Mar 132010
 
Coyote Fur

The coat of hair on a coyote is dark in the summer and light during the winter. I came across clumps of a coyote’s fur under a pine tree on the 5th of June in 2008 not far from my yard. It’s exactly the same color of the one I saw at 4:15 pm two [...]

 
Middle of the Night Snack?

It figures… just when I’m finally making some progress to regaining sleep after enduring eleven days and nights of insomnia, my adrenaline comes back to reverse the progress! The combination of post-menopause and Aspie hypersensitivity doesn’t mix well with a little bit of excitement right after drifting off to sleep. Thank God it’s not too [...]

 
When you don't have reindeer...

You make do with whitetails for hitching up to the sleigh on Christmas Eve! Hey girls, here comes redneck Santa… so make him work for his ride! You don’t want to end up hanging around . . . do ya? Speaking of going up, up, and away, . . . how do you know who [...]

Dec 012008
 
Hanging Around

The reasons why these deer hang in this tree are: 1. To keep them out of the reach of neighborhood dogs, coywolves, and bears. 2. My husband, the hunter, butchers his own meat. The deer are left hanging (provided that its cool enough so the meat does not spoil) until he has the time to [...]

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