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[ronott1]

Our Canadian geese stay here year round.

BL your cat is pretty. But he does show his attitude tward's all the mess. lol

I live under the pacific fly way so we see a lot of migratory birds. Here we have some that stay but I suspect they are domestic tease and not wild geese. I have seen some fly over starting on Friday of last week.

 

[bruceha2000]

Cat? What cat?

Oh, never mind. You are talking about Chub in the first picture of him on the rail. I thought there was a cat somewhere in the second picture. Hidden pictures, find the cat in the fallen tree.

 

[getaclue]

@Bunnylady
Penny, toes don't like having heavy things dropped on them nor as I have learned do they like it when you plow them into heavy objects.

And for all these years, I thought toes were for finding furniture in the dark. Especially if a piece of furniture is a fraction of an inch out of it's usual place. Let's not forget how much they help find Lego's, and other tiny toys too. Ice it down, and tape it to the next largest toe.

 

[perchie.girl]

https://www.almanac.com/content/best-firewood-heat-values-wood-burning-tips
https://www.firewood-for-life.com/eucalyptus-firewood.html

Thanks for the links I have heard mixed opinions on Eucalyptus... I Do season it... the desert is a great place for drying things out...

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

And for all these years, I thought toes were for finding furniture in the dark. Especially if a piece of furniture is a fraction of an inch out of it's usual place. Let's not forget how much they help find Lego's, and other tiny toys too. Ice it down, and tape it to the next largest toe.

YEp broke my little toe twice.... finding corners of walls is my speciality....

I would think a Big toe should be looked at because its such a work horse...

deb

 

[chickadoodles]

I live under the pacific fly way so we see a lot of migratory birds. Here we have some that stay but I suspect they are domestic tease and not wild geese. I have seen some fly over starting on Friday of last week.

These are wild. They sleep in the woods behind our place and fly across the road every morning to the catfish ponds till dusk. The females like to nest on the banks of the ponds.
The farmers don't bother them.

 

[CapricornFarm]

@Bunnylady, sure glad the tree just clipped the corner of your house. It could have been so much worse. That tree has a sizable girth and unless you've worked with downed trees, you just don't appreciate how heavy that much wood is.

Yeah, every time I see a downed tree the first thing I think is 'Fire Wood'. We usually have one large old growth oak go down periodically or simply die. Since felling trees is so dangerous we are always glad when Mother Nature gifts us one by putting it on the ground for us.

We are having some Internet problems at the moment. Two weeks ago we upgraded our Hughes system to Gen 5 having worked with Gen 4 for the past 5 years. For the last week or so it keeps knocking itself off line and getting it to reconnect is a lesson in patience. Yesterday we called Hughes and DH must have been on the phone for two hours with them trying to troubleshoot the problem. For some reason it's dropping 10-60% of the data packets somewhere between the modem and the satellite and they can't figure out why although they suspect that the dish has lost it's connectivity with the satellite. So they are heading this way Thursday morning sometime to work with the dish and satellite and in the meantime we are playing Internet roulette, checking our connectivity and if it says 100% working like the devil to deal with emails and forums before it goes down again.

Internet....geesh remember when we didn't rely on it so much? All of our news weather and gossip came from the TV and telephone. Now we just have separation anxiety when we don't have our 'connectivity'.

Yes we have tried the wheelchair for Dingo. He is such a strong dog that the first time he realized he could get up and go, he charged off and rolled it on an incline before we could stop him. Since then he doesn't want much to do with it. DH made him a little scooter board for in the house by taking a square of plywood and putting swivel wheels on it. He likes it fine.

Penny, toes don't like having heavy things dropped on them nor as I have learned do they like it when you plow them into heavy objects.

When i lived in FL we had an extremely heavy chest that belonged to my Mom. I came around the corner and whapped my toe really hard on it, the furniture didn't even move. Ended up with a displaced spiral fracture of my toe. Had to pull my toe to straighten it enough to put on my shoe!

 

[1muttsfan]

 

[microchick]

What is weird here is that we are in the spring flyway for just about anything with wings. Geese, Canadian and Snow, all forms of ducks, cranes and even swans but in the fall you see very few heading south.

I love the spring migration when thousands upon thousands of geese fly over all day and all night almost continuously and all you hear is their honking.

 

[ronott1]

What is weird here is that we are in the spring flyway for just about anything with wings. Geese, Canadian and Snow, all forms of ducks, cranes and even swans but in the fall you see very few heading south.

I love the spring migration when thousands upon thousands of geese fly over all day and all night almost continuously and all you hear is their honking.

We see them going both ways. We are at a place that they stop for the night. They fly very low over out house so I get a very good view of them