Report from Turkey Camp 2008

Near Neave, KY 01 March, 2008 0923 ET

Tom T. Hall "A Headstone for Harry" playing on the audio stream -- World Wide Blugrass Network. The big addition to Turkey Camp this year: A Verizon Air Card-- broadband speed off the cell towers. I can now hit my favorite forums from my turkey blind.


We showed up at 2030 ET last night. The neighbors had blocked the road with a couple of old pickups, but we were able to get through.

Items of interest:

One frozen dead mouse on the kitchen floor.

A deck of cards on the dining table left from the last Gin Rummy game. The score sheet shows I was ahead of Moose by several boxes.

The meat pole blew over, but it's repairable.


The gutters are leaking in a few places.


We made it: Three months away from the place, and it was just as we'd left it. I had to run the attic fan to blow outside air into the place-- it was 10 degrees cooler inside than outside. We set a fire and had the bedrooms up to about 50 F before we hit the sack.

I went out at 0630 this morning and owled-- no gobbles, but I heard Blythe's old flock down behind one of the barns flying down from their anscetral roost. I haven't heard old Blythe in a couple of years now-- she'd loiter in the lee of the barn at noon and just crank that gravel-filled voice of hers yelping for hours at a stretch.