It's Another Good Day to Rejoice That I Live on a Mountain in the Middle of Nowhere

I’m deep diving in work and don’t feel very profound right now, so have some pics from my mountain lair.

Let us start with cute foxes.

Foxes bury their food for good eating later. So when they see me working in my garden, they think I’m burying food. I have to dig a little bit, stand back and let them root around so they know nothing tasty is down there. Then I can get on with my gardening.

They are chaos engines and their burrow is rather stinky, but they are delightful to have around except for the part that they eat cats, and I take care of a stray cat, who is now mostly an indoor cat but whatever.

And now, deer.

Deer everywhere.

Deer with very impressive racks.

Deer by the score.

Peeking in my window.

And bear.

Bear everywhere.

Bear also peeking in my window.

I don’t do as much gardening in the yard as I used to because the critters eat everything and I do not have the resources to protect the produce. One night, a raging gaze of racoons went through the entire tomato patch and destroyed it by taking a bite or two out of each tomato and leaving me with hundreds of pounds of partially eaten produce.

Bad raccoon.

Old garden, which is now a wreck because I couldn’t take care of it.

And because critters eat all the stuff, I now do most gardening on my deck.

Look, a random old tweet I saved.

Greetings from the wild.