The deer are on the neighbours lawn across the street from our house. It is the corner house on a 10 house cul-de-sac. The white house at the top of the picture is where the deer lived for many, many years. They lived in the back yard and would come and go as they pleased, they just had to jump over the 4' chain link fence.
It was an elderly lady who lived in the house. She sold up and moved about 2 months ago and moved into a seniors residence. The house was sold and the work began. The house is approx. 60 years old and everything in it was original. Lots of tearing out of old carpets, painting, refurbishing the kitchen and bathrooms and much more. The first thing that happened though was a new fence. It is 6' high and made of wood. The deer came out one morning and lay on other neighbours lawns watching. They soon found out they couldn't get back into the back yard and so they had to move on-to where no one knows!!
The new owner said that the back yard was several feet deep in deer poop!!! He had to bring in a bobcat and spent several days digging it all out. A nasty job-to say the least, although the soil underneath is well fertilized and should help the new lawn that was laid.
It will be strange not to see the deer around here, maaybe they found a new home close by!
I do hope the deer found another welcoming place close by. It was kind of your elderly neighbour to allow them to live in the yard (probably safer than many places), but I can understand the new neighbour wanting to be rid of the deer poop.
ReplyDeleteThat little face on your header makes me smile. :)
They used to live one blog over where the original farmhouse, this area was all farmland many years ago, still is. They got tired of them and put up a much higher fence and that's how they ended up over here.
DeleteWalker just turned 11 months the other day. He's walking around all the furniture but not ready to take that first independent step yet!!
I hope the deer find a new place that does not bother anyone, or leave a yard full of deer droppings.
ReplyDeleteWalker is a cutie.
God bless.
We think he is too, but we might be a little bit biased,lol.
DeleteIt sounds quite exciting having deer so close. We had them occasionally when we had the farm - especially at calving time when we would have one or two mother and baby for a time. Now, having moved into town of course I never see one.
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