James and Harley swimming

Harley and the boys have been having a blast this summer in the pool together.   James and Harley this morning...

Deer herd update

We haven't seen the bulk of the herd other than a single or a pair come in lately.  This Doe came in the other day late afternoon.

Fireflies

Fireflies, lightning bugs, whatever you call them, we hit the jackpot this year.

We noticed there appeared to be an abundance of the bugs in the spring before they started lighting up, they were everywhere, harmless but everywhere nonetheless, we'd never seen them in these quantities before, conditions must have been perfect.

Tonight Rose had the boys call me from the living room to see.  The entire back field looked like a concert with tens of thousands of lighters flickering.  I couldn't believe there were so many lighting up, I did notice they were simply flashing in the grass not flying lit up.  Rose said earlier she'd seen them flying up and down in some mating ritual.

I hope they'll continue all summer sure makes the field interesting to look at in the evening.

Happy Fathers Day

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99 Tiny Stories to Make You Think, Smile and Cry

99 Tiny Stories to Make You Think, Smile and Cry

IDIOTS

Wind powered, Compilation on Vimeo

Compilation on Vimeo



A collection of wind powered autonomous sculptures.

And the sky darkened... Hailstorm!

MAY 2014 HAILSTORM


Well once again we're behind in getting all of the vegetable gardens in, here we are May 25th and we're still cleaning up, there's always to much to do in the spring... maybe we'll get it planted later this weekend.  Sometimes things happen for a reason, sometimes we just need to listen... 

We got a good old fashioned hail storm this evening.  The sky got real dark over towards the Dunbarton/Weare direction, that is never a good thing, all of our bad storms come from that direction.  We heard the thunder then saw the lightning flashing to the Northeast.  I heard the rain start hitting the tin roof on the workshop and ran for the house.

I heard a familiar clicking sound on the windows, HAIL, oh crap

 Dark Skies

 The hailstorm begins

 Amongst the plants out front.

  Hail out in the backyard

 Hail everywhere, 1/4" to quarter size.

 The storm ended with a nice Rainbow though...

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!

American Woodcock strutting his stuff.

American Woodcock strutting his stuff.


YouTube member Stegmeier53 stopped his car to take a picture of an American Woodcock and had "Something About Us" by Daft Punk playing on his radio. The bird danced his away across the road to the beat of the music!