On Saturday, August 18, 2012 7:55:38 AM UTC-10, gloria p wrote:
> On 8/18/2012 8:15 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
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> > This is Newt heading back home to his barn a few minutes ago for
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> > breakfast, Newt runs off when I approach to put out food, photographed
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> > at 600', a very good looking cat:
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> > http://i48.tinypic.com/nwzmf9.jpg
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> > http://i49.tinypic.com/o074ub.jpg
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> > Earlier this morning, the twins:
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> > http://i46.tinypic.com/zmqf4.jpg
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> > http://www.vetinfo.com/indoor-outdoo...xpectancy.html
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> I love your wildlife. You have the perfect property for it.
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> We have birds, raccoons, squirrels, foxes, ducks, geese, an occasional
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> coyote and skunk, and three times in 28 years a few deer. Last summer we
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> had three large male deer that jumped the perimeter fence and spent a
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> few days roaming, around eating shrubs, ruining one of our fruit trees,
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> and being photographed all over the neighborhood.
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> It's surprising for a fenced suburban community that is now ~10 miles
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> from undeveloped prairie. There has been a tremendous
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> south-and-eastward expansion since we moved here and were surrounded by
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> prairie on three sides.
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> gloria p

Our house that I grew up in was built next to a large marsh which is probably the biggest wetland preserve in the state. Our early years at the house was a constant battle of nature trying to reclaim its domain. The mosquitoes were awful and the frogs were worse. The hopped about in biblical proportions. We'd squish a few every time we drove on the road out. The road would be covered with thousands of flattened frogs drying in the hot sun. It was truly a nightmare. These days it's fine but I can hardy believe that my parents stuck it out for all those years.