My woods on the left, a few Octobers ago: A cold January morning. Trees are great, but that's all there is around here. Don't get enough sunlight to grow a decent garden.
Oh, that's pretty Bruce! The property I have was cleared and farmed up until about 1972. So the trees have been growing for about 50 years. They're finally getting big enough to crowd out the undergrowth. The woods gets a little prettier every year. The only brush is alongside the roads, fence, and power lines. If I can keep that under control it will look nice. The downside is trees have to die and fall down, and when they fall in the wrong places it's a nuisance.
Notes: 1. The two little hummingbirds must have moved south. Haven't seen them for 2 days. Volumes of information about the arrival of hummers in the spring, but practically none about their departure in the fall. I just assume everything happens in reverse. 2. What is the neighbor up to now. Starting a pay-to-park lot? Not a bad idea for home football games. I can think of much worse things to happen back there.
Von, I hope so too. It's only for 6-7 games. How bad could it get. Spoke too soon. Both hummingbirds are back! Where have they been?
I'm beginning to think I have a stupid old-fashioned head cold. Coincidental and independent from the tooth problem. I forgot what a head cold is like. I think the last one was when I was going to a gym. That was before we even had goats. The only problem is congestion still causing balance issues. Maybe it just needs more time. Will resume spraying tomorrow anyway. Chance of rain 35% high 94. Will try to start before noon and take two pairs of shoes this time. It will be interesting to see if the hornets are gone. That's the plan today so I'm putting it in writing. It may change depending on weather in the morning. Or my mood.
(8/28/21) Saturday Took off with 9 gallons of water. Finished spraying everything I had planned, and more, including the section I missed last year that you can't drive to. This is a once a year job, and it gets easier every year, provided you don't miss a year. Had to throw dozens and dozens of limbs off the road and fence, but nothing big enough that needed to be cut. Four hours. Unfortunately the lawn needed mowed again. Another hour. European hornets are completely gone. Took down the screen. There was nothing up there. Did they just pack up and leave town? The piece of plywood in the garage is not big enough to fit that opening. Why is it labeled "porch ceiling"? Things were going well, so I decided to finish the last little strip (~250 feet) of fence up near the road, where kudzu is growing over from the neighbor's property. The path to it from the gate entrance was too dense with briars, etc, to get through. Will need long sleeves and pants to get to it. Maybe next time. Maybe next year. Oh yes, the black strap thing... It fits on your chin, not your nose, so I Googled chin strap. Anti-Snore Chin Strap ... Why was it out in the woods? By the way, it was hard to even move, after I got home last night. Ok this morning. So far.
Interesting! A chin strap. Maybe it didn't work and it got separated from the body of the snorer. Be on the lookout for any new mounds in unusual places. What a mystery, an anti-snore chin strap out in the woods of Tim buck too. What did the wild-eyed doe say when she came running out of the forest?
Nancy, I'm in western NYS and used to have a hummer feeder out. It got to be a PITA so I quit doing it 5+ years ago. They would show up around the 5-8th of May, and if I didn't have the feeder out yet they would buzz around the picture window where it normally goes. Even after 5+ years of no feeder, they still buzz around the picture window. That is amazing. They would leave, like clockwork, around the 5-8th of September. I was always curious how they timed it so close, and why I would often see robins in the spring even after new snow fell. What I found is that migratory birds are mostly driven by the change in available daylight rather than temperature. But why yours disappeared, then came back . . . ?
It was probably my fault. These 2 birds likely have a back up source of food somewhere else, because I only put out the feeder 3(?) weeks ago. I messed up their schedule one day by forgetting to put it out early enough. They are back full time now. One is smaller, probably less than a year old. She sits atop the feeder and guards it most of the day now. Here the males leave around the end of August but the females aren't all gone until the first week of October. The last few might be passersby coming through from up north. They behave differently and don't stay around all day.
The chin strap? I found it laying on the ground in the woods, but they sell them online. Looks like Amazon already took the link down to that particular brand. Try Googling: snoring chin strap (I don't think they get very good reviews.) Another LINK Hi Bill... How you doin'?