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WildRoseBeef
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77, what kind do you get?
Royd those harriers have since moved on with the buntings and now the sparrowhawks (or kestrals) and red-tailed hawks are taking over the skies now, along with those dang crows and magpies. Vultures are something never seen hear, that would be pretty neat to see where you are...probably not though if you're someone just starting calving/lambing...
Not much to report these past few days. just seen more wildlife, mule deer are starting to come around, the mallard hen is a-settin in a nest in one of our spruce trees, no idea if she's got eggs or what.
Speaking of the mulies, they've been making their come around since yesterday evening and stayed around all day and back again tonight. Two bucks and a few does. Bucks have little buds starting, does are pretty pregnant. Love eating the fresh green grass on the lawn.
Frogs are sure croaking in the ponds lately. Beautiful to listen to when sitting outside.
Still no luck on any job stuff. Gotta keep trying though.
Royd those harriers have since moved on with the buntings and now the sparrowhawks (or kestrals) and red-tailed hawks are taking over the skies now, along with those dang crows and magpies. Vultures are something never seen hear, that would be pretty neat to see where you are...probably not though if you're someone just starting calving/lambing...
Not much to report these past few days. just seen more wildlife, mule deer are starting to come around, the mallard hen is a-settin in a nest in one of our spruce trees, no idea if she's got eggs or what.
Speaking of the mulies, they've been making their come around since yesterday evening and stayed around all day and back again tonight. Two bucks and a few does. Bucks have little buds starting, does are pretty pregnant. Love eating the fresh green grass on the lawn.
Frogs are sure croaking in the ponds lately. Beautiful to listen to when sitting outside.
Still no luck on any job stuff.
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WildRoseBeef
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Got our first spring thunderstorm today! And what a downpour we got!
DB's out today and I got busy helping him putting some more parts together on the truck. Found out through that I got a bit of a hidden talent with mechanical stuff.
Anyway, not much else today that's exciting and worth sharing here.
May not post much on here for the next few days, since it's not worth posting anything if I got nothing to share.
DB's out today and I got busy helping him putting some more parts together on the truck. Found out through that I got a bit of a hidden talent with mechanical stuff.
Anyway, not much else today that's exciting and worth sharing here.
May not post much on here for the next few days, since it's not worth posting anything if I got nothing to share.
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well, if you have nothing to share, perhaps you need to be takin' some more bird pics!
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Hey we had our first Spring thunderstorm on Friday
6 years in Canada and still cant believe how violent the storms can be, and the lightning show is pretty amazing to say the least
6 years in Canada and still cant believe how violent the storms can be, and the lightning show is pretty amazing to say the least
greybeard
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Careful there. Once your partner finds out you can do something, it becomes your job to do it always. I'd a been ok, if I had just never let anyone know I knew what that balck thing with the 4 burners was for...........boiled one dang egg one night long ago, and dinner has been my job ever since....WildRoseBeef said:Got our first spring thunderstorm today! And what a downpour we got!
DB's out today and I got busy helping him putting some more parts together on the truck. Found out through that I got a bit of a hidden talent with mechanical stuff.
77Herford
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We get Barred Owls, Barn Owls, and Screech Owls. Farther north in the state theirs Great Horned and Gray Owls. I like Sonbirds and Hawks more myself.WildRoseBeef said:77, what kind do you get?
Royd those harriers have since moved on with the buntings and now the sparrowhawks (or kestrals) and red-tailed hawks are taking over the skies now, along with those dang crows and magpies. Vultures are something never seen hear, that would be pretty neat to see where you are...probably not though if you're someone just starting calving/lambing...
Not much to report these past few days. just seen more wildlife, mule deer are starting to come around, the mallard hen is a-settin in a nest in one of our spruce trees, no idea if she's got eggs or what.
Speaking of the mulies, they've been making their come around since yesterday evening and stayed around all day and back again tonight. Two bucks and a few does. Bucks have little buds starting, does are pretty pregnant. Love eating the fresh green grass on the lawn.
Frogs are sure croaking in the ponds lately. Beautiful to listen to when sitting outside.
Still no luck on any job stuff.
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WildRoseBeef
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77, I think that one owl I heard a few weeks back was a Great Horned Owl, since they are not exactly rare up here. Didn't see him though, unfortunately.
LOL greybeard and red! May get some more bird pics up some time, I've got some new goose ones from last week that I still haven't uploaded yet.
Anyway, we're starting to finally start our lawn and garden shopping. Mom and I've been thinking, talking, hmmming and hawwing over what to do with the big waste of space we call our front lawn. If there were trees up front near the road it would make a great goat/sheep pasture (this of course humoured mom lol), but the one thing we agreed on was that front lawn IS a waste of space and nothing more than a space to cut with the ride-around mower. So we've been really seriously considering turning up a part of the lawn and putting in a bunch of trees and shrubs (well, more shrubs than trees) in to make it less open and less of a waste of space and take much less time to cut.
We've started by getting a few shrubs today: two saskatoon bushes, two honeysuckle shrubs, a russian cherry (I think) and a mock orange. Two of these shrubs we're going to put in the front flower bed up by the house to take away that open space where we pulled out a mass of wild rose suckers, irises and a big monster of a rose bush, the russian shrub on I think the west side and the mock orange on the east side, with room for another shrub on the east side whenever we find one (probably a darker variety of a nine bark). Anyway, just a few more shrubs to add more colour and more variety and clean it up a bit. We have a bunch of tiger lilies (on both sides), a couple small clumps of irises and a little patch of yellow lilies (I PROMISE I will post pictures of those lilies when they bloom.... they are soooo pretty!), so a couple shrubs should on that side should spice things up a bit.
Now, for the front lawn. It's still in the planning stages, still have to go out and stake out where/how we're going to make a space, but I was thinking of digging/building a sort of four-leaf clover island on the lawn that will have a smallish tree in the middle and shrubs surrounding it. Or, we may have a couple shrubs in the middle (like a couple saskatoons or something), with a variety of evergreen and deciduous shrubs of varying heights and such. I personally would like to have maybe some of the following shrubs for this island:
Mugo pine
Tamarack
Saskatoon
Juniper
Double flowering plum
Dogwood
Mayday tree (flowering variety)
Ninebark
I doubt if we're going to use all of the shrubs I listed, but it would be really nice if we could. Those double flowering plums are absolutely gorgeous in the spring time, and a real showy shrub for the front. The tamarack would also be nice since they have quite the fall colours, but they grow up to 50' tall! Might be fine right in the middle, but it might look a little odd too being out in the middle, even with a few spruces behind. it. The rest are nice low-growing shrubs, the mugo and juniper being my favorite evergreen shrubs.
But whatever the choices we make, I know they'll be good and they'll be worth while once we get started and the ideas start flowing.
We just HAVE to get rid of that waste of space in the front lawn! It's not a play space for the girls (my nieces), not suitable for any kind of pasture, and really adds no value to the whole yard. So we've got to do something about it. Best thing to do is to plant shrubs to break up the space and maybe take out a quarter, if not more, lawn that needs to be cut. In total it takes two whole hours to cut the lawn, and that's with the ride-around. Some like cutting lawn, for us it's a chore lol. So we like our trees and shrubs and rock gardens and such.
LOL greybeard and red!
May get some more bird pics up some time, I've got some new goose ones from last week that I still haven't uploaded yet.Anyway, we're starting to finally start our lawn and garden shopping. Mom and I've been thinking, talking, hmmming and hawwing over what to do with the big waste of space we call our front lawn. If there were trees up front near the road it would make a great goat/sheep pasture (this of course humoured mom
lol), but the one thing we agreed on was that front lawn IS a waste of space and nothing more than a space to cut with the ride-around mower. So we've been really seriously considering turning up a part of the lawn and putting in a bunch of trees and shrubs (well, more shrubs than trees) in to make it less open and less of a waste of space and take much less time to cut. We've started by getting a few shrubs today: two saskatoon bushes, two honeysuckle shrubs, a russian cherry (I think) and a mock orange. Two of these shrubs we're going to put in the front flower bed up by the house to take away that open space where we pulled out a mass of wild rose suckers, irises and a big monster of a rose bush, the russian shrub on I think the west side and the mock orange on the east side, with room for another shrub on the east side whenever we find one (probably a darker variety of a nine bark). Anyway, just a few more shrubs to add more colour and more variety and clean it up a bit. We have a bunch of tiger lilies (on both sides), a couple small clumps of irises and a little patch of yellow lilies (I PROMISE I will post pictures of those lilies when they bloom.... they are soooo pretty!), so a couple shrubs should on that side should spice things up a bit.
Now, for the front lawn. It's still in the planning stages, still have to go out and stake out where/how we're going to make a space, but I was thinking of digging/building a sort of four-leaf clover island on the lawn that will have a smallish tree in the middle and shrubs surrounding it. Or, we may have a couple shrubs in the middle (like a couple saskatoons or something), with a variety of evergreen and deciduous shrubs of varying heights and such. I personally would like to have maybe some of the following shrubs for this island:
Mugo pine
Tamarack
Saskatoon
Juniper
Double flowering plum
Dogwood
Mayday tree (flowering variety)
Ninebark
I doubt if we're going to use all of the shrubs I listed, but it would be really nice if we could. Those double flowering plums are absolutely gorgeous in the spring time, and a real showy shrub for the front. The tamarack would also be nice since they have quite the fall colours, but they grow up to 50' tall! Might be fine right in the middle, but it might look a little odd too being out in the middle, even with a few spruces behind. it. The rest are nice low-growing shrubs, the mugo and juniper being my favorite evergreen shrubs.
But whatever the choices we make, I know they'll be good and they'll be worth while once we get started and the ideas start flowing.
We just HAVE to get rid of that waste of space in the front lawn! It's not a play space for the girls (my nieces), not suitable for any kind of pasture, and really adds no value to the whole yard. So we've got to do something about it. Best thing to do is to plant shrubs to break up the space and maybe take out a quarter, if not more, lawn that needs to be cut. In total it takes two whole hours to cut the lawn, and that's with the ride-around. Some like cutting lawn, for us it's a chore lol. So we like our trees and shrubs and rock gardens and such.
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I vote you fence in half the front yard and get some goats to be lawnmowers for you!
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WildRoseBeef
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marlowmanor said:I vote you fence in half the front yard and get some goats to be lawnmowers for you!
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