Thursday, July 5, 2018

July ... Long Period of 90+ Degrees plus 5" Rain and Still Raining!


HAPPY 4th OF JULY ... GOD BLESS AMERICA!
(Emma, Mya, Willow)

90+ degrees and everything is dry (except the Meadow)... time to
 put "Sump Pump"into the pond for watering!
Working on cutting up "Beaver" downed tree!
(tree with brown leaves across pond)
Emma loves Wild Blueberries  💙
Watching 2 Blue Heron circle pond!
Sister Love  💕

Willow investigating ducks!
Emma checking to see if the Meadow "Breakfast Nook" is dry yet!
"Nope mom, not yet!"
Box gardens are coming along ... several handfuls green beans
and tiny summer squash/tomatoes/cucumbers!
Every year the pond has a non-toxic "Algae Bloom" and the
girls have swimming restrictions close to the dock!
(https://www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/81962.html)

Meadow is still muddy as water recedes , so gated to keep girls out!
(but Willow & Mya found another way in ... thru the flower bed!)
Peg, Jim & Beckett came for a visit!
(they brought the girls yummy Smoked Knuckle bones)

7/18/18 ... All night & All day rain good for everything but
the Meadow, which is flooded again ... Beaver & I are back
doing daily Dam work again ... Ducks/ducklings love the flooding!
We're in TROUBLE now ... we have a Beaver Pup ... guess our
Resident Beaver is a SHE ... brave lil' thing right up by dock
and boats!!!
Old Dock!
New Dock ... made from salvaged Agility equipment slats ...
Golden Approved!