Subj : Murphy's Law
To   : AUGUST ABOLINS
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Fri Apr 25 2025 01:42:00

  Hello August!

RM> I don't hate being around other people, and when it does
RM> happen I often talk a fair amount, and most who meet me
RM> tend to like me, but I've never felt the need to seek out
RM> others because I was lonely..

AA>Do you have nature's animals as "pets"?   ;)  Chickadees?
  >martins? wild turkeys?

I've definitely had my share of critters here over the years.
I don't feed them to encourage them but about 4 days in a row
earlier this spring I've come out my front door in mid afternoon
and there was a deer eating the long grass left from last year
in a grassy low area about 30 feet from the house.

AA>Once again, a fairly large jack rabbit has decided to hang
  >around my property. I think it steals the food that I leave out
  >for my two cats.  I think the rabbit is deaf because as once
  >while it was biding its time under my truck near the front and
  >I started up the truck and pulled back, the rabbit was still in
  >the same spot!

That's pretty amazing.. The main critter that returns here quite
often is a Fox, maybe the third generation of that fox by now,
and they are funny. I find their tracks going up my steps and
across my front deck, or going across the ice to where I have
that wooden box I have over the hole in the ice where I get water
in winter. I've found at times the tracks across the ice to the
box, up on top of it, and off the other side and carrying on..
Don't they know that curiosity kills, or is that just cats?   B)

Oh, and we do have quite a few rabbits around here too although
I tend to see their droppings more than them, possibly because
so many other things around here are trying to eat them..

AA>The odd Canada goose might like to hang out in some open areas
  >close to the lake and house.  Deer make frequent appearances.

Yes some Canada geese are honking at times when I come outside
these days too. I've seen Moose swimming across from Franklin
Island to here the odd time and found myself WAY too close to
Bears a number of times, and once to a Cougar, although that
was a long time ago and as the population in the area went up
they disappeared. Muskrats, Mink, Way too many Raccoons, Beaver
and some truly Huge Snapping turtles, maybe 3 feet across, dig
nests near me here some years. This may be one of the few areas
where, as well as Deer crossing warning signs on the roads, we
also get Turtle crossing signs in season..   B)

Highway 400 in this area has miles and miles of this funny low
fencing to keep turtles from wandering onto the road and they
built huge culverts under it, not for water but for deer to use
to cross under the highway..

Oh, another thing that I haven't seen in quite a while, in
the past I've found my place surrounded by a pack of wolves at
night howing to each other. I don't think they were actually
threatening, just making a noisy comment on territory..

Do Rattlesnakes count ?.. Plus tons of Garter and Fox snakes..
I won't get into the Mice, Chipmunks and Squirrels..     B)

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