Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

BIG congrats LS adding to family tree

 

[Thomas]

71F raining now.

Busy work day hurry home afterward hoping to gave mailbox post heavy good staining...didn't happen because of down pour.

Mrs. made butter biscuits for strawberry shortcake tonight so I made BIG pot chicken veggies etc.and sauce for tonight's dinner ...I have plans for the evening.

Enjoy your evening all.

4th time today heavy rains and more to follow soon...might have to pump the garden out.

 

[Thomas]

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Smell of fresh dirt more critters will visit.

 

[jbrumberg]

@Thomas You captured this kind of "crazy rain"/almost hail well. Thanks for sharing.

 

[KilroyJC]

Yes, and some video.

What is a good free video hosting site?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

What is a good free video hosting site?

youtube

You can make them private and just share the link if you don’t want others finding them

 

[rswyan]

@rswyan- It's nice to see a doe with 2 healthy fawns.

Indeed.

It would be much nicer if they weren't eating my redbud trees however.

Thanks for sharing.

You bet.

It appears that it was a good year for deer in many areas in the CONUS which can be a mixed blessing.

No doubt.

Due to the weather I have been spending the day inside doing domestic duties.

Pretty much same here, yesterday and today.

 

[rswyan]

Mealworm feeder filled with another 20, looks like there was 4 or 5 left from yesterday.

Inspected of Nest Box No.3 and it looks like the 3 that hatched out first might have been covering the unhatched egg. Will have to wait a few days to verify, but it looked like there might be 4 hatchlings in there now.

Sat in The Woman's car up there for a while and just observed. Saw the parents come and go from the nest several times, bringing food.

Did not see them at the mealworm feeder, other than a single male who sat on the roof for a while ... until a red-tailed hawk came swopping over the front yard.

The male bluebird beat wings for the wires and sat there for a bit.

Saw 4 or 5 birds after that that may have been bluebirds up on the wires, but hard to say for certain that they all were, given the distance.

Went out to the road and got the mail and stopped on the way back and checked Nest Box No. 4.

A week or so ago it looked like house sparrows had started to build a nest in it. Today it looked like a male house wren had been tossing sticks in it ... to keep other birds from nesting it.

Went to pull all that out and found that the sticks were at the front ... and that a female had actually built a nest back behind that ... and it had three eggs in it !

So I very carefully tipped the whole thing back and closed it up ...

Got hopper and 1 suet feeder refilled when I got back down to the house, also the 2 tube feeders.

Woman currently making Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Tollhouse cookies.

Haircut scheduled after that if She still feels up to it.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Wednesday) morning. The overnight Low was 6.3C (although quickly down to 3.4C @ dawn) and it's presently 9.5C, calm & clear.

Paddock transfer went quickly and the 'MAHW's' daughter finished up netting the hay round after school. I shifted the water-trough as (@ 14yo) she wouldn't be able to lift the trough to empty it. Her Mum was very appreciative that everything had been completed when she got off of work.

It's 'into town' day for mail/groceries, but first it's the monthly Veteran's coffee gathering @ 1000.

I'll need to clean up Paddock #6 (chain-harrow & Z-turn mulch) in a few days. The ground is still very 'mooshy' from the Winter rain I received last week.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

What is a good free video hosting site?

Here’s one I just uploaded. Set visibility to unlisted.