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| Keeping it simple helps when you are trying to be creative, Brain. |
Its a freakin' miracle Brain! This has never happened in history of my family! It's an event so rare and unusual I sat right down to blog about it (I had been meaning to post something soon anyway)!
I swept and mopped an ENTIRE floor without ANYONE in the family (not B, not a dog, not a cat, not even a chicken) pricking up their cute, fuzzy, little ears and saying to themselves, "Hark! Morgan is moping a floor! Needs I must go and tromp mud all over it!"
An ENTIRE floor I cleaned! And then the next miracle happened. The floor dried and STILL no one had come to tread all over it and ruin it. Oh frabjous day!!!
I'm just going to bask in that for a moment..
OK I'm done. Now, what else has happened lately?
Courage passed his therapy test, despite the fact that I was REALLY nervous (I don't take tests well) and was totally putting him off his game.
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| Bee town. |
B and I finally got around to building more solitary bee houses. The rain and the addition of all the new native flowering plants I bought at the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center Fall Plant sale and the Williamson County Native Plant Society fall plant sale has encouraged the solitary bees to expand their numbers. I came across three bees fighting the other day, I dont know over what. Sadly, it was a fight to the death (perhaps I should have built a Thunderdome structure ("Three bees enter, one bee leaves!)! not a block of houses).
The chickens are enjoying the BSFL from the bucket B rigged up. I will have to do a post about that with pictures because this plan is SO much simpler to make than any of the others I have seen on line. I got the idea from a woman on one of my chicken meet up discussion boards. The bucket is still cranking out larva even though the temps have dropped down into the fifties at night. The secret seems top be cat food. Just a little cat food added to the bucket provides the high levels of nitrogen the BSF like. Note to Brain-take pics of BSF and larva!
I've been working on some watercolor stuff and some plain old photoshop art lately. It feels so good to create stuff!
Well, that's not an awful lot of wild and crazy stuff to blog about, I'm afraid. Its slow and steady around here, Brain.
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| Watercolor snake. |
(what's BSFL? I'm dyin' to know!)
ReplyDeleteLauren, BSFL stands for Black Soldier Fly Larva. I'm lurking around my back yard with the camera, as soon as I have some pics of the flies and their larva I'll do a post about them. If you are not familiar though, a quick bit of info is that Black Soldier Flies are non disease carrying flies that dont come in to houses or crawl on food. The adult flies dont even eat, they just reproduce. The larva are like crack for chickens. Its quite easy to set up a simple compost bucket in such a way as to harvest the larva. I'll post this week about the design I used!
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of. Are they in New England too? I just bought another $7 Nightmare-In-A-Tub for my gals at Petco -- 500 living writhing mealworms. This kind of stuff isn't easy for me. All I can say is, these ladies better appreciate me. They could have it a lot worse. ....or they could have it a lot better: they could be YOUR gals.
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