As I have said before jackrabbits are very fast and never hang around for any photos. Unfortunately, our weather has been brutally hot and dry. All the pasture grasses have dried up to nothing and this week even the weeds have died. No pasture grass is devastating when you have livestock, but even the animals in nature can suffer from a lack of anything green. Our livestock get plenty of supplemental hay, cubes and grain so are all fat and happy laying under the trees trying to stay cool. We fill the deer feeders so the deer have corn. (The pesky raccoons get their share also) We buy huge bags of birdseed and spread all around the farm for the birds. With everything brown and dead the place to be is my farm house yard. It is lush and green so that is where two pairs of jackrabbits have been hanging out to graze on the grass. They have been so hungry that while I am working and out and about they just look at me and never leave my yard. This would not happen in normal circumstances. Other visitors to my yard while I am sleeping are an armadillo or two, raccoons, possums and skunks. Not crazy about that bunch. The armadillo’s do a number on my lawn. But, as cowboy says they are aerating the heck out of my yard. If you visit you will have to watch your step; those armadillo holes are big enough to fall in!

Got this shot of one of my jackrabbit friends in the pasture by the barn. Notice all the dead grass and even a few cow patties.