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In The 90's

Still not much to report around here.
We actually reached 93 yesterday, so air conditioner was on first thing. As most of you know, the houses don't come with AC up here, so I bought a window unit years ago. We have very tall windows in this house and of course they're on the side the sun rises. So the house is pretty warm first thing in the morning.
I was kinda hoping I left the 90's back in TX, but at least it doesn't last very long.
You should have seen my front porch yesterday, looked liked I had a bunch of dead cats lying on it.

The Cat Food Bandits

What's Up?

Been awhile, eh?

Can't think of much exciting...

~I hear the fawns are everywhere although I haven't seen them in my yard yet.
~The bear have calmed down even though I do still see at least one daily.
~Had G's niece here for a few days while he was home.
~We've yet to hit 90 degrees, and I'm happy about that.

Annnnnnnndd...........that's about it. Told ya it was exciting.

The Mechanics of Cats

If you like cats..watch. Heh even if you don't.. it's kinda funny.
BTW.. I have that exact chewed up box and sack sitting on my floor :)

And Then There's Tom

The Babies

These are awful pics and don't even ask why.
I think it's a combo of a very shaded front porch, a shutter speed too high.. oh well, who knows.
Anyway, here they are, two of them anyway with momma. They don't usually show up in the middle of the day so they surprised me.

As you see in the second photo, she's washing the cat food in the water bowl.

What I Do With My Time

Tails of Three

They Need Exercise Too

Visits

Just hanging out on the porch last night when I had this visitor....

The Capture

I worked with it as much as I could. This is the one and only photo I got of the momma bear nursing her babies. Sigh.. what are the chances I'll see that again?

That Will Be $10 Please

I went with a couple friends to a pizza place just a couple towns over into Idaho. Great pizza and beer, and tables outside viewing the lake. It was really nice.

Anyway, this sign was on the door. I like :)
I think I need one for my house too.

The Day of Three Sighs... (so far)

Three big sighs so far today...

First... I woke at 2:30am and couldn't get back to sleep. Should make for a fun draggy day. Sigh.

Second... Since I was up so early, I was able to see the sunrise and just see the goings on that early in the morning. At first light, which I would say was about 5:30-ish, I peeked outside to see the momma bear leaning up against a tree, sitting down and nursing the two babies. (eeps)
I knew if I opened a door she'd move. I grabbed my camera just to see if I could get a pic through the window, but no luck. Too dark and the glass just made it worse :(
It was such a cool sight. Sigh.

Third... I was on the porch ( no camera mind you) feeding the cats and just watching the birds, when I saw a male grossbeak courting a female. I don't know if you've ever seen this, but the males basically dance around the female, showing off, with wings spread. (eeps)
I ran inside for the camera and sure enough he had stopped. I tried once again to capture this dance, but the camera tried to focus on the branch instead of the birds and by the time it captured the birds, he was done. :( Sigh.

Feels like a "Leesa's Law" day... Stay tuned.

Picky Eater

Momma raccoon came back last night, but without babies.
I had talked to a neighbor earlier in the day and she told me they used to hand feed the raccoons and babies cornbread. Well you know me, I wanted to try this.

I don't have cornbread and wasn't going to bake just for raccoons. So, I tried regular bread.
She didn't want it.
I tried apples.
Nope.
So, I gave her some dry cat food.
She loved it. She also likes shelled peanuts.

I didn't hand this stuff to her either, I just threw it into the grass. Funny thing though, I was sitting on the porch and had a few cats sitting around me watching. She would not take her eyes off me or the cats, so she would feel on the ground for the food and pick it up and eat it without taking her eyes off us. It was a funny scene.

As usual it was getting dark so not a great photo, and I can't stand the gold eyes, so I tried to fix it. Not the best job, but oh well.

Spring Babies

It appears to be baby time.
Last night around 9-ish, I went outside to let some cats in for the night when I saw this little group. Of course I didn't have camera in hand, so by the time I got in, got the camera and back out they were leaving.










Baby raccoons are the cutest things. So fat and furry. I wish I had gotten a better shot. Maybe they'll be back tonight :)

Then, later around midnight, I went to close up everything and turn off lights when I saw this momma. At first it was just another bear at night kinda-thing, but as I walked over to turn off the lights I saw the two babies following behind.

They were easy enough to scare away, and thank goodness there's a momma, but I of course had to try to catch a few photos. I think these are the smallest I've seen so far here.

I guess now it's time for fawns :)

Say Ahhhh

We finally have some warmth and sunshine.
The lawn needs to be mowed badly.
Oh and it's Friday. The thirteenth.
I don't even care.. it's sunny and warm that's all the matters.

Put your feet up :)

**update.. I decided to check the temp.. it's 60 degrees.
After growing up in Texas, it's kinda funny to think 60 is nice and warm.
But it is :)

She Likes The New Pasture

As you know from previous posts, we've had a hell of a time keeping the horses from the new pasture. It appears they don't like fencing. They've kicked out wood fencing, metal gates, and even electric fencing.













Well recently they've actually left it alone and we've been able to let the new pasture grow grass.
We let them out into the new pasture yesterday.













I think they like it :)

Spring?

Well, it was a relief this morning to not have to worry about the baby on the porch or causing problems.. but it is kind of weird not seeing her anymore.
I was actually able to hang my bird feeders back out again and throw a little corn for the deer and geese.
The weather is still a mess. We have snow on the tree tops and rain down below, it was 37 this morning.
I'm thinking the trap and commotion scared off the larger bears too because I haven't seen any in a couple days. Normally this time of the year they'd start heading up high for huckleberries, but with snow on the ground that's not happening.

So weird to think that middle of June we're wearing sweatshirts and jackets and considering burning a fire.