This week has been an interesting one. Midweek we awoke at 4am to screaming chickens. Brandon wandered down (in a rainstorm!) and checking in on the chicken coop and found himself faced with a skunk coming out of the coop with the second of his chicken prizes. We'd forgotten to close up the chicken shed that night - to be honest, we'd got complacent, because we'd never seen any evidence anything had been getting past the larger fenced in area. Lesson learned. We lost the two frizzles, which were Brandon't favorites, so he's been a little sad. More than that though we ended up with a skunk living under the compost pile...
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| The skunk....tucked way under there..... |
After 2 days of not letting the dogs out, we called a pest control guy. He came and set two traps, which I thought odd, but okay. The next morning two traps were shut, not one, but two skunks!
The rest of the week went well, busy at work, but a great weekend to look forward to. Our friend Kathy and her daughter Laura came to visit from Cape Cod!
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| Fall has brought the beautiful colors! |
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| On saturday we decided to go to Camden, had lunch in town, wandered and then came to the top of Mt Batty to see the colors, so pretty and peaceful. |
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| Kathy discovered her new passion....photo bombing.... |
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| Kathy and Laura with Camden in the distance. |
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Laura is quite the animal whisperer, so the animals were in heaven, and way too spoiled for the weekend....
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Sunday we went to my favorite festival of the year....Pumpkinfest at Damariscotta! The pumpkins are enormous, and beautifully decorated. This year the largest pumpkin was 1695lbs! The Darling Marine Center students also made a great pumpkin!
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| The DMC pumpkin! |
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| Creepy spider! |
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| Hedgehog, possibly my favorite of the festival |
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| Medusa |
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| Anglerfish! |
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| Laura and Kathy for scale! |
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| Fishing net. |
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