Looking for a Fox

And Found Two.

While walking Jett, a neighbor waved me over.  

Their neighbor had caught a fox by their porch.

 

 

We took a look.  He gave a little bark-like sound as we approached but otherwise he was rather calm about the whole thing.

He and Jett looked each other other, but neither growled nor barked at the other, nor were they aggressive. 

Then I noticed some movement. To the right of the house was another trap.

Turned out the neighbor had actually caught two foxes. 

This one was rather cute as well, and maintained eye contact the whole time we looked him over.

 I expect they will get dropped off at the nature preserve or released elsewhere.

Lots of wildlife is moving about this spring.

False Spring Hath Sprung

Today was a lovely day for early March.

Temperatures reached a high of 60 degrees, which is all sorts of unusual and highly welcome after the 30s last week.

Spring fever struck both kids and the dog as all three went gallivanting around outside sans coats, which while usual for the dog, has not been the case for the kids for months and it showed.

A light spot of warm rain is falling now.

This is all just a sucker play on Mother Nature's part, there's going to be at least one more snowfall and a cold snap before we hit true spring.

Jett And The Beautiful Day

Not a cloud in the sky, and calm winds and it was warm so of course I wasn't scheduled to fly today, unlike yesterday when i was scrapping frost off the plane.

Instead we did family things, including a nice long walk to a local park as the weather was finally awesome. No jackets needed.

Jett enjoyed his time outside immensely.

First we took him for a nice long walk all around the neighborhood and walked him there and played some ball with him as Leah climbed all over the playground.

It appeared that the entire neighborhood had emerged from hibernation - people and dogs alike all walked the streets to enjoy the sun.

Jett played with multiple dogs and had a grand time.

He also got to bark at squirrels.

To cap off a perfect day for Jett, he actually caught a squirrel by outrunning it and catching it on our lawn. He gave it a few shakes, and the squirrel gave a squirrel chittering yell and Jett let it go. The squirrel then was limping away wondering what was the license of the truck that had just hit him.

That's one squirrel at least that will think twice about hanging out in our yard teasing Jett through the windows.

When Your Wife Says You're Rakishly Handsome

What she really means is: "Pick up a rake and do the yard spring cleaning."

Aching now I am, yes.

The yard is looking better but there's much more to do out there.