Friday, April 24, 2020

Plants

Today I added more fertilizer and water to my straw bales, weeded, cut wintercreeper and honeysuckle off the fences, repotted a lot of house plants, put the rosemary Jennifer gave me into a nice pot, and did a little trimming along the porch. I was delighted to notice that three marsh milkweed plants are coming back strong in back. The yarrow by the porch is going to engulf the hostas and beebalm, I fear. 

Saturday, April 18, 2020

Friday, April 17, 2020

Squirrel

Highlight from yesterday: I spent ten minutes watching a squirrel in my back yard. It was carrying around an ear of corn. It would stop, take a kernel off, hop around to select a good spot, bury the kernel. Then it would get another kernel, and bury it. The squirrel seemed to bury three kernels per ear-drop: It would drop the ear, then bury kernels at the points of a roughly equilateral triangle, roughly 3 feet from the ear. Then it would carry the ear to another spot to bury more kernels.

Monday, April 06, 2020

Rabbit nest





Today I caught a bunny lining a freshly dug hole with grass. Unfortunately, this is right next to my neighbors big garden, where they are planting all sorts of greens. I felt obliged to shoo the rabbit away. If it decides on another spot in my yard, farther away, fine. But, jeez, not *right next to* my neighbors' lettuce.

It's a very cute little dugout. But I moved bricks around on top of it. Find a better spot, rabbit.