The other side

While the front of my house overlooks a typical suburban street, the back has a different aspect.  There's a gravel road in back (right, no fence to fence neighbor back there), which goes up the hill into an area with sparse, likely very expensive houses that are a part of an older development called Fox Hill.  I've heard there are actual fox back there, as well as the deer we've already met, and an assortment of smaller mammals, like chipmunks, squirrels, probably skunks and what all else. 

This morning Pablo and I took a short walk up the road, to the point where I suspect he was having sensory overload from all the scents, and decided to turn around and go home.  It was a slow walk, because there is just so much information there for a dog to read.  Pretty, and I hope we can make it a regular part of our routine.

Visitors last evening

So from now on I will take a camera with me wherever I go, even if it's just out in the back yard to de-pee Pablo.  We had seven deer last evening, fortunately on the other side of the fence, munching the much more expensive landscaping of the neighbor back there.  Naturally, I did not have camera or phone with me.  Pablo of course took up his best defensive posture and barked his tuchas off, and I noted that the deer did not seem to feel threatened by him (don't tell him that), they just took their time and sauntered off, gracefully trotting around the BMW and Mercedes (some kind of convertible) parked in the driveway back there.  I guess those people can afford to have the deer fleet munch their landscape.

Guy across the street told me there are also foxes.  That must be why the neighborhood behind me is called Fox Hill.

You learn something new everyday.

I owe you all something here....

It's been a couple of weeks now since the move.  I got totally over exhausted in the process, then had a wait to get my internet set up, and it's sort of here but not really what I wanted due to the Verizon strike.  So it's still transitional.

But here I am, sort of basically settled into the new place.  Pablo has staked his territories - he has a lot of them - and I still have zillions of boxes to unpack, but the basics are unpacked.  This past week I've been sick with a stomach thing, likely from all the exhaustion and stress and what-all.  So I've worked a little, unpacked a little, and spent an awful lot of time in the bathroom.

Anyway, here are a few pics of the new place.

 
It's small, and cozy, and not quite set up to where it will eventually be, but you get the gist of it. I think it will suit us just fine.  Pablo is considering it home, now.  I guess I am, too.