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LifeofRubie
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My BF is traveling for work this week. Tried to take some cute selfies to send...
Brioddy
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My neighbor sent me this pic saying we got a little rain, but my ducks seem super happy. I can't disagree.
This was a big toad. Back home in Florida only the cane toads got this large, this is a good ole native southern toad.
I like to do a little bit of deer hunting in my back yard, so far all I've managed to catch on cam is a freaking bear. Doesn't stop me from going out there however, and with all the rain I thought I heard something in the near distance, the sound only a fall can make.
Took the dogs for a hike yesterday, the fall colors are starting to come in.
A man excitedly asked me if Brinks was a "French shepherd", and lost all interest when informed he's just a dobie mutt LOL. However I had not heard of a French shepherd and curiously I googled it when I returned home, come to find out he was referring to a Beauceron.
His good boy sit hehe.
This was a big toad. Back home in Florida only the cane toads got this large, this is a good ole native southern toad.
I like to do a little bit of deer hunting in my back yard, so far all I've managed to catch on cam is a freaking bear. Doesn't stop me from going out there however, and with all the rain I thought I heard something in the near distance, the sound only a fall can make.
Took the dogs for a hike yesterday, the fall colors are starting to come in.
A man excitedly asked me if Brinks was a "French shepherd", and lost all interest when informed he's just a dobie mutt LOL. However I had not heard of a French shepherd and curiously I googled it when I returned home, come to find out he was referring to a Beauceron.
His good boy sit hehe.
Pretty chilly out this morning at 37 degrees. I got the horses out early since they were inside all day yesterday with the heavy rain. It was just barely getting light when the dogs and I took a walk and the sun was reflecting pink on the clouds. Really pretty.
I usually love Sunsets better than Sunrise but this morning was pretty. Although I could have used some gloves LOL
I usually love Sunsets better than Sunrise but this morning was pretty. Although I could have used some gloves LOL
LifeofRubie
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I love seeing your Illinois pictures because the Illinois I know is suburbia for days and the kinds of traffic present in nightmares. We are surrounded by beautiful forest preserves (many that allow horses!) and we have the Morton Arboretum just down the street but no matter where you go, you hear highways.
If they have shelter and extra straw they should be fine. They do sell flat panel coop heaters that are supposed to be safe but that stuff still scares me.
LifeofRubie
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All the years I've been in IL, I've never been to the Arboretum! Duh! It was never that close to me but I had heard rave reviews on it from people I know that had been there.
As for the highways, that's one thing we try to be sure we don't hear! lol Our very first home was near Harlem Avenue and I55. You may know that area, living in IL. We could hear the traffic AND the airplanes got to be so fricking annoying! Planes taking off from Midway were so loud that if I was talking to a friend in a neighboring town, we each would have to stop talking because we couldn't hear the other! It would pass me and then I could hear it through the phone by her!! lol Ugh. Even though it takes us longer to reach a main highway, we did that on purpose when we built our next two houses! We didn't want to hear noise!!
Haha, looks like pictures Buddy and I were doing!
"Let me bite your ear!!! Bahahaha"
"Smile for the camera Buddy! Here, I'll give you some of my hair!" Does he look bored, or what!?
Oh, that must be fun! For mom AND you!
Is that a wood burner you have there!?
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I don't know much about ducks, chickens and the like but a house with extra bedding soundsl good. How cold does it get in winter there? I know my brother in N.C. can get a lot of snow but he is also somewhat in the mountains and North of you. Honestly, the bitter cold here is the thing that scared me off of chickens the most. Aside from my husband would never approve! LOL! But I always wondered what I would do with them in winter.
A friend down the road keeps telling me she is getting chickens once her Rotti passes on. He would enjoy them too much! lol I told her I would be down there a lot, getting a kick out of seeing her chickens...and then going back home. 
Drogon
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I used to live down by Wriggly field, then I moved a little farther out right on Harlem. The noise was equally bad in both places. When I finally moved out to the suburbs, it took me a couple of weeks to adjust to the quiet.
Kaiser2016
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...Until the lawnmowers started? Or was it winter with the snow blowers?
Drogon
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It was mostly the summer nights. Windows open but complete silence except for crickets in the distance...Until the lawnmowers started? Or was it winter with the snow blowers?
They make those noise makers that will sound like waves on the coast or crickets, perhaps they should add one with the sound of traffic and car horns, sirens in the distance, an occasional bus going by or a rail car.
Kaiser2016
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The first time I heard crickets was in Washington, D.C. I would have expected them to be calming but it was maddening. They were so loud. They seemed to be everywhere.
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