparents Day

Today Mary and I went to Grandparents day at Zeeland Christain where Gisele goes to a Young Three's class.


It was a lot of fun. They had us help her with 4 craft type projects. One was to paint her face.


Gisele with two of her Grandmas.

The theme for the day was a circus. Here she colored a horse and put it in a circus wagon that she made.

Grandma Mary cutting out a picture. It was a fun morning. We saw a lot of people we went to school with and now we are together again at our grandkids school events .

Work week in Iowa.

Spent the past week in Iowa working on the property with Junior Huyser.


We put up three double gates. It went quite well
and the weather was perfect.



The finished gates.

On Wednesday Jason and Dan Huyser arrived to help put up four deer blinds. The blinds were there but we had to screw in the ten foot legs.

At age 80 Junior makes it look easy. He is such a big help for me, I couldn't do it without him.

We got all the legs on the end by of the day on Wednesday.

Thursday was wet most of the day but with rain gear we kept working.

Blind in place in the middle of a soybean field.

Last month we put out some trail cameras.

Here are a few of the better bucks we got pictures of.

Back to Iowa

Putting in a gate post.


Went to Iowa this past week with Mary's Dad. Here we are unloading poles that we are using to make gate post.


We put in six poles for gates.



We also put out 5 trail cameras to try to get some pictures of the deer on the property.


These are water tanks that we will fill with water from a pond behind them and use the water for spraying the fields. Before we had to haul water from town on a trailer.

Here are some young Iowa bucks on a bean field.

Junior Huyser standing in one of our better bean food plots.

We also mowed all the trails, Iowa has had a lot of rain this year and everything is really tall.

Reed City Work Day

Wednesday I went up north to Dad's deer camp at Reed City. He needed some help planting some food plots. In this picture is my Dad age 90, Lou age 91 and Jerry age 74. All walk with canes, now you know why they needed help.



Jim De Witt also was there to drive the tractor.



Of course Mary's Dad was also there, he is 80.



They always have a good lunch. Today it was roast venison and pork with fresh sweet corn.

Hauling the chipper home to start the storm clean up.

The Storm Of 2009

Sunday night a short but powerful storm went through the Spring Lake area. This is a house in Fruitport.




My driveway had lots of trees and limbs down and we had to get the chainsaws out to get out of the driveway.

Quite a mess.

Two days later we are still without power but we have a generator for some lights and microwave. No TV or Internet equals long nights. We are very thankful that we escaped the brunt of the storm with no real damage.

Ottawa County Fair

Went to the Ottawa County Fair with Mary, Ashley, Gisele and Jacob. The kids really liked the animal barns and the rides. Be sure and watch the video at the bottom.