Category: Deer and Wildlife
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Watermelon, Pumpkins, Corn, and Blackberries
Our biggest watermelon to date weights 13.8 pounds. We picked it today and gave it to Brenda to do a taste test. Brenda just texted pictures in the slideshow below and said it was the sweetest watermelon she had ever tasted and the consistency was perfect. We think this was a Crimson Sweet (Seed source:…
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Yellow Jackets, Turtle update, Back to School, gymnastics
Remember the Yellow Jackets that stung us a few weeks ago. On Friday Craig, Bruce, and Preston waited until nightfall and threw Seven at the mouth of the hole which lead to the yellow jackets’ nest. The next day, there were a few dead yellow jackets and a few still moving slowly. Bruce checked the…
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Goats and Fishing on the farm and Turtles Hatching by Ella Clare
The kids are not wild about being picked up, but they do appreciate getting to eat without the larger goats butting them out of the way. Below Quinn holds Fool (pictures 1, 2, 3, 4). Ike holds April while Quinn holds Peanut (pictures 5 and 6). April and Fool are 4.5 months old. Peanut is…
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Harvesting Pumpkins and watermelon!
Ike and Quinn harvested pumpkins this weekend with Grandad! Now we have to figure what to do with all the pumpkins. The two smaller watermelons both had the little vine by the stem turn brown. In addition, the vines to these watermelon were coming off, so even though they were small, it was time to…
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Oh Dear- A Deer in distress! Flowers, Muscadine, Sunflower relatives, and Family
Bruce used his thermal binoculars last night (9:30 pm) and noticed something on the fence (pictures 1, 2, 3 as we approached). After a minute, he determined that a deer was hung on the fence. We grabbed some towels and wire-clippers and headed to the back fence behind the pond. As we approached, the deer…
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Trail Cameras reveal our visitors: Bear, Bobcat, deer, hogs, turkeys, and egret
We collected the trail cameras cards to review the recent pictures. We think this is PAPA Bear (below) roaming the trails at 7:47 in the morning. We would prefer not to cross his path. Mr. Bobcat is consistently seen on the same trail camera. It looks like the trail camera on Wagon Wheel took his…
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Bats, Goats, Thermal Imaging, Cypress vine flowers, and Butterflies
There was an Absolutely beautiful sunset on August 2nd! The five videos below are very short clips of the bats flying around the lake at the farm. The bats are small and move very quickly, so they are difficult to film. The bats that visit the farm are Mexican Free-Tailed bats. This bat is a…
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Butterflies, caterpillars, Pumpkins, flowers, Watermelon, Birthday, Fishing, and Groundhog
Butterflies were definitely enjoying the heat this morning as they visited all of our flowers. Play the videos below to see the butterflies and their larvae (caterpillars) at work. Just as the caterpillars (larvae) of Monarch butterflies exclusively eat milkweed, the larvae of Gulf Fritillary butterflies eat various species of the passion vine. The plant…
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Harvesting our biggest pumpkin (so far), Pumpkin bread, Biking, Skiing, Armadillo problems, and fungi
The biggest pumpkin we have to date weighted in at 80 pounds. The little vine that tells you to harvest was completely brown and the stem gave way as soon as we touched it, so it was defiantly time to harvest. Now we have to let it age for two weeks with the other pumpkins.…
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Bobcats, Bears, Deer, Pumpkin Harvest, Corn, Watermelon, Beans, Fruit Trees, Flower seeds, and a few Antiques
We picked up the trail cameras. Our bobcat is getting bigger and roaming at dusk. Flip though the slideshow pictures below from the trail cameras. We also found dancing deer, a black bear cub, female deer, and some hogs roaming at night. This video of the bobcat (below) is also from the trail cameras. How…