Yeah, that's right. I let my baby play with my pearls and make-up. (Somebody ought to!) I did end up hiding that little treasure chest though. It got to the point where TerraDactyl would wake up and immediately run into my room so she could play with my jewelry/hair bobs/make-up box.
Today was a very weird sort of day. It started out normal. DH was in his office working, TerraDactyl and I were hanging out playing. I heard DH go outside, which he doesn't usually do while he's working, but it's not a totally crazy thing to do. But, when he came back inside DH came up to tell me that there was a deer carcass on our property, down near the creek (and inside our fence line).
He said it looked like somebody removed the meat from a young-ish deer and also cut off its head. Neither of us had heard any gunshots or anything, so either they used a quieter method of killing, or they killed it elsewhere and just dumped the carcass here. It's a pretty isolated area, but not far from our house. That's how DH found it. It was in easy view from his office window. And the red stood out from the brown and green of the "forest" floor.
After some discussion as to who we should call, (DFW? Animal control?) we decided to start with the police and let them decide who else to contact. DH left a message with the non-emergency dispatcher and they responded pretty quickly. We had an officer here within an hour. He had a look around and ended up contacting a state trooper, I think (based on the label on the back of his bullet proof vest).
The trooper brought a metal detector, but they were unable to find a bullet. They decided it looked like someone had cut the backstraps off the deer, so it was probably poaching. The cop had brought up the idea that maybe coyotes had been scavenging. The missing head makes that seem awfully unlikely to me, but I never actually went down to examine the carcass, just took a quick look through the office window.
Anyways, they did take the carcass with them, which was definitely one of our main objectives. We've seen all sorts of scavengers on our property (coyotes, raccoons, rodents, etc) and we don't really want to encourage them to hang out here. All in all, it was just really weird, a bit creepy, and hopefully a one time event. It definitely added to the dystopian apocalyptic feel we've already got going on what with the pandemic and everything.
I'll end this post on a slightly more upbeat note (pun intended). I recently read Patricia Brigg's Wild Sign, which mentions the Hu's Wolf Totem song. It was particularly surreal because my BIL really enjoys the Hu (NOT The Who, classic rock band). The Hu are a Mongolian metal band with some really unusual vocals. Anyway, I was talking with DH during lunch about how odd it was to have two very disparate parts of my life (Werewolf novel and my BIL) overlap when DH decided to re-listen to the song. And TerraDactyl had the BEST reaction to the song. She LOVED it! This video is kind of long, but I decided not to cut it down because there's some great stuff at the very end. So here's our own little music video:
What's that, Mr. Ed? That picture is of TerraDactyl working on her first bite of peanut butter. I didn't give her very much at all. She just licked it off my finger. But it got on her lips and then she spent several minutes trying to lick it off her lips. Good news: TerraDactyl did not have a reaction to the peanut butter. AND she really liked it. Like really liked it. Since it was her first exposure, I didn't want to give her too much, just in case she did react to it. So after a few licks, I cut her off. And boy, TerraDactyl did not like that. She was pretty ticked off when I stopped caving in to her demands for more peanut butter. Angelina books are so much fun! TerraDactyl has fully recovered from her birthday trauma. She was totally back to normal that day. I'm pretty much recovered as well. I just have my lingering bruises from the fall. We also made it back to the do...
Remember that Queen song, We Will Rock You ? There's that line: "You got mud on your face, you big disgrace"? Well, TerraDactyl and I should have made our own music video for it. We went out for a walk, but only made it down the hill to our neighbor's driveway. They had the most amazing mud puddle, and TerraDactyl spent 10 minutes just running from one end of the puddle to the other. I took some video, but unfortunately, I missed the amazing face plant. She must have had her mouth open when she fell, because when she pushed her face up to start crying, her mouth was FULL of mud. This picture above is after I took her coat off and used the inside to wipe out her mouth as well as wipe off her face. So, after a quick clean up, I picked TerraDactyl up and we hoofed it up the hill to our house, where I intended to go straight to the bath with her. But when I set TerraDactyl down to open up the gate, she ran over to the front porch and started ...
TerraDactyl is not quite as tall as she would like to be. So she's been looking into using different tools to help her get what she wants. Usually it's a place mat. She pulls the place mat off the table and whatever was on it comes with. (Yay for the heartiness of Corelle dishes!) She almost always wants the steak knife (of course). But lately, she's started experimenting with stepping stools. I may have to re-think the ingenuity of giving her an empty milk carton to play with... TerraDactyl is also making advances in showing affection. She's done both the sloppy wet kisses and the funny air kisses to family for a while. But she also wants to show affection to her favorite dolls and stuffed animals. She's started kissing them (and rubbing their heads). And of course, TerraDactyl hugs her favorite toys. It took her a few days, but she's finally figuring out how to hug two toys at once (one in each arm). I...
I'm sorry about the deer. The many adorable pictures of TD made that story go down a little easier, though.
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