Category: SA Times

There are scrub jays about.  At least I think that’s what they are.  Could be Mexican jays.  Anyway, they are pretty and interesting.  Looks like our hummers have decamped for a warmer clime.  They need to since it got down into the 30’s  last night.      We lost another guinea the other night.  Chris is hatching out keats and in the wee hours one morning he decided the one in the incubator that had hatched the afternoon before was looking listless and needed to be moved to where he could have food and water.  Chris didn’t want to put it in with the bigger keats so he put it in a box by itself.  He needed a source of warmth so he decided to borrow the light from guinea tower. Continue reading “Scrub jays” →

Friday afternoon we drove to Garland to help celebrate Vivian’s second birthday. Continue reading “Birthdays – Vivian and Rebecca” →

One day this week Joyce enjoyed sitting at the kitchen window and watching a family of foxes cavort in the meadow.  There were two adults and two nearly-grown pups.  Unfortunately when it came time to put the guineas up one was missing.  Continue reading “Fox pack” →

Greetings from Panhandle Rain Forest.  Just kidding.  All this rain is making me silly.  We got another inch and a quarter Wednesday night/Thursday morning  and it’s been pretty cool, down to 45 Saturday morning, a little taste of fall.  It’s time to start mowing.  I was hoping it would rain in my pre-emergent so I wouldn’t have to water it with a sprinkler. Continue reading “Yet more rain” →

It’s been a pretty good week on our little corner of this spinning top we call Earth.  First, it was a short work week because of the Labor Day holiday.  Then Wednesday evening we got an inch of rain.  It started before I left the office and rained off and on through the early evening, which means not only did it come slow enough to soak in,it started early enough so that I didn’t have to go out and work after dinner.  Also, the Cowoboys went up to New York and spoiled the Giants little aren’t-we-the-greatest celebration on national TV.

With the rain a couple of weeks ago and then this week’s shower, you are probably wondering about the weeds.  Well, never fear, you can almost hear them growing.  I loaded up with Weed-B-Gone and assaulted them Saturday.  I also put down another another bag of pre-emergent.  I foresee spraying quite a bit over the next few weeks.  I’ve learned that fall spraying to kill the weeds before it gets to cold for WBG to be effective goes a long way to controlling the weeds the following spring. Continue reading “More Rain On SA” →