We worked on all our projects this weekend. I finished my staking, so I’m ready to plant, and Mike mowed one last place, and took the mower off for the winter. Continue reading →

A new kind of bird for the farm list – a Snow Bunting
There were several flocks of them eating foxtail seeds as I was staking the field. The first flock I saw had about 30 birds. Continue reading →

A great weekend for mowing and for birds. Continue reading →

A gray, rainy weekend – great for seed cleaning, but frustrating for mowing. Continue reading →

A beautiful weekend – sunny days in the 50s. The ladybugs and wasps were out again – there doesn’t seem to be any way to keep them out of the house. Continue reading →

One of the folks from the birdnet sent a link to a blog written by someone in Iraq – a soldier working in a medical unit. Continue reading →

Another great successful project with the new machine.
We’ve been thinking for a long time of clearing out the woods above Hidden Oaks Prairie – there’s a triangular area inside the loop our path makes that has large oaks, and savanna plants underneath, but it’s a thick tangle of vegetation that we can’t even walk through easily.

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Mike got his new machine, so we spent the weekend trying it out. Continue reading →

A beautiful weekend – the leaf colors are brilliant this year. All the maples in the woods show up against the darker colors of the oaks. Continue reading →

The hummingbirds have finally left, the white-throated sparrows are back and we saw wonderful, colorful spider. Continue reading →