Morning Surprise

This morning Kaitlyn started for work and

noticed that there were two moose in our backyard. As you could imagine, we both were quite surprised. We don't see moose in Rexburg very often, especially in town. Today was a "Teacher Workday" for me, so I didn't have to be to work at the usual time. I used the opportunity to follow these poor moose around and take their picture, whether they liked it or not! If you are unfamiliar with our back yard, it's not really a yard at all. It's a field, full of mice and probably hobos. The field is fenced off near the back where the field turns into an actual productive alfalfa field in the summer. So, I decided it would be

okay to walk into my side of the field and start taking pictures of the wild beasties (don't worry, there was a fence that separated us). Because the snow was still a bit deep in the field, and me being in my hous

e slippers, I didn't make it too far. Luckily, living in the Ghetto that we do there are a lot of old cars and trucks parked indefinitely in the field. So, I got up on one of them and started taking pictures. Funny, the height actually helped with the pictures. After about 20 min, the moose wandered off into another property and I decided to let them go. It was fun to watch them. Even better, I got to go outside and enjoy the outdoors in the early morning while it was still early without anyone around, I love that!