Dear Doe Deer
Wordless Wednesday – “Dear Doe Deer”
Dear Doe Deer
Dear Doe Deer
I’ve been going in to work these past few days, putting in extra hours decorating and prepping the library for our Open House and Silent Auction on December 4th. It’s a major fundraiser for the Friends of the Ten Sleep Library, and with our expansion underway… there will be lots of ways for us to…
Following my post from a couple of days ago… here are a few things you might not know about my favorite Wyoming animal. Antilocapra americana, locally known as pronghorn, are not really antelope, nor are they “goats”, or “speedgoats” as their nicknames imply. They are their own critter. Their closest relatives are actually giraffes and…
For those of you who’ve never been in a western state, you might not have seen these exquisite creatures, the pronghorn antelope. Small, fleet of foot with exceptional vision, “goats” as I grew up calling them, are everywhere in Wyoming. There will be small bunches on the tops of the Big Horn Mountains (in open…
I checked in with the guys and their current project… Took some random photos… and returned home followed by Tess and the kids. I had mentioned making applesauce, and Tess was here to tackle that problem! For the rest of the afternoon, we peeled, sliced, and cooked our way to 34 pints of applesauce… or…
How do two people make so much dirty laundry??? Sheesh. While Vernon hauled some more water to the cows and, once again, tried to figure out what was wrong with the pump or generator… I did laundry and cleaned my house. I did take some time out to work on my ghost decoration… I’ll let…
For a couple of weeks now, it’s not unusual to hear elk bugling in our fields at night… We don’t see them, but we sure love listening to them. Today, with all the rain… a couple of cows and a calf just wandered by…
Cuteness: Just shows how tiny he is… he can stand under his momma pony’s belly! I’ll post a quick video of him on Facebook tomorrow… it’s already on Instagram if you’re interested. (Just click on the red camera icon on the top right… and it should take you to my instagram account and you can…
I thought I’d share this photo I took… It’s of a young mule deer doe, out of last year’s crop of fawns. Now, she’s not an albino – that’s obvious – but she’s definitely much lighter than her herdmates. A lighter phase of mule deer! Cool.