Have we been busy or what? Between Cowboy Action Shooting, shooting for the pleasure of it, reloading, website maintenance, gardening, weeding, visiting with friends, taking care of the horses and pets and much more, time flies and we don’t realize it. Already the middle of July and I’m afraid we won’t have enough time before the winter to do all we want to do this summer! 
In order to catch up but keep things kind of organized here, I’m going to post several entries in a row about different subjects. That way, if one day you want to view a particular subject, it will be easily tracable.
We have a cottontail couple living on our property under the old house. On May 26, while honing our skills at pistol shooting, we noticed three baby bunnies watching us. Of course, we stopped shooting and watched them. They didn’t move and appeared to be quite relaxed. What’s amazing is that while shooting, we were standing about 10 feet from them. Only had a cell phone with us so the pictures aren’t that good.
Now that they’re older, they roam further away from the house and they tend to be more aware of the dangers of wide open spaces. Nevertheless, we often see them along the edge of the tall grasses near the trees. They won’t run if we approach within 20 feet of them but you can see that they are more skittish.
The old one, a Massey Ferguson model 31, is a sturdy machine but it kept needing repairs. After Gary spent two weeks getting the loader on it, he decided that the old tractor had served it’s time and that a new one was coming to our place. The old one was also hard for me to get to a stop. I’d have to stand up on the clutch and brake pedals. The new one, a Massey Ferguson model 1660, is a sweet machine. Runs smoothly and is easy to control. I’m not afraid of driving it. We also got a snow blower for it so we won’t get snowed in like last year!
