Category: Family pictures
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Bee Feeders, Cantaloupe, Honeydew, Jerusalem Artichokes, and Volunteering
The bees have found the bee feeder. (This bee feeder has 1 C sugar to 2C water). We moved this bee feeder away from the back porch and that has definitely helped on “bee traffic”. The Tea Tree Oil remedy on the Hummingbird feeders is definitely dose and time related. After a few hours, the…
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What is a proboscis in insects? Zinnias, Water leak, goats, and family pictures.
Science Tip: Proboscis: Think of a straw! In certain insects, a proboscis is a mouthpart that is tubular and flexible used for feeding and sucking. Moths, butterflies, and mosquitoes all have proboscis. In the picture below, the butterfly’s proboscis is bent at a right angle just below its antennae. Look at the video below. The…
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Growing Melons, Tall Sunflowers, Harvested Corn, and Pumpkin Decorations
Slideshow below: The first honeydew and cantaloupe were planted on July 23, 2023. It has now been a 1.5 months and look at the fruit! These melons should mature at 1-3 pounds. The cantaloupe has stripes and the honeydew does not. The larger melons were the size of a peanut less than two weeks ago.…
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Trail Camera Pictures with turkeys, deer, white heron, hogs, and fawn. Also wasp, goats, and family.
Trail Camera Pictures- Turkeys, hogs, deer, and a fawn. Video Below: Buck, coyote, fox, and fawn. Slides Below: A Metric Paper Wasp is on the basil. This wasp will share its nest with similar species and will reuse its own nest. This wasp prefers to feed it larvae soft bodied insects like caterpillars. The other…
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Watermelon, Tsunami, Night Vision, Caterpillars, and Family
Our second watermelon patch has fruit! This watermelon is a different variety than the melons we harvested in August. The melon will have to get a little larger for us to determine the variety. Guess who looks fine today? Tsunami is no longer limping. BELOW: Night Vision binocular pictures of 1. Two deer in the…
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Goats, Fruit, and Herbs
Tsunami started limping on Thursday afternoon. At first, she would not put her foot on the ground. We decided to watch her and see if it improved before we rushed off to the vet. She seems to be doing a little better, but then last night she could hardly walk. She has not cried or…
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Jerusalem artichokes, melons, Rain, Bees, and School.
Below: These are Jerusalem artichoke plants. They are actually a species of sunflowers. After the plant dies, the tuber is harvested to eat. The tubers are scrubbed, and maybe boiled or baked. They are very mild tasting when served with a little salt and butter. Remember- too much of a good thing may not be…
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Tiny crab, Filter mystery, Watermelons, More butterflies and caterpillars, Saints, and Beach
Calder, Beckett, and Oryne sent us pictures of a tiny crab they caught on the beach. They released the crab after the picture. Here is another example of an exoskeleton. The exoskeleton has to be shed in order for this crab to get larger. Before the hard exoskeleton (shell) is shed, the crab forms a…
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This heat has got to give! Pumpkins, Mud dauber, Fire, and English tip.
Between the deer eating the leaves and the heat cooking the vines, this pumpkin said “I give up”. It weighted in at 28.8 pounds. Look at the different types of Mud dauber nests. “Mud dauber” is a name applied to a number of wasp species that build their nests from mud. Wasp that use mud…
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Watermelons, Cantaloupe, Honeydew, Christmas Cactus, and Birthday
We checked the remaining watermelons. The stems to the two smaller watermelon were totally brown (Picture 1 below). We harvested both smaller watermelon. The larger watermelon (Pictures 2, 3, 4 below) still has a green stem that does not have any give. We will leave this watermelon in the field just a little longer. Bruce…