Monthly Archive for June, 2007

Your Afternoon Deer Update

We were able to snap a quick photo this morning.  The fawn doesn’t move much, we’re dying to see her get up and move around.  She is alive, we do know that.  Mom patrols outside of our yard on all of the surrounding properties.  It’s very interesting to watch.  So here’s the first photo and I’m sure we’ll have more.

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An Interesting Turn of Events…the deer update

Much of the day was spent trying to get the deer to move on and out of our yard. Mark put together some homemade pepper spray, recipe courtesy of the Division of Wildlife (all the advice they had to offer), and sprayed down the perimeter of our yard. She was out of sight for about a half hour so, with our hopes high, we brought Cozmo outside. Within a few short minutes she was back and ready to go after Cozmo.

Finally this afternoon everything made sense. We left for a hike and upon our return found a baby fawn running besides its mom in our backyard! We feel just terrible for what we’ve done the last three days trying to get her to go away. Since the fawn is now in our yard and two small to hop the fence, we’re going to give it a few days and see what happens. The crazy thing is, this deer doesn’t have any problems with us. She was outside of our fence “patrolling the area” while we were standing about six feet from the fawn. Needless to say, we’ll have some photos to share once it’s daylight out so check back Friday afternoon!

Our Not So Welcome New Pet Deer

I’m not much for writing and therefore don’t typically tell stories on the blog but this one is definitely worth sharing.

We have a deer that has decided to make a home in our yard. This would not be a problem except for the fact that she attacked Cozmo yesterday morning. I am dead serious! I let Cozmo out yesterday morning and then walked into my bedroom to open the window and see Cozmo staring at this deer about twenty feet away from him. Cozmo pretends to be tough sometimes but deep down is a real whimp, I could see in his face that he didn’t want to have anything to do with this deer. He took a couple of steps towards the deer and the deer charged at him and (I swear to God) stradled him and pinned him to the ground!!!!!! I immediately started yelling and pounding on the window, luckily distracting the deer long enough for Cozmo to haul ass to the front door. The rest of the day she stayed in our yard. Mark has thrown rocks at her, tagged her with his pellet gun and soaked her with the hose. Nothing to really harm her but what we would think would be enough to chase her away. Everytime she casually hops the fence and waits for us to go back inside and then welcomes herself right back into the yard. That was yesterday.

This morning I go open the curtains in our living room and there she is, 10 feet from the window, staring at me! Poor Cozmo, who usually rules the yard, is too scared to go outside. Three times today we’ve walked him outside so that he can go to the bathroom. As soon as Cozmo sees the deer, he barks, of course only with the safety of us by his side. The moment he barks, this damn deer charges at him!!!! Yesterday I thought this whole thing was really funny but know I’m realizing we have a real problem on our hands. This deer WILL NOT leave!

It’s been an eventful week for Cozmo. I didn’t even mention his run in with a family of skunks, that’s another story.

Here she is, right at home in our backyard.

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P.S. ANY AND ALL ADVICE TO GET RID OF THIS DEER IS WELCOMED!

Jen, Jarrett & George at the Lake

Our second session on Sunday was with Jen, Jarrett and their dog George. We had so much fun with these guys! I’m not sure how we got so lucky but we have the best clients! These sessions feel more like just hanging out with friends and taking pictures than actual work. We can’t wait for each and every wedding we have coming up over the next few months.

Jen & Jarrett will be married at the beautiful Ten Mile Station in Breckenridge.

Check out a few of the fun images we got of Jen & Jarrett.

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Tracy & Ned

On Sunday we had back to back engagement sessions in Breckenridge and Dillon. We kicked off our day with Tracy & Ned up on Boreas Pass in Breckenridge. We had such a great time and they were complete naturals in front of the camera. We can’t wait for their wedding at Ten Mile Station in September!

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