Last night we were watching TV, well the TV was on, I was reading and John was checking his eyelids for leaks........!!!
Anyway I heard this weird noise, sounded like the water softener doing it's thing, or maybe the cicadas chirping, but not quite. I got up and 3 of the indoor cats were looking out one of the windows thru the screen. As I got closer I could tell what the noise was, a very P.Oed rattlesnake. Ran the cats off and grabbed the camera. He was under one of the sotol grass bunches, almost against the house and letting everyone know he wasn't happy. That's OK, we weren't too thrilled with his visit either. That's only the 2nd snake, 1st rattler this year.
He had a lump in the middle, maybe that's why we don't see the little Harris Antelope squirrels anymore. This morning he was gone, but last night when John went out to let the donkeys out, he was a little more cautious than usual.....!!!! LOL
Yesterday evening John and I went down to the Oasis Exotic Bird Sanctuary. They usually have potlucks when anyone has a birthday or are leaving. They had one leaving and 3 birthdays, so it was quite an occasion. On the way down we were bouncing along in the van (the last 5 miles isn't paved and can be quite exciting) and I turned to tell John something. Saw something small, brown and fast run from under his chair to the chair behind his. We've had trouble before with mice getting in the van if we park it down by the house which we have been doing lately. We have no idea how they get in, but they do. John forgot to set the live trap last night, but I noticed it's sitting on the courtyard for tonight.
Doctoring is going well, fly masks, not so well. I'm down to just doctoring Boaz and Cisco on a regular basis. I have others that get a general look over every morning, just in case. Rosie has been a little lame on one of her rear legs ever since Tyler was out to trim her and Gigi a few days ago. He just trimmed Gigi and reset her shoe on her twisted foot. She is actually walking better on that foot than the other one now, but Tyler isn't ready to see how she does without the shoe. She wasn't real cooperative, she's a lightening fast kicker, doesn't try to actually nail you, but lets you know she's not happy. Rosie was real good, but somewhere along the way her leg got tweeked or something. She's getting better, but I hate to see them limp around.
John goes out every morning after feeding to look for missing fly masks, and other assorted missing items, like knee pads, polo wraps, etc. So far he's not finding as many as are getting lost.
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