EASTER SUNDAY

 EASTER SUNDAY

Ive been adding to the blog for a while just haven't had time to publish lately.

The critters are active, the Tree Swallows came in on Wednesday, we heard the Woodcocks fluttering about and reeeping in the evening, calling back and forth in the field, we heard peepers on the way home from our annual jaunt to Hayward's in Milford for a couple hot dogs and a chocolate frappe.

The Phoebe stopped by on Thursday morning

Friday evening we went over to Mom's for her birthday bringing a small cake. 

Rose read about a G5-7 CME that was supposed to bring Northern light all the way down to Pennsylvania, unfortunately we were cloudy so nothing to see here.

Up at 4:10AM Saturday, letting the dogs out, i could hear the roar of the dam 1/2 mile away in the background, and the woodcocks quietly reeping in the dark calling to one another, no peepers here yet, but soon. 

I walked the front yard to do poop patrol, 3 more shovel loads.

Saturday 4/4 Rose and I put up the new Gourd Martin house out in the field. Jarrod got it for Rose, it sits 15 feet in the air you can see the white gourds up on the pole dwarfing the birdhouse below. 

 

We put up some solar LED lights up in the Apple tree and Blueberry bush in the field.

It was a warm 51 degrees in the morning when we put up the Martin house, but by late afternoon it was windy and cold 43 degrees.

EASTER SUNDAY 

1st Tick of the season!  Rose found one on her. 

Jarrod, Crystal and James came over for Easter dinner, ham, potato, carrots, green bean casserole via Crystal, Rose made a cherry cheesecake, got to taste the blackberry/raspberry cider Jarrod is making, it'll be great once it ferments for a bit longer.

Snow here is almost all gone, even the snow plow piles are about to be gone.

The well situation is much better, our pond is up at least 4 feet, the pole I had planted at the ponds lowest point showed 4 feet of post above the water level has disappeared below the water's surface. 

Monday April 6th our peepers still aren't awake yet.

Purple finches were in the back yard Monday AM too.

I finished up my Taxes Monday evening.

Started snowing at 6AM Tuesday morning.  Yuk!  We got 1.5" most was melted by the end of the day.

The Goldfinches came back Wednesday around noon. Turkey walked through not stopping in the deer yard, the male turkey was on a mission!

The Tree Swallows have been checking out the new gourd houses, circling and landing on the top rails.

Rose went to town on the yard Thursday, the yard beds are all raked, weeded and cut back looking amazing, it's definitely going to be a bark mulch year.  We'll need to get a truckload, several years ago we got in 13 Yards of mulch and still had to buy a bunch of bagged mulch to finish the back beds.

Friday Rose mowed out in the cove, there's so much to do. 

Saturday we cleared more in the cove, chainsaws taking out the big stuff, lots of downed brush, I mowed a bit, so much chaff needed to be mowed to allow the grass through. One of the lawn trailers rotted out, luckily we have another one we swapped out.  Snowblower was put away. We're so sore...

The lilacs are budding getting ready. 

The field is looking more green than brown now

The Forsythias are starting to bloom

Rhubarb is poking up out of the ground

Daffs have just started to bloom on the south side of the house

LOL, The deer ate almost all of the rhododendrons, the really stripped them almost bare.

The daffs under the "Harry Lauder's Walking Stick" will open next week

New Solar LED lighting at the front door
 

Sunday I'll rake the dirt, leaves and gravel the plow pushed onto the front lawn.

I took Tuesday off, we finally shoveled up the gravel left on the lawn from the plow, and mowed Lake Chloe by the birch trees in the field before the rains came.  We has a wicked storm come through in the evening some great lightning and thunder.

Thursday Rose put up more Solar LED lighting around the house.

6 Tree Swallows were flying about trying to decide which birdhouse they'd move in to.

We've got baby cottontail rabbits running around!

Saturday the 18th was a work day, we took the satellite dish off the house removing all the cables and caulking all the holes. We setup a couple more solar LED lights at the front door and by the kitchen.  We cleared 40' of bank removing brush down to bare ground, took two big tarp loads of the brush out to the bank.

I walked the front yard to do poop patrol, 3 more shovel loads, jeesh. 

We hadn't fed the deer yet I just mentioned that we hadn't and rose says oh here they come now... She ran out to feed them real quick.

We went back out at 9PM and adjusted the mode on the LED lights so the are dim until someone walks underneath them then they go bright.

 Yup NH still in a severe drought!

 More ticks, I found another crawling up my arm on Saturday.

 

 

Dem Rep Jason Crow says he and Democrats are making "lists of people” to go after in the Trump administration.

• “You will be judged. You cannot escape it forever."
• These very same people have looked into every legacy media camera available for 15 months to tell you how nation-destroying it is that the Trump admin is 'targeting political enemies'

So, you must ask: why does the American Left, as personified in the Democratic Party, so desperately want our country to lose?

Look at the Modern Democrat Party (TMDP) Platform today:

•      Transgenders in girls’ sports.
•      Transgenders in girls’ locker rooms.
•      Defund Homeland Security to assist Iranian and Islamic terrorism.
•     Close American airports rather than provide Airport Security and deprive TSA workers of their wages, thus causing chaos throughout the airline system.
•      No Voter Identification (but make sure you have your driver’s license with you if you attend a Democrat Town Hall).
•     Under Biden, more than 15 million illegals were allowed across the USA’s southern border and dispersed across our Country.
•     Using American taxpayers’ money totaling in the billions of dollars to accommodate people who illegally entered the USA.
•     Their “Trump Derangement Syndrome” along with their far-left extremist beliefs have them openly hating America and going against providing national security for our  Country.

How the Party of Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson, John F. Kennedy, and Hubert Humphrey descended into these horrendous policies is inexplicable and beyond my comprehension.  Is it any wonder Ronald Reagan switched from the Democrat to the Republican Party?

A secrets service agent on Jill Biden’s detail shot himself in the butt while escorting the former first lady through Philadelphia International Airport on Friday. His gun fell out of his holster, and he had a negligent discharge re-holstering the gun.

Ceasefire talks collapse as Iran rejects U.S. demands; regional mediators scramble for alternatives 

As it turns out, the fraud is a feature, not a bug, and the further left you go, the worse it appears to get. Rather than root it out in the interest of balancing the budget through fiscal responsibility and thoughtful management, or (God forbid) consolidating or reducing the government workforce to reduce overhead, they raise taxes.

A sitting Democratic senator just admitted what conservatives have known for years: Trump Derangement Syndrome now runs the Democratic Party, making bipartisan cooperation virtually impossible even when national interests are at stake.

Story Snapshot

• Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) declared “Trump Derangement Syndrome” governs the Democratic Party during podcast interview
• Pennsylvania senator criticized his party’s inability to work with Trump on any issue without facing internal backlash
• Fetterman cited bipartisan military operations and everyday issues as examples where Democrats reflexively oppose Trump
• Statement highlights growing Democratic leadership vacuum and intensifies intra-party tensions heading into 2026 midterms

 

Mud season 2026

 Mud season 2026

Warm temps Monday and overnight melted a bunch of the snow here finally, Tuesday March 17th we had some good wind gusts, clearing a lot of snow from the fields, I expect the winds to dry up some of the mud now.

Spring is coming, I saw a pair of Mallards flying this week, and 1000 or so crows in a field on the way to work. 

The deer have been sparring out in the yard.

Tuesday night a Raccoon came onto the deer-yard eating along side of two deer that came into the yard. They weren't quite sure what to make of the newcomer.

Pussy Willows are starting to open. There were Robins patrolling the field too.

It's the 1st day of spring today Friday March 20th!

Sunday trip over to Mom & Dads, I checked the dryer vent, other than the bird guard had fallen off, it looked good.  Replaced the hinge on one of their kitchen cabinets, realigned the door on another and tightened several others. I oiled up their front door latch that was sticking.

We picked up 8 bags of pellets at Tractor Supply

Spring is here. That means my fishing season is going to start opening up. 

We saw several pairs of Canadian Geese on the ground this weekend. 

Rose saw some Red Winged Blackbirds on Monday, it seems the sparrows are already nesting in the Martin houses.

The deer have been coming in around 7PM before dark lately.

Crocuses and Daffodils are up out of the ground

It seems funny, the ground is still quite frozen here and stores Tractor supply, and supermarkets have all their spring plants shrubs, trees, bulbs, and bushes out for sale.

We're hoping for more normal weather this year, last year we had 11+ weekends of rain right through June then drought right up until winter hit.

A fox came through the deer yard Wednesday night, we'd put a deer block out.

Thursday we pulled the feed barrels into the shed, just in case the bears are out of their dens.

Friday I got the sand barrels down to the barn for the winter.  It was a big day Friday, the lawn tractor is officially out of the barn!  I took the first trip around the farm to see what'll need fixing, cutting, trimming, all the 'ings.  We have a few hanging branches that have broken off and are hung up waiting to fall on someone.

I'm charging batteries for the back porch LED light, 10,000 mAh batteries will take a while to charge up, but it's cheaper than disposables. 

Sparrows have been nesting in several houses for a couple weeks now, we have a couple pairs of Bluebirds in houses too. Still waiting for the swallows to arrive.

Experts at AccuWeather have predicted that between 11 and 16 storms will form, with as many as five making direct landfall on the U.S. East Coast or Gulf states. This unsettling forecast serves as a critical reminder that a below-average season in numbers does not equate to a low-risk season for devastation.  

One of my favorite sayings, "Things happen for a reason" 

Despite the fact that they will soon rise up and kill us all, this robot is pretty darned neat. It has only two legs, but it moves amazingly well, just like a certain roadrunner cartoon character we are all familiar with. Roadrunner uses its powered wheels to move in dual mode, inline mode, and even balances on one wheel. It never needs to turn around, because forward, backward, and sideways are human constructs. Then it can lock its wheels and just walk like a human, which includes navigating stairs and ramps. Can Roadrunner dance? Of course! It wouldn't be a robot demonstration without a little dancing.  

Saw a cottontail rabbit on the camera Friday night, so there's still at least one here. 

Lots to do on Saturday, we got a lot done. We've got failed batteries in a couple LED Lights, need to clean the corrosion out of the battery area and replace the batteries, and we're charged the rechargeable batteries in another.  We've changed almost everything now to solar powered LED lights, and are using rechargeable batteries everywhere we can.

Greased the bearings on Rose's windmill 

Air purifier filter was changed, and with the tractor running again I moved all the cinder blocks out to the field storage area.

I need to re-bait the mousetraps, cellar, trailer and attic, the attic ladder is made using rough cut oak, probably 80+ pounds getting it down isn't that hard getting it back up is another story.

I got TurboTax installed and do my TAXES

Saturday night Rose called me out to the dining room there were 10 deer out in the deer yard.

Fox came through around 10pm

Jarrod got Rose a unique birdhouse for Christmas, I'll put it together today so that its post is ready to go in the ground as soon as the ground is thawed out.

The tulips, crocus and daffodils are up out of the ground now, the daffs in the front yard are up 6+" now.  Soon.

The deer were out playing in the field

Deer are a bit leery of the raccoon

We have a fox coming through every couple of days now.

Several local forum neighbors have had TICKS on them or their dogs already, we've got the tick stuff to put down.

We sprayed grass killer around all the birdhouse posts making it easier to mow out back. 

It's supposed to rain this week, we put down a piece of outdoor carpet over the bare ground (Soon to be mud) to help with the dogs tracking in so much dirt.

BEARS, Monday night just about 8:45 pm a large bear showed up in the main field cam VIDEO.

Then at 8:55 pm a smaller scraggly bear ran across the back towards the cove. Glad we pulled the feed barrels in.

Rose noticed all the suet feeders were empty or missing, and one of the big bird feeders was on the ground, Rose got them all put away.

So the bears are back, deer never left, foxes, raccoons, skunks, cotton tail rabbits, we haven't seen or heard the coyotes, perhaps they moved on.

Putting out the trash Wednesday morning the last vestiges of snow are retreating, we're supposed to get rain the next 4 days so by Sunday all of the snow should be gone.

It's APRIL 1st,   APRIL FOOLS DAY!

 

It's Spring for sure our Tree Swallows arrived on April 1st!  A week early! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trump Tariffs Prove Effective: Study Shows $85 Billion Revenue Boost, Reduced China Dependence, with Minimal GDP Impact 

While 80 percent of Americans disapprove of Congress, 80 percent of voters approve of voter verification. So Congress goes on spring break.

• The American people don’t think very highly of their federal legislature. These days it seems Congress is slightly more popular than syphilis, and less so than measles. Let’s face it, Congress’ action — and inaction — has proven more dangerous than both.
• Put the latest polling in perspective. More people trust mass media (28%) — speaking of communicable diseases — than approve of Congress (16%), according to the latest Gallup polls. That’s an 80 percent disapproval rating, with the remaining 4 percent apparently in the “if you don’t have anything nice to say …” camp. Congress’ approval rating is just 3 percentage points above its all-time low. 
• It’s pretty ugly. 
• You know what’s really popular? Voter ID.  

ANALYSIS: The Reason the Democrats – and Only the Democrats – Side with Iran

Leftists turned out in force for Saturday’s “No Kings” protests, which were predictably chock full of freaks and senior citizens and were once again noticeably lacking the diversity that Democrats love to crow about.

• “Trump Derangement therapy sessions,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson branded the third edition of the astroturf uprising against President Donald J. Trump, basically an extended temper tantrum about an election that didn’t go the way that Democrat misfits and spiteful mutants wanted.
• The White House spokesperson also suggested that the only people who care about the protests are in the media, and the presstitutes spent the weekend hyperventilating about the turnout while normal people couldn’t care less. 

“I think that the economy, and the political system, has literally become such a disaster I don’t know if it’s possible to save it.” – James Woods 

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation Wednesday to crack down on illegal immigrants participating in welfare fraud despite fierce objections from most Democrats.

• Lawmakers voted 231-186 to approve the Deporting Fraudsters Act, with 186 Democrats opposing the measure. 

“Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we’re being taxed to death.” – The Late Chuck Norris