In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Ooooh, how EXCITING!!
I heard abig, but muffled bang early this AM, almost as if a large tree limb fell on a wall, and after mentally trying to ID the noise (and failing) I went outside with a bright flashlight to see if aything big had fallen.
While shining the flashlight around the yard, I spotted an OWL on our back wall!!! ( shone the light on it a couple of times, decided the shape, behavior and eye position wasn't possom, raccoon, cat or anything else, and figured out what it was. I sure hope I didn't blind the poor thing!
Since it was pretty uniformly pale and fairly small, most likely a barn olw, attracted to the tree rats in the neigborhood.
Which reminded me that a couple of weeks ago I was pretty sure I heard an owl hooting at night, but it was faint and intermittent so I just put it out of mind.
I guess I won't be needing that rat trap after all!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
That's cool. I've never actually seen an owl in person unless you count one I'd probably seen at some point in captivity.
Are tree rats really a thing? That's what I call squirrels.
I haven't had a mouse in my house for a long time. I think getting the outside of the back porch fixed up and a brand new door on it did the trick. I still leave the traps out, but it's had to have been 6 months since I've had one in here.
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Back in and luckily no rain.
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Tree rats (AKA roof rats, fruit rats) are a real thing. They're quite a bit smaller than sewer (ie Norwegian) rats, their bodies (nose to rump) are generally no larger than 5" and they're agile climbers, capable of running on electrical lines etc.
We have a lot of fruit and avocado trees around which always produce more than anyone can eat, so the rats have a field day here!
Altho you're not too far off thinking of squirrels as tree rats. Hard to believe but rats, mice, rabbits, squirrels, hamsters, even beavers (!) are all classified as rodents.
You can always tell rodents by the ever-growing upper two and lower two teeth. FWIW possums, skunks, and raccoons aren't.
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Out for my walk on a dry day.
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Back from my walk and still dry. At least this month I didn't throw out my phone bill. I got it today and it is sitting on the kitchen table.
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:Good deal!
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:Eh, the weather matches the day of the week!
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Out in a bit on a rainy, soggy Monday.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
It does indeed though I managed to accomplish quite a bit. As in downloading my medical file from my old doc onto a memory stick and then taking it to my new doc, for downloading onto their system.
That's important!
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Hey Signym, why did you guys do this?
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So, I don't know what happened yesterday but I was so tired I went in for an early 1 hour nap, and even my loud annoying timer didn't wake me up: I slept for 2 1/2 hours!
But I managed to do more today. I picked the palm stalks up (hubby pulled them down from the roof too) and did some backyard weeding.
My tomato is still cranking out tomatoes. Normally they're pollinated bumblebees so I was wondering what the pollinator was. Today I saw a teddy bear bee busy working the bush. They tend to be a bit territorial so I kept a bit away 
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SignyM:
So, I don't know what happened yesterday but I was so tired I went in for an early 1 hour nap, and even my loud annoying timer didn't wake me up: I slept for 2 1/2 hours!
But I managed to do more today. I picked the palm stalks up (hubby pulled them down from the roof too) and did some backyard weeding.
My tomato is still cranking out tomatoes. Normally they're pollinated bumblebees so I was wondering what the pollinator was. Today I saw a teddy bear bee busy working the bush. They tend to be a bit territorial so I kept a bit away
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
That is a cool looking bee.
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Off to mah jong for me in the morning.
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