Nice Father's Day!

Well it was great to finally be able to celebrate Father's Day-Jennifer and Anderson gave me a wonderful 1st Father's Day-A nice hot breakfast to start the day, coupled by a great afternoon outside crabbing and fishing off the dock...and topping the day off with a boatride and a cookout. We had a great day and I am so thankful to have such a wonderful wife and awesome son!

SOLD!

Since buying the Bad Boy Buggy I haven't had room in the garage for our vehicles, the buggy, and my ATV, so I decided I no longer needed the ATV and was going to sell it. I procrastinated for a month or so, and when talking to my dad the other week he suggested I sell it on Craig's List, so I put an ad on Charleston and Hilton Head Craig's List and sure enough, it sold within 3 weeks, so I am relieved to have room again in the garage to park all the vehicles!

I sold it to a nice young guy and his dad, who lived in Mt. Pleasant of all places. He was so excited to get his first ATV and I was happy to sell it to someone that would enjoy it.

Stephen's Turkey

Folks,

most of you know that I am a major turkey hunting fool-I love to chase those birds through the woods as much as anyone, and unfortunately another season is in the books without me bagging a turkey. I had a great season and had a couple of chances to take a bird, but it just didn't work out. The same can't be said for my good friend Stephen Creech, who finally got the monkey off his back in Williamsburg Co. taking a really nice Gobbler this season along with his friend Alderman Maynard. Congrats Stephen!

Nice South Carolina Longbeard

Long Overdue

Well friends,

I apologize for my lack of posting lately. I have been busy lately, mainly working at the hospital and enjoying fatherhood! I have a new boss at the hosptial, and that has led to a lot of late hours, and when there is time to do anything else, I try to spend it with Anderson and Jennifer. He is really getting big now!

Anderson at 9 mths

I did get a chance to participate in a wedding a couple of weekends ago, for my Sister in law and new brother in law-Paige and Charlie. I am looking forward to getting Charlie out in the woods this year, and also spending a little time on the boat fishing when we have time.

Charlie, Thanksgiving 2008

Turkey Hunting Updates

I've been lax with blogging lately, not because I haven't been busy, but because the hunting has been Lousy! I've still got 5 tags to fill, and it appears as though I'll end the season without a turkey...again!


Last weekend Jennifer and I went to the Heritage Golf Tournament, so I did not do any hunting. For more on the Heritage, check out jennifer's blog here.


I went hunting yesterday at the Webb, Hamilton Ridge, and Palachucola WMAs. We did not hear a bird or see a bird. It was horrible, especially since I took a day off from work! I was told over 45 gobblers have been killed there this year, but on 26,000 acres, that's a small amount to me. The old timers say in the past you could hear turkeys gobbling everywhere...but times have changed with the poor poult years recently as well as the increase of interest in turkey hunting, adding more and more hunters to the mix.

Cypress Swamps at Webb Wildlife Management Area

This morning Allen Haynes and I went to Yemassee to try and get on a gobbler before the season ends. They have been real quiet up there for the most part this year, but this morning we got on a good bird and he gobbled 10-15 times, but never came in as I believe he got with hens. We saw a few hens later and called back and forth with one for a few minutes, but once again, it appears as though there will be no turkey gumbo or smoked turkey sandwiches for the Talbert household unless they come from Butterball in 2009!

Arrowhead!

I had some work-related stuff to do yesterday morning, so I didn't get a chance to chase the longbeards off the roost, but I was able to slip away for a few hours in the afternoon-so I loaded up the buggy and headed up to the farm. I didn't have any luck...saw a couple of birds, but could not get a good hunt going. However, I was walking down one of the sandy roads and looked down (I am always looking for artifacts!), and there half buried was a beautiful arrowhead in perfect condition! I also found a native american tool of somekind about 40 yds from the arrowhead about 2 weeks ago. I think all of the rain we've had unearthed this treasure-a really neat find for an otherwise uneventful hunt-

The turkey hunting for me has been slow, since the opening day experience, I've had very little action...meaning, I haven't even heard a gobble! There is turkey sign all over theproperty, and i've taken some great hunters along with me, as well. Birds are just lock-jawed, I guess. I've seen a few turkeys here and there, but it's really been slow. I haven't been in the morning in over a week, and won't be able to go until next Saturday, but hopefully I'll have better luck then.

New Pet?

I noticed a bunch of leaves and moss on one of my shelves in the garage the other day. I was puzzled by it, but didn't think too much about it and cleaned it all up. After all, we rarely keep the garage doors open-However, a few weeks later, I discovered a full fledged nest on one of our garage shelves...this time with a guest. Check out Jennifer's new pet!

Our new "pet"

I don't have the heart to throw out the nest, and the bird comes and goes through a small opening in the garage, apparently! We'll see how long this lasts-kind of neat for now, don't you think?

*EDIT:

We discovered yesterday that the momma bird has at least 4 eggs she is nesting on...this will be interesting!