A visit from some furry friends

Cheria and I moved into our current home a little over two years ago, and since that time I have seen deer “picking” out in our field on several occasions. Up until today, Cheria had never had the opportunity to see any of our white-tailed neighbors, but that all changed this morning…

I took Houdini out for his morning walk just as Cheria was getting out of bed, and as we were walking along the edge of our long field I noticed a number of deer picking in the pasture field just across the creek from us – eleven of them in fact! As luck would have it, I didn’t have my camera with me so I slowly removed my cell phone from my pocket in order to call Cheria and tell her to grab her camera and head for the back door. But much to my disappointment, when I moved, so did Houdini, and the deer took off into the woods. I called Cheria anyway and told her that, once again, she had missed a visit by the “neighbors”.

After Houdini had finally gotten around to answering nature’s call, we headed back into the house and I sat down at the computer to catch up on my email. I had been working for maybe three minutes when Cheria and Olivia both yelled for me to bring my camera into the kitchen. Apparently four of our “deer friends” had decided to come back for a repeat visit, and this time Cheria got to see them. I managed to snap off just one quick, blurry picture before they headed back into the woods, but at least Cheria and Olivia got to enjoy their short visit along with me.