January 25 2009

It's Sunday afternoon, it's snowing and pretty cold outside. I am challenging myself to learn new things this year and this is my first challenge! A great opportunity on a cold, snowy Sunday.
As I sit at my computer I look out onto one of our fields where last night 11 deer were grazing on the grass. I know not every one loves looking at deer, but we look upon them as offering them a safe haven as we don't allow hunting on our property. There may be the day when we would like a deer in the freezer, but currently we like looking at them. Guinness, our dog, likes chasing them, but when it's this cold we let them get some grass before Guinness has to go out. There isn't much food out there for them.
We get a lot of wild life here, earlier in the week we think we saw a bobcat. We haven't seen one of those before, but Guinness was curious all day about strange scents outside & was barking in every direction. He likes the wild life to know he is Alpha, and that he will chase though he is gentle. He's pretty swift when he gets going. He protects the property- when he is out, and he does prefer to be outside, but when its this cold he needs to be indoors otherwise we'll find him frozen to the ground! He loves lying on the snow or making snow dog angels!