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Water, water everywhere
Today I took a couple of short videos of all the water falling around the property. We’ve had a lot of rain. This one is the little creek on the west side of the property. It’s about 100 yards from the house. I’ll upload the other videos later.
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I took Hafiz’s advice
To Build a Swing Hafiz You carry All the ingredients To turn your life into a nightmare- Don’t mix them! You have all the genius To build a swing in your backyard For God. That sounds Like a hell of a lot more fun. Let’s start laughing, drawing blueprints, Gathering our talented friends. I will…
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Baby it’s cold outside!
When I looked out on the screened-in porch this morning, I thought the thermometer had broken. It hadn’t. This is where the wet weather creek runs into the pond. I took it last week, before the big snow. It was around 25 degrees. This is what a passive solar heater looks like. Yep, it’s the…
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Things to do when you come to visit us
You can walk in the woods to this pretty wet weather creek. (The pretty girl, our niece Beth, may not be here to walk with you. Walking in the woods available from late September through mid April.) If you visit from March through October, we can see Onondaga cave. This is the lily pad room…
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As the seasons turn
Dave catching a few rays on one of the last days of summer. Gary picks a 15 pound squash from the garden. It’s a Butternut Rogosa Violina Gioia. (The others were not this big.) And it was 46 degrees on the porch at 7:00 am this morning.
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Snakes on a porch!
Well, it’s just one snake who lives in the rocks next to our back porch. He, or maybe she, is a black rat snake we call Samuel. She/he seems very happy here. If you don’t like snakes, or even if you do, we have plenty of wildflowers and butterflies, too.
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Remember springtime?
Good, because that’s when I took these photos. A tiny bird’s nest I saw hanging from a branch. Prairie violet. A wild american plum tree. It bloomed before the dogwoods. This turkey was in the backyard one morning. Gary took this from inside the house. The shiitake mushroom operation. Each log has been inoculated with…