Month: March 2024

New Beginnings

A few days ago, Robert and I were traveling around the property doing a bit of birdhouse maintenance when I spotted four Tree Swallows soaring in the high winds over Sham’s Paddock (on our Eastern property line.) I thought it was quite early to… Continue Reading “New Beginnings”

Purple Love

We purchased our first, farm-store Purple Martin house back in 2020. Just days after erecting the red-barn style house, Purple Martins moved in. Since then, each year the number of Purple Martins that come to our place to raise their broods grows. In response,… Continue Reading “Purple Love”

Chickadee

I encountered this Carolina Chickadee couple checking out accommodations for raising their new brood. So cute! I live in the small zone where the Black-capped and Carolina Chickadees territories overlap. The Merlin Bird ID app reports both species vocalizations quite often when I record… Continue Reading “Chickadee”

The Patio Pond

First published as a “page” when I created this blog back in 2019 because, well, I didn’t really understand the difference between a page and a post back then. I’m tidying up my blog and this content truly is best categorized as a post.… Continue Reading “The Patio Pond”

Bringing things together

Over the past couple of months, I’ve been busy moving our three business websites to WordPress, where editing and uploading is far easier than the old way I was doing it by creating htm files in one software and uploading them to the host… Continue Reading “Bringing things together”

Don’t Placate – Educate

If I offered advice to parents about how to raise their kids (which I don’t) I would suggest this same common sense advice because I see parents placating their kids quite often. It doesn’t work. The most important line on the above image is… Continue Reading “Don’t Placate – Educate”