Archive for 'Blackflies'
Posted: December 6th, 2007 by
Frank
We were early adopters (2003) of the original Mosquito Magnets. We bought the Defender model, which uses wall AC rather than a thermocouple in the propane burner: It was several hundred dollars less. It performed very well, and we had the most pleasantly bug free summer ever and were planning to buy another one to
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Posted: May 10th, 2007 by
Frank
I’ve wondered for much of my life why I have to be so careful to correctly tie a square knot rather than a granny when it seems that others get them right effortlessly. I have the same trouble with some other kinds of knots ,too. Sometime over the weekend, I had a rush of brains
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Posted under Blackflies, Farm Life, Honey Bees, Mosquito Magnet, Mosquitos, Reviews, mega-catch.
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Posted: May 8th, 2007 by
Lisa
It’s really hard, right now. We lost a llama yesterday, so suddenly that I can hardly believe it happened. It’s hard to even write about it, but I guess I want to document it in case someone else has something similar happen. On Saturday, Vinnie had a lamb, the first one in the pen with
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Posted under Bjarki, Blackflies, Chickens, Death, Ewes, Farm Life, First Date Out, Horse Housing, Lambs, Llama, Mosquitos, Sawmill, Sunny, Tractor, Truck, Window Boxes, mega-catch.
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Posted: July 14th, 2003 by
Lisa
Because we spent the majority of the weekend doing stuff out in the new garden, not much got done in the flower gardens at all. So we went out after work today, really just to do a walk-through because we thought the bugs would be awful, and ended up staying outside for a couple of
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Posted under Blackflies, Deadheading, Deer flies, Hens & Chicks, Japanese beetles, Mosquito Magnet, Mosquitos, Princess, Vetch, Weeding, Yoda.
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Posted: May 31st, 2003 by
Lisa
Finally, a day when it’s not actually raining. Well, not very hard, anyway. There was light drizzle on and off and the sun didn’t actually come out, but we got quite a bit done out there today. The town had their annual plant swap in the morning. I took down some obedient plant, a couple
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Posted under Blackflies, Chives, Chocolate, Compost, Coneflowers, Evening Primrose, Golden Globe, Hollyhocks, Medallion, Mint, Phlox, Plant Swap, Planting, Potatoes, Roses, Splitting, Trillium, Worms, campions.
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Posted: May 29th, 2003 by
Lisa
After work today, we went out (finally!) to start to dig up those trillium. I still haven’t quite figured out how we are going to ship them, but we found many, many plants. I filled up all the random pots I had in the basement, sometimes putting two or three small plants per pot. They
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Posted under Blackflies, Bugs, Compost, Fish, Flowers, Frogs, Gardening, Lawn tractor.
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Posted: May 28th, 2003 by
Lisa
We went outside straight away after work tonight, when it had stopped raining for about twenty minutes. We’d wanted to start digging up the trillium that I found takers for on gardenweb. We fed the fish. I don’t think they yet understand that what we are throwing in the pond is fish food. The
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Posted under Blackflies, Cats, Fish, Flowers, Gardening, Rain, Trees.
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Posted: May 27th, 2003 by
Frank
After striking out at two hardware stores close to us, we made a flying visit to Concord yesterday to go to Home Depot, where a nice guy scratched his head for a while and finally stuck together three pieces to make the adapter we needed for the pump. While we were there, I picked up
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Posted under Blackflies, Bugs, Clearing, Fish, Flowers, Pump (pond).
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Posted: May 25th, 2003 by
Lisa
Despite the gray and wet day out there today, it wasn’t actually raining for the first time in days, so we were determined to get in as much work in the garden as we could. We’ve been wanting to get started on the clearing and such for the land that will someday be the
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Posted under Blackflies, Building, Chainsaw, Chipper, Clearing, Compost, Firewood, Lawn tractor, Mushrooms, Pallets, Soil.
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Posted: May 20th, 2003 by
Frank
Really just a quick run through the garden with the camera. Lisa’s away, and the blackflies are horrid. I can only go out without a bugsuit between 10 and 2. They’ve also found their way up to the balcony which they usually don’t do. The new pond pump is here. Of course it has a one inch outflow instead of two. And so far two hardware stores don’t have 2 inch black poly crap. The lamer landscapers shop at Home Depot, it seems, as I now have to match the pump output to what Skip put into the pond. So if Hamshaw’s doesn’t have it, it’s a trip to Concord. I know it’s unfashionable to say so, but Home Depot is a pretty darn good store. We continue to have tulips galore. The Queen of Night tulips are blooming, and seem darker in the photos than they are in person, where they have much more of a purple tint.
Posted under Blackflies, Pump (pond).
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