I hate/love nature

Animal life in the wilds of Antioch, Tenn.

This is a groundhog, right? This little guy gets around. I see him in our and the neighbors’ back yards as well as across the street in the horse pasture. He’s the size of a very large cat or a raccoon. You can’t tell scale from this crop but you can see the fence behind him here. He’s always sifting through the dirt and grass when I see him. He has a really interesting pattern…

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Puppies puppies puppies puppies PUPPIES

My parents’ goofy ol’ German shepherd Timber got knocked up somehow a few months back, which my parents realized mere days before she gave birth to two widdle bitty baby puppies squeeeeeeee. Oh god, sorry. No, no I’m not sorry. I am FREAKING SQUEEING ALL OVER MYSELF GOOD GOD PUPPIIIEEEEEES!! I got to meet Daisy Mae and Teddy Bear — sisters, despite how Teddy’s got a boyish name and face — this weekend for the…

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The perils of being the neighborhood night owl

Right now (1:30 a.m.) every dog in the neighborhood is going batshit because I just attempted to drag my trash down to the curb for tomorrow’s pickup. They heard me rooting around in my back yard, dragging bags of yard waste toward the gate. First it was the neighbor dogs to the west of me, then that set off the dog in the house just east of me, and then I heard some dogs down…

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I'm posting about my damn cats again yardlust

In which your narrator solves the case of the traveling bird feeder

Upon arriving home from work tonight, I stepped into my kitchen and, as I do most nights, flicked on the back porch light to give the back yard a good once-over for burglars and rapists (you call it paranoid, I’ll call it being extra vigilant). My eyes scanned the yard and I noticed immediately that my bird feeder was AWOL. A-motherfucking-gain! And then I looked directly below where it usually hangs, and saw THE MOST…

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it's true — I'm crazy the family

Nature!

Scene: In pasture by pond, youngest nephew fishing. Me: That horse is about to poop! Youngest nephew: Huh? Me: Its tail is raised! Awww, it went behind a tree. How modest. Youngest nephew: Ew, did you want to watch it? Me: Kinda! Youngest nephew: [horrified expression]

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