How I spent my weekend

I spent the weekend up on the property. Saturday, I rented a 50 lbs. air drill and a 185 cu. ft. air compressor to drive it. One side of Horse Meadow Spring is all bedrock. So, in order to put a fence around the spring, I had to drill holes for 12 fence posts. Man, what a nast job. First of all, it was 95 degrees, so I am sweating up a storm even without operating this tool. Then, I start drilling. The drill is a combination drill and jack hammer. Squeeze the handle half way and the bit turns. Squeeze it more and it also vibrates. On top of that, there is a hole all the way through the bit that has air flowing through it. This is designed to blow the dust and debris out of the hole that you are digging. And yes, it does blow most of it out.....right into your face. And when you are sweating so bad that your clothes get wet..mmmm mmmm mmmm does it make you a big mess.

So, I got the holes drilled and the posts planted. Now I have all the posts and all of the rock jacks in place except one rock jack. I can't put that up until I get the excavator in there and dig the ponds out. Which I hope will happen next month. My forester is finishing up most of the work on the back of the property so that he can start moving all of the equipment forward and not have to go back and forth.

I took some nice pictures of an antelope and I unloaded my game cams and got some deer pictures You can see some of them here:
http://www.cooncampsprings.com/animals.html

I am headed south next weekend to spend family time at Leo Carillo State Park over the 4th. Anybody else going to be in the area. The wife and I are taking our yaks and fishing gear.

Then, it is back up to the property. I have to work the last weekend of the month, so that leaves me 3 weekends to get up there and get more work done. I just got the OK on my PLM proposal so it looks like I am going to have 3 tags this season. So, I need to get the camp together as much as possible so that I can get the most out of the tags. That means that each weekend I am up there, I will work one day on the habitat and one day on the camp. I hate taking time away from the habitat projects but I need to sell those tags to help pay off all the expenses I have charged.

So, anybody interested in coming up to help out?  Any and all help is greatly appreciated.