What we don't see

Jon purchased a package of trail cams and most of these are images from those cameras. The first ones are during the snowy week of Easter. I left the date stamp on one, just to show which cam he purchased. The last photos shared were incredibly difficult to capture. Note: The cam does do pictures and video, he took the images out of the videos for the blog-although, the first ones were still shots. To see what they would look like! The images are smaller than a regular photo. Hopefully, they show up well online! 

These two below are favorites. The snow and the deer plodding through. Just wow. 

                             This night image below was a surprise. We know bear are up in the Blue not Mountains, but it isn't often they are seen. Jon moved a cam to an area where he might capture more of their movement. 

                                                            Spring deer are a bit scraggly!! 

These next three photos are from my camera. This is one determined squirrel. Mittens has been frustrated with the critter, mostly because it tends to ignore her!! We moved the feeder up the window several times to help inhibit its feeding. This weekend, however, Steve may have foiled the squirrel completely. This window has supports for the air conditioner and the squirrel used those to leap up onto the feeder. Now those supports are covered with metal cylinder sections. I witnessed a leap and a slide, so hopefully, this seed is now safe! 

Steve was given a squirrel toy for Easter. It is called a Squngee. Basically, a bungee with places to attach corn to on the ends. The cam kept capturing after the leap, Jon managed to tweak the settings and was able to capture some mild acrobatics. After a bit, Steve will move the cobs up and give the squirrel a better workout! YouTube has some videos posted with different creatures using this fun contraption. One has racoon visiting at night! 

 

Back in Time Hansell Side

 It has been almost a year since updating anything in blogger. I'm a bit annoyed because it still has annoying glictches that remain unchanged. At any rate, I wanted to go back in time. Easter 2022 week was spent doing many different things. One of them was going through and moving family slides to digital media. The Kodak Slide n Scan I purchased worked much better after Jon figured out a more efficient way to use it. Unfortunately, for some strange reason, the scanner only allows one to put the dates from 1980 to 2050 on images. There are dates on the slides, but I've not written them down in a notebook yet. Some of the photos have people who are also not written down yet! I will edit them in as I get them.  No matter, enjoy these first years of the Rod Hansell family as we go back in time. 

                          Pre Steve vacation with family from Dorothy's side on the Oregon Coast. 

Grandma Flossie and Steve 

                                                   

                                                                Dorothy and Steve

                                       

                                                          Cousin Kelly and Steve

                                                         Kenny, in front, Rick and Rod Hansell

                                                         Caledonian Day Parade '67?

                                                     Steve and his cousins, Kelly and Kyle? 

                                             Pendleton Round Up, 

                                                 Larry Coppock and fellow hunters.