Change Is Hard

…but change is certain.

My day

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I was thinking that having a blog that wouldn’t upload pictures might be, in a strange way, a good thing.  That it would force me to concentrate on words rather than relying on photos to tell my story.  And I even had a couple of thoughts I wanted to write about.

But another busy day at work has me whipped.  So I’m falling back on the photos to tell you all about it.

It started with the usual commute into the sun.  But it’s always good to have sunshine so I didn’t mind.  After a crazy  9 hours I left work to find it was snowing!

What’s with that?  Is this not the end of March?  Didn’t that Groundhog Phil guy predict that this year we were NOT going to have 6 more weeks of winter?  Wasn’t that sometime at the beginning of February?  I just don’t get it.

Once home we were sitting around eating some homemade Tuscan soup when Katie alerted us to events outside.

“There are deer out in my yard Mama!  Come see!  Come see!”

We’ve had four or five deer hanging around for a couple of weeks.  Tonight there were at least a dozen.

And most of them were eating bird seed under our bird feeder and drinking out of the birdbath.

These aren’t great photos because they’re taken from inside through the window with all sorts of reflections…but you get the idea.

It’s been an exciting evening here at the old King homestead.  We’re all still on guard, no rest for the Sheltie!

 

Author: dawnkinster

I'm a long time banker having worked in banks since the age of 17. I took a break when I turned 50 and went back to school. I graduated right when the economy took a turn for the worst and after a year of library work found myself unemployed. I was lucky that my previous bank employer wanted me back. So here I am again, a long time banker. Change is hard.

11 thoughts on “My day

  1. First Oreo and now you guys! This must be a big year for deer – my grandparents had lots of deer in their yard this winter and they were eating from the bird feeder and drinking from the bird bath too. Hope Katie got in lots of good barking!

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  2. Have no fear…Katie is now barked out. Sleeping to gain strength for the next assault!

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  3. LOL, the deer think the bird bath is a water bowel. To funny!

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  4. oh my dog! How exciting Katie! I think I would have barked big time at them! My sisfur Faline be named after Bambi’s girlfriend you know. Even though I just had my first taste and think they is yummy, Mum thinks they is lovely!
    Thank you for the piccures, Mum says how lucky to have them in your garden. Maybe the harsh winter has made them braver?
    ~lickies, Ludo
    Pee ess: The lady you were thinking of is called Victoria Stillwell. I guess you don’t see her so much because she does other things too, as well as her show. Plus it’s not such dramatic tv with positive training!

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  5. Love the deer! It’s always so exciting when they come so close.

    I think they must be very, very hungry right now. Poor things.

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  6. I go back and forth on the pictures/words thing, Dawn. Katie and Sarah and not troubled by the ambivalence you and I experience. That shot of Katie on the alert is precious!

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  7. I love your picture story, they are great pictures and the one Katie was doing her watch out is my favourite.
    It seems everyone gets some deer, so lucky!

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  8. Oh my goodness – how lucky are you to have those beautiful deer visiting and love that photo of Katie watching them. We are sure missing you posts – work is sucky when it takes up so much time.

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  9. I love that sometimes in our lives we get to have yards that deer want to enter, and dogs that alert us so we don’t miss seeing them. I must admit, however, that I did not love the deer that came to visit us our first summer here and ate the flowers I had just planted. Katie’s picture is, of course, beautiful. But then, how could a picture of Katie not be?

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  10. That is so neat to have the deer in your backyard. We don’t have that by us. I would love to be able to watch them. We had snow by us too. I was thinking the same thing about the groundhog. 🙂

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  11. I cannot imagine how many hours you must spend combing that pretty Katie.

    Miss Sadie, the tidy terrier, looks as well-groomed as the deer. The Cowboy, on the other hand . . . he could be a little bear, his curly fur full of twigs and thorns and things about which we do not wish to speculate. And that’s just this morning’s collection.

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