Wildlife

Deer Fencing

December 23, 2011

Did you all forget about the problems we had with deer in MO? They were as bad there as they are here and they were so darned destructive. Here’s a post about the fence we put up to protect the kitchen garden. This is a post as he was building the fence. And this is [...]

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Anticipation

December 23, 2011

Every evening Vince and I stand around the door to watch for deer. Speck has picked up on it and now he’s watching too! He doesn’t have a clue what he’s looking for but every time one of us goes to the door to look out, Speck goes too. He does bark at the deer [...]

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Our Evening Ritual

December 23, 2011

Since we’ve been putting feed out for the deer, every night we seem to have more and more of them coming around. From our front door, this is what we see when looking out. This is the closest the buck ever gets to the house. The most we’ve counted at once were 21. Was this [...]

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Do Not Feed the Animals!

December 21, 2011

Really . . it’s ok to feed the animals at my house. As soon as dad heard there had been turkeys in the yard, he wanted to got some feed to put out. He spread it everywhere he thought it needed to be. Then it was time to sit back and wait and see what [...]

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Turkeys

December 20, 2011

My hope is that we never lose our enthusiasm about living out here. Several times a day we comment to each other that this is the place we’ve always dreamed of having. Every time I pass a window, I stop and look in all directions I can see just to see what’s out there. Mostly [...]

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Dear Twins

July 27, 2010

Dear Twins: How are you? Hope you’re having fun! Oh, wait . . scratch that! It’s deer twins: For the past three years, there have been twin fawns in early summer. These were the ones born in 2008. The ones born in 2009 have a lot of time in our back yard and they are [...]

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