Crispy morning

We woke up to a "crispy" morning today. 

When I walked out to to the coop, to wake the girls and open the door to the run, I noticed the grass was covered in frost and it crunched with each step I took.

It made for a hard time being quiet when I walked out to the back 20 to swap out SD cards on the game cams. 

It was pretty to see everything covered in frost. These photos are from the woods when I first headed out. 

It ended up being a very sunny day so the frost didn't last long. 

It was a pleasant walk out there to the furthest game cam and then back to the house. The air was crisp but not cold. I tried to listen for animals. It was hard to hear anything over the sounds of my foots steps going *crunch, crunch, crunch* as I tried to move through the woods like a ghost taking high steps. On the way back to the house I thought I heard an animal spook and run.  It probably was a squirrel with the zoomies racing from tree to tree. Each time I stopped walking and tried to hear if anything was moving, all I heard was silence. 

It really was peaceful out there.  I had visions of sitting out in the blind, scanning for deer and listening to tell tale sounds of something trying to tip toe in to the area. 

It just occurred to me that I don't think I ever mentioned filling my anterless tag for this year. 

There isn't a really exciting story to tell and that's why I didn't think to write anything down.  I will say, that the deer literally tip-toed into the area I was hunting. Tip-toe, tip-toe.  Then she'd stop, listen and look all around, before delicately tip-toeing a few more steps. 

It was a quick harvest and tracking. 

Tomorrow is the first day of firearm season. I'm mildly curious as to how many shots we'll hear this coming week, based on the number of day time deer I see on the game cams, there won't be many successful hunts in the immediate area. 

Wow, I sort of went on a side tangent there. It's just been a weird hunting season. And by weird, I mean not enough daytime deer being photographed. 

*ahem* 

There was plenty of frost on the game cams this morning. Each camera I wiped the frost off the lens. There isn't much more annoying than photos of things you can't see because of moisture on the lens.

I saw the sun on the tops of the pines trees when I returned to the house. I don't know what it is, but there is something about seeing the early sun rays on the tops of the trees that makes me smile. 

I saw this on the book of faces this afternoon. 

Just in time for Thanksgiving. Which, I'll be planning and getting the house ready for this weekend. I'm hoping the weather stays more on the decent side for just a little bit longer.  After Thanksgiving I'll be okay with snow. 

This upcoming week is going to be a bit of an odd one for work, thanks to the holiday. We have an early pseudo-deadline that's not really deadline. We just need to get pages to production sooner in the week so there's time to work and everything isn't held until publishing day, the Monday after the long weekend. This time of year until just after the first is always a bit of a blur and craziness. Usually the Monday of Thanksgiving week is publishing day. I think.  Yeah, pretty sure. 

After I post this blog post I'll start working on the show notes for my most recent flosstube. If you were wondering where it was. 😃