BYC Café

[Sally PB]

Love the coffee picture! I'd like to try a new one each day and find a new favorite.

Rain today, then supposed to be dry tomorrow and Wednesday. So maybe I'll get some inside chores done... I have my pick of a lot of different ones, so I can choose my "favorite."

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafe and thanks for the coffee, LF!

Dentist and inspect the car day.

The chickens are NOT happy about being locked up and frankly, neither am I. But I will stay the course and not let them out until Friday morning.

Have a great Monday everyone.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

My latest haul from the garden center that is selling off his excess plants. Because of supply issues, he had to order much larger quantities of plants than normal. The company used to do retail sales and landscape services when they were in Binghamton but switched to just landscape services when they moved to Endicott.
He sells in the fall not too far above what he paid just so he doesn't take a loss on the plants.
This trailer load has:
5 coral bells, three different varieties
2 green velvet boxwoods
1 Nick's compacta Chinese juniper
2 dwarf bush honeysuckles (natives that will do great here)
2 Hanoke perennial grasses
1 Deadnettle
1 Little bunny dwarf fountain grass
1 chokeberry
and my favorite that will go into the ornamental pond when I build it next year, a Diana Weeping Japanese larch.
All this for less than $280 total.
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Goooooodddddd buy.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Next to.
Fish and filter. Skippy filter. The way we built the first pond.
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Simply beautiful.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Cafe good morning one and all!

Hoping to get some projects done in the chicken coop today.

Have a great day!

 

[bruceha2000]

Freshly brewed coffee is on the counter, so help yourselves and enjoy!

Oh, fancy!!!

Your chance to build your own pond!

I have one, actually 2, came with the property. One is behind the barn, the other is at the NE corner of the property. Probably dug MANY MANY decades ago for stock watering so not at all fancy.

The summer after we bought the place the one behind the barn looked like this

but the rain came and filled it back up.

It went fully dry in summer of 2018, shy a small "pool" I kept going.

I bought a tractor and dug the pond out some. Here is a "part way dug" picture and the "pools"


The pool got down to this, we had to "water" it to keep the tadpoles and as it turns out, 2 small fish, alive.


The 2 fish. I "raised" them in the house in a bucket for the winter. I think they are bluegill. How they and the tadpoles managed to stay alive in the mud puddle is beyond me. Lots of other small fish and tadpoles died as the pond dried up.


This baby snapper, named "Teeny Tiny Turtle" by DD1, also showed up.


The rains and winter snow finally came and filled the pond back up. I put the fish back in the pond along with some fathead minnows and shiners I bought at the bait shop. Still see LOTS of tiny fish so I guess at least the minnows and shiners lived. Haven't seen the bluegill but haven't seen them dead either so I assume they are still in the pond.


It has gone down some during our semi drought this year but never close to drying out, just shrinking.

 

[LaFleche]

We had been talking about a pond for decades, but never followed through with our many plans for it.

 

[aart]

Have a couple natural ponds(more like wetlands) on my property,
way back where I can't see them from the house.
Built a small ornamental pond right outside the window.
Played with the filtration system on that for a few years.
Now it just sits unfiltered, but still home to lillies and frogs and various other water creatures.

 

[sourland]

Sent Maggie out to chase a doe off the front yard this morning. As the doe left I caught movement on the driveway and saw a late born fawn - still with spots. Mom and fawn left to the East.

 

[DobieLover]

Sent Maggie out to chase a doe off the front yard this morning. As the doe left I caught movement on the driveway and saw a late born fawn - still with spots. Mom and fawn left to the East.

Poor fawn! That must have been a young doe. If we have a tough winter that little won't make it.