Surprise #1: (well not really)
I naturally slowed the car as I drove up my road last evening. It’s early summer, the babies are usually just starting to show themselves. Sure enough, there where the culvert goes under the road, a perfect tunnel to hide and play in, were this years fox kits. They walked into the middle of the drive to get a better look, then jumped up and scampered into the tall grass. As I looked back in my rear view mirror, I could see them back in the road, watching me drive away. Last year there were five. I wonder how many were playing out of sight.
The smell of the farm in the summer is magic. The lupine are in bloom. So are lots of flowers, but the lupine overpower all others this time of year. Sweet! C had mowed the yard around the gardens before he took off Friday and it actually looked groomed… sort of. My gardens are wild, densely packed masses, a semi arrangement of the real hardy bloomers. The "thugs" of the garden perennials, as my friend Bruce refers to them. After dinner, we took a tour, an evening walk (and blood letting… the black fly, deer fly, horse fly and mosquito are sharing us now) around the yard.
Surprise #2: The groundhog that is "too cute" to shoot has made a huge new home in my garden, relocating ( I wish that were all) some plants and burrowing under my stone wall. A note here… We set the Havahart trap last night. We did not get the groundhog.
Surprise #3: C happens to mention that there are tons of BIG footprints around, ALL AROUND and he thinks that the moose have come through. He was right about one thing.. lots of prints. Not moose. Looks to me like the neighbor’s heifers were up for the weekend having a party of the all weekend sort. I have yet to find a place they weren’t. Deep imprints in the lawn and field, plops everywhere. No damage to the apple trees and no damage to the gardens. We were really lucky this time.
Surprise #4: This is another baby surprise. After planting the potatoes, really, really late this year… we started going through the hosta nursery to see which plants we wanted to divide. As we started through the Krossa Regals, a tiny spotted fawn darted out and ran through the fence and into the woods. C had forgotten to put the 6 lines of electric fence on last night. Who knows, did Momma hide her baby inside the fence under the hosta, did baby hide itself?? small fawn… where was Mom?
Knitting stuff.. I posted a few more colors in My Yarns. I spent hours on the deck winding the skeins I dyed Friday and Saturday.
garden stuff.. I’ve added a new Photo Album.. My Gardens
Almost too much excitement for one post, huh?
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11 responses to “lots of surprises”
Holy moley. Reading this makes me feel like I live in THE CITY or something. Seriously!
i remember hearing somewhere that mamas will leave their fawns for long periods of time to look for food, or to eat the food, or something.
You told me very little of this when we talked on the phone yesterday!What a day with wildlife.Your yarns are beautiful!
What a gorgeous view off of your deck, I’m jealous!
I like the view, and I like the water’s edge plantings. Beautiful yarns. I’m suddenly appreciating good spinning right about now.
I’ve got post overload!! Wow. Love the baby stories!
Lovely!! I wondered if Anne and Margene spotted the fox kit as we drove out of town the other day – I forgot to ask them. I can live without some of your visitors too but will never forget the day I almost stepped on a sleeping fawn (Routt Natl Forest) in the rain. Amazing.
That looks like a beautiful spot to wind some yarn. Lovely – and the new colors look great, too. What’s the weight of the yarn, generally? Do you have any (or spin any) that would be suitable for socks?
Goodness, my dear, your yard! How many ways can I say Fabulous!!!!?!!!!!
The view from your deck is absolutely magical!! What a perfect location to do knitterly related activities!
Your garden is beautiful! And you know how much I love to visit gardens. I feel as if I took a nice walk in yours. Doesn’t yarn suit the garden??? It is a wonderful companion to plants.