Super Bowl Sunday - but no football!

Well, it's SB Sunday and I haven't got a clue what the score is; not even sure if it is still on or not.  Sooooooooooo, what else does one do on SB Sunday then?  In our case it was stay inside another day - ice everywhere and coooold outside.
  Oh, I did get out to clean off the deck (finished it from last night if you recall that story) and shovelled the driveway even though I said I wouldn't.  But, it is supposed to get down to 14 tonight so I didn't want it all to freeze over; I did most of it, Mother Nature can do the rest.

We finished putting up the new light fixture over the dinette table.  We started yesterday but I had it all so convoluted that all the twisting and turning of the wires (was one of those hanging lights on a chain) that when I went and put the power back on it popped the fuse.  Come to find out I twisted it so much it cut the ground and the power wiring in half - noticed that when I took it back down.  We tried it again today, took a different course of action (read that wound the chain around the wiring versus running wiring through each chain link as instructed to do - less twisting and turning) and everything worked fine this time around.  That makes three light fixtures we replaced in last two weeks - in foyer, bottom of stairs and the latest one.  They don't look bad - and I didn't burn the house down either.

Like I said - it was/is cold and icey outside but all of our fine feathered friends and our herd of deer need to eat as well - they all have this way of making one feel guilty if you don't toss out a little food.  Three bucks were back again as were eight does/yearlings.  Bucks came after dark so no pics; other deer came during late afternoon so those pics are here.  Tied a record with eight deer at once. 

With watching deer here in the backyard up close and personal, as well as the time I used to spend at Jamestown Island, I have been able to decipher some pretty firm habits among the deer.  First and foremost, the younger the deer (excluding fawns of course) the more likely they are to come out in the open to the corn.  Many times I have coaxed younger deer to the corn, only to then be followed by the older does.  The bucks are another story of course - they don't trust anyone.  As a good hunter knows, the bucks let the does take all the chances - then they MIGHT come out. 

Does are very territorial as well - or put another way, defend their food plot by kicking at, and jumping on, other deer.  Today, one of the large does was doing that and I thought Debbie was going to go after her with a switch.