We had a couple spooky pictures come from the trail cam. We’ve seen these strange exposures a few times before. I believe they are taken near dusk or dawn, when the light is too dim for a visible light picture and the camera opts for the IR option.
October is the time for skeletons, so here is a puppy leg. The reason I have this xray of a puppy leg? She sprained her foot running full tilt across the yard. We needed the xrays to make sure nothing was broken (nothing was). Guess what we get to do this week? Keep a 4 month old puppy calm so her foot can heal. More October nightmares. We keep her on a leash when she goes outside, and provide lots of lap time inside. We were given some anti-inflammatories, but they disagreed with her tummy. Poor kid.
We are slowly getting little Missy to fetch. At first she just liked to chase our older dog Griffin as he ran after his jolly ball. Then I figured out that if I had the jolly ball and the bucky ball, I could throw the jolly ball for Griffin and then throw much lighter ball for Missy. She chases it rather than Griffin! Yay! She doesn’t bring it back so much as drops it on her way to get Griffin as he returns, but it is at least in the right direction. She is amazing at “drop” when I take it from her, which is remarkable because we haven’t specifically worked on that command. Smart pup.
I cut two small holes near the bottom of a pumpkin and hung it up for the hens. The girls are still looking rather ragged. Taco’s feet are caked in dirt because we treat her legs with ointment, then she goes and has a dust bath. There are feathers everywhere, but no eggs. I caught Magic on a nest, but no egg.
Because it is 2020, of course the ghost decorations need to have masks. These were fast and dirty chicken wire sculptures, draped with nylon tulle, and masked up with cotton squares held on with white chenille sticks. I was able to get all three put together in one morning (really rough sculpture)!
Critters and Craft 