The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Unfortunately this post will have no photos. For some reason the digi cam will not connect properly to my computer any longer, something about a DBus error, so when I figure that out or use another computer I will upload the photos.

The Good.

The rain has stopped. Ok that isnt really that good, rain is good, it makes my veggies grow. Its just nice after a week and a half to see the sun again. The real good, the blackberries are starting to ripen I found the first blackberry ready to eat yesterday (june 15). I took its picture and then ate it.  The Monarch caterpillars are enjoying the milkweed I have allowed to grow. My broccoli and spinach are surviving finally. And my beets, well I think I will pull 1 or 2 out tomorrow they are the size of a very large walnut, i want to see what they taste like.  Also I found out where the bats live. The rest of that story is in the next part...

The Bad.

Over the weekend, I think it was Saturday night a tree fell in my neighbors yard, which is like 10 ft from my window. Minor damage to his house, it was just a surprise. Well today the tree people came to finish chopping the wood up, my neighbor decided to have them cut down a old dead tree that was right next to their 2nd story deck. The bad thing was is that this tree was the roost to a large group of bats. The tree was hallow and gave them a great place to live. They didnt find out about the bats until they cut the tree down. Now the bats are homeless.  This is when I wish I had made some bat houses because then we could have relocated them in the area.

Now, the Ugly.

A few days ago I went for my usual walk down next to the marsh. I found a wood duck house had fallen and either raccoons, possums or who knows what else had removed the nest. I found 3 wood duck eggs ( i presume they had already hatched) but I also found the spine and hind legs of some animal that must have died in the box. Not sure if it was a duck or a squirrel, I didnt look that closely.  The really horrible thing is that not 2 yards away some person decided it would be the greatest idea ever to dump, at the very least, 5 pounds of corn kernels. Just straight on the ground. This is not how you attract wildlife people. I think i may bag it up here in a few days.


I wish i could have posted some pictures. Ill see what I ca do later.