Thank you and you too.Goodnight Carol sleep well, it's all downhill to the weekend again after tomorrow!!
Have a good Weds.
Thank you and you too.Goodnight Carol sleep well, it's all downhill to the weekend again after tomorrow!!
Have a good Weds.
Take careThank you and you too.
Hope it goes well.Trip to the neurologist tomorrow
Depressing news item tonight showing all the plastic that has made its way to the Galapagos Islands
Looks like much of it has been dumped from ships so that they can avoid the tariffs charged for disposing of waste at ports.
I despair of the people in this world sometimes!!
Anyway on that note I am going to say goodnight.
Sleep well and/or enjoy the rest of your Tuesday!
The plantain ones that I bought. I will be checking my post box tomorrow to see if my dandelions have arrived yet. [emoji1]
Between thunderstorms and unblocking downpipes from the gutters, I investigated the nestbox this afternoon
Here’s what it looks like without the front on the box
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And here’s the damage Mrs Bluet-it did to the top of the box with her woodpecking!
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The nest extracted contained Baby B who was partly feathered and emaciated and 3 tiny eggs that didn’t hatch. There was no sign of his siblings; I can only assume that they were so small that Mrs B was able to remove their bodies
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We have a nature tv programme called Springwatch that started this week, they have a camera in a nestbox with chicks about the same age which are much better developed. I think Baby B had not been getting enough food for a while.
So the box is cleared out and available for roosting now. I doubt another bird will nest in it this summer.
I try to pop in as often as I can. Got a few projects of my own going while waiting for hubby to finish with his.
The veggies are still being transplanted to the pasture garden. Decided I want to plant a row of rugosa roses in front of my thuja hedge, so it will be a double hedge. But I want the roses in a raised style bed so I have been shoveling lots and lots of dirt. And weeding my flower beds too.[emoji1]
I may have too many plants[emoji57]
Trip to the neurologist tomorrow
I’ve tried growing plantain it it never takes off. I get seeds from parks.
Same with mallow. I transplant it from parks and buy seeds. This is the first year I have seen a little Mallow plants pop up in the pens and I think I figured out that rodents eat it down to the ground when it gets big enough.
It’s crazy how excited I get when I see weeds growing!
Kathy — Sure you get excited at the sight of weeds. Imagine how much more excited your babies are!
I still can’t fail noticing “tort food” in the streets and parks and everywhere around me.![]()
Might be the reason I took up geocaching as a new hobby — so that I stop looking for weeds everywhere... and start looking for tiny plastic containers everywhere...![]()
Linda — Sorry for Baby B. It’s a nice nest though. Hope a luckier family will take over. And that Mrs B has a better time next year...
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Hope you had a safe trip there and an equally safe trip back.Good morning all. I went to sleep accompanied by thunder and am pleased to wake to none. Let’s hope it stays away today. We had a month of rain in one hour alone yesterday!
I’m off to Bristol in the next couple of hours to pick up son and his gear![]()