I had a nice surprise the other day when my friend, Doris Pankratz and her daughter, Marsha, stopped in to see me while on their way to the Pankratz cottage at Pleasant Pond to check the roads in and out there.
Now that the snow is gone and the roads have dried out they will be returning to their cottage the end of this month and will be staying there until October, enjoying the boating, swimming at Vacationland Estates, golfing and fishing. They have been doing this now for some 40 years and now have made Maine their home state.
Things have been pretty quiet lately in the area. Guess everyone is waiting for the good nice weather to arrive before there is any activity.
I plan to go for a swim soon at Vacationland Estates and to meet up with some of the ladies who have swum with me over the years.
I have seen no deer the past two or three days, but did have an unexpected visitor the other evening when I just happened to glance out my front window and there was a fox, with a beautiful full bushy tail, busily chomping down some of the apple slices and bread pieces I had thrown out for the deer. He seemed to be very particular about which piece he chose, sniffing at them, then going on to the next piece if that one wasn’t right. He stayed quite a few minutes and then suddenly decided he was through and headed for the woods.
I still have oodles of small birds and had a new one show up recently. I hadn’t seen a bird like it in quite a while, so looked it up in my bird book and discovered that it was a titmouse, which is a lovely grey with a slight orange tinge on his breast, and a tufted head. I saw him that one day and have kept looking hard since, with no luck so far.
I still have the cardinals, who still arrive early in the morning and late afternoon.
I wonder if I am having a problem with a coon, as one of my feeders was on the ground this morning and I don’t believe the gray squirrels could do that, even if they tried.
