With the sun out and temperatures nearing sixty, we have really enjoyed this weekend. We spent it mostly picking up around the yard as the snow melted. Boy, it’s shocking at how much “junk” ends up buried in the snow over winter! Will also worked on his corn planter and just about has it figured out. We have to get a couple of tires put on it as it is ground-driven but he found two “doughnut” tires he’d picked up at the dump a while back that will work after they’re mounted on the corn planter rims.
Today, Bill and our granddaughter, Ava, came to pick up Buddy. We’d been dog-sitting him while the family was visiting my oldest stepdaughter, Randie, in Cape Cod. Buddy is Ava’s dog and both were sure glad to see each other! Hugs and kisses from both of them. (You’ll have to excuse the blurry photo as neither would hold still for half a second.)
We’ve been seeing eagles out in our back woods all winter and Will captured a photo of one sitting down on the ground. Wow, such magnificent, huge birds!
All the snow’s off of our yard now and Will went out this morning and started mulching the honeyberries and small cherries. No sign of vole damage this winter. Hooray for Mittens and the dogs! They sure love chasing voles down. Mittens catches them and Spencer eats them in one gulp. No wonder he’s on a severe diet!! He weighed over 100 pounds when I had him to the vet! He’s been stocking up too … in his stomach! — Jackie
Rick Riley,
No, Spencer feels like an over-stuffed hotdog! No pun intended. I once saw an eagle thrashing madly in the Missouri River, in Montana, when we took David to school one morning. He had his talons in a very large trout and couldn’t lift off the river with it. We thought he’d drown himself. But finally, he managed to get off the water….with his trout! I’d have been happy to have caught a trout that big!
I would love to see an eagle. Last week I started seeing our Spring birds again…robins and red-winged blackbirds.
Miss Jackie, It looks as if the eagle may be sitting on a deer carcass. We saw 2 of them on a carcass in a corn field last week. We used never to see eagles here, but they are making a comeback. There is a very large man made lake a few miles from us and the bald eagles nest along it. I sometimes see them fishing the trout stream across the road from our home. Their wingspan is massive. I have seen them catch spawning suckers in the spring then sit in a tree above the creek and eat the catch! How neat!!! they are often better fishers than I.
I would probably say in Spencer’s behalf “he’s not fat, he’s just fluffy.” does he fell like a marshmallow?
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