"Turkey Huntin' Opens Near Cascade Holler"

Spring turkey season is finally here in TN, with openin' day being last Saturday, went all last weekend and never got a thing, although I 

saw several and heard a few. Couldn't get'em to listen to me for some reason.

But this weekend has started out on a better note, saw 5 gobblers, 1 hen with a beard (rare) and 10 other hens, hit the call 1 time and had an Ol' Tom comin' right toward me, I waited til he was about 15 yards from me and blasted him, had him bagged by 7 AM, this fine Friday morning, he had a 10 1/2" beard and 1 1/4" spurs.  Good Luck to all other Gobbler hunters, nothing like takin' a big Ol' Tom.

Safe in the Holler!!!

Looks as tho the turkeys are

enjoying this sugar maple, thanks to the North

Carolina Red Cup Society...

A New Year

Hard to believe its already 16 days into 2010, nothing much happenin', with all the holidays and deer season behind us. Although there are a few deer still hangin' aound the distillery.




We have had several days of snow and really low temps (even the Dickel Lake froze over), everything is tryin' to unthaw including me...





But we are anticipating the spring arrival of turkey season the 1st of April. The gobblers are already rumblin' the holler and struttin' their stuff.

Snow Dayz

Brrrrr....it's cold in the "holler", with temps being as low as 23 this past week.

On Saturday, December 5, 2009 at about 2:00 A.M., it started to snow (just a lite snow that is), but snowed until aound 6:00 A.M. Just enough for everything to be white. For the most part, it had melted off by afternoon.

But as of Sunday morning there was some snow still laying on the secluded hillsides, in our quaint "Cascade Hollow".

As the ol' folks in the "holler" used to say, "it's layin there waitin on some more".