Weekend plans

 

Birdhouse Clean-out Day Saturday 3/28

We took down 10 or so bird houses, took them apart and cleaned them out, replacing only one house with a bad rotted roof, most were close to full to the roof with grass, sticks and chicken/turkey feathers, one had bluejay feathers inside.  

 We may not get to completely empty the rest of the houses this year as it's getting time for the birds to start nesting.  The effort took quite a while, but we figured out the fastest way to do it by the time we reached the field. The best way was to take the house completely off the pole first, then unscrew the house bottom board, then pull out the nesting debris and reverse the process to get the house back up. Rinse, repeat... With the two of us working on the houses we got all of them around the house and the ones in the main field completed.  We found one box that appeared to have had a mouse living in it, as there were rodent tunnels throughout the nesting materials inside. No mouse though.

The house sparrows for the most part being the culprits filling the houses with sticks, grass and feathers all the way to the top, I can only imagine what the boxes on the front of the barn look like...

Saw a couple of bluebirds collecting materials for a nest they are looking at the houses along the road heading for the pond.

I assembled the new Martin house we picked up at Tractor Supply, I like the design, we'll see if it attracts some new tenants this year, we won't put it up until the swallows come in.

Oh, and we have Crocuses flowering on the south side of the house, our Daffodils are 10" tall and flower heads are coming up

Our Broccoli seedlings are kind of leggy, I lowered the LED lights, and added a second LED Light source. I've been brushing the tops of the seedlings in an effort to try to make them sturdier, a fan is also said to help, only time will tell.  Time to thin the seedlings too.

This week 3/29 we're out and about looking at used cars, Roses car won't pass inspection, we don't want to put another $500-$1000 into a 2008 vehicle with 87k miles on it.  Ended up at Toyota in MHT, looking at a 2018 RAV4, we walked out on Monday, they dropped the price by $2,500 and we went back and bought this one.  Yeah, another crossover, trucks are just to expensive...

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