Bye-bye corn...

...hello kits, sheep, and snakes?!

Fall arrived with a vengence, very early and more Winter-ish than Fall, but hey! I love the cold, dreary days, so I'm a happy girl!

After a few nights of freeze and frost, our farmer decided to harvest the corn - probably a wise move on his part since many of the other corn fields look as if they were totally destroyed by the frost...

I watched them all day - it was kind of sad, but thrilling as well... As previously blogged, the kids and I had enjoyed watching it grow all summer. To go from bare field to towering stalks was sort of the story of our summer and a bizarre analogy of our lives and Steven's current vacation - he left at the start of the summer, we grew and explored in separate locations, and now THIS separation is coming, finally, to an end...

I think we are ready.

And there have been more new experiences in our rural lives out here -

A lady had told me the story one night of how her cat had been molested that afternoon by a baby fox in her yard on Post. The VERY next afternoon - I saw several of them myself, 1 darted across the road in front of me and the others have been out here near the fields and forests - they are so CUTE! They have small-ish bodies, but these HUGE bushy tails bigger than their bodies. They have small heads with pointy ears and very large eyes...

Then I started hearing the snake stories - I guess the weather has confused them and so they are looking to hibernate and these cozy little houses of ours must seem like a good idea...not poisonous, but 1 totally freaked a neighbor out - in her house where her baby was on the floor and my Natalie, next door, came out to one on her doormat...Uh? Natalie? Just where DID that ONE slither off to, anyways?

Last week, I kept hearing geese honking all day and night - I wonder where they were coming from? I hadn't seen any livestock other than horses out HERE? Until a few days later, when I was in the bathroom and heard a dog barking and very loud BAAH's.... SERIOUSLY! There was a herd of sheep AND a shepherd AND an actual sheep dog crossing the furthest field to the forest...

It was SO cool!!! I took pics , but they were pretty far away - the kids couldn't even see them.

I'm SUCH a city girl!.....LOL :D