I went to get something to drink from the refrigerator in the basement and looked out the window and saw what I thought were two geese. I looked again and noticed that only one looked like a goose so I got out the binoculars and found that it was a pair of Mallards that nest [...]
Just got home from working on the house and decided to check the minnow trap I had set in the creek (pronounced crick here in PA) about 2 weeks ago, and to my surprise there were about 2 dozen in it. So I put them in a bucket of water and went up [...]
I thought I would do another post about the Black Capped Chickadee. This little bird is probably my favorite to watch. If you put out a feeder, you can be sure that the chickadee’s will show up. These must be the tamest little birds there are. My Dad has had [...]
The first 3 pictures shown here are from last evening. These 3 jakes were out picking through the freshly plowed cornfield. For those who may not know, a jake is a young male wild turkey. I have been seeing turkey out just about every evening the past couple of weeks. Sometimes [...]
Spring is upon us. It was actually hot enough yesterday to get a sunburn.
As you can see from this picture, the heat just means its time to get out and get the work done. That grass will need weedwacked every couple of weeks beginning probably next week.
These wild onions have actually been growing [...]
I’ll start this post with 2 of my nicest pictures. To me, these 2 pictures define what I thought the “country life” was all about when I still lived in the city. The views around here never fail to amaze me! Sometimes I wonder how I ever lived in the city [...]
Haven’t had a lot of time to write lately, so I decided I’d put up a post with some pictures of this past summer. It sure is nice seeing everything all green
These are the “twins” at the farm this summer. I think there were actually 3 sets of twins there this [...]
