Bruce's Journal

[Bruce]

Surely you will get some rain with the remnants of Florence here in the next week or so.

Highly unlikely. Every time I look the track has moved yet more south. It is now expected to go through CT and Boston before heading out to sea. That is well over 200 miles south of us.

Messed in the pond again a bit today. Smoothed out the northern "low" section to get rid of the tractor wheel ruts, really trying to get a clean "low" area for when the level drops in the future. Don't need fish and tadpoles getting trapped in a bunch of small pools that will dry out.

Then (some of you should definitely avert your eyes here) DW, DD1 and I rescued about 2 dozen tadpoles from the pit I had dug that does not hold water even 24 hours and put them in the north "pool".

Tomorrow I'm going to fill the pit with clay and fill some other low spots that I had to make so I would have traction to get farther into the north part. Seems SO wrong to be filling in part of the pond that I just dug out. That still leaves the small "muck pool" with some tadpoles in it south of the pit. That is where they originally ended up when everything slid a few weeks ago. Some of them were washed into the pit during the one rain we did have bit over a week ago. If the south muck pool is higher than the north pool it isn't by much. It does hold water so moving tadpoles would be a lot harder than finding them in the very shallow mud pool that was in the pit.

And yes Bay, I am making good use of the tractor so far doing things that could not happen without it.

 

[CntryBoy777]

It is much nicer to work a machine....than to struggle to "just make do"....it can help ya catch up on that "to do" list and save ya wear and tear on your body....

 

[Baymule]

I am really glad for you that you got that tractor. I know how much I love mine and it sure has made a huge difference in the amount of work that we have been able to get done. I pick at you, but if I were there, I would be moving the tadpoles to a bigger puddle too. No point in just watching them dry up and die if all you gotta do is catch and move them. Good for you.

 

[Bruce]

Filled the pit yesterday and some low spots close to it. Of course I can't smooth it out because the tractor wheels just make huge ruts in it, it is the same wet clay I pulled out before. Dumped a couple more loads over the area. Maybe if we ever get any rain (yesterday's forecasted rain for tomorrow is shot again ) it will cause the clay to slide into the lowest spots. DD1 moved some tadpoles from the original "after the slide" mud hole, said some were starting to get legs. There are still some in that area so I can't yet fill it. But, hopefully, eventually, I will have a single, larger low point where whatever lives in the pond can escape to when the water drops in the future. IF it ever rains to have something to drop!

 

[farmerjan]

Too bad Wilmington couldn't have sent you a foot or two of their rain....

 

[RollingAcres]

@Bruce don't you know that when you need the rain, it doesn't rain but when you don't want it to rain that's when it pours for days?

Forecasting rain later this week here.

 

[Bruce]

Yeah even southern 1/3 of Vermont is supposed to get a "present" from Florence.

 

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

Well, @Bruce, I have been stalking you for weeks and I finally have caught up to the present. Thanks for letting me read about your adventures.

Miss @Ridgetop, Miss @Rammy, Miss @goatgurl, and @Latestarter, would you folks kindly provide the names and contact info for the therapists you have been seeing after learning of my having stalked you for weeks? After all, they will be trained in STASS (*).

Senile Texas Aggie

(*) STASS is not (yet) a formal diagnosis, although I think it has been proposed for the next revision of the APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, as numerous cases have been reported around the country. In case you have not read about it in the news, STASS is Senile Texas Aggie Stalking Syndrome

 

[RollingAcres]

 

[greybeard]

I had a stalker once starting in 2006. (I think I may have mentioned it before here at BYH) Wife and I were living in a small house in the front of this property while they were building my present home and one day a pretty young blond came driving up out of the blue. Walked up and said hello to me, a few nicieites and walked around a bit and drove off. She returned frequently. I didn't think much of it, there were always friends of my father that I didn't know coming around, to see what we had done and were doing to the place. A few months later, in Feb, we moved to an apt in town since the only heat in that house was a wood burning stove and wife & I both were both tired of splitting wood and hauling it, and the whole place was a muddy quagmire from winter rain. (final straw was the morning the old Char bull walked by and took a good healthy green poop right on the hood of wife's sports car and she saw it as she left to go to work at 8:30 that morning.)

Not long after moving into the apt, the blond showed up there. Not sure how she found me. My wife found it hilarious but sternly warned me to walk the straight and narrow. Something to the effect of "I'll kick your scrawny wrinkled butt old man.." (wife is a decade & 1/2 younger than I am)

We stayed there in the apt less than 6 months and moved into our new house as soon as it was finished (paid the re-letting penalty for breaking our 6 month lease)

Finally in our new home to be away from the world and all it's weirdness. Not to be...
I saw her coming down the long drive..the young girl just showed up here about a month after moving in. Wife was off work that day and I told her..
"Here she comes"

"Here who comes?"

"That blonde stalker girl again, she's found me"

Wife said she was going to go out & have a few words with her once and for all, but came back in after just a few seconds.

"That's no stalker you dumbaxx..she's the %*#@!* electric company meter reader and reads the meters for everywhere around here"

My ego deflated somewhat...to about the size of a ping pong ball..........