Happy As A Hog in Mud....

As I do every day, after dinner this evening I headed up to the pond.  Since my lawn chairs were taken (another blog for another day) a couple of weeks ago I just haven't spent as much time there.  But tonight I drove up...  had a good place to sit and could use the car as a photo blind.  Works quite well...

I'm usually there about an hour... long enough that if I sit quietly, the critters consider me just part of the landscape and carry on with their usual evening habits.

I've been fortunate in seeing coyotes, deer, bobcat, numerous birds - both waterfowl and songbirds - as well as the frogs and insects.  

Tonight I saw something big and dark coming out of the weeds across the pond...

At first I thought it was a young cow...  but...  no...

 This guy was HUGE!  A Wild BOAR!

I bet he would come up mid-thigh on me...  and he had to weigh over 100 pounds.....  probably a lot more. 

Most wild critters are scared of humans and will quickly disappear if they see you.  A wild boar is nothing to mess with and I was glad I was clear across the pond from him.  Also that I could watch him from my car.

Now...  about that saying...

 This guy started rooting around in the mud along the bank of the pond.  You can see it's really gummy, really slick and no doubt slimy.  His huge snout just kept pushing up more and more mud...

Then he laid down...  settling himself in ... wallowing around and getting all comfy.

I think he took about a 15 minute mud bath...

Yep!  Happy As A Hog in Mud!

Then...  time to get up and head back into the thicket...

I really don't think the mud bath did much for his looks either.

Boar hunts (along with feral hogs) are "game" animals in Texas....  there may even be an open season all year long as these critters cause a lot of problems.  I've eaten a lot of different kinds of meat, but so far, don't think I've had wild boar.  I'll tell you one thing... this big guy is safe from me....  I'll keep my distance.

By the way...  I'm having more internet server problems... or blog problems... or heck..  some kind of problems.  I haven't been able to comment on anyone's blog for about a week now.  I have no idea what's wrong, but I write my comment... hit the "send" button...  nothing happens.  While I haven't had anything really profound to say, I do miss not being able to comment.  We're thinking of heading out in just a few more days, so I guess I'll wait until we have better service and see what happens.

That's All For Today!