Archive for 'Frogs'
Posted: April 18th, 2008 by
Frank
We’ve had entire week of warm and dry weather, which is good because we have a million things to do. The waterfowl went outside last weekend, in electric poultry netting. They started with a dogloo for shelter, yesterday we added a dog crate so the ducks and geese each have their own digs. They’re
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Posted under Carrots, Ducks, Frogs, Geese, Honey Bees, Icelandic, Lettuce, Mice, Pigs, Rams, Shearing, Sheep, Turkeys, parsnips, spinach.
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Posted: July 26th, 2007 by
Frank
Out behind our house is the remnant of a large (10-20 acre) beaver pond, where the beavers drowned a serious spruce forest between 1960 and 1980, give or take a couple years on each end. They had left fairly recently when I bought the land in 1986 and there was still standing water under
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Posted under Beavers, Frogs, Mosquitos, Snakes.
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Posted: August 2nd, 2003 by
Lisa
We’ve had pretty heavy rains all week this week, and the flowers in bloom in the garden are really starting to show the strain of all the water weight. The Shasta daisies in particular have mostly flopped over and started to rot, turning into a most unattractive slime heap. Ick. So I went out and
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Posted under Bindweed, Coneflowers, Crazy Daisy, Deadheading, Delphinium, Frogs, Gardening, Harvesting, Hollyhocks, Lasagna Layering, Lily beetles, Planting, Potatoes, Rain, Reviews, Soil, Star Gazer, Tiger, Weed Whacker, hydrangea.
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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 15th, 2003 by
Lisa
The stuff we ordered last month from Waterplants online from Colorado finally got here today. Though I’d ordered everything they had for zone 4, they were out of some stuff, so my $160 order turned into $98.25 with shipping. Everything came bare root, but I had some left over pots from previous attempts at water
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Posted under Blackflies, Frogs, Pond, Pump (pond), water lily, water plants.
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Posted: April 21st, 2003 by
Lisa
I’d been hoping to get another full day of spring clean up in this weekend, because I got so far on Saturday that I was all inspired. Instead, it rained on Sunday, all day long. Hard and cold rain, that I had absolutely no interest in getting out in. Oh well! So much for those
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Posted under Bleeding Heart, Columbine, Frogs, Pond, Princess, Rain, Red-twig Dogwood, Yoda, daffodils.
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Posted: April 18th, 2003 by
Frank
I’ve left the thermometer into the compost pile the last few days. After a few days of sitting right at 40, it finally started moving today. It was nice to see it almost get to 50. I stuck the pitch fork into the other pile, and found ice four or five inches below the surface
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Posted under Compost, Fish, Frogs, Newts.
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Posted: April 16th, 2003 by
Frank
It looks like the only living vertebrate in the pond at this point is Gingrich the Newt. (I think he’s the same one that moved in last summer. And what else would you call a newt anyway?) I’ve fished out 6 or 8 dead frogs by now, and most of them look crushed. We are starting to look around at websites selling pond plants, and want to get those in before we start with more fish. I can see a lot of perennials poking through the left over leaves from last fall. Poking up out there already is the lupines and some heather. The sunset tonight was spectacular.
Posted under Fish, Frogs, Lupine, Newts, Pond, heather.
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Posted: April 4th, 2003 by
Frank
The pond is frozen over again, and I pulled the plug on the pump this morning since the flow was getting pretty scanty in the stream. I didn’t slog through the snow to pull the pump, because I really don’t expect the sump to freeze under its blanket of snow, I was just afraid it
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Posted under Fish, Frogs, Pond, Pump (pond).
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Posted: November 8th, 2002 by
Lisa
We had a pretty productive, busy and fun weekend, actually, for two people who still aren’t back to normal and who were homebodies the whole time. The weather did the promised warmness, and the rain held off until last night, long after we’d quit working outside. And work out in the garden we did. Lots of fall clean up, cutting off the green foliage that’d been zapped by the early freezes and snow. We got a bunch of leaves off the grass, except where the snow still covered it. I absolutely wore myself out with the rake, but just from lack of stamina, which I’m hoping lots of exercise will cure. Many of the critters are very confused by the quick change in weather as well. Frank found this snake, and many frogs.
Posted under Frogs, Snakes.
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