In the garden, and RAIN!!!!

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BRENDA

Sunday, June 21, 2020 4:17 AM

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Sigh.

I suppose it's true that there's rarely good news in 'the news', but I'm always unhappy to find out about forest fires.

Anyways - yes! you get to stay dry while doing your laundry.

Too true and really Quebec doesn't need anymore disasters.

It is soooo nice to be able to stay and dry and warm while getting the laundry done.

Though I did go out for a walk in the rain to stretch out my right leg after sitting and reading for an hour while doing the laundry.

I always have a book with me even when I was doing it at the laundromat. Keeps the boredom away.

1KIKI

Sunday, June 21, 2020 5:16 AM

OH! btw - it was a video so I couldn't link the graphic, but Canada is doing EXCEPTIONALLY well with SARS-CoV-2 infections. After a sharp rise up to distressingly high levels, it achieved an nearly equally sharp drop down to less than 10% of the peak.

So CONGRATS! to Canada! In terms of rampant infection spread, the worst definitely does seem to be far behind you!

And may your reopening be equally well done!

BRENDA

Sunday, June 21, 2020 8:59 AM

It seems like we are Kiki. There have been no health related disasters on the news for Covid and that is a very good thing.

Openings are going good in BC.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, June 21, 2020 11:02 AM

Babysitting the front of my house ATM...

This was right around the time last night when I was on the phone with my brother and I just happened to peer out the kitchen window and see a bunch of small shadows bounding up to my house from the street lamp and they stopped dead in their tracks by the bottom of a tree when I opened up the front door and let my brother know I had to let him go. I looked like a scene out of Gremlins or one of the Gremlins clones out of the 80's.

I went back in and got clothed and got a flashlight, and when I went to the tree I heard them crawling up it. When I put on the flashlight, I saw that it was raccoons. It wasn't until a few hours later of harassing them in that tree with a flashlight miscellaneous things I could throw at them any time they went on the limb that went anywhere near my house that I was able to count the mom and 5 young.

I wasn't trying to hit them, but I was letting them know for damn sure they weren't welcome, especially when they went anywhere on that limb. I was trying to hit the tree though. It was hard to find the things I was throwing if I missed.

It wasn't until about 2 hours into this little game that we were playing and I was able to study their behavior for a while when I realized that they probably weren't actually trying to get on my roof in the first place. At this point, they started climing extremly high into the tree when I'd do my thing, and then it would be about a 10 minute waiting game before they even tried to move.

They'd repeat the same pattern... Climb down to the next highest limb, then one at a time walk toward the end of it and just stay put for a few minutes, then slowly go back to the tree and repeat the process with the next highest limb. The one that goes over the roof of my house just happens to be the lowest. It dawned on me that this was just the behavior they exhibited when any predator or potential danger forced them to take refuge in a tree. They had to scout the situation to make sure it was safe enough to have time to run away when they got down, but they were also on a ticking clock too because at the end of the experience they had just wasted two hours of foraging and burning up extra calories while up in that tree.

I think after several hours of this, they realized from my behavior that I wasn't going out to "attack" them unless they went on that branch. So at the same time I decided that I wasn't going to make any movements unless any of them got dangerously close to my roof on that limb, they also seemed to learn from before too.

The last time they went down, once they got to that limb I only ever saw 2 of them go out on that limb, just a few feet. I couldn't really see the other ones and what they were doing in the darkness, but it was clear they were congregating where all the limbs at the bottom stemmed from.

Then they all got down and started making their way across the street. That's when I took my pipe and ran after them. The young all made it across the street, but the mother split off and stayed on my side and started climbing up the telephone pole. I said "I'm coming for you mama", bent down and hunched my shoulders up and banged the pipe on the driveway and started hissing, barking and growling at her while circling around the pole as she'd try to get out of my line of sight.

Eventually, when she realized that I wasn't getting closer than the length of the pole, she must have decided that rather than climb up a completely vertical pole and be stuck up there for a few more hours and separated from her young, she quickly made her way down and started running across the street. I chased her until she went over a hill and I couldn't see her anymore.

I'm probably worried over nothing at this point. It was actually quite an interesting experience we shared there. And really, they're a lot more clever than I think most people would give them credit for. I've probably got two g

BRENDA

Monday, June 22, 2020 12:06 AM

Well after a little more heat on lower back and right hip, I was able to stretch my back and legs this morning while lying in bed. Think I am on the mend from what I did to myself on Wednesday.

BRENDA

Monday, June 22, 2020 2:25 AM

Was listening to some Ray Stevens last Sunday and realized that some of his stuff would not be accepted today. Songs like "Ahab the Arab" and "It's Me Again Margaret", and possible "Mississippi Squirrel".

BRENDA

Monday, June 22, 2020 2:26 AM

More music this Sunday. Right now some Alan Jackson.

1KIKI

Monday, June 22, 2020 2:59 AM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Well after a little more heat on lower back and right hip, I was able to stretch my back and legs this morning while lying in bed. Think I am on the mend from what I did to myself on Wednesday.

Very nice.

BRENDA

Monday, June 22, 2020 5:56 AM

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Well after a little more heat on lower back and right hip, I was able to stretch my back and legs this morning while lying in bed. Think I am on the mend from what I did to myself on Wednesday.
Very nice.

It is and because of that and a nice hot shower, I am able to get and down from my computer chair without too much grunting and groaning. Also no cussing.

SIGNYM

Monday, June 22, 2020 5:57 AM

Funny story, SIX! Just remember, when all else fails ... ammonia!

Apparently we have a growing population of skunks in the neighborhood. The one I've seen around looks like a juvenile. not quite as big as an adult, with a fair bit of white. I saw either it or one of its littermates squashed on the road, apparently not streetwise. But last night the dog was whining to go out on the backyard, so I let her out and she raised such a ruckus I had to go out with a flashlight and see what was going on. THIS skunk was quite a but larger, mostly black. I had to call the dog off. There are only three things I worry about: coyotes, raccoons, and skunks. (Not that I can smell them, but she'd be so unwelcome in the house!)

*****

So we picked up the four pieces of 3/4" 2'X8' Baltic birch plywood, and laminated them into two 2'X8' 1 1/2" countertops. The plywood wall patch and back wall looked so ugly I primered the lower half of the back wall. (I figured I wasn't going to smooth the wall but I may as well make them a consistent color even tho hubby said it was entirely unnecessary. But I think it looks way better this way.) We oiled both sides of the countertops with tung oil, now all we have to do is wait for the paint and oil to dry so we can install thebenchtop on the brackets, and hubby will have a 16' workbench and (at this point) ten 8' shelves. If he can't figure out where to put his stuff, he has too much stuff!

I think after that it's all cleaning and organizing, then bring the bandsaw back into operation and he'll be all set.

So I'll be working on paperwork and legal stuff, and the pollinator garden again soon, I hope.

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