Week 33 & 34 - Catching Up

It's been 2 weeks since my last posting. Let me catch you up.

One, we got rain!  Not a lot, but enough to make us breathe a sigh of relief for a while.  

The deer usually come out right at dusk and right at dawn to eat.  They don't usually come out during the day.  But the drought has made it necessary for them to forage at all times of the day.  

Here is part of the herd that lives in our woods.

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Sadly, we lost a member of our family this past week.  Briscoe crossed over the Rainbow Bridge on Friday.  He was a Golden Retriver that we adopted at 5 months old in 2004.  Now, most Goldens live around 10 years, but Briscoe defied the odds and lived just short of 15 years.  He had some physical challenges that never seemed to stop him or even slow him down.  He had the most amazing smile.  The last few years, he's been declining - don't we all as we get older?  It finally came time to bid him farewell.  When I went to find pictures of him, I realized I'd not taken an recent ones....that makes me sad.  Here are ones taken really early in his life with us.

At 6 months old.

With his favorite human - John was his 'lobster' (reference from the TV show "Friends") 

Farewell, Furry Friend.  We gave you the best life we could and you gave us all your love.  

The young chickens have definitely learned to come out of the barn and forage...it's so fun to look out the window on the barn side of the house and see the entire group of them skittering around.  

We think one of the Black Asutralorps is a rooster.  He is learning to crow. He sounds like a teenage boy with his voice changing...makes us chuckle to hear him.  

I hear thunder beginning and John says the rain has started.  Time for me to turn off and unplug the computer so if we get hit with lightning, we don't lose electronics. 

Thanks for stopping by.