Getting caught up around here. Had some evil malware on my dinosaur computer and finally decided to just say the heck with trying to remove it. So wiped the hard drive clean and did a clean install of Windows and I'm finally back in action on the internet. Much better!
So not much action around here, eh? Wouldn't be a little thing called snow, would it? LOL! Dang it's been hard to get outside with the hounds. I'm still after the elusive pasture rabbit. They have been hanging out within 20 feet or less of their holes and so when the dogs and I get to them, it's a quick short run right into the hole. If we get some melting with lots of water run off, that should help the cause as some of the holes will be unusable. Not this week, but next week is forecast to be up near 50 degrees. Fingers crossed.
Took the dogs out for 2 hours today. Probably about 18" of snow pack. About a foot of powder on the top. The dogs worked hard. The human worked hard too. We took a walk to the backside of the farm and NOTHING was moving around back there in the way of rabbits. They are pretty much staying under the snowpack right now as it is too soft for them on top. The one rabbit I did see was really floundering in the deep powder on the way to running to a hole.
Feb 1st, the dogs did get one up and running at the back of the farm. I shot one and then was standing nearby to let the dogs finish out the track. Another rabbit came hopping right by me, but I had set my gun down. Doh! That hopping rabbit was the one the dogs were on and I had shot an auxiliary rabbit. LOL! The picture is on the ground near my garage back at the house which is why there is some bare grass. It was a good sized rabbit too.
Oh and today, after running in deep snow for 2 hours, I let the dogs rest about an hour and them fed them dinner. After dinner, my male picked up one of his toys and started running around the house like a crazy dog. Dang well conditioned hounds.
I told him he was supposed to be tired. Well that's going to have to do for getting exercise until Saturday afternoon. Fingers crossed for some snow melting before the last weekend of the season (the weekend after next).