The buzzards used to hang out in this old, dead tree across the street; and, after the rain, they would spread their wings and dry out. The tree fell a while ago; but, now that our roof is stable … we’ve got buzzards airing out their wings on the roof.
We had huge wind storms today – 85mph up at the airport. It was gusty all day, but it really picked up in the afternoon. I was working and heard wind noise. I looked out the window and saw a wall of brown that I realized was all of the dead needles blowing off the pine trees along the south side of our back yard. Then the trees all started to lay down – the willow first, but then the pines started reaching for the ground. One popped and flopped into the grass as the gust subsided and all of the other trees stood up.
We’ve had a number of snow storms in the past week or two, and the snow is stratified showing each snowfall.
Just in time for the blizzard, a whole bunch of robins are flitting around in our front yard. I tossed some of the chicken chow so they’d have something to eat. Stay warm, little guys!
There are big clusters of these little mushrooms all over this week
I took the Ryobi cutter along the river and found a Ranger-sized path. We got a tree puller, and have started clearing out the smaller trees by popping them out of the ground. Very fun!
We’ve taken the UTV through a few places in the woods that could have used a flailing first … however clipping a hornet nest was still a surprise! Luckily no hornets followed
When we pulled into the driveway today, there were two deer at the edge of our lawn. And then there were three, four, and five deer. Not sure if they started going down the ravine and changed their mind or were coming up when we got home and startled them.
