I live surrounded by nature. I have a 10 acre farm that backs up to a creek & a runoff stream goes through my woods. I have a mommy raccoon that came a few years ago looking for food. Then she brings all her babies each year & they hang around waiting fir this "food lady" to give them their dog food & other yummy handouts. They take grapes & cookies right from my hand.

A possum comes around with them for food too.

I look out my kitchen window & there are usually 3-4 white tail deer....young ones. Have had red fox visit & coyotes are all around. Once in a while a fat wooly ground hog waddles through & I have chipmunks, mice, snakes & lizards (they call them skinks). Have a ton of birds. My cardinals are the most interactive. When their bird feeder gets empty they sit on my porch roof outside my window & "twit" at me.

I especially love hiking in my woods after a good snow.

After growing up in Los Angeles & moving here....I could NEVER go back to living in a city or even in town. Love living totally surrounded by the beautiful & magnificent nature that God created.

We have lots of great trails close by too for trail riding or hiking & have gone hiking with friends.

In Calif I used to backpack into the Sierra's & did one week long backpack into the Teton's in the Rockies but those were all vacation kind of trips.....not living in it like I do now.