O Deer!

Well, I have more animal pictures to share today. I guess it’s the city girl in me that is astonished that deer would wander into my yard. It’s Sunday afternoon and I had just gotten Silje, David, and Knut down for a nap, and was looking forward to some quite time in the house, when I passed my kitchen window, and saw a deer by my apple trees. I was just like from a movie or something. I called up to Knut in our bedroom above the kitchen, and told him to look out the window. After looking out, he said “You better go outside and chase it away.” “Why?” I called back. “It’s beautiful.”
“Well, it’s eating all your apples.” He was right. And though I think deer are beautiful in my lawn, I would like my apples to ripen this fall. So I stomped outside, thinking that would be enough, but the thing made me walk towards it, as far as our summer kitchen, before it ran away. I looked to see where it was running to, since it is such a beautiful sight to see a deer leap and bound like that. It stopped by my vegetable garden, not to eat, but to look at me with it’s lady friend. I didn’t bring my camera outside, which I should have. She was a beautiful deer looking back at me. The 3 of us had a staring contest for a little while longer before I sighed, and started walking towards the two of them again. They both ran away, next to the tall corn field, behind the barn, and then safely crossed the highway, and bounded off into the soy bean field.
It’s a shame that beautiful creatures like deer and rabbits make such trouble on a farm, because I think it’s fun to see deer and cuddly bunnies. However, my mother in law said that the rabbits ate all of her peas this year, so she has none to harvest, and that is a pretty serious offense in our book. There’s nothing like eating fresh raw peas right in your garden, and I would be mad too if rabbits undid all of that work. Knut said that if we started having a rabbit problem, we would definitely have to put off getting a dog, so it could chase them away. Fortunately, those foxes that I posted awhile back have pretty much taken care of any rabbits on our property for now. Not that I don’t want a dog. I just think that having a dog and baby in the same year might be a little bit much for me.