The Sights & Sounds of Lily, SD

Last night, we decided to switch things up a little and hunt pheasants in the morning & ducks in the afternoon today. This was based on the wind being forecasted to build through the day (to around 25mph at sunset), the time change (we could get an extra hour of sleep from the time change if we hunted pheasants - since that hunting opens at 10am, not based on sunrise like ducks), using the time before 10am to drive about an hour West to get to the better pheasant area (without costing us hunting time), & the hope that the pheasants will not know that daylight savings time has ended (enabling us to surprise them when they think it is still 9am and they are safe). So, we are leaving the house in a few minutes to head to the Aberdeen area to see what we can find. All 3 of us were up before our alarms - I guess we are well-rested - and I had a minute to take some pictures of the area around our house while Mag & Jax were going to the bathroom.


All the pictures are taken from our front door. The house we are in is in the center of town and is very good for our purposes. It is 2 BR, 1 BA with a living room, eating area, and Kitchen. There is a detached garage 20 yards away with enough room to park the boat and still have room to move around and store some other stuff. Since both bedrooms have bunk beds that are a full over a twin, we gave Dad the choice of beds. The catch is if he picked a bottom bunk, he would have dog(s) sleeping with him. He chose the top bunk in my room & it seems to be working out well. He's been pretty happy - since he didn't plan for 73 degree weather. We assured him that he shouldn't get used to it, or think that it's normal. The first picture is facing East and shows the other house that our landlord owns here in Lily. The second photo faces South, and the third looks Northward, showing our garage and Suburban, and our neighbor Dave's house ( across the street). He has stopped by each day & is very nice. He's also a pheasant & duck hunter who lives here and is retired. He actually went out and drove around for a couple hours yesterday scouting for ducks for us! He didn't find much, but did show us several spots that usually produce for him.  As you can see, there isn't much here - but that's not a bad thing!


We are taking all the dogs and all the gear with us and will not be back to the house until after dark (we're going straight from the pheasant field into the duck marsh - hopefully grabbing a drive-through lunch on the way). We are planning to hunt ducks at a spot where we saw several thousand assorted goose species - along with lots of ducks - on Thursday night when we got here. It looked like a good spot, and it is West of here - which makes it closer to Aberdeen, so it works well logistically. Wish us luck and expect a post later tonight, if we aren't too tired...