This Spring has been very tough for me to blog. Not only have I been super busy with turkey season, but I have been having computer problems in addition to being very handicapped by using dial-up internet services to blog. And I just seem to be getting busier and busier every day with two kids, two jobs, a wife and a life, so I just don’t have the time to sit around waiting for pages to load or files to download. Throw in an older, slow computer that loves to freeze up, and you can see why I haven’t gotten around the bloggosphere as much as I used to and why I haven’t posted as often as I would like.

Well, that is all about to change! A wireless company has finally introduced a high-speed modem that will work out here in our internet dead zone, and I now have it. Then, due to my computer crashing last week, I have finally had to go and buy a new computer. So between the two of them, my computing/internet surfing ability has gone from the equivalent of a Yugo to a Ferrari.

I have already been able to view hunting videos that before always clogged my computer up, such as some of Tom’s great work at Base Camp Legends, Arthur and Jeff’s turkey hunts at SimplyOutdoors and Phillip’s hog hunts over at the HogBlog. I have also been able quickly run around many of my other favorite blogs to see what everyone is up to lately, which before was becoming more and more impossible due to my time/schedule constraints.

And now with the new computer to do the processing and the high-speed internet connection to upload them, I am working on getting some of the great hunting footage that we shoot at Cypress Creek Hunting Lodge up on the internet. I am very excited about this since we have so many hunts on film, and until now, it has been trapped on our many tapes. But that is all about to change too!

And to start things off, I have gone and pulled the great intro to the original Cypress Creek Hunting Video made about 5 years ago and posted it to YouTube and linked it to the Cypress Creek Skinning Shed, specifically at Cypress Creek Hunting Video Intro. Please note that it has a watermark on it for the first few seconds, but that is because I was using a program that we are thinking of purchasing. If it works well, I will buy it and remove the watermark, then re-upload it. I am also still trying to get it to play directly on the Skinning Shed, but for right now, I can only get it to work from YouTube. So check it out and let me know what you think of the footage. And then prepare for much more, because once I get the these bugs worked out, I will transfer the rest of the hour-long video and get it uploaded; then I will move on to some of our most recent hunts.

And of course, I am grateful for any advice anyone can give me about working with the videos on the internet as well as on the computer. I am new to this, so I will be glad for any help. Now if I could just get all of my old emails and programs off of my old, dead computer, I would be in good shape. However I am working now on getting that done right now, and as soon as I do, I should be all caught up on my biggest projects. Then throw in the fact that the summer is our slowest hunting time as well as our slowest wedding time, and you can see that I will have more time and ability to blog. So forgive me for the lack of writing this Spring and prepare for some big changes over the next few weeks. I truly look forward to sharing much more with you.

Jeff

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