Papaw Dew's Deer Camp

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

I am not posting any pictures of wasps. This area provides lots of opportunity for nesting wasps. I'm using long distance spray to kill wasps when I can. I deal with nests by waiting for evening and knocking them down while the wasps are too sleepy to cope. Then I hit the anchor site with WD-40 so they can't rebuild.

July 08, 2023

Outdoors, on top of a gigantic pallet, a ramshackle structure of four-by-four posts with walls made of dilapidated plywood and sheet metal. The structure is painted various colors as though with leftover paint.

I should probably call it an outhouse now that the toilet has been moved out here.

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On a rough wood surface, a shape that looks like a tiny concrete donut, with two more fragments of same. Also, some brown irregular grains.

Mosquitoes get to be a big problem without diligence around here. There are plenty of places that catch rain water, both intentional and not.

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Outdoors in the dappled shade, two lounge chairs, next to a small camper.

The camp is nicely shaded but as you'd expect, the shade shifts in the course of a day. It helps to have sitting areas in several locations. One is even screened for when the bugs become too much.

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Outdoors, a laundry sink next to a ridiculously sturdy table.

Development is coming right along. The fish cleaning station is now augmented with a sink from my time in an RV park in North Carolina. Now there's a screen tent and electricity.

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Outside view of a screen tent, inside which an outdoor kitchen is visible. The guy lines outside are accompanied by white strips of fabric with smaller strips tied on at approximately 8-inch intervals.

I didn't quite have enough to do all the lines so I need to make a bit more. Hopefully now I won't trip all over the lines in low light conditions.

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On a parquet floor, a long ribbon of fabric with lots of smaller segments tied on it at approximately 8-inch intervals

Almost everything is low tech at the deer camp. I've been frustrated with how dark the guy lines for the screen tents are. Good way to trip or clothesline yourself. I don't like injuries.

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A camp table with a projector and portable speaker and all the attendant wires and cables

Inside a screen tent, on the outside is fastened a fabric screen for the projector

This is our setup for movie night. It's probably gonna be a western. That's what we both like.