BYC Café

[DobieLover]

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I got a headless chicken!

That's a great picture!!!

 

[DobieLover]

Money has the worst reputation.

That's because of the cracks and crevices some of it is stuffed into.

 

[igorsMistress]

Agreed. Also I never sneeze into my hands. It completely grosses me out. I taught all my kids to sneeze into the crook of their arm.

Me too.

 

[Meg-in-MT]

Cool! I'd love to see that.

X2!

 

[room onthebroom]

When we bought our house and started working on it to get it habitable, I frequently saw mice running along the top of the poured concrete basement wall.

Another day I rescued a toad that had fallen into the basement.

I had to replace some shut off valves and reroute some plumbing on the incoming water line and had left some black plastic pipes cut open. I found a garter snake inside one and took it outside and then left for lunch. When I came back the same snake was crawling along the basement wall. I guess it really wanted to be inside the house!

When I was measuring the basement window ROs for new windows from outside the house, I pulled the aluminum siding out from the house and had three garter snake drop out.

Oh, and then there were the dark eyed juncos that kept building a nest inside the kitchen wall when we were gutting the house.

I also found an old honey bee nest between the walls when I tore the drywall off between the end bedrooms.

This is some prime piece of real estate we're talking about here!!

I'd never be able to handle the snakes. I don't know what dark eyed juncos are. I need to look those up

 

[room onthebroom]

Oh my gosh... ADORABLE!!!

 

[CapricornFarm]

One of the great visual wildlife events we get here is when the a particular butterfly descends on the rotting figs. The figs partially ferment and the butterflies, all males I'm told get pissed on the fig juice and start fighting. Some years I've seen 40 or more of these butterflies on a single fig tree.

Irish Butterflies?

 

[ronott1]

Irish Butterflies?

Green with clover patterns?

 

[N F C]

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I got a headless chicken!

Silly woman...you have a headless chicken and a one eyed avatar

Are you by chance located close to where the nuclear bombs have been tested?

 

[CapricornFarm]

When we bought our house and started working on it to get it habitable, I frequently saw mice running along the top of the poured concrete basement wall.

Another day I rescued a toad that had fallen into the basement.

I had to replace some shut off valves and reroute some plumbing on the incoming water line and had left some black plastic pipes cut open. I found a garter snake inside one and took it outside and then left for lunch. When I came back the same snake was crawling along the basement wall. I guess it really wanted to be inside the house!

When I was measuring the basement window ROs for new windows from outside the house, I pulled the aluminum siding out from the house and had three garter snake drop out.

Oh, and then there were the dark eyed juncos that kept building a nest inside the kitchen wall when we were gutting the house.

I also found an old honey bee nest between the walls when I tore the drywall off between the end bedrooms.

This is some prime piece of real estate we're talking about here!!

We had a huge honey bee nest and lots of honey inside the soffits of our log cabin. Flying squirrels live in the roof during winter, bats live in the front porch roof, and we have a skink that lives under the door frame. We have an invasion of stink bugs every fall. Also have birds building nests in various cracks and crevices.