My day in photos...

Saturday I started shredding/mowing the property...I got 3/4's of it done and hope to finish the rest tomorrow (Then I get to start on my landlords 150 acres, yeah). I hated to do it but the wildflowers had pretty much gone to seed and the whitetail does are starting to have their fawns (Michael and I saw an itty bitty fawn with his/her Mom on our main road Friday). I don't like to mow when the fawns are born as they lay in the tall grass and won't move when your shredding and that means disaster to me and death to the fawns, so not good...

 -Before-

 I started shredding at 10am...bye bye wildflowers :o(

 -After-

 I finished this part of the field at about 1pm...Hopefully we'll get some rain and the grasses will start growing, it's pretty dry.

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When I got home Saturday evening we had a surprise...

 The setting hen had finally hatched out some baby chicks...

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 Nap time...hatching is hard work!

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 Jake considers the chickens his herd. He was so excited to have baby chicks and did not want to leave them. He's actually been very annoying as he whines to go out frequently so he can go check the chicks...Jake would have been a good Momma.

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 I put 18 eggs under her and we ended up with 3 chicks, one didn't make it. Not very good odds but this is her second time setting on eggs and the first time she hatched out 3 and lost all of them hours after they hatched. So far the 2 little chicks are doing well and I think they will make it.

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 Lydia, (oh so sweet Lydia, NOT), has taken over Jake's bed...I'm not sure she needs an XL dog bed but it seems she is sure she needs it, poor Jake...She looks mighty comfy!

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 I didn't completely get rid of all the wildflowers...I just couldn't. These are by the pool and I love seeing them and all the butterflies too.

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 Michael has been sick most of the weekend and not in the best of moods. He doesn't always smile and here he is threatening to throw the goggles at me if I don't stop taking photos, ekk...grouch!!

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 Fred has been out of town working and made it back home tonight just in time to weed the garden. I'm such a slave driver ;o)

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 Yes it was 97 degrees today in the shade...and actually an hour before I took this photo it said 101. Welcome to South Texas...and it's only going to get hotter, yeehaw!

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 It was so hot the painted bunting was hiding in the shade under the transformer singing...

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This evening I spotted two bucks, with budding antlers, lying together in the shade.

It was a beautiful weekend and I stayed busy all weekend but happy I managed a few photos!

Hope y'all have a great week!