LOL - that’s funny! I was going to eyeball the chickens this morning (dog/chix sitting next door) to make sure the fox lurking about our place didn’t grab anybody overnight & caught the flash of a white tail bounding out of the wildlife food plot. We have a doe & this year’s fawn hanging around, so it was probably them although one buck has been bagged & there is at least one more hanging around.
The flowers in the garden, which have been just gorgeous, bit the dust this past week. Temps got into the 20’s overnight. We have a fabulous weekend on tap - mild temps & sunshine so I’ll be outside all day (tomorrow, too) cleaning up dead stalks, doing some weeding, etc. My compost bin has settled probably 2 feet (wow!) so I’m going to top it off - plenty of leaves I can put in there.
Ny 4 new raised beds are in place ... got wood chip walkways around all 4 done. Now I just need to fill them with dirt. We’ve had so much rain that I cannot get near the dirt pile with anything ‘heavy’ (like the tractor with a scoop). I may try some hand digging/hauling just to see how that goes. I REALLY want to get those beds filled. I’m trying to consider it ‘bicep building’ ... ha ha! Actually, I had great biceps when I had a barn full of horses ‘back in the day’. The biceps can handle the work - not so sure the back can stand it, though.
Have a GREAT weekend, everybody!!
Wife and I observed our neighborhood red fox last evening at about dusk.
He (she?) was deep red/orange with a bushy gray-black tail he seemed to use as a rudder.
Out cat yowled to come inside when he caught sight of Mr. Busheytail. We knew he was nearby when black cat signaled “chicken...”