The Brad Houck Channel

Quick trip to see the elk herds in Buchanan and Dickenson counties Virginia, Breaks Interstate Park. Music: Oliver Anthony Music , "Virginia"

Reveal Tactacam in our backyard in Roanoke, Virginia Summer 2023 Music: "Virginia" by Oliver Anthony

Compilation of pictures and video of various wildlife we have enjoyed this spring at our cabin in Craig county Virginia. . Included is trail camera video clips of a bluebird that tried for an hour to find a way into one of our cameras to use as a nest. Music: "Nightingale" by God Street Wine

Craig county Virginia late March 2023 Music credit: Lake Street Drive "Good Kisser"

Removing old growth grape vines, multi-flora rose and other thorny briars from overgrown areas on our property. Never a fun task but when we finish it will look so much better. Kubota L4701, Cub Cadet Big Country 6x4, Polaris Sportsman 450. Our Shiba Inu dogs Harley and Reminton enjoyed being part of the action. Music : "Old Enough" , Raconteurs, with Ricky Skaggs and Ashley Monroe

We see a bachelor group of bucks in this set of trailcams from our backyard that are still holding antlers into March.

My wife gifted the Tactacam Reveal to me for Christmas. This is my first cellular trailcam. Unfortunately neither ATT nor Verizon offer 4G in the Red Brush area of Craig county Virginia where we have our cabin. The camera requires 4G from one of those two carriers in order to send pictures to my phone. So we decided to try it in our backyard at our home in Roanoke. These pictures are from the very first card pull. Enjoy!

Backyard buck courting some does in Roanoke Virginia

Lisa was able to harvest two bucks this season on our Craig county Virginia property! So proud of her! “That’s just “ lead” sneaking up on you” ! Haha

After morning coffee, saw these bucks in the backyard. No crossbows since ours were over 30 miles away at our cabin, so decided to shoot these with the iPhone instead. Made a tasty little video!

Craig county Virginia cabin adventures! I had just about finished cutting the fields when I decided to make a pass through a wet bottom part of our property and got stuck in a ditch. Lisa came back with me the next day and we pulled it out with the Daewoo skid steer. Checked the trailcams and had a few pictures worth sharing. Enjoy. Music by Ghosts of Liberty- Roanoke River Brad Paisley - Mud on the Tires

Craig county Virginia cabin adventures! I had just about finished cutting the fields when I decided to make a pass through a wet bottom part of our property and got stuck in a ditch. Lisa came back with me the next day and we pulled it out with the Daewoo skid steer. Checked the trailcams and had a few pictures worth sharing. Enjoy. Music by Ghosts of Liberty- Roanoke River Brad Paisley - Mud on the Tires

July trail camera intro with many fawns, picking berries at Woodall Blueberry farm, planting a new Willow Oak and Lightning struck a Red Oak.

Cabin visit to try to use a new Predator 2 inch trash pump to irrigate a hillside where we have trees and wildflowers planted next to our pond. We got it to run two sprinklers with some success. Improvements to come. Then Lisa rode around the property to check on some of our seedlings planted recently. Then a sudden high wind storm had us packing up to leave. No thunder, lightning or rain at all but just high winds after an extremely hot week. We came back the next day to find many damaged trees on our land. Stay tuned for a lot of chainsaw work to come!

Thought it was pretty funny that seven of our ten trail cameras on the property captured the three of us riding the Sportsman 450 four wheeler inappropriately. Sorry Polaris, no harm this time but ya'll don't try this at home!

Just a quick update from the cabin.

Our garage is delivered today in the cold rain and sleet. This is a Old Hickory Buildings lofted barn garage that is 12ft x 26 ft. This will provide us with some much needed storage space.

I stopped by the dealership to see the new garage building we ordered from Old Hickory Buildings, We went to the cabin to water the many tree seedlings we have planted this spring, and to plant some Phlox on a steep bank near the driveway.