We spent yesterday working at the ranch.  Ugh! to the heat.  Yay! to the ranch.  We took the 5-gallon buckets of tree shreddings I made earlier this year and spread them on the road.  We took three buckets of used kitty litter to spread on the road I call the “mountain lion bait area.”  Hubby had a bucket of rocks for an area we are reinforcing.  In short, everything went toward road bed reinforcement.  With our sandy soil, we have some terrible erosion problems.

We also have mucho encroachment from foliage onto the road, so the green stuff scrapes the side of the trucks when we drive in.  We  begin cutting it back early on, then get too hot when we get half way back (the ranch is one mile deep from front to back).  Those of you thinking ahead at home know this means the front half of the road isn’t too bad, and the back half is getting really bad.  I think I’m going to head out next week and start working from the inside out on the trim back job.  I figure it will take 2 – 3 days of work to get the job done.

I also dragged the motorcycle trailer out there, and we pulled the KLR out of the covered car trailer and brought it back to town.  My motorcycle trailer is a five bike trailer designed for little dirt bikes.  My KLR 650 is really too big for it, but, when I needed a motorcycle trailer to haul the bike from Maryland to Texas back in 1992, that’s what I was able to find and buy in my budget.  The trailer is incredible sturdy, and that’s one thing I like about it, but my back tire doesn’t really fit in the rail, and I long for a more appropriate replacement.  And hubby wants something that will double to haul a Jeep with.  So, we’re looking for a dual axle, enclosed, 12-14 foot trailer with a drop down ramp, tie downs, and removable or collapsible motorcycle chocks.  But, now that I’ve brought the bike into town, I believe I can sell this motorcycle trailer.

This brings me to my post title:  Deer.  We’ve owned the ranch for eight years now, and I’ve seen signs of deer but never the real thing.  Yesterday, I saw THREE.   First, on the way in when I turned the corner to drive up to the house site, a big 8-point buck ran across my path.  Beautiful deer.  Then, on the way out, about half way, two deer ran out of the woods in front of me, bounded down the road and back into the trees.  I didn’t anything but the hind end of the front deer, but that trailing doe was gorgeous.  So.  After eight years of no sightings (hubby had seen some before this), I catch three fine specimens in one day.  Delightful!