Fearless Doe

Fearless Doe
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This is the fearless doe who just walks up and starts grazing. I think she is just one or two years old and is usually in the company of an older doe. The two wandered up while the weedeating was going on and then the leader took off and this one went to work eating.
Last Saturday when we took the dogs over we had a confrontation with a doe. We must have been between her and the fawn...she was very menacing, and the same thing happened on Thursday without the dogs. The Doe kept her eye on us the whole time we were near the suspect area. I have to be very careful. I have seen two fawn...maybe it is the same one. Impossible to tell.
The other wild life encounter while mowing was the most bizarre. I was following Stuart as he was weedeating a path thru dense vetch and shrubby vines and berries when I finally was able to look over the bank. There below me was a beautiful pink wild rose in bloom. I took a few photos though it was some distance down and there was no way I could get closer. When I walked about 10 feet farther down the new path, I felt something on my ankle, and I stopped to look down.
My god!...I couldn't even see my sock for all the huge red ants that were swarming my foot. I screamed and started whacking at them with my (thank god) gloved hands, and jumped around until I got rid of them all. It was really gross compared to the little ant swarms I have in my garden. Stuart must have hit a huge ant hill.
He is used to it and got a good laugh out of my distress!
We still haven't seen any big snakes since the little rosy boa when we were tearing down the old shack, but I am sure they are over there and that path seems like one of the likelier spots to encounter one.
I am keeping my eyes peeled.
To add insult to injury I also managed to get stabbed by a huge sack of star thistle that I was filling while Stuart worked. Forgetting what was in the sack, I hoisted it onto my back with a strong flinging motion, and YIKES!
That job of pulling star thistle is really a back breaker, and now that I have spent so much time blogging this am, I won't have to work on it today. best done in the early morning.