With every new house comes a different wildlife experience. In the Colorado mountains, deer fill the neighborhoods like squirrels in a city park. We also had town bears. Smallish brown bears. I never heard of them harming anyone. But I learned the hard way not to leave my trash outside overnight. In the Denver suburbs, ducks, geese, rabbits, and squirrels abounded. The top of our wooden fence was like a squirrel highway. The abundance of birds in the New Mexico high desert su

I used to dream of life in a remote mountain cabin. Rustic beauty at its best. Maybe some acreage in the country, like Green Acres (if you’re old enough to remember or watched it on TV Land). Actually, Green Acres should have taught me important lessons.  Wasn’t something always broken? The handyman practically lived there. I didn’t intend to live in the country. I’m not even that far from town. Just far enough to be out of the service area for city water and sewer, natural g