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Yesterday Will, our youngest, turned 8. Wife took Allison to her band banquet yesterday evening. Have yard work today, and have Christina bringing our granddaughter over for us to babysit this afternoon while her and her Austin go to a movie.

Good pic Don. Congratulations.

Very cool she was with you Shaun, be something to look back on for both of you. Congratulations to you.

Have plywood under ondura composite for our roof. No issues with the roof. I need to get back there with my tractor and small trailer and take the box off the platform and bring back to my garage to work on it. Used one inch square tubing for the wall framing. My old Lincoln ac/dc machine I used when i built the blind would never allow me to tack sheeting on but have a 140 handler now and think i could probably tack metal to the frame with it with it turned way down.

Welcome to the forums. Good idea. Ours is in need of a major overhaul, had not thought of using steel. Currently the squirrels birds and wasps have taken over our 6 x 6 box blind. Metal roofing would work, or could order straight panels that have not been crimped. We have a metal roofing place about 20 miles away, sure they would sell the flat that has not been run through. Check your local building supply stores. We have several in our area that sell metal by the foot for shed quality to house quality. Last I checked, I could buy painted 20 year for $1.79 a linear ft for 5v crimped.

Sounds like a bit of a headache Frank with a lot of folks either not knowing or trying to pull a fast one. Hope you can get it resolved without too much trouble. Some attorneys will answer questions or give advice over the phone without paying them anything. Does not hurt to pick up a phone, all you lose is your time. As far as the taxes, not sure if you pay taxes on the land that it necessarily makes the land yours. Our property assessor here has made changes to maps and we had paid based on 60 acres for nearly 20 years. More recently our online property assessor map was adjusted to the disputed line the newest neighbor tried to push, while it is further past where the fence going onto the neighbor it is more onto us taking away nearly 5 acres. The old tax map showed us going beyond the fence by more than 100 ft in most places. Getting this surveyed will run over $4000 due to having to find the old pin at the originating point and go 3 sides around to get back to the line in question. Neighbor does not want to pay it, I am not paying for it for him to try to make a claim. Still hanging onto hopes we get another chance on the place beside us down the road. Good luck.

Thank you all. Time sure flies. Good to see you check in Ben. Hope all is well with you and your family. Been a few years since Christina has gone hunting with me, hoping down the road she gets the joy of taking her kids and looking forward to hopefully taking them some too myself. I remember one of those incidents here, think she was maybe 13 at that time, so probably 10 years ago.

Good deal Don, congratulations to her. Great pic and bird. Always nice to read these posts with the kids tagging a bird or deer or whatever.

Congratulations Al. Another nice bird.

Congratulations Martin. Cool you got it done on opening day. Allowed 4 here, I have not even heard any birds since our season has been open.

That is nice Lewis. Good work Ross.

The discussion between Dave and Martin is precisely why I would talk with an attorney in your state who handles land. Maybe the attorney that closed your deal. I do know that with the property beside us, we had a "back up offer" in on it for the same price the boy paid for it. We had waited until the bank approved an amount and told us exactly how much they would lend us. We came in less than 24 hours late. Anyway we had an otherwise identical contract to the primary buyer, the realtor handling it if I remember right had right on the contract that the land should be surveyed that the fence lines were not the exact existing barriers. Some people sign these things without reading them fully. It was nice when we had our disagreement to be armed with the knowledge of knowing what the boy and his wife had agreed and signed on, he was pretty well dumbfounded when I asked him if he read what was in his contract. You also should be able to get a copy of the neighboring property deeds from your local courthouse and find if yours matches. Also agree with Dave on the survey, wonder how accurate some of these surveys really are. I measured off a reputable surveyor's pins on a line according to the deed. The next pin measured with a 300 ft fiberglass tape measured in segments pulled along a straight line was off significantly from what I measured.

Thanks Martin. Think I got a little lucky on the second one, trap did not have much of his foot. Have watched a few videos on you tube, some very good info in some of them. Nightlatched the traps and adjusted the pan tension after watching a pretty good video on trap setup. Being this sand is so loose, was not sure a typical dirt hole set would do too well, that was why I opted for the pipe for bait. Using their hole and a step down set will definitely be one I will continue to use and will likely add a few more traps, only have 3 #2's at this point. Have a great high traffic location to run a few more sets near the deer scrape line where I always run a camera, but that would have to be after deer season closes. Was going to pull both traps I have out, but last night heard at least 2 different packs within probably less than a half mile from our property and probably about the the same distance between them. We should have calves dropping any time over the next month or so, so the less yotes around the less likely we lose any to predation.

Nice pics Ross, those are pretty animals. Cool he invited you back to help him keep the population in check.

Good thing i didn't pull the traps yet, had a medium sized male in the "pipe dream" set where I had been catching possums this morning. Two down loads to go.

Just started trying to trap yotes this spring and learning as I am going. Just made this set Tuesday as a step down set where yotes had been coming in to a buried carcass from back over the winter. Had another trap that washed out from recent flooding that I pulled and moved toys spot after seeing that the yotes re opened a hole. Pretty rewarding feeling Wednesday morning finding my first one in one of my sets. Had concerns about the earth anchors in this loose bottom sand but it held just fine. Good sized pregnant female. Good riddance, will definitely use this type set next year.

Congratulations Ross. That will make a nice mount and a pretty hide too.

Check with a property attorney Frank, would not count on the realtor. Likely an attorney could tell you Illinois law over the phone as a courtesy without costing you a dime. Best to know the laws in your state before you get into a possible confrontation and know the process as to how to resolve the issue if it comes down to it. Fences can be tricky, especially if neither party has placed the fence or maintained it. Some of those adverse possession claims can be a big headache for both parties and not worth the court battle to resolve it. We had a similar issue here with the persons who bought the farm beside us when he had loggers start cutting without any survey, they were going off the old fence. Old fence was nowhere near a straight line, zigged and zagged with trees and was well over on us. The actual line on both their deed as well as mine had the line being a straight line from point to point. I shot his north line off his deed to our boundary with my rangefinder from his pin on his north east side and pointed out to him that that line the fence was well over on me. His wife was got pretty nasty and ran off at the mouth about her family being in realty and spouted off about adverse possession and the fence, I asked if she maintained said fence. We ended up coming to an agreement and they stayed 30 ft off the fence and they did not cut over that line. Good luck with it.

Have the church Easter egg hunt tomorrow. Usually always go, but i need to cook 4 5 +/- lb whole chickens and a 13 lb turkey. This should be a fun year to watch our son hunt eggs. May just load the smoker before going and cut the egg hunt short. Probably make potato salad today to get that out of the way. Christina and Austin are supposed to bring baby Josie to church Sunday morning and then visit the afternoon with us, and eat turkey dinner. Gonna send them home with some good food, chicken beans and tater salad. A sloppy wet mess here right now and still drizzling. Need to mow our weeds and wild onions if it dries out enough.

Thanks Martin. Catrina has been more excited than the kids. May go on and drop the funds for a lifetime license for her.

Wanted to share. Some of you who have been around a while may remember our oldest daughter Christina(lilmisswtnhunt). She got married last May and is 23 now. Her and her husband had their first child, our first grandchild on April 14th. Healthy baby girl, mom and baby doing well. Christina and Josie Lynn. Our youngest 7 year old Will and his niece.

Sad times.......... Got to have hope there are enough voters out there that don't fall for the liberals garbage. We should have learned something with obama.

Must have a super light pan tension on that trap Martin. No birds in mine just possum, several of them. Kind of expected to get a buzzard. I ended up pulling one trap that got washed out by flooding and moving it to a carcass hole(I had buried deer stuff there back over the winter). Made a step down set into the hole the yotes had dug out yesterday morning. Had my first yote catch in that set this morning. Nice sized mature female. I remade that set but skeptical of another yote coming in to it, got sweaty and could not avoid having some sweat drip onto the sand. It is supposed to rain tomorrow though so maybe the stench of the rotting remains in the hole will lure in another.

Picked up our new pup yesterday morning, girls picked him out of a large litter and named him "Max". Sure he will grow into that name. Catrina did not go with us since it was over an hour and a half away and she planned to be ready to go to the hospital with our oldest. So Catrina went and sat with our oldest daughter(Christina) since she thought she was starting to go into labor, she had been up all night Friday with contractions. They ended up at the hospital last night, baby was not quite ready yet so they sent her home. Catrina got a call this afternoon and took off and took Christina back to the hospital with Christina's husband(Austin) following in their car. They are keeping Christina this time and we should have our first granddaughter sometime later on this evening. Will get pics soon.

Supposed to be a washout here. Might go look at some pups tomorrow morning an hour and a half away one way. Our 17 year old has been begging us to get one of these anatolian/pyrenese pups. I need to mow again, but not gonna happen unless the forecasters missed entirely, it is just going to be too wet. Have a little work to do on equipment.