The Fox is Back. It's Personal This Time

Lawman has been getting pictures of the fox on and off for a couple of weeks. He's kept vigil over the girls since the first one, but so far he's not come around the birds. But, when Lawman put out a second camera to track his comings and goings, he let us know what he thought about all the attention.

We were kind of lite on the update pictures this week. Cupcake has been working night and day for HCA (see what we did there?) and Lawman has been keeping an eye to the girls. Foxxy wont be getting a Thanksgiving duck from us.
Another reason we were remiss in pictures was a cold snap. The blizzard of '19 hit this week and kept us inside for a few days. It wasn't really a blizzard, it really wasn't even a snow to amount to anything, but people still lost their minds anyway.

While we were snowed in, Lawman ushered in the holiday season as he always does. With the first chocolate cake and boiled custard of the year. It's Cupcake's favorite. It changed her life.

One day while Lawman was keeping his eye on the girls, he noticed a group of does in the front yard. They were looking toward the coop so Lawman, being highly trained and naturally curious, went to check on the coop. There was a small five point buck helping himself to the chicken feed we had out. We already go through over 100 pounds of food per week, so the thought of deer taking a portion of that didn't go over well. Lawman took up the bow and took a shot at him.
"The Boy" just happened to be walking by when the drama went down, and he went to check for a blood trail, and found one. He went all "Kit Carson" on the blood trail, following it over hill and dale until we reached a fence running between us and the neighbors. The trail just stopped.

We checked up, down, side to side, never saw another drop of blood. We chalked it up to a bad hit. Neighbor Zach told us the deer was shot by another neighbor the next day. So at least the deer wasn't wasted.
Next day, The Boy went hunting and bagged another deer. So we're well set for winter.

Lastly, we celebrated our wedding anniversary last week. Cupcake reached for the stars, literally. She found a poster of how the stars looked on the night we married from the farm. The stars finally lined up for us, and it only took 25 years.

We ended the week with grilled hamburgers with sauteed onions and lime pickles.

K&K