it often amazes me how quickly the woods can change. Below where I live is about 40 acres of woods, fully leafed out n ya couldn't see ten feet into the edge. After the last couple days of rain , chill, n wind ya can see upwards of a couple hundred feet or more. The leaves came down like flame touched golden rain for the last two days and now litter the floor of the woods like a lemon yellow carpet, actually very pretty to gaze at. It is a wonderment at how quickly the woods can change at times. I will mis walking around below the house this fall with the rad n chemo treatments n all but will relish it all the more next year, something to look forward to. Starting to see a couple deer again now that the leaves have thinned and am waiting for the corn field to come down here in the next week or so, then I'll really be able to eyeball the deer running across n down into the woods below me. Gotta figure out just how I'm gonna get corn out to feed them like every other year, might get the god-child to hoss the bags into the shed for me cause I should be able to still fill n toss from the bucket I use. Have ya all started to notice changes around where you live n the woods ya stomp around in yet? I surely do love the changes in the seasons n how they make ya feel way down deep where it counts

Every once in a while we'll wake up to a dusting of snow on the mountains. Then that will melt off within a few days. Over the last week, the irrigation canal near the house has been turned off...revealing all of it's cement sides and bottom to the world. That world includes ducks, which like to scurry around in the little puddles left in the bottom to get whatever aquatic critters were stranded there.

We've been taking good care of the yard this year, and to show for it now we have super-sized pocket gopher mounds in the front rose garden. These mounds are huge! I suspect the gophers are the size of water buffaloes.

Sparks

I never et gopher hump meat wonder what it taste like

sparks wonder if gopher would cook up like ground hog??? Both eat the same food just live in different places.Like snails,we fish with them,some people eat them,go figure.
Birdman just load the sled alittle lighter,pace yourself.Just like eating an elephant,one mouthful at a time.
Life may not be the party we hoped for,but while were here we should dance.If you woke up,get up,dress up and show up. Weather here keeps changing,leaves all dropped with the last rain showeres,had snow last week and it going to 60 today. Wont be long and it will be cold and snow.Still havnt seen any geese headed south got me wondering if they havent change their flyway.Coyoties are out and about no rabbits or ground birds to speak of.