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You guys have seen this before right?


It's a sign that me & my oldest boy made one night while we were at camp. Inspired by my youngest boy's immagination.

The name just kind of stuck, camp chicken buck.

Now this whole story started out about a desire to create a setting of comfort & belonging for camp members. Well we've got a camp member that's taking it to a new level. The belonging part that is.

Obviously devoted to the camp & just having a pile of fun with things like the goofy name for our camp, my uncle pulled a stunt that's going to make your head spin.

the last time my uncle was up at camp he snapped a picture of the camp sign that's nailed to a tree as you enter the property.

He brought the picture to a place... well here, I'll just show you.

Nobody is going to see this one coming.

here, have a look.






Thats not ink pen folks, that's a real tattoo. That's on there for good.

he told me a little over a week ago that he was going to do it & I laughed my ass off!!

now is that a dedicated camp member or what?

He wanted to make sure we had settled on the name, and he wanted a tattoo of the very first version of the camp logo & name.

"it's gotta be the original" he said.


I'm still laughing about it, and I'm affraid he may have started something.

We were going to fish on saturday but nasty lake ice conditions made us change our minds. We went out to camp instead. We lit the wood stove & sparked some life to camp chicken buck with some good laughs & a few beers. We also gathered some firewood from a nearby logging opperation, the short ends, (salvage) left over after the crews move out are perfect for our little wood stove.

We loaded a small trailer with logs that we hauled back to camp, made 2 trips. I will cut to firewod length later & stack.

We also rode snowmobile a little bit & checked on some of our stands, there are deer everywhere!! Deer are stacked just thick in the woods around the shack, I know I saw at least 20 deer on a short loop through the woods north of the shack this morning on snowmobile.

here are a couple of pictures from the weekend.

Bonfire Saturday night.



some log tossing.







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All done for the day.
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my oldest boy & my uncle coming out of the woods on snowmobiles, another deer scouting trip.
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It was a really great weekend once again. Big thanks to my uncle for the help with the wood pile & just for coming up to spend time with us.