When are you coming out of the sticks with your recording and where will you place it and what is the song??? I am so wanting to hear it.
No sticks. I've been sleeping with the birds (literally). Trying to kill 2 birds with one stone (figuratively). Got sleepy around 1pm and took a pillow out on the deck. It keeps the squirrels away, and the birds learn I'm not a threat. My bucket list includes becoming the Bird Woman of Alcatraz Athens. You will have to wait. I've had too many things going on lately to practice. It may be like starting all over. Too much pressure now.
Okay, I can understand that. I have been playing some, Playing along with Country singers. I sent someone to mail a package for me. Told them to ship it ups but sometimes they think they know better. May ship UPS or UPS, don’t know. Now they’re gone to pick up a new iPad for me, so I dare not complain too much. Take car,e and practice when you can. PS… I’ve come out of the witness protection program.
Female downy woodpecker. Yesterday (3/19/22). Sometimes she will take a catnap right below the suet feeder, for a minute or two. There was a baseball game against Mississippi State going on in the background. It depends on which way the wind blows, whether you can hear it well or not.
We could have a sleep over here. A pair of Coopers hawks are building a nest in a squirrel nest in my trees behind my house. My daughter got all excited watching them but we won't be able to watch the baby progress much from down here. After her dog I worried we would not be able to control the chipmunk population around here. They are cute but in large numbers they can be destructive. Nature does seem to find a way. We were overrun with rabbits one year till a huge red fox moved in. Rabbits decreased; fox moved away...
Keep an eye out. When the little ones first fledge maybe you can see them for a few days. There were lots of rabbits out in the country here also, until the coyotes moved in. The neighbors started shooting them (the coyotes). I saw the first rabbit in years a couple of summers ago. Ground squirrel tunnels were causing my basement to leak in heavy rain. There is a new cat in town, but she looks rather old. Now if something would just help get rid of the fire ants. They keep getting worse and worse. I counted 10 mounds in my back yard this spring. Twice that many in the neighbor's back yard. Maybe they'll starve each other out.
I tried the harmonica last night. Didn't forget much. It has to have background music, like a karaoke tape, or it sounds silly. It has been raining for over a week. Came at a good time, with all this 800 number calling. I'm not good at multitasking. The contractor may call about starting on the fence repair now. His trailer and pressure washer were out at the farm last time I was there. I'm going to go put new sparkplugs in the utility cart today. I know how to do that. I think.
diatomaceous earth sprinkled everywhere? That might kill the grass too but... And boron mixed with sugar water in shallow dishes? Terro ant poison is the commercial preparation. If they are fat eating, not sweet eating ants, mix it with ground suet? I use it on carpenter ants that come to live in my house. Feed it till they stop coming. The earth I used on tall mounds of our main biting ants. When the numbers decreased, I would stir the mounds and add more.
I’ve been fooling around with the new iPad. There is a learning curve and for me a big one but there’s the internet to help one learn. It’s going to take me a while. Going through my remaining harmonicas I found the Db grossly out of tune. I can’t do anything with it or for it. It goes in the scrap bin or the parts bin. My Ab has some weak reeds. I haven’t played it that much, but in my condition I don’t need a Ab. My G harp sounds weak. Normally I would replace it but I’m a short-timer so no need. My D harp is an old Suzuki HarpMaster but still sounds pretty good. So, I’m missing a harmonica! Where is my C harp? Found it, finally. Was on top of my desk lamp warming up. The C harp is a Marine Band Deluxe, a wooden comb triple sealed against moisture. You can’t buy these in North America any more. When Hohner came out with the Crossover they quit selling the Duluxe here. Okay, thats all from me at this time. I’ve only been rambling.
One can buy replacement reeds for most, I think. They might be more expensive than a new harp though, depending on how rare. I replaced the C reed on my Lee Oskar. Lee Oskar reeds are interchangeable. So you could change a C harp to G by buying a G reed. One of mine needed warmed up last night also. I was afraid it got ruined somehow. Strange how that happens. Bill, do you have a way of reading paper books with small print? Magnifier? Do they make such a thing? .
Boron is a necessary mineral. It is, however, 'poisonous' to the bugs in ants' stomachs which they need for digestion, not to mammals or birds. Diatomaceous earth breaks up exo-skeletons of insects, not soft bodied things. Look at your mulit vitamin mineral bottle. It should provide 3mg of boron per dose. However you should probably not take info from a disembodied person on the internet and do a bit of research.
(3/20/22) Sunday The hardest part about changing the spark plugs was finding the 2nd one...and getting that one out. It was on as tight as the oil filter. After I got home I read horror stories about people breaking them off when they were that tight. You used to always have to fiddle with the choke to keep the cart moving (not running, moving), and you don't now. But the weather was about 20 degrees warmer than last time. It has always run better in warmer weather. Still a problem is lack of power. You can push the accelerator to the floor and the cart just stays at about whatever speed it reaches when the pedal is half way depressed. It's supposed to go 16 mph. Nowhere near that. Can a 2 cylinder engine run with just one cylinder functioning? Apparently it can. The old plugs looked OK. They were Autolite with the factory gap of 0.044 inches (I checked it). I put in Champion RC12YC with a gap of 0.030, exactly as recommended in the owner's manual. Could a difference of 0.014 inches matter? I did find this:"With gap too large the customer may experience loss of power (at high speeds)." It's most likely the carburetor they say. I'm trying to eliminate everything cheap and easy first.
Sorry about the above posts, Nancy. Thought I was on Wide spot in the Road. My, my, that ‘s real bad. Sorry.