Wharncliffes

Crumby has just completed his Wharncliffe blade collection.  The knife in the middle, a Wenger, just arrived from the Ukraine.  The scales are a little shorter than the equivalent Vic scales and the blade is also a little shorter than the Vic Wharncliffe blade. These particular knives have never been easy to come by in these parts.  The one on top is a Vic Sheepsfoot.

Summer Solstice 2015

Mercy Goddess!  Will this day ever end, alas?

Crumby spent the morning tracking down an open circuit in the shed.  Some of the dern lights wouldn't work.  So Crumby figured today would be the best day of the year for fixing an open circuit.  Yet it has been cloudy all day with intermittent rain, thus negating all the light, normal with the longest day.

Suddenly, for the first time in many years, the pastures are sponge like.

This particular gray fox, weary of wet feet, has gone arboreal, about 15 feet up in the live oak.

May is White-Tailed Deer Month at the CB

We are normally afflicted with deer, but this May is the first without a resident dog, so we have a bumper crop.  Yes.  Two does with three fawns have pretty much taken over.  The curious, frolicking fawns come up to the house and look in the windows.

Interestingly,  yesterday, a doe, lacking oats, proceeded to guzzle up a great deal of St. Augustine grass.  OK but she pulled up the grass like a horse instead of clipping it off.  Now there's a bare patch in the lawn.

Meantime a gray fox has now become a regular, filling the small dog niche, much to the cat's consternation.