This time of year, wildlife at the ranch tends to be the invading hordes of insects and those--like the toad living in the laundry room who's the size of a VW Beetle--who are here to eat them. We have crickets performing symphonies in the great room, spiders trying to web us in from inside and outside, enough sphinx moths clinging to the west side of the house that it's starting to list, and their scouts inside...
As I've noted here many times, we leave one gate into our back pasture open so random creatures can come in and graze there. Often we get cows, and occasionally we get horses. But never, before today, have we had both at once! Cows and horses, standing side by side like equals, like brothers and sisters. It was a stirring site.
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