We got back from Vermont and went for a quick hike in our woods, we are very grateful to Ed Gulley, who built the Gulley Bridge which we use to get across. We are getting to know the woods, and today, we found that a recent intruder had come into the woods and built this rather elaborate metal hunting stand, complete with electrical wiring, metal frame and heavy straps.

They must be using batteries or some other power device.

We permit hunting on our property with permission, we don’t permit the construction of permanent metal structures,  and no one asked for permission. We took a good look at it and will go out into the woods with plier and cutters and take it down. We have no issues with hunting and almost all of the hunters we know are ethical nature lovers and environmentalists.

You have to love nature to be a serious hunter. The good ones never come onto anyone’s property without permission. We know this is fairly recent because Maria walked this land not too long ago, she came in from the other side of the property. This one is pretty cheeky.

We are loving our woods, we walk there all the time know, we are planning to chop some paths through there so we can still walk in the summer when the ticks and bugs and brush appear.