Recent Events (Aug 2014) The doe and her fawns have been around a lot recently.  They are growing up right before our very eyes, sniff, sniff.  🙂 We had a heck of a storm with lots of lightning.  One strike hit just across Hwy 78 and started a fire.  JR called 911.  No answer.  He…

Visitors (5/17/14) We had eight visitors the other night.  It never ceases to amaze me that Scarlett doesn’t bother with them.  If Timber were around, he wouldn’t have stood for it!  My new theory is that Scarlett tries her hardest to be quiet so the deer will poo in the yard and she can have…

It’s April – Stop Snowing! (4/2014) Note:  Gross picture ahead.  Read on at your own risk. It snowed somewhere in the neighborhood of 18-24 inches from Saturday 3/28 – Wednesday 4/2.  On Wednesday, it was snowing when I got up and didn’t stop until 6pm.  What day did I choose to take Scarlett to the…

November – December 2013 Catch Up Once again, time really got past me once it got close to Thanksgiving.  We hosted our very first Thanksgiving and cooked our very first turkey.  It gave us a bit of trouble in the morning as the darn thing wasn’t completely thawed, even though I gave it an extra…

Deer Hunt (11/25/13) Guest post by JR Preface by Jenny – First of all, let’s just say there’s been some “controversy” over this dearly departed deer.  I’m not against hunting per se, but I had asked that none of “my” deer get murdered.  This guy was on the 20 acres next to us.  Semantics, if you ask…