home at the farm

Yesterday I was released from the rehab center to continue PT / OT with Home Healthcare. But while I was still there Bill, knowing how much I missed our wee place in the country, kept sending me photos from home, a few of them I sketched on this page.

Several weeks ago a raccoon decided to have a nighttime meet & greet with us on our front porch. He also raided our birdseed container. This past week, he invited his family to join him. This past spring we had two newly planted apple trees literally packed with apples — and then one day they were not. We suspect these bandits of the theft as there were no cores or other debris that deer would leave. We think the raccoons took them to store in their larder somewhere.

Our feral cat Egret (named for imitating the white egrets that perch on fence posts and hang around cattle — she hangs around our cow, Sierra) seems to think she is a miniature goat. She is often seen sitting with them on their wooden platform, sometimes on top of one. We’ve even seen her giving a goat a back message!