5-4-06 VERMONT: A beautiful day marred only by black flies. It did get a bit breezy which blows them away. I got the veggie garden set up, raked stones out, laid the black plastic cloth that prevents weed growth and warms the soil, put up the three wire electric fence to keep horses, oxen and small mammals out, hauled away three loads of rocks that came up with the roto-tilling. Then I started on the sunflower bed and did a bunch of small jobs. I sprayed two tent caterpillar nests in apple trees. The elm trees look fine as do most of the apple trees that the oxen ate.
New blooms: blood root and vinca minor.
Wild life: we saw a turkey near the house on our way into town for dinner and two deer on the way home. The fish appeared today for a first sighting. The pond is now teeming with them and the newts, no crayfish or turtles as yet. I saw two dead spotted salamanders around the pond.
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