The stare down before the chase

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The rule of deer

We have set some guidelines when it comes to Shilo and deer. She can chase the deer all she wants on our property, but she is not allowed to run into other yards to chase them. It seems pretty fair, since we have almost a half an acre, but it seems as if the deer have figured it out. Now they hang out just on the edge of the property "line", as if to taunt her.......


Too bad for Shilo!!!


She just had to check to see if we were paying attention!! :)

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Shilo and the beaver dam

We had to take a "house work break" today and get some hiking in. Ashley and james had talked about a beaver dam behind Grammie's house, so we thought we would check it out.

We hiked to the top of the road, and found a clear cut with a beautiful view.


And new little trees planted all around.











And there was the beaver pond.


And there was quite a bit of activity going on. (left behind the skunk cabbage)


Beaver dam


Shilo loved the beaver pond and went for a swim after sniffing around a bit.


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Sun....anyone??

We used some of the leftover bark nuggets to lay in the walkway of the greenhouse. The poor greenhouse is ready to house some great veggies, but the sun hasn't been out enough to grow my starts yet. So until then, the greenhouse, along with the cute little trellises that Jered built will have to wait for the plants to grow.


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Raised bed project

We decided to plant rhododendron shrubs in our raised beds. We cleaned it up last year in hopes to get some veggies to grow inside, but quickly realized the deer would eat almost anything we put there. So we let the grass grow back, pretty messy and unappealing..... But no more!!


We drove down to the rhododendron nursery by waldport and bought 7 (apparently you are supposed to plant odd numbers??) different kinds of rhodies. We spaced them a few feet apart, and it looked pretty good.


We laid down weed barrier; I have hope this project will be low maintenance in the future, but we'll see.


Then we cut holes in the weed barrier and stuck them in the ground.


A few days later we brought home a load of bark nuggets to put around the shrubs, and cover the weed barrier.

It looks great, and a few of the shrubs are actually blooming. It will take years for these slow growing plants to cover the rock wall, but we are in no hurry, I actually really like the look of the smaller plants.


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Halo, the rooster?

My grandma has a cockatoo, and yes, it will crow like a rooster. :)

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Shilo loves the ball!

Shilo hopes if she stays close to the chuck-it, I won't forget to play with her. I didn't think she would get up on the table for it though!!


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Go beavers!!

We are at a Beaver baseball game today, what a great way to spend the afternoon. It is so much more fun than watching it on tv, even though they are not winning right now :(


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King of the neighborhood

This cat lives down the hill from us, but we see him in our yard all the time.

What a bad ass cat!!


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