Posted in Gardening, Simple Pleasures, Wildlife on Sep 1st, 2011 4 Comments »
Dinner… … so close and yet so far away. Happy September! I’m not going to post about it being my favorite month, because I already did that here… but know that we are all very happy to see the beginning of the end of all the hot weather we’ve had lately. Come on Fall…. the barn [...]
Posted in Wildlife on Aug 11th, 2011 2 Comments »
One of our tadpoles is now a fully formed toad. R did some research and found (now that we have a more easily identifiable toad, versus just tadpoles) that our tadpoles are spadefoot toad babies. We had to figure out what to feed them, since we guessed goldfish food probably wouldn’t be the right food for [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Wildlife on Aug 1st, 2011 3 Comments »
A couple of weeks ago, after d-a-y-s of rain, I started hearing an unfamiliar noise at night. It started about 10:00 at lasted late into the night… We are used to animal noises in the night… it’s common to hear coyotes howling, the baby deer crying, the neighborhood livestock neighing, braying, moo-ing, crowing, trilling, baaa-ing, cackling [...]
Posted in Nature, Wildlife on Jul 21st, 2011 2 Comments »
With all the rain we’ve had, our back pasture is lush and green… … for Colorado. Our average yearly precipitation is somewhere around 15″… it can be DRY here. But we’ve had a lot of rain lately and the pasture looks great. We don’t work this land at all (growing hay etc) it’s only use is pasture [...]
Posted in Wildlife on Jun 21st, 2011 3 Comments »
Each June we anxiously wait to see the first new mule deer fawns of the year. A couple of weeks ago the doe’s bellies were wide, giving them a slowed down, awkward look and gait… now the does are slim again and we are starting to see the tiny new fawns. The other day I looked out the [...]
Posted in Dogs, Wildlife on May 19th, 2011 4 Comments »
It was Small But Fearless Defender (SBFD, aka Cody) versus Stinky this morning… SBFD was both victorious and came away from the battle unscathed. SBFD was lucky, it could easily have gone the other way… Early this morning Cody SBFD was sitting up on the bed looking out the window that overlooks the back pasture. This is his habit [...]
Posted in Wildlife on Feb 15th, 2011 1 Comment »
…drowning in deer lately. They are everywhere… in the driveway, the front yard, even up in the flower bed. Cody (a dog of very little brain) is very happy about our plethora of deer, and even got out the other day and went after one again. Did you know that deer don’t seem to pin [...]
Posted in Wildlife on Nov 22nd, 2010 2 Comments »
For most of the year the deer population around here is made up of mostly does, fawns and yearlings. Groups of them, sometimes fairly large (20 or so) wander through the neighborhood grazing, playing, resting in the shade, and trying to keep one step ahead of the coyotes. But the whole atmosphere changes [...]
Posted in Medical Stuff, Wildlife on Jul 17th, 2010 Comments Off
I guess I should probably post something… How about some pictures of one of the new fawns that are roaming the neighborhood these days? I was in the dining room when I looked out the window and saw this mama and baby just on the other side of our back fence… I had to grab [...]
Posted in Wildlife on Jun 30th, 2010 Comments Off
We always have a lot of deer around our area. It’s a regular thing to see them wandering through the front yard, and once in a while they even come right up onto the front porch! Because we see them so often, we’ve gotten used to their habits… we’ve gotten to “know them” a bit. About a [...]
