Knit, Click, & Stir: fence sense

Monday, April 29, 2024

fence sense

Warm days, cool mornings, and beautiful fog in the back field.

Todd took advantage of the nice weather by putting together a fence, made up of old farm gates.

We had 1500 feet of fencing put in, but one fence doesn't go all the way down to the water at one end. Now it does...hooray!

I've been working outside, too...slowly getting seedlings in the ground. It's not my favorite gardening activity. I don't like getting dirty and as I'm gritting my teeth and flicking off ticks, I'm trying to remind myself to be positive. The sun is shining, there's a soft breeze, and think of the flowers that will grow here! Amid these contemplations, I've noticed a song sparrow that comes every time I start to dig. Singing while perched on the garden bench...

...or grubbing for worms, just a few feet away from where I'm working.

I'm reading on the porch swing in the late afternoon now...

...and sometimes the sparrow will perch on the deck rail and regard me curiously. He's not the only creature I see every day. We have so many turkey vultures!

They are remarkably efficient. A full-size deer was hit by a car about a half mile from our house. We passed it every day on the way to our walking location. It didn't take long for the turkey vultures to find it...

...and the deer was nearly gone within four days! Another cool thing that I've started to see on this short trip...bowl and doily spiderwebs. The spiders themselves are tiny and rarely seen, but their webs are everywhere in the late spring. You can see how they got their names...their small webs look like bowls suspended over gossamer doilies. They are best visible in the early morning sun. By afternoon, they fade into the shadows.