The Old Folks Home

[superchemicalgirl]

Tom Bidet, ain't he the guy in the commercial that says he'll leave the light on for you?

Yes, that's what I'm doing for her when she spends the night outdoors.

 

[microchick]

I could probably put fish line around the trees. Hardest part would be that they are about 6 foot away from the barbed wire fence at the south side of the yard. Deer can cross the road, run up the slope and jump the fence.

Wouldn't be so bad if the cloven hoofed devils would show themselves during deer season so I could get a shot off at them. But no, they have to disappear in those deer caves.at the sound of the first rifle shot.

 

[ronott1]

I could probably put fish line around the trees. Hardest part would be that they are about 6 foot away from the barbed wire fence at the south side of the yard. Deer can cross the road, run up the slope and jump the fence.

Wouldn't be so bad if the cloven hoofed devils would show themselves during deer season so I could get a shot off at them. But no, they have to disappear in those deer caves.at the sound of the first rifle shot.

On Campus here there is an Almond tree that never has ripe almonds. It blooms very nicely and the almond set but squirrels eat them All!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Squirrels live for nuts no doubt

 

[superchemicalgirl]

It is miserable hot again.

BF built the turkey and chick a ramp tonight so they don't sleep outside. We went out to install it together. After installation, I very meekly pushed the turkey with a toe to try and get her moving. She got up and let me grab her chick. Plopped it into the coop, turkey jumped into the pop door after the chick. No digits, eyes or skin were harmed. Easy, peasy. BF thinks I've been lying about the assassin turkey, now.


Also found a missing cemetery today. Last directions were:
Cemetery copied by Norman E. Fossett of Vassalboro 1957-58. Rechecked in mid 1970s by members of the Vassalboro Historical Society. Located in deep woods between old Rt. 201 and Ian & Ann MacKinnon property and the Kennebec River approximately due west of their house. [This forgotten graveyard is in deplorable condition. Due to a logging operation in the area most of the stones are broken].

Great directions. Tracked down the MacKinnon homestead to the current owners. Drove by their house last week to find 2 loose dogs, cones across their driveway and a no trespassing sign. I sent them a USPS letter and heard back from her yesterday.

She knew exactly where it was, and had been curious about it.

To say it's in deplorable condition is being kind. That was mid 1970. I'd say time hasn't improved it.

I did some very brief research and this was one of the founding families of the town. The guy on the tablet stone was one of the first selectmen, the first town treasurer and one of the first town postmen. His daughter, Sarah, was the first "white girl" born in the town (that's a common saying from back then, hopefully it does not offend as that is certainly not my intention - unfortunately most of the previous inhabitants of the town didn't get to write their history down. I did find mention of an "indian burial ground" and "slave burial ground" in the town archives and will do my best to look for it, but suspect it is long since gone. I also live on the old Town Farm property [since split up from the original acerage and know that there's also a destitute/insane unmarked burial ground somewhere around here that I'm trying to get Ripley to find]). I suspect Sarah is one of the fieldstones in this cemetery as she is not on the 1950's transcription, but her (I think) daughter Sarah is.

Trying to decide whether this graveyard can be saved. I think parts of it could be. One of the descendants lives nearby and also does cemetery work, so I think together we could make some good headway.

 

[CapricornFarm]

On Campus here there is an Almond tree that never has ripe almonds. It blooms very nicely and the almond set but squirrels eat them All!

We had squirrels strip all the hundreds of apples off our tree in TN while we were on vacation!

 

[1muttsfan]

It is so exceptional that you do this work. There are several Indian cemeteries in our area, but they remain unmarked and hopefully undisturbed by grave robbers who could easily find them if they were mapped.

 

[1muttsfan]

We have a group of local crows who have learned to harvest apples, they get them every year just before they ripen completely.

 

[sourland]

We have a group of local crows who have learned to harvest apples, they get them every year just before they ripen completely.

I think that the West Nile virus has killed 'my' crows. I haven't seen them in several weeks and they are not eating the pears from the neighbor's tree like they always do. Last time West Nile struck around here almost all of the crows died.

 

[Latestarter]

Was out working on completing a buck pen for my male goats. Wa also moving the pen fencing to be able to access and drop a dead tree that has been lightning struck several times. That is no longer necessary. As I was setting out their food bowls for evening pellets, they were all inside the pen, and a T-storm blew up to the north and the wind blew the tree down, right in the middle of their pen. Broke at the root ball, so shouldn't have to dig anything out either. No goats or humans were injured in this event. I see sawing and splitting in my immediate future.

As you can see, the goats are extremely pleased to have a new toy to jump around on.