Out the Back Door

The CB features a sliding, double pane, glass backdoor.  It is glass, so most can see through it.  Crumby's Lazy Boy is situated so that Crumby, reclining, may easily espy the goings on in the backyard through the glass door to the extent that his view is not blocked by vegetation.  The vegetation that blocks Crumby's view is wildryes and Turk's caps surrounding the trunk of a sickly pecan cultivar.

There Crumby was on Thursday morning, watching perhaps the last bicycle race he would ever watch, when suddenly a doe appeared, raring up and stomping the shit out of Crumby's widlryes and Turk's caps.  WTF, surmised Crumby, that doe has clearly gone out of its tiny mind. But before Crumby could get on up out of the Lazy Boy to chase the deer off, a gray fox bolted out of the vegetation.  The fox, slinking south at a good clip, alerted Crumby to the fact that he was experiencing not just a botanical emergency, but a zoological emergency, which combined, makes up a biological emergency.  WTF!

Then, lo and behold,  a fawn, probably just dropped last night, staggered out from Crumby's vegetation.  So the fox got too close to the fawn and got attacked by the doe.  For the next hour or so, the doe, alternatively attended to the fawn, licking it or nudging it along to a new concealment spot, or chased the fox around.   Foxy kept coming back to the spot where the fawn was originally concealed in the vegetation, sniffing around.  Finally though, fox got tired of getting chased around and went up in the live oak for a nap.

fox with vegetation between fox and angry doe

crumby photo of this year's deer crop

weary fox