Yesterday or Thursday, I went down the street to a house that has elder growing in its front yard. I went to ask if I could harvest their berries. Although a car was in the carport, no one answered the door. The yard is trimmed and the house looks maintained, but it has a slightly run-down, un-lived-in look about it ( Read more... )

I do not approve of (non-professionals) releasing adult or even juvenile captive-bred turtles ( Read more... )

After Opal eats her meals these days, she gets deliriously happy. Sometimes she runs all around the house, sometimes she just sits in one spot stomping her feet. It's adorable.

Yay raw diet!

Well, it's been a long time since I posted here. Most of my posts have been in 00goddess, my main journal. However, it's time to get things going in the garden again, and I will be posting most of those entries here ( Read more... )

The garden is looking good ( Read more... )

The greenhouse came late last night. I just spent an hour or so wrestling with it to get it up. As many others have commented, the instructions are not very clear. The biggest problem was the the instructions do not say that the tension poles have to be bowed in order to get them into their slots and that they will stay bowed once the greenhouse ( Read more... )

Most animal entries have been in 00goddess lately, but this one I'm putting here ( Read more... )

Yikes, we just brought the turtles in. I had a hard time finding Rex and Al didn't want to come to the surface. I finally got Rex to move a bit so I could find him, and then I had to reach into the pond to get Al. Almost froze my hand off.

Then we covered the garden with blankets.

I went outside and found the pond in the low 60s. The heating pump just can't keep up with the weather. I checked the forecast and today's high is supposed to be 69- way too cold! So I dug out the greenhouse plastic to cover half the pond.

I was pleased to find that I have enough to cover half the pond and cover half of Rex's pen. So, both ( Read more... )

I did a partial water change on the pond today. The WH has been dying and I did the change in an attempt to save it ( Read more... )