Nature
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@crimsonblu22 no it goes in the greenhouse with the robe around it in there.
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@RockChalkinTexas-0 Our kids and grandkids live on Maui. I watched my son making plumeria leis from flowers he picked last Christmas for the nurses who work at the health facility where my DIL is CEO. She and my son always do a major bake as well for the office Christmas party. The streets where they live are just flooded with plumeria trees and it is spectacular!
Never realized how much work it would be to grow one in the contiguous states. Congrats!
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I had great videos of all the hummingbirds last night getting their last drinks in but it says my files are too large (at 10 seconds of video each) so I wanted to share a photo of another part of my landscape, wild iris. At one time they lined the whole of the garden (which is basically the whole back yard) and they would bloom like crazy. Only have a few left after the 2021 freeze and have some left that I repotted to get them out of the ground. The only problem with them being outside was the deer always took the blooms before I could get a whole wall shot, so this one will have to do.
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Today's entry is just a depiction of the land I have and a story about Hattie, the vixen, who has been around us the past 4 years. She showed up with 3 kits last year and she must have dug a den underneath the firewood shed that Mike built because as she takes scraps back behind the shed and disappears for awhile and then comes back for leftovers. Her partner is always near and waits for her to do her thing before he comes to check out what's left (LOL). Each night I take down and put away the bird feeder and the 3 hummingbird feeders and Hattie was just laying there watching me watch the hummers. They were all there to get their last drinks in before I put them away. The dirty racoons will drink the syrup and empty a feeder and have broken so many in the past that I learned my lesson. So anyways, I put 2 of the feeders away and when I came back she had stretched out on my bench. She sits there alot waiting on me to come inside. She patiently waits right there by the bench until I go outside my solarium in back and she's there by the gate. Seeing the kits play and jump around the stack of firewood that is on the ground is something to behold.
So here's my property:
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The infamous she shed!!!!
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Typical terrain of the lots:
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Today's post is of a giant moth I found in my bed of loriopes one morning when I was watering. Just amazing what you can see in his defense mechanismsl
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Nice sheshed!
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Today's post is rather alarming. Late afternoon yesterday this mangy coyote showed up near the deer water bucket just outside our kitchen garden window. There's been only one other time I saw a coyote (mind you I can hear them off in the distance at times) was when I was on a walk with friends 12 years ago and one ran across the road in front of us down in a little valley and disappeared into the thicket. He came from the 2 lots I own away from all my contiguous lots. We saw another group of walkers on the other side of the little valley and they took off running. I often wondered if they saw it again.
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Did you ever ponder how one miniscule aspect of life has such a great impact on our planet? I have and still do.Thought of what Jaybate would have added to the conversation. I love, love, love Sir David Attenborough and what he has done for our planet...making us aware that all life is connected and we have to care for it. I used to watch a PBS show with Marty Stouffer called Wild America back in the early 80's as well as Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler on Wild Kingdom. Mike situated the string lines for our house 3 different ways in order to sit the house between the trees so that we only had to take one out when we built the house. He had a wide knowledge for outdoor living and so we camped out a lot here and made our plans. We bought our first 2 lots on a contract for deed basis and paid $75 a month for each lot beginning in 1981 and saved our money while living in a dump $150 duplex in Central Austin. We started the house in Sept. of 84 and moved in 4 months and 2 days later, on our wedding anniversary. He put up the 40' x 60' metal building all by himself (with the help of a crane) in 2009. All the other outbuildings he would draw out, we'd go over it, and then one day I would come home from work and it would be done!
