Look'in out my back door

[Nebraska]

I stop and take pictures of the sunset when I can. Everyone is different and I am blessed to see them. I thought this one was especially good.

 
 

[Crusarius]

Looks like a calendar shot. Very nice.

[samandothers]

It is very nice with lake reflecting.  Very peaceful.

[sawguy21]

That is a  nice shot.

[Nebraska]

Thank you, yeah even when my world is a little upside down, it can be pretty special.

 

[thecfarm]

That first one one looks almost fake it is so good. Trouble is those only last for a minute unless you take a picture of it.

[Ron Scott]

Great pictures!

[Nebraska]

Thankfully spring has gotten here and 

 I was ready for it's coming.  Top picture is Saturday nights sunset.

 
Last night by the pond.


 

Last night practicing appropriate social distancing ;). I got about 20 minutes more of the fire and the local PA called with a severely bloated feeder calf(over consumption of ground ear corn)... so I cut it short and went and worked on his calf but it was a dandy first fire of the season.

[Crusarius]

I woke up to a frozen truck.

[Southside]

Is there a jealous emoticon somewhere? 

[WDH]

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lookin' Out My Back Door (Official Video) - YouTube

[samandothers]

Yes spring has sprung here!  What is that white stuff around there?  Enjoy your peace and solitude.  

[Nebraska]

 @WDH That song absolutely goes through my head from time to time.  8)  I am a blessed and fortunate individual.
We are supposed to get snow/rain mix on Easter so farming will get slowed down for 7 weeks. So the saying goes...

[WDH]

That song dates me....

[Skip]

You not the only one > :(

[Nebraska]

Not in my frame of reference, I have the album...... : ok well maybe dates us a little.

[Nebraska]

Going

 going!



Gone!


 So long 2020.

I caught the sunset today. I went out to the spot I take pictures from and prayed that 2021 is better for all of us. Hoping for a much better year and thankful to be here. Happy New Year to all.

[WDH]

Thank you for that prayer. 

[Walnut Beast]

Absolutely beautiful and well put 🙏

[doc henderson]

Amen Brother!

[sawguy21]

X2! This is definitely a year to put in the rear view mirror. Well, except for the lovely lady that entered my life. 8)

[samandothers]

That is a great set of pictures even without the reference to the old year.  

I must admit 2020 had some good things about it.  We started a house on or land in Va.  We have a new 5 month old grandson and a blessed with our health and family.  Yes it has had its challenges too and will not go there.  

[Nebraska]

@sawguy21 Ladyfriend?? 8) 8) Now I probably don't see everything you post but I sure can't remember you mentioning  this before.  smiley_clapping Now thats good news to(...   start....I swear I wrote this word earlier ;)) this year off!

[sawguy21]

You don't think I tell you everything do you? :D Thank you, she is the one bright spot in an otherwise challenging year.

[Tacotodd]

@sawguy21  , I also just love the few little bright spots that we've all seemed to have had in an otherwise bleak year!

Happy New Year 2021,  HERE WE COME! But watch out when we all get there folks. In whatever "there" might be!

[Nebraska]

 
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I am truly blessed. Even when I'm not sure which end is up.....

[Nebraska]

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It was as close to perfect this evening outdoors as I will get on this side of heaven.

[doc henderson]

 

 

pic at Gabe's house to show they got the lumber stickered.  He is former Airforce, as is his wife.  A charge nurse in the ED.  He and his son John came and we milled 3 elm logs.  

[SwampDonkey]

A good day spent by all. Was nice here to, but more cloudy, still lots of sun shining.  Got all the garden rows covered in floating fabric and the main garden fenced in early this morning, including a run to the woodlot to make 8 more posts, and was home for Breakfast at 8:00 am.

[WV Sawmiller]

  Actually, this is more like looking in my back door. For several years this old doe has bedded down in this spot about 125 yards behind my house. It is in a deep draw with a spring in the bank that we have tapped into to water the livestock. I dragged a locust log across the draw several years ago as a dam and it has built up into a small flat plateau this deer likes to lay on. It is cool and deep shade and water right there if she wanted it. I am sure she has a fawn nearby but I did not see it. I took this picture from an ATV trail about 40 yards above her. She never even got up when I stopped and took her picture. 


 

[WV Sawmiller]

  Today I spotted this turkey hen about 10 yards behind my backyard fence. She has a sibling or friend about 50 yards further up the hill out of the picture. It had rained and they were turning over bark from my sawing and firewood to get the worms on the surface.


 

[WV Sawmiller]

 

The 4 baby bluebirds have already this raised in and left this box a few weeks ago or the mom and dad would be sending this young lady packing!

I stepped out on the front porch to let Sampson inside and spotted this young doe about 40 yards away on the hillside in my pasture. She was munching happily on an assortment of weeds I probably should have already weedeaten down.

  I think this is the same doe my wife saw out the bathroom window yesterday with her fawn following her. In this picture she seems to have the fawn safely parked back at the nursery somewhere. She raised her head, looked behind her and trotted off. A few seconds latter, Trigger, our big palomino horse walked down this same trail she is standing in.

  Sights like this are a daily occurrence here in rural WV.

[WV Sawmiller]

 

 I was scoping out the back/bathroom window this afternoon and watched this hawk swoop in and light in this tree. I think it is a Cooper's hawk as they are common here and come down to catch chipmunks and squirrels. There are blackheart cherries with ripe fruit all around him and the squirrels are feasting on them.

If you look above the left side of the gate and slightly to the right and up you can see the hawk in the distance. I am not sure if the bluebirds are raising a clutch in that box this year. They did last year. There is a female bluebird sitting on the cable line at the very left edge of the picture but the trees are obscuring the view of her. My wife saw them going in and out of the box 2 days ago.  I was hoping to show the bluebird and the hawk in the same shot. My wife watched our resident doe with her fawn under the big grape vine in the walnut on the right side of the picture.

[thecfarm]

I've had hawks land on the bluebird house a few times.  >:(

[Jeff]

 

 

 

[Nebraska]

 
 Just some hay pictures 

 

 
 

Makes me feel good to have it down. It's even better when the bales are done and off of the field..

[Old Greenhorn]

Man I swear I can smell that field! :D

[Dakota]

View from the cabin deck.



 



 

[Nebraska]

Very nice spot.

[Southside]

Not mine, but I get to enjoy it for a while.  

[doc henderson]

I think I can see you from here, Jim.

[Texas Ranger]

Game camera picking up deer in the back yard in the wee hours, wife's plants taking a beating, but, one of the country things.

[Nebraska]

Ahhh Kansas.   ;)  Wheat harvest and 4th of July. Went hand in hand 80 miles to the North of there.

[Wlmedley]

 

 
Why I can't keep birdseed in my feeders 
 

[beenthere]

Eat more squirrel !!

[Southside]

For those who think Kansas is flat, the pictures don't do it justice. Significant pucker factor working these hills. I bet that's 75-100' to the bottom, had around 21,000 lbs of wheat in the bin each time it's full and the bottom of the bin is over 6' in the air. Makes a grapple skidder feel like a toy. 



 

[doc henderson]

nice!  where were you and do you have pics of the equipment?  

[Walnut Beast]

 

 

[Southside]

Between Hill City and Colby, little town called Penokee. Here is the combine I have been running. 




 

Crossed over a Badger hole today, next pass by I saw a not so happy Badger cleaning out the dirt I had knocked into his den. I left him your card Doc.  :D

[thecfarm]

Not much wheat around here.
Thanks for the pictures.

[Nebraska]

I got given another gift of a sunset while I was working on my mill this evening.

 

 I said thank you...

[newoodguy78]

Wow that's beautiful. 

[Menagerie-Manor]

It's out my back door I promise.




 

[thecfarm]

I bet neither of them pictures last long.  :(

[Nebraska]

Menagerie that is really sweet. The good Lord throws many extremely beautiful moments at all of us. I am terribly guilty of being too self absorbed  many times to appreciate them when they come.  I screwed up a rivnut mounting my new log scale mount  on the mill, I had to run back up to the house and get another one.  On the way back down the hill I had the oh shoot moment. I stopped took some pictures  and remembered to say thank you for the present. The mill could wait a minute.

[Nebraska]

 

 

Not a sunset picture from my back door, just another interesting day found a patient that is slower than I am.  At least that's what the girls told me....

[Old Greenhorn]

Geez Pat, I am scrolling down and see your face, the blue scrubs, and the hands, and for a second I thought your were Doc Henderson. :D Under the right conditions, you guys look similar. But I don't think Doc has any 3 toed sloths for patients. Not even sure they have any in KS and I am wondering how one made it to NE? :D ;D

[doc henderson]

No Tom, not for patients, just for friends!     

[Stephen1]

I spent years appreciating sunsets and sunrises working on the Railroad. I was always amazed at a lot other guys I worked with that sluffed off the beauty of the minute. 

[WV Sawmiller]

Tom,

   Doc did not have any three-toed patients before surgery but what about afterwards? :D :D

[Old Greenhorn]

Howard, that's a question you would have to discuss with Doc, but I am sure HIPPA would put a crimp in the discussion.
 Doc, I have more than three toes (on each foot), so I am sure you can't be talking about me.  I have worked with a lot of guys that exhibit sloth like capabilities. However, none of those guys were anywhere near as cute as that little fella snuggled in Nebraska's arm with his little stuffed buddy.

[SwampDonkey]

I thought it was Jim King resurrected. Only he befriended the jungle monkeys in the Amazon. Yes, I do mean monkeys. ;)

[Nebraska]

Oh I had  a monkey in the room too. Dexter came along as well. The actual patient was a white (more Carmel colored) Raccoon who got neutered.  Jody had recently gotten the sloth and brought it along to show. The towel was necessary as those dudes have some serious claws for gripping trees. I think he is 3 or 4 months old, I can't remember exactly as I was in and out of the room doing other things.



   The other picture the girls took.

[Nebraska]

Here's the monkey pictures

 

  Owner... she's got a monkey on her back.... :D


 Dr Allyssa....hey want to share that apple....

I have a very interesting job some days.  Needless to say work slows way down when the animal show comes to the clinic...

[barbender]

That first monkey looks like he could be a criminal😁

[Nebraska]

Oh he is...cupboard larceny, remote control destruction just general disorderly conduct by what I'm told... 

[WV Sawmiller]

    Our home town vet where I grew up had an office just across the state line in Flomaton Ala. I came in one day and he had all his pictures and diplomas and such down and was scrubbing the walls and cussing a blue streak. Seems someone came in with a monkey with the runs and it got loose and "painted" his whole office. He was not a happy camper!

[Magicman]

A family here once owned a Chimp (I think because I don't know monkeys) who was a great helper on the farm doing odd chores.  It was decided that Cedo needed "fixing" so off to the Vet they went. 

After he recovered they could NOT travel down the street toward the Vet's clinic.  He would go berserk/crazy.   

[WV Sawmiller]

Lynn,

   Do you blame him? Chimps and gorillas are very smart. You can look into their eyes and see the reasoning going on.

    I had a close friend in Albany Ga who visited a local park that had a small zoo of sorts with a bunch of monkeys that were always begging for treats. When someone would throw them a piece of candy or peanut or such the lucky monkey would grab it and run around the cage and swallow it before the others could steal it from him. My buddy walked in with one of those Atomic fireball cinnamon balls. He had it in his mouth to get the candy coating off then tossed it to the monkeys. The monkey who grabbed it ran to the corner and swallowed it right down. Jack said for years after that if he walked past that cage that monkey would see him and start screaming running around the cage. He said that monkey never forgot his face or that fireball! :D

[Nebraska]

 

 

I had my head buried in my project not really paying attention to my surroundings and a little voice said maybe I should look up....

[Nebraska]

I played Marlin Perkins yesterday, 3 fallow deer bucks tuberculosis tested for sale to a different breeder. They were darted with a sedative, tattooed and tested, then a reversal agent administered and 10 minutes later they were up and gone, looking for the does. First time for everything, it was an interesting (very blessed) day yesterday. The process went smoother than I imagined. Owner is a retired pilot, interesting character.
 



 
  Sunrise light on the pond the other morning. 
 

[beenthere]

With these deer, is there concern for CWD in the deer? Some places, such as Wisconsin, the Chronic Wasting Disease has become a huge concern and thought to have been introduced to Wisconsin through transfer of deer between breeders. Don't know if they have a test that can be administered to live animals. Best I know, the disease is only transferred among the Cervidae family (elk, deer, moose). 

[rusticretreater]

In Virginia hunters are required to take their deer to a testing station so yes there is a test for it.  If it is a big concern in your area as you have said, there should be something online about it.

[beenthere]

We have testing stations, but my question pertains to a "live" animal test. i.e. like Nebraska taking test samples for tuberculosis from a live animal. 

Our tests are after the cervid is dead and the lymph nodes in the neck behind the ears are removed for the lab test.


Sampling for chronic wasting disease (CWD) | | Wisconsin DNR 

[doc henderson]

there is a human counterpart.

Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease - Wikipedia

[Nebraska]

Give me a couple days I will see if I can find an answer regarding the live cwd testing. It's by happenstance this came about.  The deer owner was in Veterinary school but quit after the 1st year to become a pilot. He was a classmate to a recently retired Veterinarian in our practice. The area state Veterinarian called me to do the testing and I knew of the owner but had never met him. I didn't know he had been raising fallow deer since the 80's.