Thursday, June 11, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
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Fox kit hangout, Home Farm, Red Rock, East Chatham NY, June 11, 2009
Raising street smart kits
If you want street smart kits raise them on the street. A family of red foxes has been doing just that for several years now, a couple hundred feet down Clark Road from the house. This young guy has gotten to the point where he will alertly stand his ground as a car passes. Their den is at the base of an old tree a few feet off the road to the right. This kit and his sibling across the road are sitting above an old dry culvert where he can take refuge in an emergency.
Night camp
On my property off Less Traveled Road - The Home Place, Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- I used to camp in a few locations on what little I had left of the family farm
- In the driveway by the house
- Across the road where the barn once stood
- On the 20 acre piece off Less Traveled Road
- Now, with the kind support of the friends who now own the place, I camp across the road where the barn once stood.
- Verizon cell phone service - Terrible, barely usable with an amplifier
- Verizon EVDO service - Terrible, barely usable with an amplifier
- Find other references to Home Place
- List the nights I've camped here
- Check the weather here
Sell Them Down the River
Brown had in his camp a fine-looking Negro, who said he had run away from his master in Platte County, Missouri, because the man was going to sell him and his wife to a dealer who would take them south to the Louisiana sugar plantations. The average Missouri Negro looked upon being sold south as one or two degrees worse than being sent straight to hell. This viewpoint was fostered by the masters, who always threatened, when things went wrong, to sell them down the river. ...