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We went to visit my daughter's friend in White Sulphur Springs after her first year at UM Missoula, and the fields below their ranch house were carpeted in shooting stars- they called them rooster heads, my grandmother cranesbills, and the latin is genus Dodecatheon. Another thing I used to see everywhere, now gone for no greater cause than tidiness.
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you can still find shooting stars and wild strawberries in the woodsy part of the Evergreen gun range, west of Littlerock ... some clearing was done to put a couple of additional shooting stations in, but the wild flowers are flourishing there on the mounds surround the big trees .. or at least they were the last time I was out there
interesting note this morning; I was putting the black oil sunflower feeder in the run when several of the pullets decided to make a break for it, out the sliding access to the run -- I hadn't gotten it quite closed enough
I tried to herd them back in, since Roxy-dog was bounding down the steps from the deck ... but they ALL decided to fly out instead
I yelled at Roxy "NO CHICKENS !" and she stopped, pointed, and whined but did not chase nor approach them, even when they scurried away from my herding arms
and she stayed about 15 feet from them, very interested but also obedient, while I finally got them moving back into the run
all this took about ten minutes
she got a great bit GOOD DOG ! and a couple of dog cookies when I urged her back into the house
Wow... GOOD DOG!
We went to visit my daughter's friend in White Sulphur Springs after her first year at UM Missoula, and the fields below their ranch house were carpeted in shooting stars- they called them rooster heads, my grandmother cranesbills, and the latin is genus Dodecatheon. Another thing I used to see everywhere, now gone for no greater cause than tidiness.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Julia_here/100_0579.jpg
you can still find shooting stars and wild strawberries in the woodsy part of the Evergreen gun range, west of Littlerock ... some clearing was done to put a couple of additional shooting stations in, but the wild flowers are flourishing there on the mounds surround the big trees .. or at least they were the last time I was out there
interesting note this morning; I was putting the black oil sunflower feeder in the run when several of the pullets decided to make a break for it, out the sliding access to the run -- I hadn't gotten it quite closed enough
I tried to herd them back in, since Roxy-dog was bounding down the steps from the deck ... but they ALL decided to fly out instead
I yelled at Roxy "NO CHICKENS !" and she stopped, pointed, and whined but did not chase nor approach them, even when they scurried away from my herding arms
and she stayed about 15 feet from them, very interested but also obedient, while I finally got them moving back into the run
all this took about ten minutes
she got a great bit GOOD DOG ! and a couple of dog cookies when I urged her back into the house
Wow... GOOD DOG!
