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Wildlife update (some acting badly):

Friend has a juvenile bear terrorizing the neighborhood: destroyed his hummingbird feeder & knocked over his Green Egg grill. He had been grilling earlier & hot coals spilled on his wooden deck. Luckily, he was home & could clean it up before anything caught on fire (dog chased bear away). Other neighbors are having similar issues - same bear. One neighbor is Fish & Game who has been getting complaints from all the neighbors - gave friend rubber bullets to give bear an unpleasant experience if it comes back, but if it persists (and it is already rather habituated to finding food around humans), it will be euthanized.

Brother & SIL spotted a bobcat walking down the middle of our road the other morning. Worrisome because they are usually elusive - hoping nothing is wrong with it (rabies).

Coyote spotted chasing 3 deer out of our back field last night. Distressed rabbit call did not call it back in - will probably try again.

Coyotes & bobcats do not bode well for fawns, speaking of which my niece has spotted 2 brand new fawns in the last couple of days - one wobbling after the doe, so new it could hardly walk. The other was a doe who had probably just dropped her fawn - in a fairly open area & the fawn was trying to nurse.

Our white “Angel” deer could have a fawn this spring, but not expecting a white offspring.

Despite plans to 'git 'er done' days ago, today was the day I got my huge, heavy slate slabs loaded on the trailer. I had several plans in mind & ended up finding a ratchet winch/come-along in the garage & winching them up the ramp & on to the trailer. I put cardboard down so the slabs would slide, which worked pretty well.

I had to go to youtube to figure out how to release the cable on the winch - had 1/2 of the release figured out, but there was a spring I needed to figure out as well.

Of course, there had to be at least one 'mishap'. That slick cardboard on the ramp .... made the mistake of putting a foot on it which promptly slid out from under me & down I went. I thought I had really hurt my wrist, but after a few minutes it calmed down- no range of motion issues, no swelling & I can use it OK- slight sprain would be my diagnosis.

Smaller stuff to load tomorrow & will probably make the trip Thursday morning. Aside from mowing, lots to do with slabs, build shelves in shop, maybe try to set posts for a chain across the driveway to keep cars out ... never a dull moment.

Pic: early in the ordeal - one slab on. Working on getting #2 raised out of the dirt so I can move it to the trailer ramp.