Our latest visitors

We've had some visitors...

Two days ago we had a visit from this guy, or gal in our garden.
This is a Eastern Box Turtle.


We have no idea how the heck he got in, but he did.


He wasn't alone. just outside the garden were a pair of cohorts. They were both roughly the same size shape and color. The markings on them were all different, but they were obviously all together.

Today, I was mowing the lawn out by the garden and had to mow around one of the turtles. After doing a little research on the web, I'm pretty sure this little lady was laying eggs. I will check it out a little closer later tonight. If in fact she did lay eggs, I will need to build a cage around them to keep predators like raccoons out. As you can see, I'm totally fine with opening my property to wildlife and the preservation thereof.

More on the turtles later.

Now on to the baby fawn I stumbled upon as it was bedding down up against my garden fence (on the outside of the garden)

She's rather cute, don't you think?


Her's a close-up


And now even closer. Oh, the dramatics.


Now, Tracy, Cammy and I are wondering if this fawn still has parents around. We'll be watching closely. If no parents, I guess we'll have to try and help it. We saw a news story just last night about a fawn that was abandoned. Some family took it in and was feeding it baby bottles full of milk. I'm not sure we'll be partaking in any activities that extreme, but I can assure you we will try and get some help for the little guy. My guess is we'll never see it again, but we'll see.

Updates on the turtles and fawn forthcoming.

Okay, by popular demand here's a post

So I haven't posted in a while. Shoot me.

Here's what's been happening...

Work has been busy. I have a ton of estimates I'm working on, several proposals out and several jobs in line. As far as I can tell, people around here haven't quit spending money on their houses. Not to mention, everyone that wants windows knows all about the energy tax credit. There's no doubt in my mind that the tax credit has definitely encouraged people to spend money on their houses. That means work for me. Thanks Barack. Yep, my vote counted and is working for me, unlike the previous two elections. Need I remind you the name of the scum bag that people actually voted for. I mean really, what the hell were they thinking?

The garden was planted a month ago give or take. Then it proceed to deluge all over my fragile seeds. The carrots and potatoes made it well. The lettuce and spinach, didn't come up at all. Not one plant. The beats, turnips and chard were okay. They were a bit thin, but not terrible. Since then, I replanted the lettuce and also planted popcorn and beans. They are up and doing well. Later I planted peppers, zukes, jalapenos, tomato's, cukes, watermelon and cantaloupe. Then it proceeded to deluge on my fragile seeds again. Damn clouds. Again some of the seeds sewed roots and some rotted and became decomposing plant matter. The failures included tomatoes, cukes, peppers and jalapenos. I plan to replant them with starter plants from the local feed and seed down the street.

One of the continuing successes of the garden is the asparagus. last year a couple of the plants that we let grow out at the end of the season produced tons of red berry like seeds that have resulted in tons of nice little volunteer plants. This year I have let several more of the mature plants grow up so I can harvest the seeds and plant a large area with them. The current plants are in an area about 4' by 12' long. I plan on finishing off the rest of the row to make a 4' by 60' patch. That should keep the bathroom stinking if you know what I mean. The only down side, is that it take 3 years for asparagus plants to grow big enough to harvest. I can wait.

Enough about the garden.

Cammy has been great so far. Most of the time she is a perfect little girl and cute in every way. Then there's always "the ten o'clock meltdown". That's when the pitchfork and horns come out. They usually subside within an hour. Sometimes much less but occasionally and less frequently much more.

Grandma and grandpa have been called upon for lots of babysitting, affording me the ability to go make money. Yay.

Along with Cammy came the screeching halt of the restoration of my Datsun 280zx. Actually, it's hasn't totally stopped, but it has slowed substantially. I did get a new battery for it the other day and proceeded to drive it around my property a little bit. everything still seems to work just fine.

Okay, that should get ya up to speed.