This will be the second year that we have been off the lease and when I first found out that we were off it was a really sad thing. I was sad for the loss and I was sad that Morgan was not going to get to enjoy it anymore. I had watched him grow from a little boy who would chatter up a storm while we played tic-tac-toe in the blind to a young man who was telling me to be quiet. He had shot several deer, I had already decided that he could do all the shooting, give him some fond memories to carry with him, and his last buck was a nice one. And I had planned on letting him do all the driving around the lease. Yes , it is very sad, but life goes on and so must I.
We had left our tripods, a feeder and the tower down there as I was hoping to get on a lease in Coleman Co. with my friend Robert but he had to get off of his lease. Charlie and Morgan and I went down to Lampasas Labor day weekend and picked up our things. I had borrowed a 16' flatbed trailer to load everything on. Taking the tower apart was not as bad as one might think but it did take us 3 hours and there was some rust we had to deal with. After it was dismantled and loaded into the trailer we picked up the tripods and the feeder.
We left there around 1:30pm and stopped at the Dutchman's place, which is just north of Hamilton, and got a Ruben. We then drove to Whitesboro, which is about 20 miles west of Sherman to a little place we got on, it is in Grayson County and is a bow hunting only, because Grayson is a bow hunting only county. It was a long drive 535 miles, we left Rockwall at 4:45 am Saturday, picked up Charlie and left his house at 5:30 got to Lampasas around 9:00 am. and made it to Grayson around 6:30. We set up 2 tripods and put the other one out but did not set it up because we ran out of daylight.
We are planning to go back up to Sherman this Sunday and put out 2 feeders and another tripod that is at Charlie's house.
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