Combining the forces of my drone and all the towels in our house, I have become a cartographer. Behold my new map of the universe (i.e. our backyard): Even without leaves, it is hard to see the trail through the trees. If you look closely, you can see the towels (20 white rectangles) showing me…
This garlic bud started sprouting and ended up costing us $2000! Helen decided we should plant it, but we didn’t have any flat spots to build a garden with, so we decided to build a terraced garden. I clicked some internet-ed buttons and ordered $1k of bricks and soil which showed up today: In the…
We took a long weekend to the gulf where we met a friendly blue heron: I suspect he/she was a super-model on break, as she/he struck some poses: We also met a crab, who was crabby. Helen decided his disposition earned him a trip to our kitchen, but he was not very cooperative: Helen won…
James the turtle has been given free kitchen roaming privileges. He and his long neck are having fun exploring: White Dog got wet when he got too excited and slipped into the pond: This raccoon also got wet when he got stuck next to the creek in a rainstorm: In other water news, our pond…
We dumped 20 mail ordered tadpoles into our Lilly pond last month, then never saw them again. But magically, this week, some bullfrogs started showing up: Now we need to figure out what to feed them. I asked this guy, but he said no thanks, he was just visiting us on a short term tourist…
We had a brief visit from 3 cute baby armadillos: The forest had a few other interesting creatures this month. We discovered that newts (salamanders) like to play with bees. These two can bite! That little one is only 1/8″ across, but my finger discovered that it has very effective pinchers. I don’t know what…