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Fences and High Places

In blue skies a turkey buzzard glides on a beautiful fall day.

The summer grasses begin to brown as we enter fall.

Checking fences and the land we join 

with TexWisGirl at The Run*A*Round Ranch

and many more to share our old farm fences and views.

We tour as the leaves fall from some trees

and others begin to turn.

We stop for a moment to view the Boston Mountain Range of the Ozarks from our part of the Salem Plateau.  It is a beautiful day to be alive.

Rocking In My Flip Flops

Alway something interesting

to find on a walk

A rock outcropping covered in lichen

shapes and types

you may not have seen.

Grateful the flip flops are still able to rock

Keep your eyes on the trees cause you never know what's watching.

See the face?

Helping Wildlife As They Feed Us

 Everything is food for something.

 We celebrate when the crops are good in the wild.

The acorns had a spotty yield this year, 

some trees had them, some did not.

Deer, squirrels, wild hogs and a variety of animals eat acorns.

In turn something eats them

and so the food/life cycle goes.

I found evidence some squirrels had been enjoying the acorns.

They also enjoyed the walnuts and chestnuts we took to the woods last winter when their food supply was low. We had an abundance.  They did not. This week we ate some squirrels. We are grateful the land feeds us in more ways than one. The food chain/life cycle continues.

Canine Casa Grande

I couldn't do this with out power tools.

The scrap pile is getting smaller

as pieces are put together like a puzzle.

Every one came to check out the action and noise.

Lil decided she liked it before I was finished.

Now she has a cozy house with a corner for the really cold days

and a nice door to view the world if she chooses.

Hubby and Andrew had to help with this...too big for me to handle.

Andrew moved it into place with the tractor bucket...

talk about power tools!

Lizzy loves her little house with dining on the deck.

Two more houses to go!