Routines and This and That...

As we drove in toward the deer feeder, we were greeted by the cows and a ton of cattle egrets.  Both the cows and egrets took off when I stopped to grab my camera.  This week we filled the feeder and put out a mineral block and protein block for the deer.  Predictably the cows were watching and ran over to check out what we had done as soon as we left.  However we are counting the days when the new fence will keep them away from the deer feeding station.

Supplies for the new fence:

 

 





Matthew has started on the fence.  Today he was measuring and cutting pipe for the corners.  He says once the corners are set, the rest of the fence will go up in a couple days. 
This new fence will keep the cows away from the feeder and more importantly, away from the building site for the house.  Yes, we are very close to starting on the house.  We close on the combined construction and permanent financing on Wednesday of this week!  Yipee!!!

We received some disturbing news from Ryan saying that he had gone to look at the water meter last week and couldn't find it.  Well, that rascal cost a lot of money and I couldn't believe it had already been stolen.  He did say that there was a giant spider in the water meter box he didn't want to mess with so refrained from digging to see if the meter was still there.

 

Today, as we gazed into the box we saw the spider and no meter.  Peg, ever ready to use a piece of equipment/tool swung around her hatchet and flicked out, not only the spider, but three fuzzy egg bundles.  Then we started digging in the meter box to see if we still had our meter.  Thank goodness we found it beneath all the dirt!

 

Then we headed to the tank so the dogs could cool off.  The temperatures were already in the high nineties and Rooster and Beulah were fading.  Once they saw where we were going, they raced ahead to get into the water.

 

As the dogs enjoyed their dip, we commented on how much the water level had dropped in the last three weeks.  Without fairly regular rains, the tank slowly evaporates away.  We may be more aware of it now that we have learned that there are large perch and catfish living in the deep recesses.  We can't wait to bring the grandkids down for some fishing fun!