Barbara had a good question after I sighted the coyote the other day! Yes, the 🐕coyotes hunt 🦌deer, but they can only take the fawns and the sick or wounded deer. The deer use their hooves to fight. Unlike wolves, they don't hunt in packs. Unlike city coyotes, ours are quite wary of humans. There are too many people with guns around here for the coyotes to be calm about humans. The farmers can kill them if they are harassing their livestock, as well.
What a sweet gift!
It behooves me to remember that there are good people in the world! Few of them make the news! We chatted for an hour in the driveway.
🏇Our neighbours are the Millars of equestrian fame. Ian Millar owns Millar Brooke Farm, with his children, Amy and Jonathon. There is a statue in Perth of Olympic equestrian Ian Millar on his famous horse, Big Ben.
The family has had lots of support by fans near and far. There was good news from Florida.
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Jonathon Millar had a horrible fall three weeks ago, while jumping in Florida. He was put into an induced coma, since brought out of it. They reported that he is improving: communicating with facial expressions, hand signals, and speaking. He's begun physiotherapy, as well. He will be moving to another Center, in Atlanta, for more specialized rehabilitation for his brain injury.
Monday morning did not go well. I pushed the start button on the coffee machine in the dark, in order to have a hot cup after I put the garbage out for 7:30. I was so looking forward to a hot coffee! It was a chilly morning, and it was weeping graupel from the skies. When I came back indoors, I discovered the coffee pot wasn't under the coffee machine. Poor JB was trying to clean it up. I helped out. Downtown Ottawa was a bit of a mess, with icy roads. There were dozens of incidents, with cars in the ditch, as well.
I am happy all I have to do is get the garbage out Mondays! We were anticipating the arrival of Aussie Tree Care, to chop up our branches. That was an event!
A beautiful day 
