Category: Family pictures
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Pear Blossoms, Pygmy goats love hay
The pear tree is blossoming. This tree may be confused because pears are supposed to lose their leaves in the winter and blossom in the spring with fruit developing in the summer to early winter. With the hot summer and drought, there is no telling what to expect. Our goats love hay. This is a…
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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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Where are the hummingbirds?
Fourteen days ago, we were seeing 60 hummingbirds at the same time on the feeders. Today, we are seeing a total of five. Two species (Ruby-throated and Rufous) are native breeding hummingbirds in Mississippi, although other species also visit Mississippi. The annual migration time is adjusted slightly every year depending on the weather and storms.…
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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…
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Bush String Beans, Cantaloupe, Raccoons, and a HAY Slide!
We got to harvest some of our Bush String Beans yesterday. The bushes started producing beans when they were only a foot tall. These string beans were cooked for dinner and were delicious. (The picture below is only a fraction of the harvest, so everyone did get to eat string beans last night.) BELOW: This…
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Shocking the pond, Watermelon, and Fishing
In managing a bass pond, it is necessary to know what type of fish are present, as well as the size and weight of these fish. This process does not count the actual fish, but rather a sample of the fish are measured and weighed. The sampling information is used to estimate the numbers, species,…
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Turkeys, Deer, Bear, Science Tip and Museum:
These beautiful Turkeys are starting to show up quite regularly on the trail cameras. Trail Cameras from this week: Not much on the cameras, but we are seeing some healthy deer and healthy turkeys. Below: In the last 20 years, the black bear population has expanded eastward from the Mississippi River. There are two subspecies…
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Dahlia, Hummingbirds, and Melons
The Dahlias have started blooming again now that the cooler weather is here. By cooler weather, we mean high 80’s and low 90’s during the day. Bruce took some slow motion and real-time videos of the hummingbirds at the farm. The hummingbirds are going through 32 cups of nectar a day- that is 8 cups…