Monthly Archives: May 2010

Garden experiment

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Who would have thought I’d get into gardening! It’s amazing what living in the country does to someone. Well, living in the country and having a loving and supportive husband

I decided to plant a garden this year. Here’s what I’ll try growing: sweet corn, carrots, chives, radishes, cantaloupes, cucumbers, zucchinis, spaghetti squashes, and tomatoes.

Two days ago, Gary ran the cultivator over the 15′ x 18′ patch that will become my garden. Of course, it started raining the next day. The weather should clear up some time next week so we can proceed with the rest of the preparations and the seeding.

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In the meantime, a friend told me to start some of the seeds in the house (zucchinis, cucumbers, cantaloupes, and spaghetti squashes). Let’s hope everything goes well and that we’ll get nice fresh vegetables!

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Game camera

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Approximately two months ago, we bought a game camera. For those unfamiliar with them, they are cameras with motion detection. So each time something moves within the camera’s range, it takes a picture (or video). We have had some pictures and videos of foxes, rabbits, and, of course, our horses before we fenced them out of the trees (more on this later). However, we didn’t get many pictures over that period of time.

Two days ago, we decided to move the camera again and did we get lucky. A doe stopped by to eat breakfast right in front of the camera!


With the camera, we are discovering that there’s more activity in our little wood than we thought. It sure is neat to live in the country.