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Remember, thats 140/3 = $46.00 per month. In the summer 6 months it can easily be a lot more with watering, washing, etc. ogh, we have pretty large electric/gas bills in the Winter months from October - March timeframe. (Luckily thats when we use less water). Nothing is cheap :-(
For pool service, there are companies that will come fill up your pool at a much cheaper rate. Cheaper than using “city” water. Faster too.
Good Morning Selma.It’s not a nice day today is it. The torts seem a bit depressed about the weather too.
This is Selma this morning deciding whether to get up or not.
Cooler start to our Saturday. Right before our storm blew through, we were in mid-80’s. This morning, 55, but fresh, clear and bright sun. The heavy rains cleaned all the pollen away. A natural powerwashing of everything.
Oh my. . . What a nice space!
Not everyone here has to pay for water. I have my own well and pressure system. But in the cities one has to pay a fee so the city has the funds for upkeep on the infrastructure.
The UK doesn’t have rabies
There’s an outside chance if bitten by a bat that’s flown over from France, but very few have ever tested positive.
And me! Happy belated birthday! [emoji253]
Good evenooning all!
Before I hurt my knee, JoesDad and I booked ourselves into a Bittern Breakfast at RSPB Dungeness.
A very early rise (5am) to get to Dungeness point ... basically a large shingle peninsula into the English Channel... for a 7am start where we were taken round the reserve by a volunteer and a warden to heat Bitterns booming and identify other birds for a couple of hours ... followed by a hot breakfast of porridge, sausage and bacon rolls, tea/coffee, fruit juice and fruit.
Despite Storm Hannah and my leg, we went this morning. Hannah decided to dump most of her rain elsewhere so we ‘only’ had the gale force winds in one of the more exposed parts of the country.
We had a brilliant day, staying on after the guided bit, seeing 45 species including Marsh Harrier, Peregrine and Raven and we heard the Bitterns (you will have to Google it - it sounds like someone blowing over the top of a large bottle)
And we also found a Grass Snake
A Field Vole
And a teeny-weeny baby Smooth Newt that can have only just left the pond it hatched in (they’re a tadpole species)
We’re feeling a little windblown now. Supermarket lasagne for dinner, a bottle of wine and an early night in order [emoji4]
Before I hurt my knee, JoesDad and I booked ourselves into a Bittern Breakfast at RSPB Dungeness.
A very early rise (5am) to get to Dungeness point ... basically a large shingle peninsula into the English Channel... for a 7am start where we were taken round the reserve by a volunteer and a warden to heat Bitterns booming and identify other birds for a couple of hours ... followed by a hot breakfast of porridge, sausage and bacon rolls, tea/coffee, fruit juice and fruit.
Despite Storm Hannah and my leg, we went this morning. Hannah decided to dump most of her rain elsewhere so we ‘only’ had the gale force winds in one of the more exposed parts of the country.
We had a brilliant day, staying on after the guided bit, seeing 45 species including Marsh Harrier, Peregrine and Raven and we heard the Bitterns (you will have to Google it - it sounds like someone blowing over the top of a large bottle)
And we also found a Grass Snake
A Field Vole
And a teeny-weeny baby Smooth Newt that can have only just left the pond it hatched in (they’re a tadpole species)
We’re feeling a little windblown now. Supermarket lasagne for dinner, a bottle of wine and an early night in order [emoji4]
Great update. Took me a few looks to find that Newt.
The UK doesn’t have rabies
There’s an outside chance if bitten by a bat that’s flown over from France, but very few have ever tested positive.
That's interesting. I wonder why not?
Just put our water fountain in place (front garden) having spent way too much time getting it perfectly level! The new pump is working just fine, and after some tinkering and adjusting, it flows perfectly. It’s now connected to power, and an additional 5 bags of mulch (10 cubic feet) spread about.
Put tools and wheel barrow back in the garden shed and noticed a monster piece of wild black cherry tree in the mess. Now, the real issue is that we don’t HAVE cherry trees...and for the life of me, I can not determine where this tree size branch blew in from.
More to follow.
Put tools and wheel barrow back in the garden shed and noticed a monster piece of wild black cherry tree in the mess. Now, the real issue is that we don’t HAVE cherry trees...and for the life of me, I can not determine where this tree size branch blew in from.
More to follow.
Same reason, i think no poisinous snakes. It’s an island that’s been protected from some of these species. Right?
No poison ivy either.
Oh they are fantastic pics. I would not like to come across that snake though. How did your leg do?
We are an island isolated from mainland Europe and it never made it here... and because we have long had extremely strict laws regarding the import of animals thus ensuring it has never reached us.
Also the bats in this country eat insects. Insects don’t carry rabies. To get rabies, they would need to eat or be bitten by something that carried rabies.
Fun and games with the fountain and a mystery to solve. You have been busy!
Yeah, but don't rats carry rabies? Rats brought the bubonic plague to the UK, didn't they? So why not rabies? Rats, ships???
No poison ivy.
Only one species of poisonous snake - the adder - and that is tiny and lives on moorland. You have to be barefoot and really unlucky to be bitten by one.
The island of Ireland has no snakes at all! Legend has it that St Patrick banished them.
The snake is only harmful to frogs... and probably newts. I daresay it would take the vole if it could, but that vole is more likely to end up as owl dinner
Well, count yourselves lucky! We have rabies, snakes, scorpions, poison oak and ivy and many, many other things that make one want to stay indoors with a can of Raid.
