Doe and Field Mower Woes...

Last couple of days we've had a lot of activity, still no coy dogs coming through, the fawns are getting bigger now and could quite possibly outrun the coyote.  Doe left the kids at home on this day...  Yeah, that's my broken down Field and Brush mower sitting out in the field, broken drive cable.  

OK, so I slipped one fawn pic in for Mom...

Kids again

This years fawns are getting rambunctious...  

Couple of trail cam pics.

Workday today

The Summer sure is going by fast!  

Hope you're having a great one!

James, Jason and I picked raspberries this morning, a great big bowl full, I bagged and froze up 4 quarts after cleaning them, then while I mowed the field and Rose weed-wacked the yard the boys picked two bushes clean of Blueberries too!  I watched a chipmunk climbing through one of the wild high bush plants munching Blueberries as fast as he could so our timing was probably just right.  Need to check on the high bush berries tomorrow to see how they are coming along.

Cleaned up some of the flower beds pulling seed heads, bagged them up for next year. 

The yard lillies are going crazy with this weather, I still think e could use some more rain... I need to check on the veggie garden and fertilize tomorrow.

Corn, we got some corn from Market Basket earlier in the week, things came up as they often do so it sat on the counter in the bag for 3 days before we got to cook it.  It was great!  Surprised the heck out of me too.

We all went to Kimball's Farm for the second time this year!  Jess, Tony, James & Jason all has fun, James and Jason almost finished a Kimball's special... Yeah I know, but it was good!

We're going to have a raspberry crumble tomorrow, I can't wait.

This Father And His Baby Daughter Covered "My Roots Grow Down" And It's Adorable

Awesome!



This Father And His Baby Daughter Covered "My Roots Grow Down" And It's Adorable

This Is What a Flock of Hummingbirds Looks Like - Neatorama

This Is What a Flock of Hummingbirds Looks Like - Neatorama

These Optical Illusions Destroyed My Brain. For Some Reason, I Can't Look Away...

These Optical Illusions Destroyed My Brain. For Some Reason, I Can't Look Away...

Weare Carnival

Jason won a yoyo at the carnival tonite.

The Lillies

The Lillies

More fawn pics

Can you see the little fella below?

The Twin Fawns

The Twin Fawns
We're not sure but we may have three new fawns.  We have a doe with one offspring, and looks like a second maybe with twins.  Quality is a little sketchy, as these were taken through the wavy glass windows in the dining room.

 The twins playing in the field.

We have a pair of twin fawns

We have a pair of new twin fawns galloping around the field.  We caught them on the trail cam last week,  then the past two or three days out during the day. I'll post some of the pics this weekend.

Now for the not so good news... We also caught a coyote on the trail cam coming through within an hour of mom and the twins  daily as well.  I am due to pull the flash card from the can this weekend.

The twins were still here today so we've got our fingers crossed.

Later...

Video: Diver saves sea turtle tangled in rope - Boing Boing

Video: Diver saves sea turtle tangled in rope - Boing Boing

Jason's Entry!

Remember those World's Worst Sneaker Competitions they used to have?

These are Jason's 2014 entry...

Awesome huh?

Kimball Farms for Ice Cream

Off to Kimball's for Ice Cream (You have been there this year already right?)
Kimball's also has the best seafood plates I've ever had!  Bumper boats, put put golf, arcade, petting zoo, batting cages, driving ranges...

James & Jason devouring a "Kimball's Special" that's Nine scoops of ice cream...  Whipped cream, nuts, strawberries, pineapple, and chocolate fudge.

 Nana attempting a Kimball's Special

 Sooooo Gooood...

Nana Still going, like the energizer bunny...

Fishing

Finally got our fishing licenses this year, went Sunday with James and Jason...  We caught a bunch of Sunfish, Perch, and Smallmouth Bass.

 Managed to catch a couple nice Smallmouth Bass

 James concentrating

 Jason baiting his own hooks now...

 Mustn't stab my finger...

 

 Jason with his Smallmouth

 Jason out on the rocks

Dragonfly on my rod

James and Harley swimming

Harley and the boys have been having a blast this summer in the pool together.   James and Harley this morning...

Deer herd update

We haven't seen the bulk of the herd other than a single or a pair come in lately.  This Doe came in the other day late afternoon.

Fireflies

Fireflies, lightning bugs, whatever you call them, we hit the jackpot this year.

We noticed there appeared to be an abundance of the bugs in the spring before they started lighting up, they were everywhere, harmless but everywhere nonetheless, we'd never seen them in these quantities before, conditions must have been perfect.

Tonight Rose had the boys call me from the living room to see.  The entire back field looked like a concert with tens of thousands of lighters flickering.  I couldn't believe there were so many lighting up, I did notice they were simply flashing in the grass not flying lit up.  Rose said earlier she'd seen them flying up and down in some mating ritual.

I hope they'll continue all summer sure makes the field interesting to look at in the evening.