Coyote

My husband's friend told him that someone is keeping coyote in a woods on the county line.  Why, you ask?  I have no idea.  But we decided to see if we could find them.  This gated fence is their home.  Notice the electric wire.  I could hear it charging.  I dared not touch the gate.

I did venture a shot over the top.  I only have an old point and shoot camera.  These pictures can be made larger by clicking on them.

We counted six lying in the pathway.  I have no idea why those green plastic chairs are there.  There is a  lot I don't know about Coyote.

I stared at them and they stared at me.  They made no sounds.  Just looked.

So I said "good bye" and we drove away.  I'm glad they don't live closer.  Maybe I will recognize one in the wild if I should happen to have visitors.

Old Things I Like

Took a little ride out by the cotton gin to see if the dirt pile was high...  Husband was thinking of getting some to add to his garden.  Many people who have used this dirt told him that it was full of weed seed.  I think he's changed his mind about getting some.  We took the long way to get there.  I've passed this old store all my life and had never taken a picture of it.  So we turned around to get the picture.  We parked in this yard.  I don't think anyone lives here.

I walked across the front yard to get a better angle of the store.

And one other view.

I wonder how long it can stand looking like this.  You would think that the next big wind would get it.  But I hope not !!

Purple and Gold

I just noticed these birds last Friday as we passed this very familar pond on HWY 102.  My two boys were baptized in this pond many years ago. 

Our local universary ECU uses the colors purple and gold.  At first I thought someone must have put them there to welcome the team home from an away game or something.  Someone informed me that they have been there since before Christmas.

When we passed there late on Friday, I thought there were more purple birds and they were much harder to see speeding by the pond on Hwy 102.  Today we turned onto the dirt road next to the pond, and I only saw these. 

Wordless Wednesday

Mouths are Multipling

Remember way back when I posted that we must be rich since we fed so many things around here?  After my husband retired the second time, he sold some of the goats and gave away a lot of chickens.  We kept enough to have plenty of eggs which we mostly gave away or cooked up for the dog when we accumulated too many.  Well, don't look now, but it is starting up again.  I think he has three hens setting on eggs.  These chicks hatched not too long ago. 

My husband often tells me how he loved raising chickens, rabbits, etc. when he was a boy.  And he always tells of how his granny would ask him every day  if he had fed those animals.  He said he would sometimes see her sneeking out there to make sure they got fed.  He always throws a can of corn out on the ground between the barns for the roosters and hens that run around the yard.  The squirrels have learned that he does this and they run over for their share.

Oh well, I get to go to the Tractor store and look around at the cute yard things they have while he's buying feed.