Tag Archives: Yellow Dog

Nellie discovers a gopher 2021-03-10

I figured she must have discovered a nest of venomous serpents. Nope, Nervous Nellie was barking up a storm over a gopher tortoise.

Gopher, Nellie, Honeybun, Yellow Dog

That threatened species Gopherus polyphemus was actually somewhat threatened, since Nellie was trying to gnaw on her shell. Continue reading →

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

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.

Sphagnum moss

Old stob; might be catface

Mushroom log

Mushrooms

Woods

In her habitat.

Gretchen in the woods with vines

Yellow Woods Dog

Yellow Dog knows all the woods paths.

This way?

Nope.

That way.

Upper Pond

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

Quite full

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

Tall tree

She likes that tree

-jsq

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.

All the plants

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.

-jsq

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.

-jsq

Fire in wood stove 2020-11-17

It’s that time of year.

Heat and light

Plenty of dead oaks to cut up for firewood.

That’s good, but also troubling: too many dead trees due to spells of drought and heat.

Here’s a brief video: Continue reading →

Porch dogs at night, and Yellow Dog, too 2020-10-24

Despite how it sometimes seems, the porch dogs do from time to time stop barking and just lie quietly on their beds. In this case both on the same bed, because Yellow Dog was in residence.

Yellow Dog, Honeybun, Nervous Nellie, far to near