Our gardening room off
the back yard (the rear end of our workshop). The corner of our well house
is in the foreground. |
Bill & Jo Holley's
house across the road from us.
Their guineas come over
and play with ours.
This is one of only
two neighboring houses visible from our house. |
One of Justine's Mallard
hens set a nest of 19 eggs and hatched out 15 ducklings. Only these
four didn't hatch. |
Justine feeding in the
old barn. |
My 1985 Chevy S-10 pickup
just returned from Brown's Feed Store in Lampasas with two weeks
worth of feed. Our birds get more groceries than we do !! |
One of our lawn tractors
at the old barn. We use it to haul water in 5 gallon buckets to water
the birds. It's parked in front of our Barred Rock laying flock's
coop. |
Justine was pulling sacks
of potting soil from under the table in the gardening room and this young
diamondback rattlesnake was curled up under one of the sacks. She
let out a blood curdling scream and I came running. The Zippo is
there to show scale. The "one-button" snake was about 12" long. From
the swollen middle, it looks like it's just ate a handful of crickets or
a baby mouse. |
This Ruger .22 caliber
Blackhawk revolver with "rat" shot shells did him in quickly without endangering
anyone with ricochets off the cement floor. This is only the second
rattler I've encountered since I bought the farm in 1971. |
A family of squirrels has
made their home in the big hackberry tree in our back yard. Here's
one of them checking out the feeders. |
Chick
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