This week after little attempt to discourage our newly arrived ground hog that moved in around back of our home to please leave we reversed our decision after hearing the pros in keeping him. He’s quite a handsome and lengthy little animal nothing compared to the rabbits, squirrels and chipmunk that habitat our back forty. There are dogs on all sides of us which should give us some comfort but they seem to not mind him or are oblivious to him as we were.
Its presence seemed so sudden and rudimentary as we notice a pile of dirt a yard long and a foot wide along the back of the house. Thinking to our selves what kind of animal could do that?!? We have no idea when he arrived and even though we thought he might have gone it appears he is still here and liking it. How could our lives get so busy that we would missed such a creature walking back and forth to the garden. Now the cucumbers we had noticed something and were happy to share but obviously they didn’t particularly seem to like them from the sampling of a few and all tasting rather the same. So as we sit here now watching him and evaluating the situation a name that is fitting was all that I could think of. He’ll be hibernating soon and in the spring if we make a bunch of noise like we always do he might then decide to leave on his own behalf. In the mean time I seen that someone put cauliflower on the grocery list.
Otherwise I want to say school is back in session and things have gone back to normal but one can never predict normal when change comes into effect. The freedoms that come with time seem to have some invisible strong holds that we have to battle amongst ourselves. Once won masterpieces will be made.
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