O'Dark Thirty

 "Lynn, look out behind you! I see the turquoise eyes of the herd!"

"Watch were you step too.  You do not want to

step on Petunia the Skunk.  You can not come back

into the house if you do."

"And now I see the pink eyes of the rabbits.

They are almost ready to start cavorting fur making

baby bunnies!"

The routine here every morn in the winter is

Precious and I are up at 5:15, and by 6 breakfast

is over for all.  Precious gets about 15 minutes of

frigid open window time before I go out.

I take 10 bird feeders out by 6:30 and hang them up

so when it is finally daylight, the birds can start feeding

immediately.  If the Cooper Hawk is not perched

close by.

I have to take them down at night as the deer will

stand on their hind legs and knock the seed feeders about.

And last year a raccoon, most likely,  tightrope walked

out 20 feet to swipe a suet feeder, knock it to the ground

and eat the whole block.  At least this time he left me the

wire cage.  A few years ago he did this and hauled the

cage away.

 I wear a headlamp and am often surprised by the

nocturnal wildlife here.  We even have had

years when there was a Screech Owl in the yard

at that hour.

"Lynn, I'd love to see the owl swipe yer tobaggan off

yer head."

"I even got some sun puddles this week fur a few afternoons."

And I got in 4 walks in the sun, too!

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