LINDA'S LETTER TO HER GRANDS

Good morning,  to our grands!                                                April 18, 2020

I don’t know if it is because it’s Spring, or because God is gracing us with great sightings but we seem to be having the wildlife party around here.

It all started with geese showing up right before Hannah’s birthday.  They actually paraded right in the front yard.  Gramps and I can’t think of a time, ever, that we had a couple of geese come right up the hill from the pond and settle down for a rest in the front yard! HONK! HONK! They were very loud.  I even heard them over the television.  I had to start looking around to figure out just what all the noise was about!

Next came the coyote.  Last Monday I was chatting with my friend on the phone.  I was sitting at the kitchen counter looking outside when here comes a nice size coyote just prancing his way across the front yard.  I don’t think we have ever seen a coyote in the front yard.  I didn’t have the camera, so no picture, but I got up watched him walk all the way back to the woodshed, stop and take a glance back to the house, then mosey down the little hill next to the “bone digging” area. 

Yesterday, early evening, I looked at the pond and I was seeing lots of ripples in the water.  I mentioned to Gramps that there is quite a bit of activity on the pond- maybe the ducks are playing—I proceeded to take the walk down towards the pond the see the beaver!  “The beaver is back,” I said as I returned to the house.  We both went to check him out and sure enough, there he was just having a grand swim, with him even sitting up to check out the grasses.   (I am sure he is thinking, “where do I start first!—so much work!”  I looked over the bridge to the creek side and spotted the trail he has started taking- it is a pretty good path.

We had already seen the diggings of moles over on the far drive.  Last evening, I looked to the side of the house, under the kitchen window area, and low and behold, the moles have made it there.  I just mowed the lawn the day before and had pressed down some raises in the yard.  Now they had made themselves really known by circling all around the area near the porch.  This is war!   Gramps has traps, so we might have to do some trapping!

The elk are parading and partying on the road to the lower pond so we placed some cameras there hoping to see them soon.

Just to keep you informed of the “day and the life” around here!

Love you and missing you all

Gramma Linda

And then there are the hummingbirds!!