Tag Archives: Gretchen Quarterman

Beaver Ponds, Yellow Dog, Gretchen and her Sycamore 2021-02-20

It’s good to get a little exercise.

Log, Fungus, Yellow Dog, Sycamore

Gretchen likes heaving logs under the red maples.

Gretchen and her log

Red maple and beaver creek

Beaver Pond

Birds and dogs.

Gretchen and a beaver pond

Wide beaver pond

Fungus

We could get it down with a ladder.

Gretchen and the lion’s mane

But we left it there to grow again.

This moss grows all the time.

Old stob; might be catface

Woods

In her habitat.

Gretchen in the woods with vines

Yellow Woods Dog

Yellow Dog knows all the woods paths.

Upper Pond

This is also a beaver pond now, only larger than the others.

How about a boardwalk right through here?

Gretchen at the pond edge

Yellow Pond Dog

Dogs like mud.

Yellow Dog in the pond

Yes, that’s me, Yellow Dog

Sycamore

That tree was knee-high when we transplanted it.

Gretchen and her Sycamore

She likes that tree

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Gretchen and her bread 2021-02-22

No, you can’t have any.

We already ate it.

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Three lizards 2021-02-05

I moved the blocks that had been holding up the trailer tongue, and there they were: three lizards.

I don’t think they were happy I moved their house. But I put it back later, and there is plenty of other lizard lair nearby.

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Chimney grill 2020-01-13

Could this be a problem?

Every year I say I will check this before next year starting burning in the wood stove.

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Mushrooms 2021-01-02

Magic mushrooms, wider than my shoe.

Wide ‘shrooms

Fly agaric, Amanita muscaria.

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Jupiter, Saturn, Moon, Mars 2020-12-18

Surprisingly clear shortly after dark, with only a phone: three planets and a moon.

Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars

The famous alignment of Jupiter and Saturn, off the starboard bow of Earth’s moon.

Planets in a row

And, towards the east and way up, the red planet, framed in longleaf pine trees.

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Cornbread 2020-12-15

Note to self: oven timer is merely advisory; does not turn off oven.

Ingredients, Oven, Baked Cornbread

Gretchen didn’t mention that in the recipe she gave me. Here are the cornbread ingredients, including our own Okra Paradise Farms blue corn flour. Continue reading →

Plants escaped 2020-12-13

Gretchen left these plants locked inside, but while she wasn’t looking they escaped.

They’ll have to go back inside tomorrow; freeze predicted. Continue reading →

Two paths, two dogs 2020-12-04

There are two paths you can go on. Also two dogs.

Two paths, two dogs

Actually, four dogs, but the other two already ran ahead.

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Why my laptop kept overheating 2020-12-03

Mystery solved.

Fan covered in dust

Fortunately, Gretchen had some compressed air.

The dogs wondered what I was doing creating a dust storm on the porch.

Also I swapped the laptop’s memory for twice as much, and now it doesn’t hang several times a day like before, even with google-earth-pro, facebook, google drive, wordpress, and about forty other things in tabs.

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