Today's Critters

A young buck.

The raccoons found the stash.

Another rat.

These 4 hang around for a long time yesterday. The big pile I spilled is now gone.

Posing.

A buck.

And another or the same one.

My dogs visited the trail without me yesterday.

Spike again.

 

More Critter Cam

 The corn feeder quit feeding, but it just need new batteries.  It is going again.

This is me taking the feeder back up. Helen had to help get it back in place.

Here is a herd eating what I spilled getting the feeder down and up again.

I guess this is the one we have been seeing all along. The spike only showed up once as far as I could see.

A small buck in the corner by the tree.

A raccoon. 

One horned buck?

Maybe this is scar and he lost a horn in a fight.

A buck with 2 horns.

A nice rack.

Kelly went up and put up the stand.  Maybe on a nice weekend morning, I will take my big camera up and sit in the stand to get pictures of the trees.  I would have to tie up the dog or she would sit at the base of the tree and chase everything.

Me just now going to get the cards.

Sunday Walk

 Before Church.

This is the road where the neighbor put in a new gate and iron fence just past my house.  We think he is likely planning on building a house here, but so far just a road and gate.

This is the pasture road that leads off down the hill past the above gate.  This was Daddy's wagon road to the bottom pasture before he sold it to Dan Norton.  I remember his telling of Richard as a young child ridding a wagon load of hay off the little hill in the distance here when the full load falling off the wagon. Richard went from on top of a load of hay to being under the full load of hay.  A pitchfork was standing stuck in the hay beside Richard.  He clung to the handle of the pitchfork and was saved from being suffocated.  He would have been 6 or 7 years old.

This is the little pond down by the walnut grove that would never hold water.  The neighbor had done extensive work on it, but I am not sure it will work any better than it did 60 years ago.  The forest in the background has not changed much since we were kids here.  Terry has cleared a lot of other areas on his land, but this brushy forest looks much the same as it always did.

Daisy with the old cemetery in the background. The dogs away go along on my walks. The white one is off somewhere looking for something to tree.

A closer view of the cemetery and one of the neighbor's donkeys.  It was a nice walk of 3/4 mile before Church. It is a beautiful sunny day, but supposed to get really cold by the end of the week.