A few nights ago I was driving home. At one point of my drive, I come to a "T" and take a right. Straight ahead is a pasture. I pulled up to the stop sign, and looked both ways, when suddenly something BIG moved right in front of me. It was a giant cow (steer, whatever) that was exactly the same color as the grass, scratching itself on the barbed wire fence.
Last night on the way to archery, in the same vicinity, I came over the top of a hill to find an entire line of cattle, 30 or 40 at least, poking their heads through the fence to eat the grass on the side of the road. I'm guessing it was nice and crunchy from the road salt, and therefore delectable.
On the way back home that same night, there were at least 10 cattle in the road. They had squeezed between the strands in the fence and were licking the road. Definitely the salt.
Did you know that cow shit was really slippery, and that a front wheel drive car would do a pretty good job of coating the lower body panels with shit when the wheels spin? Consider yourself informed.
On a less gross note, I saw my first deer on my property last night. It was grazing in the clearing where my leech field was dug. This morning I was woken up by a woodpecker working on a hollow tree. It was loud! I went outside to investigate, and I could hear turkeys gobbling nearby. Pretty neat.
