Don't worry, Ma'm. Just a routine patrol. Sorry about the poop, those grapes really disagreed with me.
Caught a skunk. It looks nothing like a cat. Raccoon presumably still out there. Of course underripe grapes give you the shits.
Okay, wtf… i try a new post. I attempt paste a picture and the forum freezes. It didn't paste. Cursor just sits there blinking. phone freezes. Cant do anything. Have to close everything to do anything… technology can really sick sometimes….
Since my cucumber plants got ravaged, just planted new spearmint, bell pepper and cucumber plants. Threw a heavy dose of diatamaceous earth around them too. We will see what happens. My tomato plants are turning out nicely.
Garden is lush this year..fruit and berries are going crazy...have my first Kiwi fruit blossoms and just planted a self pollinating persimmon tree ..my 5 new Americauna chicks are outside in the chicken run now and almost all feathered up. Life is good on the homestead. My 3 older Australorp hens are still cranking out 3 eggs a day...the new chicks are 6 months away from laying eggs but will have colorful eggs.
I replenish the flock every five years or so...my last breed of Golden Sex Link hens all passed away this spring but the Australorps outlive most breeds..they can live 7-10 years but only lay for 5 or 6 years...the others only lasted about 6 years. Food for them is really the expense now. I just love fresh eggs and my garden loves the fertilizer I get from them. You should have chickens as much as you bake! I'd gladly trade eggs for cookies if you lived up here.
Caught neighbor's cat in trap. Opened trap and cat flew out at something approaching velocity of light. Think how happy the humans will be when cat missing all night comes home safe.
My two Kiwi male trees showed up by UPS today so the females I have will produce fruit..I'm so happy. I transplanted them this afternoon into pots to get them jump started ..for many years we didn't know we needed males to pollinate but now we have one that started bearing fruit and hopefully all my other ones will follow suit...I have many on my deck frame and one in my garden next to one of my chicken coops.
Another skunk! How many skunks hang out in my back yard at night? The previous two the service took away but they charge for every animal removed. Skunks are not harmful in gardens, the opposite. A lot of what they eat are pests like grasshoppers and other insects, snails, mice, not that they are likely to find mice here. I carefully opened trap so skunk could exit. The skunks might have kept raccoon away. Raccoons are big enough to kill skunks but would get sprayed in the process so might avoid the area if they scent a skunk.
Wow @crandc that STINKS! The last time I saw a skunk, I was playing Dominos. Probably a reason Dr. Seuss didn’t write a book named 1 Skunk, 2 Skunk, 3 Skunk, 4… Hot day here in the Portland area. 84 here at 12:30 pm; supposed to reach a high of 92 later in the afternoon. Full Sun, no clouds.
Had to stop working on the garden expansion. Too hot out. One of these decades ill figure out how to post the pics ive been taking.
If having trouble with the upload feature on the forum... - Use Imgur.com (create account), - If posting from phone it's easiest to install the app - Upload picture to Imgur - Just click the share link from your Imgur post and paste it into your S2 post. The link should look something like this: And return something like this: - If you don't care if the picture is displayed with the Imgur.com header that should be good enough. - If you only want to cleanly display your picture (without displaying the Imgur header, etc) then it's a little bit more complicated but not bad. - Click on the picture inside your Imgur post so that the picture opens up in the app. Then click on the "share" button to copy the picture link into your clipboard. Then paste that url into your S2 post between the img flag (which looks like this): Note the lack of the word 'gallary' in the url, if 'gallary' is included in the url then you probably didn't open the image in the app before clicking the share link And returns this:
