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Let's see: First, I pried loose a rather large boulder from the mountain above our house. We wanted to use it as a "focal point" as an entry to our back yard. Problem -- if not properly steered down the mountain, it could impact the house. Right before it rolled over my hand (no real damage), I was face down in the dirt, shoulder firmly wedged against this monstrosity (800 - 1000 pounds of granite boulder) I got everything out of the way finally before it took its final trip toward the house all but my hand! At the last second it veered away from the house and stopped within 6 - 8 feet of where we wanted it! NICE!!! we managed to roll it to its spot where it sits proudly now! LUCKY!

Four deer, two doe that appear to be sisters and two yearlings that are the children of one of the sisters, right in our yard. One of the yearlings walked up to the back window, so close that if we raised the window we could have petted it. Seems deer season opened Saturday, and we have not seen them since. Lots of gun shots around! Gawd, I hope some of these idiot rednecks would not.............. and out of season too? Sad!

I am sore as can be! Had 14 tons of gravel delivered yesterday afternoon and by today by noon I had spread it all out in our parking area.
Now I have to get the driveway done, but that will be next week I guess.

Having some fun now!

Virginia

Like we use to say back in the 60's and 70's:

That's heavy!

And way too much work for fun.

sure ain't like picking up a "Q" ball after a scratch!

Love ya,

Virginia

Virgina my dear,

I just believe you weren't meant to be a country girl, around here we have mules to do rock rolling.
Now as far as deer go I was having coffee and looking out the back door yesterday and score #1 for Carol, I did reace out and touch it.

Like me you are finding out retireing out in the country means even more work then working a regular job.

Thousand lb rocks on hills can be dangerous. I'm glad no one was hurt.

Around here the deer become much more numerous during hunting season. They seem to have figured out that the suburbs are safer than the woods at that time.

Enjoy the rest of the fall. Do you plan to take up hunting yourself?


Zari

Hi Zari,

I use to hunt but lost interest - these animals are just too interesting to hurt, but I will tell this story -one of the funniest things I have ever witnessed.

I was bow hunting and my friend and I were in trees (no stands, just up in trees about 40 yards apart. Toward evening a literal herd of deer magically appeared in and around our trees, must have been 15 or 20, just milling about, eating acorns and totally oblivious to us. I catch a glimpse of my friend gingerly moving about in his tree. He hangs his bow on a stub, takes out his hunting knife --- ready for this? Places it in his mouth then leaps out of the tree. His target, a large doe standing directly beneath him. Unfortunately, his shirt sleeve caught a branch on the way down, alerting the deer. Now the unbelievable part. The deer, without ever looking up took a nice side step and WHAP!!!! my friend lands face down, spread eagle on the ground next to her. I swear, I saw this, the deer seemed to gently shake her head as she looked at him, (knocked the breath out of him) as if to say, "what an idiot!" she turned and just walked away. What between his explosive landing and me laughing so hard I almost fell out of my tree (no comments - I am not out of my tree just yet) the herd just, can I say, dematerialized.

I do love hunting with a camera now!

Love,

Virginia

Virginia,
I'm with you: used to hunt and kill when growing up. Now I find a greater thrill and bigger reward trying to bag a pair of 3" heel, patent leather pumps!!

Ciao, Rikki

Absaroka wrote:Do you plan to take up hunting yourself?

Hunting herself? I think she already found herself

I'm with Rikki on the bagging but the wife did catch a pair of twin fauns nursing momma in our back yard a couple yrs ago.
Lana

Virginia,

Your friend probably lucked out. If he's landed on the deer she'd probably have thrown him off and stomped him before he could get the knife out of his mouth, assuming of course he didn't drop it. Just because they look all innocent doesn't mean they're defenseless.......It is a pretty funny story though, right in tune with the story about having to hide inside the trestle as the freight train passed over you dripping wheel bearing excrement on to you. You certainly had a lot of fun when you were younger.

Personally I'm much to lazy to hunt.

Zari

Thanks, Zari,

The things I could tell?! and I am still having fun! Like when I was 16 and got to drive a load of moonshine from Bristol to Kingsport. Of course there was the time about three years ago on Christmas day when I got my Jag upto 140+mph and it was still wanting to go but I was running out of road, or the time I "lost" the state trooper riding my bike in excess of 100mph.

You know there is this old saying, "bored with life? risk it!" Well I am far from bored but you know what I say, we only take one trip around this universe and I don't particularily want to be lying on my death bed saying. "Damn! I wish I had tried ?that?"

Stay fluffy, ladies!

Virginia

So how would you tell the insurance company that a boulder just happened down the mountain and hit your house??

^ Well, it would have been a rock slide, of course!!


((Hugs))

- SL

That's a (Virginia) rock slide, if you will?!

Love,

Virginia

We have (had) a few low spots in our parking area so some gravel would probably solve that. I called a local gravel place Tuesday about noon and we discussed what would work best and look good, so we settled on some and he asked, "when do you want it delivered?" Me, trying to be cute, "oh, we're in no hurry, anytime in the next couple of hours!" his reply, "Can't do it in two hours, how about three?" Well in less than three hours I had 15 tons of gravel piled in the midst of our parking area!!!! I need to read that driver's job description as he did not stay to help me spread it? Anyway it is done and now we are going to get something, called "crusher run," put on the driveway itself and they tell me they can spread it up the driveway with just their dump truck. I sure hope so as I don't look forward to the same experience as with the flat area on top!

Birds, deer, squirrels, they are all sharing the four bird feeders we have out. We must have at least 50 dove that hang out around here. SL went outside this morning and it was like a gray explosion of dove, but I guess they figure, eating is better than getting shot at other places. The squirrels were out yesterday morning checking out a big, beatuiful, pileated woodpecker. Two squirrels and this big ole bird on the same log, like they were just visiting each other.

The dove keep trying to figure out how to get the food out of the feeders as they are mostly too small for them to perch on so they are left to eat what the tuffed titmouse (how would you like to be stuck with a name like that as they are neither a tit nor a mouse), and the black capped chickadees, juncos, and cardinals all knock the food on the ground and the wrens and sparrows and doves are content to eat off the ground. We even have a hairy woodpecker that comes by and feeds.

The two yearling deer were here Saturday morning, but very skittish, as since it is hunting season and I know some of the yahoo rednecks that live up here will shoot anything with four legs, I guess they have a right to be wary! The chipmunk has learned he can climb the metal pole that leads up to one of the feeders then a quick leap and pull-up and he is in chipmunk heaven with all that bird food. His little jaws are crammed full as he scampers back down and off to his burrow.

Once in a while, all the birds seem to disappear and I have learned to look up and sure enough (death from above) a hawk will be circling overhead. He screeches a couple of times and disappears and soon the birds all come back to feed!

Well gotta go and roll some more rocks down the mountain so you all stay fluffy and we did have our first frost this morning, too.

Virginia