June 28, 2008

5:18 am

 vidently I am destined to not sleep in after 5 am by any way, shape or form. Ok.. .last week or so I did get to sleep until 9am...

At 5 am this morning, the ravens did not show up for once, but there was a ruckus anyway. Becoming awake was rather abrupt. I have a Rhode Island Red hen who likes the taste for eggs in the morning, so she got booted from the henhouse weeks & weeks ago and runs free-range now as I have not felt like butchering her out yet. This morning she was under my bedroom window when she let out quite the squawk!! My bleary eyes kinda focused on a coyote under my bedroom window trying to have chicken for breakfast. My yells moved the coyote off a bit (20 feet?), but stayed his (?) ground until I got dressed and went outside. Then it just melted into the bush.

I then went and let 'Cyrus' out of the house. It was not that he was not doing his job, it was just there was a door preventing him from doing so. I have been putting him in at night so the 'neighbor' does not call me about her garbage from the trailer (which they load all their garbage into all winter and spring), being strewn about. In reality it is probably the coyotes or ravens getting into it. The ravens will be into the back of my truck within 5 minutes if I toss a bag into the back of it. I know it was not my dog who did it, as he had been sleeping in the house when she called, but you cannot tell her otherwise (plus they have their own young dog). A fence on that side of the property is the next outside item to do.

While the magazine is printing, there is not much to do other than kinda-sorta babysit it  (it is an hours long job in itself). So I cut out three sewing projects in the meantime, since I was 'trapped' in the house for awhile. I was up until midnight last night.

It is a bit overcast this morning, but I think the clouds will burn off and it will be a marvelously warm day.

The coyote was a very pretty sandy colour.