Best sign of spring
My little teeny crocus are up out behind the house. The smallest crocus I’ve ever seen, and the earliest flower ever here. I’ve seen them snowed on on occasion, […]
Tag Archives: nature
The squirrel score, and what a surprise
There was another time when the trap was sprung and no squirrel, and no cracker that time. Days in between with no activity at all. So a couple days ago […]
Score: squirrel, 1, human, 0
This old house. A squirrel found his way into my attic, and the only place I see any light along the eave is so small that I can’t believe one […]
Some bamboo is still frozen to the ground
We’ve had a really hard winter. It’s the longest time period that I’ve ever had bamboo laying down, frozen to the ground with snow still on and around it. Most […]
The most fun you can have with a peanut butter jar
A peanut butter jar isn’t usually fun, but it is if you put it outside and watch what squirrels do with it. The smell drives them crazy, and exterminators use […]
It’s hard for wildlife when the ground is covered with snow
We’ve had a ground cover for about 3 weeks now. I’ve been feeding the birds every day and sometimes have a dozen doves on my back porch at once. Plus […]
Winter just won’t go away
Some say it’s just an ordinary Pa winter. It probably is, but it’s the worst one I can remember for a long time, like since I was a kid. It […]
Ice so hard I can walk on top of it…………
And yet leaves lay on top and melt their way down into the hard crust. Although I hate the cold and ice, mother nature many times surprises us in the […]
A menagerie outside my window
The animals are so glad to have food put out for them in the winter and especially in the snow. I had some rolls that were left from an office […]
Those tomatoes I dehydrated………
Oh yea, I’m so glad I dehydrated a lot of them. I love soup in the winter, with a nice hunk of good bread and a piece of cheese. Those […]
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