With November 2018 being colder than a witch’s xxx, we have stayed indoors and did crosswords. When we run out of the Sunday crossword from the local paper (KJ), we go to the archive (hardcopy anthologies of New York Times crosswords) and do the following. Using a drawing app on my Ipad, we draw the puzzle. Then we solve it. Each day gets a color code assigned (hah, never has a NYT crossword been solved in one day!). The bright red letters are answers derived from the interweb (hah! Never has a New York Times crossword been solved without the crimson letters!). This is one of the rare ones where we managed to fill in every square.
Deer hunt 2018 report
A couple days before our first snow storm of this season, our backwoods cameras caught some of the action behind our house. As mentioned before, this is mating season (I did not realize until this year that it coincides with hunting season). About 8pm in the evening, left image, a doe is caught passing through. Then, around mid-night, a buck comes by.
We have had only one hunter working our area this year so far (two weeks done and about two weeks to go) and I have not seen our neighbor or his kids at all (this is important to note because our backwoods is adjacent to their property and subject to their hunting attentions). Of course, during the year, we see deer, mostly does, on almost every patrol. With our recent snow, the evidence of multitudes of targets is all around us. Turkeys and beavers are also in the evidence.