by Susan | Feb 15, 2012 | Ducks, On the Farm
I went out to check for eggs this afternoon. This was my first clue that the ducks were not tucked away safe and sound in their yard. I followed the tracks and found a duckie super highway. They had been very busy ducks. It didn’t take great tracking skills to...
by Susan | Feb 15, 2012 | On My Mind
These are cute little tracks leading right up to the edge of the house. I’m just hoping whoever it is hasn’t taken up residence!
by Susan | Aug 13, 2011 | On My Mind
Last night was cloudless, a full moon lighting the yard with an eerie glow. As I was falling asleep I heard the “who-who, who-who” of a great horned owl. As I listened to the owl’s lonely call, thoughts started turning in my mind. Earlier in the day, Ginger the dog...
by Susan | Jul 16, 2011 | On the Farm
I was sitting on the porch this afternoon getting snow peas ready to blanch and freeze when I heard a chitter. I looked up and saw these two in Hannah’s bird house watching me. It’s been so long since I last saw them that I thought they’d moved out....
by Susan | Jun 6, 2011 | Odds and Ends
Do you see the eye peering out of the bird house below? Nope, not a bird. It’s our resident squirrel and family. Paul and I sat on the porch today during a chicken coop building break and watched three squirrels scurry in and out of this little bird house Hannah...
by Susan | Apr 30, 2011 | On the Farm
Every day the kitties take up their post at the dining room window where they have a great view of the porch and yard beyond. Today they became very anxious and alerted me to a little thief on the porch. For more than a year I’ve kept my bird seed bucket on the...
by Susan | Sep 26, 2010 | Odds and Ends
I really do enjoy the birds we have here at the house throughout the year. I have a number of bird feeders and put suet out in the winter. Bird watching from the comfort of our warm cozy house is cheap entertainment. Lately we’ve had a visitor of the bird...
by Susan | Sep 24, 2010 | Garden
About a month ago I reported that the deer had found one of my raised bed gardens. I took action to try to protect my lettuce and carrots by surrounding the bed with string and little flags that flutter about in the wind. It seemed to work well until this past week....
by Susan | Sep 14, 2010 | On My Mind
Things are changing. The days are feeling crisper, the garden is slowing down, the geese are flying south, and the humming birds are gone. I didn’t see a single humming bird the entire weekend. The sugar water level in the feeder hasn’t changed a bit. For...
by Susan | Aug 28, 2010 | Garden
Yesterday, I spied this doe in the the garden area – right about where the chicken coop is going to live. As soon as I stepped outside with my camera she went on alert. She studied me calmly as I snapped her picture before darting down the ravine barking as if...
by Susan | Jun 2, 2010 | Garden
Another critter has taken up residence in my garden. Three different times this little garter snake has surprised an “eek!” out of me when I was puttering in the garden. Despite the high pitched squeal I’m fairly certain that he’s more scared...
