by Joyce had a bucket of chicken litter she’d cleaned out of the chicken house in the chicken yard and yesterday I loaded it in my tractor trailer to spread around some trees. I set it outside the chicken yard gate so I could close the gate and a mouse jumped out of it. It went running first one way then another but eventually it ran back in the chicken yard, which was a mistake. A chicken saw it and apprehended it just before it escaped under the chicken house. It wasn’t long before all of the chickens were fighting over it. Needless to say the game of snatch the mouse was sort of hard on the mouse. I didn’t stay to see which chicken finally won the prize.
We had several pretty nice days this past week and yesterday was one of them. We had gotten another load of granite and I spread that around, then moved one the of the dirt mounds I’d built a few weeks ago and decided I didn’t like back to the mounds in the pasture. There is more than a little trial and error to the landscaping I’m doing in the front.
I think it was last Sunday evening Joyce and were walking back from the neighbors where we’d had our traditional blackeyed peas, rice and spinach New Year’s Day dinner when we heard an owl hooting. I think it was in the big cypress west of our house. We caught a glimpse of it flying away but couldn’t tell much about it. We continued to hear it hoot through the evening so it didn’t fly far.
The weeds are enjoying the moisture we’ve had recently. I’m trying to take advantage of calm, sunny days to apply Roundup to them. It’s too cool for a broadleaf weed killer but I think Roundup can kill them though it takes a long time. Several weeks ago I experimented on some weeds with Roundup when it was 32 degrees. I think they are beginning to show the effects. The weeds grow very slowly so it takes a long time for the effects of Roundup to show up in cold weather. Though they grow slowly this time of year, they grow constantly and once the weather begins to warm in early spring they can really take off. Hopefully I can curtail them before then.
Yesterday after unloading the granite from the pickup to the trailer in my driveway, I moved the pickup down to the shop but didn’t put it in the shop. When I started hauling the unwanted mound from the front yard to the pasture mounds I passed the pickup and saw the taillights flashing. Someone had turned on the emergency flasher. I turned it off but didn’t notice that the headlights were on. Later in the afternoon when I started to put the pickup in the shop, it wouldn’t start. Fortunately there was time to put a charger on it before it got dark. I never saw who was messing with the pickup but I have my suspicions.