It is a well-known fact that groundhogs frequent gardens, but as many gardeners will tell you, they are not there to admire your begonias or to comment politely, but needlessly, on “how well the zuchinnis and squash are coming in.”  Aside from the exceptional melancholy artistic-type groundhogs who sit quietly in the corner sketching still lifes, groundhogs [...]

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Nothing brands the memory more like fresh blood on white snow.  A few months ago my friend (and fellow blogger here) discovered his favorite rooster dead.  At first, the death appeared to be from natural causes.  Jorge’s lifeless body [...]

Divine intervention may be keeping our fruit trees and bushes alive for now, but that doesn’t mean the beaver isn’t around.  I spotted this piece of work just today (April 11th).  It’s only a matter of time before providence loses interest in our peach tree and the beaver becomes attracted to it along with several [...]

You might remember awhile back that I planted several fruit trees, a few of which have suffered the assaults of a certain local beaver.  The peach tree, which was gnawed down to pathetic, little stump was particularly disheartening.  I didn’t think it would come back, but happily in the short span of one year it [...]

After the DC area got hit with another massive snow storm, my mind turned to the upcoming spring and summer.  Despite what the groundhog says, spring is fast approaching.  Soon the crocus will bloom, then the daffodils and hyacinths, the garden will be planted, chicks will hatch, and the warmth will return.
It is hard to [...]

Late last night the snow started.  It was a very wet snow, thus, it stuck to everything making for a very beautiful morning.  We got about 4 inches.  I also noticed several tracks in the fresh snow all over the yard.  I think that between the death of Jorge and the high number of wild animal [...]

There is something spooky about going from the house to the barn at night.  It is always a bit scary.  It is not a long walk from the house to the barn, but on two sides of you there are thick woods.  Woods filled with all manner of wild beasts.  Normally, I hurry myself along [...]

We will never be sure if it was indeed a fox that caused Watson’s premature death, but that is our hypothesis.  It seems awfully coincidental that two days after Bunny’s cardiac arrest, we discover that a fox has been lurking around the property.
Today this same fox has been apprehended.  It is not that we have [...]

We think we might have found the creature who did in bunny, albeit indirectly.  He’s been lurking in the shadows of the Piscataway Acres animal pens.  Yesterday was the first human sighting of horrific Mr. Fox, though we are almost certain he was sighted before by Watson the rabbit.  It is not unusual for rabbits [...]

that lived in a shoe.   More specifically an old work boot that I have in the shed.  It should have been in the trash, but if it can be used to lodge a bunch of homeless squawkers, or squatters rather, then far be it from me to deny them that courtesy.