Friday, July 13, 2018

Ducks: A Day in the Life

Deer have begun to encroach in the garden for the first time in four years. I caught a ewe eating the raspberries early the other morning so Bob added an extension to the new fence to prevent them jumping over. I set out the game camera to run at night to see if it was working but forgot to turn it off in the morning. I got some cute footage of the duck girls and put it into this little video. The camera captures up to sixty seconds of data when triggered by motion so this is a lot of little snippets. They are active little duckies.


The fence extension might be working on the section where Bob added it, but there is evidence it needs to be put on the rest of the back yard fence, too. Roses in the east side kitchen garden were nibbled last night. That's the opposite side of the yard, so the fence extension needs to go there, too. In another post I'll cover how Bob builds it because it's a pretty nifty thing.

Tractor

 What is it about tractors that is so exciting? Bob is giddy with excitement and the neighbors are begging to take selfies on it. But the wi...