Well, I’m certainly glad I was able to finish clearing out that old tire planter when I did, because it started raining that night, and it’s been raining on and off ever since.
So much so, we even found mushrooms starting to grow on one of the maple logs stacked behind the house!
Continue readingOur new addition has been thoroughly accepted by the other indoor cats.
It’s looking like our temporary situation is becoming permanent…
Whenever I am able to go to the beach, I keep an eye out for interesting things. Especially for things for my daughter’s collection. We sometimes joke about her habit of picking up random things she finds on the ground! :-D
The last time I was at the beach, I made an unusual find that I thought was funny enough to take a picture to send to her.
I wasn’t actually going to pick it up, though…
Continue readingI made one of my rare excursions to the second floor to talk to my daughter. While there, I found myself admiring one of her tiny paintings.
So she gave it to me.
I now have a little friend, watching over me as I type.
I love her robots!
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I was finally able to get back to working on taking out the broken tire planter today, and was able to get it finished!
I am so happy to get that done!
This is where I left off, last time.
Continue readingWe haven’t been seeing deer much lately, though as fall approaches, we are starting to see them in the fields as we drive by again.
Once in a rare while, I will see on in the trail cam, going down our driveway and jumping the chain. I haven’t seen any since the gate got replaced.
Until I checked the files, yesterday.
The motion sensor was triggered by this lone deer, jogging down the road! :-D
I also saw something interesting flash by during the night.
Continue readingI was able to walk on the lake shore while in town, today.
Algea has been a problem for many years, but I have never seen it like this!
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You weren’t wanting to make your bed or anything, were you?
Because Grandma is giving me a bath right now.
With the recent rains and the cooler temperatures, I decided it was time to figure out how to burn the rotten wood I had cleared out of the old wood pile.
I had a bit of a conundrum.
The burn barrel was full, along with a bin beside it, but I didn’t want to use it, because it’s so close to the big pile of branches we’ve been clearing out.
The best place do a burn is in the outer yard. After walking around and deciding on the best spot, I hooked up the remaining usable hoses to the one new hose I got. It gave me a total of 150 feet, but it wasn’t enough to reach where I had wanted to set up. I had to set up closer. At least this put me on a gravel base.
I dug out a large metal ring that has been sitting in the spruce grove for who knows how long, and rolled it over to use as a fire pit. Bits and pieces of rusted out metal broke off the inside as I rolled it over that I had to go back and pick up. The last thing I need is to have one of those slicing open a tire. I also found a sheet of metal near the barn to use as a base.
Continue readingI wasn’t able to get back to working on getting the tire planter out (I can wiggle it a bit more, though! :-D ), but yesterday evening I decided to deadhead the spirea by the storage house.
I also cut them back from the grapes they were starting to encroach on again.
As I was doing that, I noticed some dead branches and figured I may as well take them out, too.
And those other ones.
Oh, and there are a few more…
Just a bit more…
The next thing I knew…
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