Spring has sprung

What a spring. First off the only other company in the world that does what we do, bought us out. So a lot of head chopping and reorganizing is going on, but so far I've been spared. With that our Cincinnati  job is on hold so it was off to Elko, Nv for me. While I was gone a big flood came and destroyed the dock, so now I got to reconfigure that project again. Elko was nice as always, went down to the Hastings cutoff on the California trail, and picked up the big rock on side of the trail. Went I think of all the pioneers on the trail that looked at that same rock I just had to take it home. Got some projects done also. Made a new leather shirt, and a serape out of an antique Hudson Bay blanket I got at the Otway auction. Traded some venison summer sausage for an elk antler that I made a shifter knob for the Ranger, and eagle knife, and put the rest on the fence with the rest of the antlers. Even got see my first wild horses, Got home just in time for turkey season. I played with the same tom for 4 days where I shot at that one last year. Pretty sure it was the same bird, only smarter. He made a real chump out of me, even on the last day when he did everything a turkey isn't supposed to do. Be silent, cross a creek, up a vertical bank and then crawl under a barbed wire fence. We I spotted him staring at me 25yds away the jig was up. Garden's planted and just hanging in Indy in limbo until I get my next assignment. Plus a 5' rattlesnake skin that I mounted on old Otway covered bridge board