Papaw Dew's Deer Camp

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

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.

A ramshackle booth made of scrap wood on a giant pallet; the floor and near wall are covered in thick, clear plastic.

The shower / latrine has been in need of painting for some time. The weather has not permitted.

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Inside a screen tent, a small portable power station with a small clamp-on fan attached to its handle and connected via cigarette lighter adapter.

A lifesaver lately. I got this little clamp-on DC fan last year or year before. I got the battery a few years ago. I don't actually know how long the battery lasts with this fan on. It went for hours and hours and only went down to about 80%. But when I turned it off for the night, I forgot to unplug it, and I found out around 40% in the morning.

A winged insect with a very long thin abdomen clinging to a mosquito net.

I am relieved to discover that half of the creatures I was accusing of being wasps or not actually wasps. They are assassin bugs, or robber flies.

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A screen tent with camo net covering the roof, the left side, and part of the front.

No, we are not going stealth.

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