I still like being in the country!

Do you remember my post? http://narrellfamily.blogspot.com/2009/03/simple-things.html#comments well I still love the country and that hasn't changed but sometimes we are overrun with critters and that I CAN DO WITHOUT! A couple of weeks ago we had a coyote that was getting a little to familiar with our house. We saw him a couple of times, both times he was really close to the house... Not comforting..
Then there are times when we are awakened by the smell of yes ~ Skunks... We've had opossums and raccoons. The raccoon stayed hid out for months and the garbage everyday was scattered across the back yard. I'm sure people wondered because we had post around our garbage cans with ropes tied on and around trying to keep whatever it was out, see for months we didn't know.. then I was carrying the garbage out one night and saw stuff flying out of the garbage and it was in there so Greg finally had closure. I'm pretty sure that had him on the verge of a meltdown trying to figure out what it was! We have squirrels and rabbits that we enjoy watching. We have lots of bird feeders that we enjoy. We've even seen deer at our creek in the front! Now as my weekend post showed we have snakes from time to time and those are not good but they usually are not often. Thank you Lord! Our latest saga started on Monday when our neighbor paid a visit to let Greg know that there has been a fox around their house and it was getting way to close to them on the patio, driveway and when they were outside it didn't run.. hmmm not sure but Greg and I decided that was not a good thing wild things are supposed to be afraid and run... well after deciding we better watch for a few days since the girls will befriend anything with hair. Last night he made his appearance at the Narrell's at the back patio. Greg went outside, he didn't run... looked at him and kind of just kept walking around in circles. Of course I think rabies! HELLO! So after Greg comes in and goes back out he is not going anywhere so the fox had a sad ending but at least no humans were harmed...
Just another day in paradise!
Happy Thursday!