Saturday Critters

Here are a few critters we've seen the past few weeks.  On Thanksgiving weekend we headed out for a walk at a pick-your-own orchard.  This orchard keeps a few animals around to help amuse the families who visit, and a LOT of families do visit on Thanksgiving weekend.  We took the lazy way out this year though, and just bought our apples instead of picking them.

There were a couple of friendly goats in pens.

All of these were close enough that the kids could pet them, or feed them.  And you can bet that gramma made sure hands were washed afterwards!

There were a couple of friendly donkeys.

And some chickens of various breeds, though they were protected somewhat from the visiting kids.

Another day, while out gathering pictures of fall colours, I drove by Hope Haven, a farm that provides riding for people with disabilities.  Most of their horses were out grazing.

These two just seemed to stand there while I watched.  Beautiful horses.=!

And at least one came over to the fence to say hello.

This little fella on the other hand was climbing up the wall of our house.  In early fall we always see a Praying Mantis or two around here.

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Another cool gray day here, and rain has started this evening.  The rest of the weekend will be wet.  I did get out to inspect the Bruce Trail property that I'm Land Steward for, both yesterday and today, so I'll have some pictures of that sometime.  But it was hard going off the trail, slogging through tall grass and weeds, and over jumbles of logs from the plantation thinning two years ago.  Just have to write up my reports now.

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