As I was getting ready for church yesterday, I noticed a deer family outside my bathroom window so I grabbed my camera and started snapping: 

Notice how Scott's once perfect grass - that he spent so many hours slaving over - is dead!  He has finally raised the white flag and decided to call in the professionals for a complete redo. 

Here's Buck the Buck. I wish you could see his antlers.

I'm enlarging this picture in hopes that you will be able to see them. 

Fall is just around the corner and no one is more excited than Julie.  There are, however, some signs of Fall that I could live without.  I live just down the road from a high school and let me just tell you that tonight, the Marching Mavericks were practicing up a storm.  It isn't quite as peaceful sitting on my back porch at night during marching band season.  I wonder what the deer think.... 

Bambi

Almost every day I spot a deer family wandering through our yard.  One of my deer families is a momma & her baby.  I spent most of Saturday morning watching Bambi sitting beside a dead tree just outside my bathroom window. 

Here's a picture that I took through the window:

I bet you didn't see it.  OK....I zoomed in for this shot....

Hint:  look for spots.  Isn't that crazy?  Someone once told me that if a deer is sitting down in the woods you'd never see it....I guess they were right.  I would have never spotted this little guy if I didn't see it sit down.  Mom is somewhere close by but I didn't see her sit down and couldn't spot her. 

Stay tuned:  This is "H" family birth week #2 of the year.  Why my family has to have all of their birthdays in one week...I don't know.  Wednesday is Laura's birthday and Thursday is Kevin's.  I foresee lots of cake in my near future. 

Oh Deer...

Yesterday, as I was cleaning the kitchen, I looked out the window and saw Flopsy, Mopsy & Cottontail. Wait...those are bunnies.  Huey, Dewey & Louie? NO - Donald Duck's nephews.  OK....I saw Dancer, Prancer & Cupid.  (None of them struck me as a "Vixen")  I took these pictures through the laundry room window. 

 

This little cutie saw me.  It kept eating for about 30 seconds and then decided I couldn't be trusted.  They are very "alert" and aware little buggers.  I showed them to Greta but she wasn't impressed.  She was much more interested in the pigeon in yard earlier! 

 

Did anybody catch the real surprise in that story?  I said, "Yesterday, as I was cleaning the kitchen..."  That makes 2 days in a row!  Go Julie!  I'd try for 3 days in a row but then Scott might start expecting a clean kitchen ALL of the time. 

Speaking of Scott, here's a picture of the man himself.  Since he is working from home so much, he has gotten tired of his office and has taken over MY couch.  Check out Greta - she's always with one of us.  

 
 

 Oh yea, I forgot to mention that is has been snowing here all day.  This "Global Colding" is getting on my nerves.  I'm not used to all of this white stuff.  

Julie :-)