This little 2 prong buck has been coming by at least once a day.
I call him Bucky. Because I’m so original when it comes to naming critters. :-D
Author: Re-Farmer
A brief reminder
That cats are efficient hunting machines.
It takes a lot to get a squirrel! They tend to be hyper vigilant.
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Blue
Intensity
Enjoying our visitors
I’ve just uploaded a new batch of photos from the camera in the living room, and have a few I’ll be sharing over the next few days.
Including these guys.
Deer have started to show up every day, now, sometimes several times a day. There’s just three of them that come regularly; a buck that always comes alone, and a pair that come together, if not always at the same time. One looks like a buck that’s already lost his antlers for the winter. He sometimes comes alone, or ahead of the other, larger, doe.
Their winter fur is coming in, and their colour is starting to get greyer.
From the tracks I’m able to see as I do my rounds, they are in and out quite a bit, throughout the day! :-)
The Re-Farmer
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Checking out the new digs
Played around with a set up for the outside cats, in the sun room. This is what I’ve come up with.
I had another crocheted blanket that we used as a car blanket hanging around. I decided to try draping it from the back of the swing bench to the back of the transfer bench. It’s incredibly heavy, so I knew it would need support.
I have some sheets of foam insulation among my craft supplies that I thought would work. Unfortunately, a sheet is just barely long enough to reach the backs of both benches – which means a stiff sneeze would have knocked it down, never mind rambunctious cats that are sure to jump on top of it.
After going through what was available in the room, I ended up putting one of the unused, home made plant stands on the transfer bench. That would support one end of the sheet of foam insulation.
After draping the blanket over, I folded up one corner for access, and it immediately drooped into where the cats like to sit. So I found another plant stand to hold that up.
As you can see by the photo, Doom Guy and The Outsider were quite ready to check out the new digs! In fact, Doom Guy surprised me by already being in there when I first picked up the corner to open it up. I never even saw him jump under while I was laying it out!
My husband was checking it out through the bathroom window just a little while ago, and he tells me Doom Guy was on top of the whole thing. The foam insulation is rather bendy, but it has enough support that it should hold. I’ll have to check it out, later, to adjust things, if needed. I can just see a cat trying to walk across a part that doesn’t have support and pulling things down. :-D
I don’t think there is going to be much hesitation for the cats to use it. Especially today. Though the temperatures have warmed up, there is a nasty, bitter wind out there. I think everyone, human and animal alike, will be staying indoors as much as possible today!
The Re-Farmer
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Two levels
The Things we Find: an early version?
Since moving here, we haven’t really gone into the basements much. In fact, it’s something I try to avoid. I don’t even want to think about trying to clean things up there! Especially the New Part basement. You’d think it would be the other way around, since the stairs to the Old Part basement are so steep, with such narrow treads, it’s actually safer to go down them backwards, like onboard a ship, and the ceiling – the floors of the original log part of the house – is so much lower. It is, however, much… emptier. And cleaner. We can actually get to where we need to – the well pump, the sump pump, the septic pump, the hot water tank, the furnaces. These are all things we actually need to go down and check, too.
The New Part basement… not so much.
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Meet Slick and the Post Cats
First off, a great big thank you to 53old for identifying our little squeaker. It is neither vole nor mole, but a pygmy shrew! No wonder I didn’t find it in my searches. I was looking up moles, voles and rodents. It’s not a rodent, either, so nothing like it came up. In fact, seeing what it eats, this is a critter we want to keep around! Which means, if we ever had the chance to rescue others, we certainly will.
While feeding the cats this morning, one of the dad cats was around. He seems to be getting more comfortable with us – and the other cats with him (though, to be honest, for all I know, he’s really a she). As I was going in and out of the sun room to get deer and bird feed, I found him eating with our own cats, and he didn’t try to run away. Which is more than even Rosencrantz and Guildenstern will do.
Meet Slick. Continue reading
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I’m coming to get you!
Butterscotch got tired of just watching the birds from below, and made a dash for them.
She did not succeed.
