Did you hear about lots of DEER testing positive with covid...I think it was Iowa or Indiana..
That seems insane.
How many people...let alone POSITIVE people interact in really close contact
WITH WILD DEER.
It really doesn't seem possible.
1. Not until you mentioned it, so I googled . It seems deer have also tested positive in Oklahoma and Ohio, so Iām sure itās just a matter of time until every state sees it in the deer population. I think itās a ādifferent but sameā virus that causes Covid in humans. I didnāt read the entire article.
The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation biologists have confirmed cases of coronavirus in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in the state after taking blood samples this year and last. The finding...
wildlife.org
2. My farrier postponed until Sunday. She was put on 12 hour shifts at the hospital. I think she is just plain sick from being run down, trying to keep her horse clients and work all these hospital hours. Iām not sure how long she can keep working two such grueling jobs. She was already so thin a good wind could blow her away. You bet Iāll be double-masked and keep my distance anyway.
I donāt know what I will do if she has to quit trimming/shoeing as I had to give up trimming nine years ago and nobody else around here is worth a pinch of salt where Jokerās needs are concerned.
3. Weather ā our meteorologists are already winding up about Thursdayās weather, lollol. As usual, my area is supposed to get more ice than snow. My countyās overall elevation is about 260 feet. We sit at the peek of our road which is 904ā and the house sits even higher. Itās a two mile climb with one hill really dicey, lollol. Its only been twice in the first few winters weāve lived here , that DH has had to beach the truck at the bottom of that hill and I had to pick him up on the 4-wheeler.
There never has been winter maintenance on this road, so everyone either learns to drive or ditches. One year I saw a Ford Ranger sitting way down in the bottom of the neighborās cow pasture because they missed the hairpin turn at the top of that iced over hill and went thru the fence, lollol. Itās funny because the truck miraculously stayed upright during the slide and nobody was hurt.
Anyway, we are supposed to see ice first, then snow but nobody knows how much snow and itās supposed to bottom out at eight degrees Friday morning. Ask me how glad I am that the first fifty years of my life were on the OH/PA border, so managing the horses welfare in this weather is still stored on closet shelf of my brain . They have plenty hay, heated water tubs, and get shut in at night. I bark orders and DH lovingly does āthe bobbing dog headā if I canāt do something myself
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