Coffee anyone ?

[greybeard]

We have in the forecast (and have had for 2 weeks) a 40% chance, but if you look closely at the map, you can see the yellow dot immediately North of where Houston and Galveston Bay are. I am located within that yellow dot.

 

[Mini Horses]

We are getting rains here in VA. My area getting occasional (very) rains last 2 & next 3 days. Moderate temps. Grass will be butt deep to a tall giraffe! Have gotten about 2" in 2 days and often heavy in air drizzly stuff. Hard to accomplish some projects as everything is slick.

I have had a young fox around the farm for a couple weeks and he likes chicken!! lost 3 before I got things battened down. Been watching for it and double checking all. Last night I go out to do a barn check -- some chickens roost in there, need to change that!! -- and as I walk into the barn, flashlight in hand, I hear a hen sqwacking. Scan with light to see why (I'm thinking snake?) and am facing a skunk!! We were both startled. We both backed up.

Went out, shut door & checked a spot I had seen digging -- yep, fresh again. Small hole into barn at a spot that was block & crete but had allowed spot to run a bathroom drain out. Back inside -- slow & careful -- there it was, in a corner, had eaten some eggs I had not yet picked up. Back out. Waited a few and it scampered out the hole it had entered. Nice. Filled access with solid cement block out & brick inside.

Outside, I scan around with light to see if it has left area -- and there is the fox!! Go in for gun. Back out & it is there in field next door, I go toward and it heads back to woods.

Guess I need to have a regular time outside. Will pick up some larger live traps today and bait with some wet cat foods and old chicken necks. Haven't had a fox around in about 4-5 years. Just hope it is alone but, doubt as it is coming back often! May have kits in a den. DS has been seeing it most nights.

Otherwise -- I am having my coffee and getting ready for work. Probably half a day...need to pick up a couple things from Lowe's & TSC while out there. Want to set up some hot wire at chicken areas later today. Have several solar chargers, all charged and ready! Will help until trapped or SSS.

 

[Bruce]

That is a pretty ugly map @greybeard

We both backed up.

Hopefully it was backing up away from you rather than toward you

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Egg sandwiches and oatmeal for brunch! Plenty of coffee too!

 

[Mini Horses]

Hopefully it was backing up away from you rather than toward you

Yes!! It was a juvenile, less than 1/2 size adult. Still, they come "fully loaded". It's probably the one I have seen evidence of being in my garden. Those little funnel holes....

 

[greybeard]

Haven't had a fox around in about 4-5 years.

I've seen more fox here the last 6-7 months than I have in many years.
Their mistake.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

We have a fox that was getting braver and closer to the house that sits in the middle of 42 acres. Queenie has also grown up and is loose 90% of the time. Have seen her run the fox off (it was close to perimeter fence and she was a distance away when she spotted it.) I haven’t seen it since! I’m sure she will finish it given the opportunity. She was ready to when it went through the fence that evening and hightailed it!

 

[RollingAcres]

No fox here(knock on wood) that I've seen yet but doesn't mean they are not around.

 

[Skiesblue]

We have foxes around but the dogs block them. And the coops are near the house. I sometimes regret that when “the Three Tenors” get going at 4am.

 

[RollingAcres]

I sometimes regret that when “the Three Tenors” get going at 4am

Your morning wake up call