Sorry

It's been awhile since I've added to my blog for which I apologize. For some reason, Google (the "blog"master) won't let me sign in on my iPad and since I use the iPad far more than I use my computer, I'm not adding to the blog. I'm going to have change my ways.

In the meantime, the deer are back in the garden. There seems to be a pattern. The mamas come in the morning and the boys come in the afternoon. I've yet to see a fawn. I know there are fawns as all the mamas are skinny. When we first arrived a month ago, the mamas were definitely pregnant. Right now the all the deer are looking a little shaggy as their fur is somewhere between a heavy winter coat and a lighter summer coat. In a few weeks they will be really pretty (of course I think they are pretty right now!)

The mamas like to hang out in the sunshine on the north side of the house, but the boys like to hang out in the shade on the east side of the house. They never hang out together and never at the same time. Mamas get the morning shift and the boys get the afternoon. If you look carefully, you can see his two tiny antlers. I've been watching this guy since we first arrived and he had shiny "buttons" where he now has antlers. Each day I look for him and I swear you can see the antlers grow. The folks around here say deer antlers grow between 1/4 inch and 1/2 inch per day. By the end of the season, a mature stag will have a rack with 8 to 12 points. I believe this fellow is a yearling, so he will only grow a set of prongs. Yearling males are called "wrongers" around here.

All is good in the mountains.