Category: Deer and Wildlife
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Hay Crib for the Goats, Deer, Lake at Norwood, Gingerbread and Family pictures.
The goats tend to waste the hay and they will not eat hay once it hits the ground. A compressed bale of hay and alfalfa grass now costs $25 and lasts about a week with our 8 goats. We finally purchased a hay cradle from Tractor Supply. It didn’t take our brilliant goats anytime to…
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Fishing, Deer, Bear, harvesting, and Halloween.
Look at the size and width of this bream. It was caught on artificial bait out of the pond on the farm. He went back to swimming after the catch. The trail cameras show that there is still at least one black bear and a mangy coyote on the property. Deer are also on the…
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We now know the culprit in the garden! Also, melons, new plants, saving seeds, cousins are pitted against each other, and a ‘once in a life time honor’.
The garden culprit was actually a deer who could jump in and out of a very small enclosure. We discovered the nightly visitor on the thermal binoculars. Next year, we will divide the garden in two, and that should resolve this problem. Below: The largest honeydew melon weighted 8.4 pounds. It was large enough to…
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Goat Mischief, baby raccoon, melon vines, and night vision pictures
Fool is our only male kid and he is definitely the most active and curious of all the goats. It was Fool who was tangled in the fence a few months ago and it is Fool who managed to get tangled in the hay bail plastic. Luckily, he was rescued quickly. We knew something was…
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Watermelon, Lake affected by Drought, Trail Cameras
The watermelon vines have not been eaten by deer-so far- and the melons continue to grow. Below: This is what happens to a rain fed lake during a hot dry summer. Before the drought, the water in this lake was at least six feet higher. No tree stumps were visible, and all of the mud…
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Fishing, Cotton, Swimming Mice, Ducks, and Heron
Today was a two fish day, so we headed to Faraday. The pond was beautiful in the early morning. Bruce caught a 4.3 pound bass on a purple worm. Since nothing seemed to be biting after the first hour, Bruce trimmed trees instead. Just below Natchez Mississippi, we were able to get pictures of this…
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The importance of PERSERVERANCE, Lines giving way, and culprits eating plants.
At first glance, you think the moral of the video below is “don’t bite off more than you can chew’. However, if you stick with it, you realize that this video is about perserverance. Don’t know the origin, but it truly says “If at first you don’t succeed, TRY, TRY AGAIN”! The fishermen filming this…
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Pear tree blooming, watermelon on the vines, the Audubon Aquarium, and family pictures from New Orleans, BR, Tennessee, DC, and Wisconsin.
The pear tree has blossoms. The pear tree looks healthy for now and hopefully it will continue to thrive. The watermelon plants that are located outside of the goat yard have many different size melons. If the deer do not descend upon the vines, we may just harvest a watermelon in a few weeks. The…
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Preparing the fields, pumpkins, beans, watermelon, deer, bear, turkeys, coyote, camping, turtles, family pictures.
It is time to disc the fields for planting. The fields are disced to break up the plants and solid ground. When there is a forecast of rain, we will till, then spread seeds. The seed mix that we choose contains a mixture of plants that will grow at different time of the year to…
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Beautiful Weeds, Visitors (wanted and unwanted), Deer, Turkey, Family Pictures!
The white flowers below are known as Late boneset, a species of Bonesets (Eupatorium). Other names are Lateflowering thoroughwort, Fall Boneset, and Late eupatorium. This plant is classified as a weed. The plant type is HERB (although I am yet to find a use for it, other than it may help our bees since it…