Papaw Dew's Deer Camp

My dad's back yard has become a deer camp. Now we are making it cool.

Interior view of a screen tent where the zippered door is open and covered by a portion of mosquito net; both the screen tent wall and the mosquito net are billowing in the wind; a camp chair is in the foreground, and a painted piece of plywood is covering up mud in the doorway.

It's another hot day, but it's not oppressive. The humidity is a bit lower, but the big factor is wind. There is a beautiful wind coming alternately from the south and the east that is cool and refreshing. We don't even have fans running today.

An exterior view of a screen tent with camo net all over it, where the door flap is tied open; inside the tent are various appliances and cabinets and tables; a filthy white Yeti cooler sits outside.

The outdoor kitchen is coming along slowly.

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A homemade OSB cabinet painted bright red in disastrous rotted condition.

This thing was never meant to live outside, and it shows.

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View through a screen tent and a barbed wire fence at a pasture with horses in the distance; one horse is lying down and one is standing up.

One relaxing activity is to sit in the screen tent enjoying the breeze and watching the horses in the pasture.

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A pecan tree with a broken limb, the farther end of which is lying on the roof of a house.

Two limbs came down out of the pecan tree this past week, and now there's one on the roof of the house.

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A ramshackle booth on a giant pallet; two walls are covered in plastic, one wall is covered in algae, and the floor is covered in white exterior latex.

I got one coat of exterior latex on the floor of the shower. Time ran out letting it dry before the second coat. I should have some time tomorrow to paint.

Three dogs lying in the dust front of a box fan: the two Chihuahuas are facing the fan, while the rat terrier has his butt pointed toward the fan.

I don't know why the rat terrier doesn't wish to cool his head and chest the way the Chihuahuas do. Does all his heat collect in the hindquarters?

A screen tent with the zippered door wide open, covered with some mosquito net that is gathered at the nearest edge.

In a previous entry, I mentioned replacing the zippered entry with some mosquito net. That started making us crazy.

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In a screen tent are the legs of a seated figure; the get are in crocs and the legs are in shorts that go below the knee.

My dad is wearing his coulottes. Seriously, though, I have a terrible envy of his below-the-knee shorts. He doesn't remember where he found them.

The top of a 100w power station showing two and a half out of five bars of charge illuminated.

Fifteen hours of fan and about three hours of LED light, and the battery is about half depleted.