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I mentioned it mentally feels like Fall ... today is another one of those days. It’s currently 68, breezy, and we have a light rain going on. The humidity is supposed to be “lowering” through the night. The next week looks like the temps will be in the 70’s all week! The roofer won’t commit to exact dates, but it’s likely he’ll be doing our roof next week - he’ll have great weather for our project.

Yesterday, I finished cutting the grass and then tackled the trimming. I like my battery operated string trimmer, but the darn battery is really heavy. We have a ditch that is along the entire front of the property with deep culverts on each side of the driveway. On Little Red, I can get one wheel up on the road & the other in the ditch & cut the road side for most of the ditch length, but it finally gets too deep & I have to pull out - the rest has to be trimmed with the weed eater. I’m actually in the ditch - the edge of the road is about chest high. There is heavy traffic on the road so getting up on the road for the very top edge is tricky and I try to cut it from the ditch, which is safer. Anyway, my arms & especially my back get really tired and it’s probably my least favorite thing to do around here. When I’m done trimming, I’m usually DONE for the rest of the day as far as any heavy work is concerned.

Where are the deer? Last year, there were 3 does with fawns that I saw all the time. One in particular was very curious & would come on our side of the fence behind the shop. I was building raised beds .... she was probably thinking “oh goody, she’s making a salad bar for next year!” This year, I have seen (only once) a doe & fawn in the field behind our place. I have seen several does eating along the road - scary, because you never know when they will dash out in front of vehicles. There are coyotes around here - hopefully, they haven’t gotten all the fawns this year. I did see a doe in our yard this morning, but she was by herself & dashed off as soon as she saw me open the door.

Dodger was spotted in the last couple of days - a good thing because I found tufts of what looked like bunny fur in the side yard and I figured a hawk might have gotten Dodger. I didn’t see any spots where Dodger was missing fur, so maybe there was another rabbit I didn’t know about.

Groundhog spotted day before yesterday - trap baited yesterday with cabbage ... I’ve caught the previous 3 with cabbage .... fingers crossed this one does, too.

Since we live near woods, we often see a doe and two fawns nearly every year. This year, I haven’t, until the other day when we took our usual walk through the neighborhood. At the end of our street, we saw two spotted fawns, no mama nearby though. We figured she was around somewhere and out of sight.

Then a neighbor saw us, and told us that the two fawns have apparently lost their mama. Probably a car hit it or something. There’s a retention pond on that side of the neighborhood and beyond that another set of woods. The neighbor told us they were glad to see the fawns because they thought maybe they wouldn’t survive, but here they were, managing to make it anyway!

They are so cute, and now I see why one neighbor’s hostas don’t look so spectacular this year!