Another Stunner

May 1, 2018May 1, 2018 / Re-Farmer / 2 Comments

It was a rather cold day today, but peaceful. At least for us. From what I’ve heard, two more homes were lost in yesterday’s fire to the North of us. At this point, I know nothing more. The province’s website that is supposed to have an up-to-date interactive map of current fires has not been much help. It didn’t have either of the local fires on there at all. I’ve seen others comment on the site’s lack of updating, as they’ve had to turn to social media to keep on top of the fire situation.

We never got the predicted showers, but at least with the reduced wind and colder temperatures, the fire risk has dropped a bit.

It was another day of the birds, outside. I think it might be a while before the deer start coming back.

Oh, my. As I was inserting the above photos, I heard another thump at the dining room window. I went outside and found a little junco on the ground. My younger daughter came out to hold on to it, to keep it safe from the cats, until it was ready to fly away on its own. I’m hearing her come back inside right now, so it must be gone.

This is the second junco we’ve tended to after it hit the dining room window, just today. The earlier one took quite a bit longer to recover.

Here is the female, dark eyed junco from earlier today, in my daughter’s hands. It was very calm about being held, too.

It started to stand itself up and look around after a minute or so. Note its bent under foot. The other foot was like that, too. No damage, it turned out. It seems that it just wasn’t aware of it, quite yet.

When it finally did start to flutter away, it just moved over to my daughter’s arm. And immediately pooped on her! :-D

It seemed fully aware at this point, looking around and watching us closely, but content to stay on her arm for several minutes more.

After a while, it flew off to the bench seat on the platform to our old clothes line. There was a cat about, though, so I came over to encourage it away. It moved to this bush and stayed there for another minute or so before finally flying away, none the worse for the experience.

While it’s unfortunate so many birds are hitting our window hard enough to stun themselves, it is so amazing to be able to hold them and watch over them until they can fly away on their own. They seem to like the warmth of our hands as they recover, too.

Pretty awesome!

The Re-Farmer

A Day for the Birds

April 30, 2018April 30, 2018 / Re-Farmer / Leave a comment

With the fires in the area, it’s no surprise that we aren’t seeing any deer, at all. It has, however, been a day full of birds outside our window.

Mr. Blue Jay allowed me to take his photograph today, though they certainly did make me work for a good shot!

In amongst the masses of bark eyed juncos, this bird went off into the flower garden and started digging like mad into the dried leaves.

I’ve had two strong suggestions as to what this bird is. Either a fox sparrow, or a type of thrush. I spent some time looking and comparing photos online to ones I’d taken myself.

Bird identification sites often have really unhelpful photos, I’ve come to notice.

Ultimately, it was the markings on the head that made the ID for me. These are fox sparrows, of the “red” variety.

Speaking of red.

I had taken so many pictures of these red birds before the snow fell, but it never occurred to me to try and identify them. I think I may have just lumped them in as another type of bird in my mind. While looking up local bird species online, however, I found photos of these guys, and it turns out they are purple finches. In the above photo, you see both the bright red males, and the less showy females.

As I was zooming in to get photos of what I though might have been the thrush/fox sparrow I wanted to identify, the bird turned and I realized I was looking at a new visitor!

This is a male white throated sparrow. Love that distinctive patterning on the head. It made it much easier to identify it, though it wasn’t any easier to find online. My bird book doesn’t have it at all, though it does have several other types of sparrows.

Just look at the face! :-D

Looks like some females were in the crowd, too.

Weather willing, I will soon be raking near this area, to get some of the leaves out of the flower bed and clean up dead branches. We are finally starting to see some green forcing its way through the dead leaves. Not too much longer, and we’ll be able to start trying to identify the plants around here, as well as the birds! :-)

The Re-Farmer

Blue for You

April 28, 2018April 28, 2018 / Re-Farmer / Leave a comment

Alas, no pictures of deer today. I did see one cautiously making its way towards the house, just a few minutes ago, but it saw me move in the window and dashed right off.

Sadness.

I did, however, manage to get a photo of a blue jay today. For the past few weeks, even if I’ve been at the window, watching them for a while, the moment I get behind the camera, they all fly off!

This morning, I managed to get just one decent picture, through the sun reflected on the window.

I love how they collect so many seeds in their beaks like that, before flying off.

It was a fairly quite day today. We’re still in recovery mode and pretty low on energy. My younger daughter and I made a run to the dump with our garbage and recycling, before heading to town to find a new handle for our garage door. In the process, I remembered to pick up some chain and a carabiner to replace the heavy duty wire that’s been used to hold our main gate steady. It has a sliding bar across the top to close it. I’m not sure why it also needed the wire to hold it closed, and one of these days, I’ll remember to ask a sibling about it. :-D The chain and carabiner will be much easier to handle than twisting and untwisting the wire every time. It’ll look better, too! Plus, we’ll have the ability to add a lock as well, if we ever need to. Sadly, there have always been people who seek out solitary farms as targets for theft and vandalism. At best, the RCMP are at least half an hour away, and that assumes they can even find any individual farm. My oldest brother and I are already talking about adding a security camera on the garage, which would catch anyone coming in or out of the driveway, and another on the house itself.

Such is life, even in the sticks!

My daughter and I went to two different hardware stores, looking for a garage door handle. Both stores had only one option available! They were even the same brand and style. On the plus side, the second place we went to had a much, much better price.

On the down side, while driving to town, I went into a coughing fit so bad, I had to pull over and get her to drive the rest of the way.

It’s so nice having another driver available!

This cold has really done a number on my chronic cough. :-(

We had some other things happen that were polar opposites. Such as my husband’s disability payment coming in early (they do that every now and then!) on the plus side, then getting a call from the tax preparer and finding out he’s now owing $3000 instead of the $1300 that came up when we tried using Turbotax at home. I don’t understand how he can owe anything. He’s supposed to be paid back taxes, retroactively, from two years ago! And here we thought getting our taxes professionally done would mean it would be better, not worse. On top of that, it’s going to cost us almost $70 in fees.

*sigh*

This has happened every time we’ve moved back to this province, no matter how late in the year we’ve returned. We would be expecting a return, only to end up owing thousands. This time, though, I am sure that has to be some kind of mistake.

Living here was supposed to save us money. Instead, it’s been unexpected expenses, one right after the other!

Ah, well. We’ll figure it out in good time.

The Re-Farmer

That Circle of Life thing… and I hate shopping

April 27, 2018April 27, 2018 / Re-Farmer / 2 Comments

For the past while, we’ve had a huge drop in deer visits. I didn’t see any yesterday, until quite late, when one showed up, then ran off when it saw me in the window. Pretty sure it was a new one, since our regulars are no longer bothered by seeing us.

We are certainly getting plenty of birds, though, including this new one that I’ve been trying to identify.

There were two or three of them among the dark eyed juncos and the male redpolls that were also in the feeding station. Looking through my bird book, its body looks similar to a Brown Thrasher, but the eye and beak are totally different. Another closer match is the Fox Sparrow, but according to the book, we’re not really in their territory. They might be passing through during migration, if that’s what they are.

If anyone reading this knows what they are, please let me know in the comments! Thanks. :-)

As I was taking pictures of the new birds, there was a sudden whoosh of movement and all the birds flew off.

Well, almost all.

What a beautiful hawk! I barely managed to tilt the tripod over to snap a few quick pictures before it flew off, with its meal, into the trees. Much to my surprise, the pictures all turned out, but only a couple caught the hawk’s face as it looked over before flying off.

This is one of the things we have to consider, if we do get chickens.

Later on, I went to tell my older daughter, who was upstairs, about the hawk. She hadn’t seen the hawk, but she did see the fallout, as panicked birds suddenly flew up, including one that smacked right into the window near her.

She went out onto the roof and moved it, so it could fly off when it regained consciousness.

Except, it didn’t. It hit the window hard enough to kill itself. It looked like one of the new birds, too. :-(

Wow.

This all happened in the mid morning or so. Shortly before noon, my younger daughter and I headed out to the city – our first trip to the city since all that work was done on the van – for a much needed Costco trip.

Just to jump ahead a bit, the van ran beautifully. Also, I didn’t get a call back from the garage about those parts they’d ordered for me. I’m not sure how I would have handled such a call, now that the work they wanted to do turns out to not be needed at all. Aside from not bringing the van in, of course.

I had hoped, even though it’s a Friday, going to Costco in the early afternoon would mean missing out on the crowds.

Maybe we did, but it was still insanely busy.

We didn’t go to the closer one, which is smaller, has a ridiculously horrible parking situation, and where the pharmacy staff were such a problem. Instead, we went to one that was not only larger, but also near a whole lot of other shopping.

Along with our usual bulk grocery shopping, I had one goal in mind. To get more undies for my husband. We’re in the city. That shouldn’t be a problem, right?

Well, it turns out that Costco didn’t carry any in his size. They do in clothing, just not in underwear. Which makes no sense.

So after we finished at Costco, with all its joyous moments (seriously; what is it about people who saunter to a stop, blocking the entire isle, and just stand there, staring into space? This happened several times, all different people!), we figured we’d just go to that mall up the block. They had a Marshals there. Marshals has clothes, right?

We’ve never actually been to a Marshals before.

It turned out to be kinda like a crappy Winners. We found the teeny, tiny men’s underwear section, half of which was shirts, and it was such a disaster, I could barely find anything at all, never mind the size and style I wanted. There was only one brand, too – an expensive one, of course.

But we’re in a mall, right? There’s lots of other stores we can try, right?

I found a map and… it wasn’t very encouraging. Still, there were several possibilities among the athletic stores.

We went to about 4 or 5 different shops. Any that did have men’s underwear had hardly anything at all, none in the style I was looking for, and certainly not the size.

What the heck?

As we were leaving the mall, my daughter pointed out that there was a Winners across the road. So that’s where we tried next.

It was better than the Marshals, at least. The shelves were better organized, but again, there was only one tiny display for the men’s section, and nothing in the size we were after.

I checked on my phone and found the nearest Walmart. I figured that would be our last stop. Even if we didn’t find the style I was after, if I could only find the size, that would be great.

Walmart, at least, has a nice, big section for men’s underclothes – but still a tiny clothing section.

Men, you guys are really short changed in the clothing department! Sheesh!

We found several brands in the style we wanted. Yay, right?

Nope.

There was a lot out of stock, so my daughter and I kept hunting for the right size, somewhere. After a while, I stopped looking at what was there and started looking at the labels in front of the hooks.

It turned out they weren’t just out of stock. They didn’t even CARRY the size we needed. In any brand, or any style!

What the heck??? He wears a common size. Why don’t they have it?

This was supposed to be our last stop, but we had noticed further down the parking lot, a Marks.

One more try…

Sure enough, we actually found both the style and size we were after!!! Finally! So I bought as many packages as I could afford without messing up our budget.

When we got to the counter, me looking a little wild eyed by now, the cashier asked us if we’d found everything we were looking for.

I told her that yes, we did, and that they were the ONLY ones to have what we were looking for. She looked completely surprised. Not even Walmart, she asked? Nope. Nothing in this size. That is so strange, she tells me.

It’s their most popular size.

Which doesn’t surprise me in the least. So why don’t other places even HAVE the size at all?

Who know buying underwear would be so difficult?

By the time that was done, we were both exhausted and more than ready to go home.

I really, really dislike shopping.

After we got home and unloaded, it occurred to me that none of us had the energy to cook supper. My older daughter is sick, my younger daughter is also getting sick, and just unloading the van was more than enough to remind me that I’m certainly not yet recovered from this stupid cold.

Since my daughter can now legally drive, I asked if she was up to a trip into town, so we could get some take-out. Thankfully, she was. So off we went to the van and…

When she tried to open the garage door, the handle came off.

Talking to my oldest brother not long ago, I mentioned this. He told me that thing has needed replacing for probably 15 years. It just never got done. It was on our list of things to fix sooner rather than later. Well, it just got bumped up higher on the list. :-D

My daughter had to go into the garage from the back door (which is used so rarely, it has self-seeded trees growing in front of it) and open it from the inside. The bar that runs through the hole to the handle is still there, and I couldn’t find any pieces that fell off onto the ground, so I’m actually not sure why the handle hadn’t fallen off sooner! :-D

I was just informed that we had deer outside our living room window again. A group of four. It’s almost completely dark at the moment, but still enough light for us to see them. And for them to see us. And hear us. Even the creaking of the floor had their ears going in all directions, and they could hear my daughter cough! As I was at the window, one was watching me until I shifted slightly, and off it ran, startling the others away.

So we will stay away from the window for a while, in hopes they come back.

Looks like we’ll be going into town again tomorrow, even if it’s just to pick up a new handle for the garage door! :-D

The Re-Farmer

Deer family, and what the heck?

April 24, 2018April 24, 2018 / Re-Farmer / 5 Comments

Today has a mixed bag of things to share, some of which will be in other posts – if I can get the pictures off of my phone properly. Something is going wrong there, and it looks like I’ve lost a whole bunch of pictures in the process. Ugh.

My husband had a medical appointment this morning. It was to be a 2 hour interview to assess him and figure out what specialists he will be going to next. Not something for me to be at, so I took advantage of being in town to go to the places I can park and play Pokemon Go. I headed back early, which worked out, as my husband could only handle an hour before he had to cut it short, due to pain. So he’ll be back in a week to finish the assessment.

For the past couple of days, I hadn’t gotten many photos at all. No deer were showing up, except briefly in the wee hours, and even the juncos weren’t around much today. I did get a good photo of a daytime moon, though. This photo is just cropped; no resizing.

I’m pleasantly surprised by the amount of detail that showed up!

My younger daughter found the online practice tests for the knowledge test she needs to take on Thursday to get her learners license in this province. THAT turned out to be… something special.

The first two practice tests were for signs. Some were different from what she saw when she took the test in our previous province, but she could figure them out.

The rules of the road test should have been similar. After all, the rules of the road are largely the same across the country, right?

Well, that wasn’t the issue.

The test itself is bizarre. After being told about it, she and I went online on my computer, so she could show me what she was talking about.

Many of the questions don’t even make sense. The phrasing and terms are also different. For example, one mentioned the legal requirement for an upper stop light, except for vehicles before what year?

Stop light?

They meant brake lights. NO ONE calls them stop lights. Stop lights are what you see at controlled intersections.

Another question: Wearing a seatbelt decreases your chance of being killed by …? And then there are several percentages to choose from.

What rule is in this question? The rule is, we are required to wear seatbelts. Why include what is, essentially, a trivia question in a rules test?

Then there’s this one: A driver supervising another driver in the Learner stage must not have a blood alcohol concentration of greater than…?

Now, I would have expected the answer to be 0. The supervising driver shouldn’t have any alcohol in their system. But no! The answer is .05 Considering that .08 is too drunk to drive, this means, a person with a beginners license can drive with a tipsy supervising driver.

That’s not very encouraging!

Other questions leave us wondering, what is the context? Where is the detail? Because it makes a difference. Like; what direction are you driving in this scenario? And which center line do they mean? Other questions, I kept having to read and re-read the possible answers, just to figure out what they were saying.

And when did the hand positions on the steering wheel change from 10 & 2, to 9 & 3? Also, since when was it legal to change more than one lane at a time?

It’s the lack of context in the questions, and the many questions that have nothing to do with the actual rules of the road that are the most frustrating. Why are they even there?

So that was fun… :-O

This evening, while the light was still good, I took advantage of how dry things are now and walked further afield on the property. I checked out what used to be a gravel pit, but is now a pond; the gravel is all completely grown over. I found numerous things that had me wondering, why anyone went through so much effort to put them there, rather than just taking them to the dump? Some of the old equipment I found brought back fond memories. I checked out some sheds and the barn. Two sheds, I couldn’t even get at. I fought the burs, and the burs won. Laundry is now in progress. :-D

One log shed that I hoped might be salvageable, most definitely isn’t. A couple others still might be. Some other, more modern, sheds are just not worth fixing.

Then there were the piles and piles of … well. Trash. These are things some of my siblings had intended to burn, but they are filled with things that really should NOT be burned at all. We’re just going to have to hire a clean up crew to haul the stuff away. Someone with the right safety gear and equipment to handle the stuff.

I’m hoping, after I post this, I’ll be able to salvage some of the photos I took.

Then, the deer came!

A group of four. Two adult females, and two you males.

I’m pretty sure I worked out which pair belonged to each other.

Here’s one of the mums and her boy. Check out the little antler nubbins! :-D

This mama looks kind of young, too. Unlike the other mama…

… who looks like she’s seen a lot of rough years! Note the mark in her fur that runs up her snout? There’s a matching one, on the other side of her face. Like something had rubbed the fur off.

No where near as dramatic as her boy’s face! It took quite a few photos before I found one where you could really see it.

The fur is just gone in those two spots!

You can’t see them in this photo, but he’s got antler nubbins that are about the same size as the other male.

The four of them stayed for quite a while. Eventually, they made their way to the south yard, through the gate, and disappeared behind the barn.

It was so awesome to see them! I hope they come back.

The Re-Farmer

Stunning!

April 23, 2018April 23, 2018 / Re-Farmer / Leave a comment

Earlier today, while in my office, I heard a loud bang on a window somewhere. Going to check, the girls, who were in the kitchen, were also wondering what the noise was. We’ve had many birds hitting our windows lately, and that seemed likely, but never this loud!

So I went outside to check. Sure enough, I found a stunned bird on the ground, outside the dining room window.

When I first picked it up, it was panting and groggy.

After a while, it was doing better, but still stayed in my hand. Happily, it did not seem to be injured.

I waited a while, then put it near a tree branch, but it still stayed in my hand.

So I sat on the steps at our front door (which, I’ve discovered, we cannot open. The inside door opens, but the outside screen door is stuck, as if painted shut. My brother had removed it to fix it, and it had been working fine in the fall!) and waited.

As I sat, Rolando Moon came by, curious, but not curious enough to climb the steps. Instead, she moved to the corner of the house and settled in.

Eventually, the bird flew into one of the bushes.

It still stayed for a while before moving to another branch, then continued to hang out for a while before finally leaving.

As I was still sitting with it, however, I saw out of the corner of my eye, Rolando Moon suddenly spin around, pounce on something, then run off with something in its mouth.

After the bird went into the tree, I went around the house to see, thinking Rolando Moon had maybe caught a rodent.

I was wrong. It was another bird.

I now wonder if there had been a second stunned bird that I did not notice before, because of how close it was to the house.

Now I’m torn between happy that we saved the one bird, but sad that we lots another at the same time.

I had taken a bunch of short videos and have put them together in a playlist.

I hope you enjoy them. :-)

The Re-Farmer

Detail is Back!

April 22, 2018 / Re-Farmer / 1 Comment

Okay, I thought I was done for the day, but then my daughters let me know that more deer had come to the window. I was so excited to see that Detail and her boy were back, that I just had to share!

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The light was failing fast, so most of the photos I took didn’t work out too well. I was hoping to get a good shot of the boy’s antler nubbins. This was the best of them.

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You can sort of see the one nubbin there, right? :-D

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Detail stayed farther from the house, so zoomed in photos just didn’t work out. I don’t mind. She’s such a pretty lady. :-)

The Re-Farmer

Deer Thoughts

April 22, 2018 / Re-Farmer / Leave a comment

As I had hoped, some deer did show up today. Hungry Girl and Barbecue came by, though Hungry Girl never came to the feeding area. She disappeared somewhere behind the house, then I saw her again walking by in the background to go through the garden, and that’s it.

Barbecue came to feed on what the birds had left behind, though she got startled away a couple of times, before finally running off completely. Not before gracing me with some silly faces, though! :-D

At this time of day, in the shadow of the house, they can probably see quite well into the living room.

She would run off towards the opening to the garden, stay there a while, then come back to feed. I don’t usually get pictures of her from this side. As I was going through the photos, I noticed something.

I had commented previously about the marks in the fur on her neck, and that my conclusion is that they are from scarring. It looks like she’s got even more scarring beside her mouth.

I think this girl has had quite a history!

The Re-Farmer

Birds, Birds, Birds!

April 22, 2018April 22, 2018 / Re-Farmer / 6 Comments

Well, today has definitely been a day of the birds!

From what I’ve been able to find, the “new” birds are dark eyed juncos. They would be returning from overwintering elsewhere. There were only a few yesterday, but today, there was tonnes! I now realize that we did see them last year. I had just not been able to look at them so closely at the time. But I definitely remember seeing this…

(I don’t know why the video quality is so bad after uploading it to YouTube!)

There were masses of juncos and redpolls swooping in and out, with many, many bounces off the windows. Even the dining room window was getting hits.

We are starting to see a lot more of the male redpolls now, too.

Of course, all that activity attracted a watcher…

Trüllbus wasn’t able to do much more than watch from the lilac bush, though! LOL

Love how my daughter caught this redpoll, peeking at her through the twigs. He looks angry! :-D

From what I could find, there is quite a variety of juncos, but it does look like these are dark eye juncos, and the lighter coloured ones are the females. The one in the photo above would be a male.

At one point, as I stood near the window, something startled them and the whole flock took off. Three or four of them bounced off the window, right in front of me. After they were gone, I realized that one had been left behind.

At first, from inside the house, I wasn’t even sure if was a bird or if it was some darker foliage. After a while, though, I could see the beak. Ever so slowly, the beak opened, and stayed open. Eventually, I decided to go out and check on it. When I got close, it was aware enough to watch me, and even start to move a bit. I was able to pick it up, though, and then it flew away from my hand. No injuries.

Besides the birds, some deer did make a showing when my husband was up bright and early, but I have not seen any since. I’m hoping some will show up this evening.

The Re-Farmer

New Birds today!

April 21, 2018 / Re-Farmer / Leave a comment

Another sick day for me today, so not much accomplished! My husband put out the food and water for the animals outside this morning. Now that the snow is pretty much gone and the risk of falling is reduced, he wants to do that more often, as the pain allows. He informed me that we were now out of deer feed and almost out of cat kibble, which meant another trip into town – our own hamlet for the deer feed, then the next town over for the cat kibble. We can get the kibble locally, but the brand they carry is something even the outside cats don’t like. I don’t mind going farther afield. It gives my younger daughter and I a chance to play Pokemon Go for at least long enough to get some achievements in the game. Still, I look forward to when I’m not the only one with a valid driver’s license!

When we got home, I pulled up near the house to make it easier to unload the bags, then we took advantage of the situation to clean up the garbage and recycling (yes, I keep recycling bags for sorting in our van, too! :-D ), refill the cooler we use to keep water bottles (that came in REALLY handy when we had to keep adding coolant the day the hose broke) and reorganize things a bit. So the back of the van is now all open and ready for when we do our monthly bulk shopping.

It didn’t take much to clean up the van, yet it was enough to wipe me out. I may be feeling a bit better, but wow, am I running out of energy fast. By the time we were done, I had broken into a sweat and my chest was on fire. Ugh.

Have I mentioned how much I appreciate that the girls are with us to keep things going when I’m out of commission? Well, even if I have, it’s worth saying again. I so appreciate that they chose to stay with us. They didn’t have to move out here. They could have stayed behind and done their own thing. Instead, they chose to stay and help us.

I am so blessed to have such amazing daughters.

Who also happen to be good cooks. Supper is smelling so good!

On the wildlife front, once again, we had very few deer visits. My husband had to get up insanely early, when it got too painful to be lying down, so he was there to see a couple in the wee hours. We didn’t see more again until about 7pm. I had hoped all our regulars would keep coming back; I really wanted to see how the antlers on the young males are coming in. Hopefully, we’ll still get visits from them.

The squirrels are chasing each other all over the place, but only one seemed at all interested in the seeds.

I love those little paws!

We also got a new type of bird today!

There was only one of this greyer one. The rest were much darker.

I’ve gone looking through my bird book, and there’s nothing quite like them in there.

There were quite a few of the darker ones. They are slightly larger than the redpolls. Their behavior is also more… sedate, shall we say. They seem downright chill, compared to the non-stop motion of the redpolls, chickadees and grosbeaks.

If anyone knows what they might be, please let me know in the comments! I’d love to know what they are.

Then Hungry Girl and Barbecue showed up.

At first, it was just Barbecue on her own, then Hungry Girl came trotting in from behind the house. She was much more antsy, though.

It didn’t take long before she took off into the garden area and stayed away, though I did see her grazing on the far side of the garden for a while.

Barbecue ran off, too, then came back for a bit, before finally taking off for good.

I noticed something interesting as they were leaving.

As the more shaded areas of snow slowly melt, we now have a kind of long, narrow “river” of melt water running across the opening to the garden, and then a bit past the spruce grove. After that, it’s still ice and snow, where it only gets sunlight for a short time in the mornings.

Both Hungry Girl and Barbecue carefully skirted around the water, to where it was still ice and snow, then cut across to the row of apple trees and into the garden. Going through the water would have been much shorter and faster, but I guess even deer feet don’t like getting cold and wet, if they can avoid it! :-D

I look forward to seeing who shows up outside our window, tomorrow. :-)

The Re-Farmer

The Re-Farmer

Sometimes, you need to go back, to go forward.

Critters

Another Stunner

A Day for the Birds

Blue for You

That Circle of Life thing… and I hate shopping

Deer family, and what the heck?

Stunning!

Detail is Back!

Deer Thoughts

Birds, Birds, Birds!

New Birds today!

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