Stuck inside...and Oh Deer!

Well sort of. When the VA sends out a certain medication, I have to be available for the delivery as Tom the UPS guy has to hand it to a live human being and it needs a signature.

The meds come once a month and it is always handled overnight. So after the order is confirmed, I have to be present until the package shows. 

It was clean up day anyway. Time to take Charlie's dog crate and put it upstairs. He is not like Morris at all. Morris loved the crate and would go in it any time he wanted to be alone and often at night. Charlie doesn't believe in crates. He will go in it if we have company [which we don't] or if we are gone all day for an appointment [hasn't happened in months!]. 
Charlie was quite upset that I moved the crate. However he is quite happy with being King Of The Couch!

I picked the torn and tattered blind that Daryl left in the woods from last bow and gun season. He didn't take it down and when it snowed, rained, and iced like mad last winter...the top of the blind collapsed. The fiberglass rods that held the roof up shattered in the cold. In short. The blind was destroyed. I waited for him to come and claim it, then Covid came and well... I was tired of seeing it laying in my woods. It now resides in the neighbor's dumpster.

The older one that was no longer used was in the back of the shed. I set that up so I could go in the mornings and have coffee and watch the pasture from inside the little blind. A few years ago I had been able to grab a photo of deer leaping the fence.

Photos from November 2018: Shooting Deer.

I moved stock tanks, cleaned gutters, and hooked up the heater for the stock tank. Next was the game of pick up sticks and toss them in the yellow cart so I could take it to the brush pile.

I cleaned out Lil' Richard's stall so he can go inside tonight. He is the only one who doesn't mind being in the shed. I fear the old pony is getting deaf. He never heard me come by him with the 4 wheeler and the rattling cart today.

It is supposed to start raining tonight and all through tomorrow. Sigh. Cold and rain.
I don't like that combination for the critters. 
I also went back and checked the trail cam for some neat shots of bucks who are getting quite active right now.

Below, a few of the visitors around the farm.

So now I'm still waiting for a delivery and wondering if he'll be late this evening or will it be tomorrow?

Well, I've done a fair bit of work and now I'm going to experiment with some Still Life Photography.

Pancakes for supper.

I'm diggin' it.

PS~ No deer hunting on our land this year. Well, other than with a camera that is.

I'm too cool by Fred

I believe the word is Uber Cool.  I don't know what an Uber is but that is okay as long as I am cool.

She came up to the catch pen with that lead rope and I knew it was my ticket to some fresh grass.
I used to be impossible to catch, but Val's got this way about her.  She always has something interesting to offer when she has that lead rope.

Sometimes it is just a walk to a place with nice grass, sometimes there is some brushing stuff going on with a bite of sweet feed.
Sometimes it is to get my feet trimmed and a haircut.

Her rides are never unpleasant either.  I mean she is never hard on me or difficult to get along with.  
I like that in a human.  I like them to be trained just right, and boy it has taken me about 17 years to get this woman trained just right.

I can almost always count on her to find me some wonderful green grass to munch on.  Today she had a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwhich.  I turned my nose up at it though,...it was not green enough for me.

The forest trees are dumping their leaves like crazy.  They kept falling and hitting me on my ears.  They didn't bother Val, she wears a helmet.

We really surprised some deer.  That was fun to watch Val startle.  IF she had been watching ME closely, she'd have known.  After all my ears pointed them right out to her.

Then we found a real piece of work in the woods.  I wonder sometimes who really builds these little houses?
Don't they want a roof over their heads?  And what is with leaving the furniture out.
They must have been very little people.

Val explained that it was an old deer blind.
Oh.
Yup, that explains a lot.  Old.  Blind.  Deer?
I'm confused.

Anyway when I got back I told Opal and Siera all about my adventure.  Opal knew all about the Blind Deer thing.
Opal was also mad that she didn't get to go.
She promised to be first to the gate next time.

Siera nudged Opal and said SHE wanted to go.
I'm gonna keep my eye out on Val.
I may surprise them all and make it first to the gate, I gallop when I think she is coming!

Val said something about riding every day this weekend if she could.
That means I really got to keep an eye on her.  I should be her favorite MULE.  But she does take kindly to Grumpy ol' Opal, and Silly Siera.