Relaxing
Ah yes ... lying right there in the middle of my bunchberry dogwood patch. Why not. Since my bunchberry dogwoods are so very tasty! Sigh.I'm not sure where the other two deer are ... they always hang together…
Lessons Learned: Slash … it isn’t all bad.
With our Forestry class coming to an end, I wanted to share some takeaway lessons from our class. One of the big lessons I have learned has to do with Slash. What is Slash? Slash is the leftover…
It depends … on what your objectives are.
As the Fall semester is coming to an end … so also our Forestry class is coming to a conclusion. Hubby and I have very much enjoyed our Forestry class! When we and our classmates first started our…
What you think about the most becomes the lens …
What you think about the most becomes the lens through which you view the world! TaDa!! Here you can see my socks! And you will never guess what my very first “blink” reaction is every time I look down…
Scratching each other the wrong way
I was sitting here typing up a blog post when the “dogs” started barking on my phone. (it’s my Ring driveway camera notification) Amazon deliveries don’t usually come at 8am … so it must be a deer … …
Is there a reason to have hope?
Behind our house is a deep ravine. Hubby and I have only ever been down into the ravine once. When our forestry professor came for our site visit a couple of weeks ago and we told him this,…
Are you weighed down?
The frost is finally bringing the leaves down. All summer I have been looking forward to using the Bigleaf maple leaves from the back to “mulch” the forest area in the front. But I have been so burdened…
What is true?? And what is not?
At our forestry field trip this past weekend we were in our first rotation about invasive weed species. Our teacher stepped over to the bushes and with her hand pruners she took three clippings from the “nasty blackberries”…
Steal … kill … and destroy!
Hubby and I had our forestry field trip this past weekend. It was a great time! Our forestry class met at the property of a lady from our class, who lives about 30 min. away. She and her…
The power of rewards!
I’m fascinated by the power of rewards. If you’ve followed the blog much at all you will know that I love to take photos of slugs, and snails, and mushrooms, and flowers, and tree leaves, etc. … Last…