Yuma pictures

The scene at an exit stop north of Raton New Mexico








Valley Quail, the residents are feeding the birds there are quite a few of in the covey, they come out every afternoon for food







Fellow from Main pulled in to stock up on stuff from Mexico,

70,000 lb rig with a garage in the rear, all electric, batteries went dead, had to get a jump from another camper.









Example of artwork on a satellite dish done in Mexico

In Yuma

I am at an Indian reservation (sleepy hollow) just west of Yuma Arizona, in California, about 800 feet from the Mexican Border.

Arrived last Tuesday afternoon and Jim had a spot reserved for us (me and the camper).

I have visited with a wide variety of folks here, many Canadians.

The next post will have pictures that I took during the last few days.

trip to Yuma

Left this morning to travel to Yuma Az, for a couple of reasons.

#1. it's freezing in Colorado this morning it was 7 degrees above zero tonight it is predicted to get
-4 degrees below Brrrrr, since moving from Iowa my blood has thinned a bit.

#2. during the holiday season (Jim) our daughter in law's grandfather extended an invitation to join him and his wife in Yuma (snowbirds).

#3 since I went to Quartsite Az. last year and had a-lot of fun in the desert, I decided to do it again.

tonight I am in Deming New Mexico on Interstate #10, I have traveled approx. 800 miles today, I left Colorado at 10am this morning and stopped for the night at 10:30pm, in a wal-mart parking lot. (free) I still have about 450 miles to go so I will post tomorrow with the results of the trip

January pheasant hunt in 08

Libby and I left on the 1st of Jan. and headed out to our favorite hunting spots in Nebraska.

Met up with friend Gary on Wed. and hunted, we saw 3 - 4 groups with 20 - 30 birds.

Thursday was a little more difficult only saw 2 birds.

Fri and Sat were better.



Libby looking for birds with her eyes closed









Antique irrigation pivot on our way to a spot



Old homestead













Abandoned Church





Pheasant tracks







tracks coming out of CRP corner





























New to us in this area Bald eagle













the guys BS'ing after hunt

Happy New Year everyone

After sitting for the holidays, Libby and I are planning on another trip to Neb. for Pheasant hunting. Just bought the new hunting license for 2008.

Today will be spent getting ready for trips, over the next 2 months.. more posts coming...

Merry Christmas

Bald Eagle visit today

On Saturday we had a visit from a bald eagle, they have a nest not too far from us, and I have seen him flying around our pond in the fall. This time he decided to perch in a tree behind the shop.

European Pheasant hunt

Went to Kiowa Creek for a monthly event called European pheasant hunting (really shooting)


How it works: There are 12 pits (pictured below) in a circle pattern, in the center is an old grain silo without a top, shooters are positioned in the pits, and the birds are tossed out the top of the Silo, when the birds reach the top, they will fly in any direction away from the silo, past one of the pits. About 35 birds are tossed out in rapid fashion at a time, so it is a pretty busy time, shooting and reloading. This is done 6 times, each tossing of approx. 35 birds is called a flurry.
After each flurry the shooters rotate to another pit location, so everyone shoots from a different location in the circle. After each flurry retrieving dogs are used to find and collect all of the downed birds.
It is alot of fun.






view from one of the "pits"

Not hunting this week (got snow)

The forecast was for 1-3 inches of snow, low overnight 5 deg.

Hunting on Nebraska

Sleepy Libby after hunting

The saying goes do not spoil your hunting dog