Inspired by Dogs & Nature
Nellie has come to us for a three week Board & Train program. She’s a kind and loving dog with a fairly serious pulling issue. If fact, Robert said that Nellie is a stronger puller than several 200+ pound Mastiffs that we’ve had in… Continue Reading “Nellie – Labrador Retriever”
Several days ago I hung a single hummingbird feeder in anticipation of the season’s arrival of Ruby-throated hummingbirds. One never exactly knows the exact date they will return from their winter grounds in Central America. It’s a long, arduous migration for these tiny birds,… Continue Reading “In Preparation of the Hummers!”
The Purple Martins in our growing colony are building nests inside their community housing options. We have a variety of nesting areas including apartment type houses, and gourds of various styles. What makes one pair decide one type of nest site over the other… Continue Reading “Purple Martin Love?”
Work, household projects and the weather all place constraints on my ability to travel around our property to observe the the rejuvenation of life which is occurring, now that Spring has finally stepped up to the plate and shown herself. Over the weekend we… Continue Reading “Bluebirds Abound!”
Our first Spring in our new house (2017) we used an old 400 gallon poly stock tank to create a patio pond. We bought eight feeder goldfish at Walmart. They were about the length of my thumb. We added a “toss and grow” boxed… Continue Reading “The Patio Pond is Coming To Life Again”
While mowing around our property yesterday, Robert found this antler that was shed by a White-tailed deer. From his perspective, it was an incredible hazard that I might have run over when out on the golf cart, possibly destroying a tire and leaving me… Continue Reading “What a Neat Find”