Temperature: 5000F. Heat index: 15000F. Dumbass me: out shovelling, accompanied by the boldest, least-nocturnal raccoons known to mankind. A little progress. A lot of rock. A very bad raccoon named Grace. A Miff in a box (not on a skid). Text to P.
I’m going to cancel my Arbor Day Foundation membership because I hate trees. Okay, I don’t hate trees, but I hate the osage-orange roots that crisscross the only spot in my yard that works for a bird pond. It doesn’t look like I did much, but I dug from 1630h until about 1845h. I’m making […]
Fool that I am, I decided to do a little digging on the bird pond today. Just starting to do the edges, and P reminded me to take a before shot. I made good progress, considering the rock-hard dry ground, and approximately five million roots, some of which required a hatchet because no way was […]
We went to look at rock today, and I found Arkansas fieldstone that was perfect for my little bird pond. For the record, if you live somewhere that there’s not a lot of rock, rock is expensive! Granted, this is semi-fancy fieldstone, but $250/ton for someone who grew up where you can’t stick a shovel […]
Of course there are photos and video of the hummingbird banding that we attended this morning, but I had to change feeders tonight, so I haven’t had time to sort them, and will post later. In the meantime… Immature male Eastern Pondhawk. I didn’t see a single one of these last year, but I’ve seen […]
This is the fancy flowering okra that C got for me, and it’s one of the prettiest things I’ve ever seen–love the colour! This Tiger Swallowtail did not want to be photographed! I must’ve gone after him three times, and I’m well experienced in taking photos of butterflies, but he’d let me kind of close, […]
I had thought that the big, black wasps that were tearing up the spotted bee balm were Sphex pennsylvanicus, but the Great Black Wasp doesn’t have a pale yellow thorax, so I looked more closely, and they actually do…if it’s covered with spotted bee balm pollen! Monarchs have been few and far between this year; […]
I was beginning to think it would never stop raining long enough for us to set the posts for the trumpet creeper “trellis” (at 8′ high and roughly 8′ across, it’s pretty big to call a trellis), and in the end, I did have to bail the holes Friday after work, but they stayed dry, […]
I’ve been a but lazy about preparing photos. Not that I’ve done much this week, but… Volunteer phlox from the stuff P planted last year. A very small volunteer holly. Too small to tell if it’s American holly, but I flagged it for replanting. C brought me some doods, which I glued to a stick […]
It really will grow anywhere! I understood the volunteer in with my Peperomia, and even sort of understood the one in my tree-whose-name-I-always-forget, but the pregnant onion plant is on the other side of the room, in a hanging pot! EDIT: Oh, yeah…Ardisia humilis.