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Aug. 22nd, 2021 10:39 pmFeeling depleted and tired after last night. Not a fun evening. Today we had a Zoom with Deb and the Prussian, followed by a Zoom with the kids. It took awhile for everyone to find spare time for this, so we were really happy to see them all. We had just time to eat some leftover things in between, so it was lucky we had leftover things. Dinner=a lovely green salad with chicken, olives, cucumbers, tomatoes; a scoop of potato salad; and some toasty cheese made with the extra sliced cheese. I watered my plants again. Some of the tomatoes are looking very healthy and have tiny green tomatoes on them. Hope hope!!
Here's a fun thing that happened on our trip to the lake. At the humid, mosquitoey end of our hiking loop, I heard a crackling in the brush and spotted a deer. She was a lovely fallow color. She froze, staring at us, with her big ears spread wide. We held still too (which took some self-control with the mosquitoes biting!), so she wasn't entirely sure if we were dangerous. She flipped her tail once, flashing the white flag of it to warn others that something was amiss here. Very slowly and delicately, she stepped away from us. As she moved into the undergrowth, she faded from sight, just like the newly-striped Zebra in "How the Leopard Got His Spots": "One--two--three! And where's your breakfast?"
So we eventually got back to the stone shelter and sat down on the bench to have a drink of water. Once again I heard that crackling of steps in the undergrowth. Oh, I thought, maybe that deer has come over this way. But the deer that came into sight was no gentle doe. He also stopped in his tracks and stared at us, but he wasn't a bit scared. He actually stamped his hooves as he stepped toward us, in a clear attempt to intimidate. Then he SNORTED loudly and repeatedly at us. He didn't flip his tail once, but lashed it around as if infuriated. He was trying to run us off his property. When we just held still, he finally went off in a huff. "The nerve of some people!" This performance would have had more effect if he'd had antlers, but for a young'un, he had the basic idea.
Here's a fun thing that happened on our trip to the lake. At the humid, mosquitoey end of our hiking loop, I heard a crackling in the brush and spotted a deer. She was a lovely fallow color. She froze, staring at us, with her big ears spread wide. We held still too (which took some self-control with the mosquitoes biting!), so she wasn't entirely sure if we were dangerous. She flipped her tail once, flashing the white flag of it to warn others that something was amiss here. Very slowly and delicately, she stepped away from us. As she moved into the undergrowth, she faded from sight, just like the newly-striped Zebra in "How the Leopard Got His Spots": "One--two--three! And where's your breakfast?"
So we eventually got back to the stone shelter and sat down on the bench to have a drink of water. Once again I heard that crackling of steps in the undergrowth. Oh, I thought, maybe that deer has come over this way. But the deer that came into sight was no gentle doe. He also stopped in his tracks and stared at us, but he wasn't a bit scared. He actually stamped his hooves as he stepped toward us, in a clear attempt to intimidate. Then he SNORTED loudly and repeatedly at us. He didn't flip his tail once, but lashed it around as if infuriated. He was trying to run us off his property. When we just held still, he finally went off in a huff. "The nerve of some people!" This performance would have had more effect if he'd had antlers, but for a young'un, he had the basic idea.
