June 20, 2005
Foxes (no fire).
About a month ago me and my girlfriend (who's now my fiance!) went on vacation to Hawaii (Kona) for a week. When we got back we had my fiance's family over for dinner. All of a sudden, in the middle of our dinner, we see a fox sit down right by our window. We've never seen a fox where we live before (out in the boonies, in a really cool canyon in Castro Valley, CA), and now we've got one sitting about 5' from our dining room window. It's got a dead rat in its mouth... it wonders around a bit, then drops the rat by our patio. Seconds later, a baby fox appears from underneath our patio. And then one more, and one more... there's 5 babies total! They come out to feed on what mom just brought home, right in front of us!
Since that day, we had the fortune of getting to watch these little foxes run around in our yard every day for 3 weeks, until they apparently moved elsewhere on Sunday a week ago. I hope they're doing well. They were so darn cute!
In the end it's fortunate that they did leave since we've got a wedding to prepare for, and the patio in our yard (along with lots of other things on our property) is going to be completely redone. The patio that was our little foxes' home is already completely gone.
More photos available here.
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My First Blogpost!
Yeah, I'm new to this. I've been meaning to start a blog since the beginning of time, it just hasn't happened, until now! The next big challenge will be to actually start posting.
Many thanks to Asa for encouraging me to get off my butt and email Jason (who btw is a great guy, not just for setting up this blog for me) and ask him to set up a blog for me. Thanks! :)
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