What we found on our way home from school

We are surrounded by wildlife in our home in Livingston. It is so beautiful and also educational. We love to see the animals that we are sharing our world with. I love looking out the windows of our home and seeing deer and elk on the hillside. We have had quite a few deer visiting lately, and much to my husbands excitement, some bucks. Both White Tail and Mule Deer.

These two Mule Deer bucks were enjoying our hillside on this day. Our horses are so used to wildlife now, that there isn't much to spook at while trail riding. It is great training to have your horses live with the wild animals!

Coming home from school last week we drove upon this very large and well fed rattle snake. We won't kill the bull snakes, but the rattle snakes are a different story. Even though they do eat rodents and pests, they are much too creepy to share space with! This snake was actually about 2" in diameter, he was very big! I put my foot next to the snake for some size perspective, I wear a 7.5 shoe, this is not a small little guy. I added the last picture, so you can be really grossed out. I live with boys, and they do gross stuff! So Tom skinned the snake and is going to dry the skin and put it on a board. In the mean time it is in a bag in my refrigerator. It creeps me out a lot!