Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Creature Feature.

7-31-18 VERMONT: The weather has been fine for several days, even though rain has been predicted. Rain, actually, would be welcome. We have a malfunctioning washing machine, but a repair is scheduled.

The Thetford Select Board approved our request for additional culverts because of the huge drainage ditches the town dug on the roadside. The ditches are so deep, almost two feet deep, so that a car can’t drive into the pasture or yard.

I have started repairing two rotted porch posts, replacing rotted structural wood with pressure treated wood and using Azek for trim work.

There are lots of tomatoes, but the corn looks like it needs a few more days. Butterflies are on the milkweed and beebalm, and the hummingbirds are in the beebalm all day. I saw a Broad-Winged Hawk yesterday evening. The game cams have caught deer, turkeys and the fox, who looks worse from the mange, less fur and thinner. We hope he/she will respond to the ivermectin treatment.

New blooms: echinacea, Indian pipe, new hollyhock.


Bushnell Game Camera catches a deer at 4 AM.

Black Swallowtail butterfly on Beebalm, dorsal side of the wings and

And the ventral sides.

Phlox.

Monarch female on milkweed. There were two females for a while.

Broad-Winged Hawk, I think, anyone?

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