New Fencing Students at La Spada Nimica!
May 9, 2009
La Spada Nimica is an equal opportunity fencing school (we take anybody) that has trained many fencers over the last twenty years. La Zorra, AKA El Zorro, (the fox), and her "little Zorros" are the school's newest pupils.
The foxes live under my fencing school's pedana (platform for fencing). Quite a few fencing lessons are taken by my pupils throughout each week. During these lessons the kits scurry under the pedana and patiently wait for the pounding of feet and the clashing of steel to abate. When lessons are concluded, they eventually come out to play and carry on as though nothing unusual had ever taken place.
May 9
This family of foxes was first observed on the morning of May 8th, 2009. The following day these pictures were taken. For the next two weeks the kits would come out from under the end of the pedana to sun themselves, explore, and frolic. The vixen routinely stood by with a watchful eye. Using the nearby vegetation for cover, the kits seldom wandered more than a few feet from the end of the pedana during this initial, two-week period .
May 9 — Play With Mom.
May 9 — Afternoon Snuggle
May 9 — Five-Kit Romp!
May 9 — Vigilance
May 9 — Between Saber Lessons
May 9 — La Volpe (After all - this IS an Italian school!)
Another pupil, waiting for her lesson.
A Plea to Homestead Valley Residents.
Got mice, moles, or gophers? Please, don't use poisons to control them! Let Homestead Valley's highly skilled foxes, owls, bobcats, hawks and others help you out with rodent pests! Like the fox shown above (with a mouse in her mouth!), our native Homesteaders are very good at what they do, don't cost you a dime (save those to bail out your credit card companies), and eliminate the danger posed to your family and your family pets by leaving poisons scattered about!
