You kids get off my lawn!

[mondhasen]

...or Visitors!

I was having coffee in the front room this morning and just happened to look up in time to see a deer out front watching the house. I was able to grab my camera phone without spooking him or his friend off, and got a couple of shots
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The Huntress slept through this, but saw them out back a little later and, growling, charged them at the fence. She doesn't bark at them outside, only when she's in the house. These two have been in the area now for a while. One still had dappling in his fur.


Oh, Clint!

Comments

[sabotlours.livejournal.com]

Yay! Teh Bambehs!

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

No better lawn crew anywhere!

[whitetail.livejournal.com]

Nice! Had to look at the enlargements to find the second one. Shy durr.

LJ really needs a Favorite 'star' for posts!

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

It was hard to get the one in a decent shot- I only saw I had captured a part of the second when I was cropping these :D

Yes, a star would be a good addition. Sometimes words aren't needed, but it's nice to leave a 'like' behind.

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Super nice lawn! 8> .. How long dat take to mow... 4 hours? ;P ... *wingfuffles ya to soothe yer muscles*

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

*grins* Honestly, maybe two with the riding mower, but my muscles aren't refusing a soothing. I'm a terrible neighbor, or would be if I were closer to other homes; I mow only occasionally (I call it haying the lawn), rarely trim or edge, and rake only under duress.

[moxie_man]

Sounds like how often I "mow/hay the back 40". I live in the middle of town, but I'm up on a hill and a swimming pool takes up most of the backyard. What were the owners from 20 years ago smoking to put an inground pool into a hillside?

Up this way "Haying the back 40" means you're harvesting hay on the back 40 acres. That's not the case for me, obviously. In my situation it's a pain to get down into the far back corner 40 feet from the house (thus the "back 40") and mow this 10ft by 6ft trapezoidal corner. I might get down there once every two weeks with the weedwacker as I don't own a lawnmower. That corner constitutes 75% of all the "lawn" on my property (the rest is a tiny sliver in front of the house).