The cool front wasn't impressive at all. No rain here, most fell to the
northeast. It is a little cooler this
morning 61* and not quite as humid and crystal clear skies. Waiting to see how warm it gets this
afternoon. We have gone from 40% chance
of rain to zero, Zip, nada. Was talking
to my compadre that lives about 100 miles farther south of me yesterday, and he
ended our conversation by telling me he needed to cut some firewood to get
ready for the cooler weather. I had to
tease him about it maybe getting down to 55 so he better lay in a lot of
wood. It's probably 10 degrees warmer
there. I'm sure he was just excited to
use his fireplace in the new house he just built. Maybe the next front will be more impressive. That reminds me I need to get a chimney
sweep out to do some work.
Saw a couple of young buck whitetails pushing each other
around. Nothing serious, just playing
with their new antlers. Won't be long
that they will get serious about it.
The 'rut' comes early in this part of Texas. Early enough that there are usually two ruts each fall/winter. In fact with this slightly cooler weather it
may have set them off already. When
that happens we see bucks we don't usually ever see. The big boys like this one manage to stay hidden the rest of the
year.
Saw a couple of really late fawns this year.
One hangs out behind my house and is still
quite small and still suckling. They
are usually born around the first week of May, and then again in June. Plenty of time to lose most of their
spots. This one was born in late
August. Never have seen one born that
late in the year. Hope it survives our
winter.
My sweetie did good on the last day of the show Friday,
more than doubled the previous day.
More importantly to me, she managed to sell an Ipad carry case I tooled
that has been around way to long along with a holster. I had been willing to let that case go way
below it's value. I could never have
gotten out of it the time I actually had in it. That put a huge grin on my face.
Y'all have a good 'un and thanks for stopping by.
4 comments:
Late babies...hope they can make through the winter!!!
Linda
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That is beautiful work! And that deer head would look good over the fireplace! :-)
Our winters aren't to bad here and there aren't many predators either. The habitat is in pretty good shape, better than past years. Chances are probably pretty good.
Thank you sir. Yes he would, pretty big for a Hill Country buck. I'll leave him to someone else. I just shoot them with the camera anymore.
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