An Animal Kingdom

The ants have been quieter the past few days, so sleeping has been easier. There is less of that "things are crawling on me" feeling. The first pest treatment will take place this Saturday. Supposedly they drill small pin size holes in the wall, and then spray insecticide or something into the holes. It should be an interesting process, so I'm a tad (just a tad) bit sorry I'll be missing it. Madi and I are heading to my sister's house this weekend to visit and eat in their newly opened Coffee House. Josh is being left behind with the ants and a mass amount of yard work--can you say "bye, bye overgrown trees"?

So I thought I would leave you with some of the other animals that we have been graced with seeing since our marriage and two home purchases. These are all pictures from our Pittsburgh home, as we had a small patch of woods behind our home, and being more urban, the animals just flocked to that little area. Here we have the more tame wildlife, such as deer, bunnies, birds, bugs, and one garter snake sighting. In Pittsburgh, anything was possible when you peered out the back windows.












As a recap, while living in our first home we:

1. Caught and transported 4 groundhogs and 1 rat. The rat would sit under our bird feeder in the winter and eat.
2. Saved 4 baby bunnies from drowning in our decorative pond.
3. Saw at least 3 adult garter snakes and a lot of babies (as they had a nest in our pond rocks).
4. Had an Eastern Milk Snake hanging out at our pond.
5. Saw 1 turkey.
6. Saw deer on a regular basis, including fawns.
6. Had an unknown animal dump our garbage two times.

I will say that I am not a snake person. After the first sighting each spring (which was inevitable), it would become Josh's job to weed around the pond. All other wildlife, I was surprisingly okay with.