Alanbileysfeathercut
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An ex girlfriend had a plank of wood in her bedroom, used to nail it to my backside to stop me falling in*
*a very old joke ,I know
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*a very old joke ,I know
Rita_Poon
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The carpenter ant is above the reflection of the sun, the silk and is in and below the reflection. Is it possibly the angle that has involved more reflection that has pressured the sensor and thrown the detail?
The old ones always the best
Erm..pass
Sorry, I came in late. I take it you're not talking about one of your children?
It's the first time I've heard it!The old ones always the best
I was at the grandkids' soccer training in Tennessee last week. I was the only person sat in a covered, wooden, shaded seating roundel thing. It wasn't just my presence that ensured I was alone, it was the mini swarm of Carpenter Bees flying in and around it. They were trying to kill one another (a few lay dead) as I was trying, without success, to get good close-ups.
I was never worried about being stung, even when a couple came close to my face. I don't know if I'd have been so confident had it been wasps but I've always found if I left them alone they'd leave me alone.
I did manage to get a photo of a Carpenter trapped between the back door and the screen a couple of days earlier. Obviously I set it free. I don't know if it was male or female but I christened it Karen as it sailed away.
Who would have thought that a bee could handle a yacht?
One morning, in the space of ten minutes, I had this lot showing on my Merlin app in the Tennessee back yarden:
Bluejay, Eastern Towhee, American Robin (obviously), Northern Cardinal, Song Sparrow, Coopers Hawk, Carolina Chickadee, American Goldfinch, Tufted Titmouse, Northern Cowbird, Red-winged Blackbird and a Chipping Sparrow.
I never laid eyes on any of them. Mind you, there was also a Northern Mockingbird, so maybe it was mimicking all of the others just to wind me up!
This morning's fox on the substation roof. I can never be sure if he's the original Ferdy, who first appeared there, as there are sometimes up to four sleeping there, but he certainly looks like him.
Already printed a copy of the close-up and added it to my to-do drawings.
Already printed a copy of the close-up and added it to my to-do drawings.
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More cacti blooms that I forgot to include in my last post. This one went nuts (it's also more mature and in a larger pot). I start (no watering from early November until then as they go dormant in the winter) watering with a tomato fertilizer dilution (approx half-strength) about twice in March for a bloom boost; worked, eh? If anyone is curious, all these different colours come from Echinopsis hybridization ('Schick' hybrids), which have been cross-bred into all sorts of different colour variants, some of which you can see here:
Schick hybrid varieties (w/photos)
One pot I'm going to start this month using pups will be a mix of all our hybrids (about 7) so, when they eventually bloom, it'll be like a bouquet. The unfortunate thing is, here in Arizona, they need to be out of direct sun so these are under a tree that does well here and provides a lot of heavily filtered sun in the summer (Lacebark Elm), but the birds end up crapping all over the cacti and the pot as they escape the heat of the day in the tree; downsides of providing a proper microclimate in the back yard
Schick hybrid varieties (w/photos)
One pot I'm going to start this month using pups will be a mix of all our hybrids (about 7) so, when they eventually bloom, it'll be like a bouquet. The unfortunate thing is, here in Arizona, they need to be out of direct sun so these are under a tree that does well here and provides a lot of heavily filtered sun in the summer (Lacebark Elm), but the birds end up crapping all over the cacti and the pot as they escape the heat of the day in the tree; downsides of providing a proper microclimate in the back yard
Cracking photo that mate.
The roof will be lovely and warm from all the sunshine we`ve had lately.
Thanks. I've got loads of photos of the foxes that have slept there over the years. I assume the electric substation is only there to service the 49-apartment Retirement Living building in which we live - were one of the first who moved here when it was completed in 2017. You'll notice that he's sleeping in the shadows as I imagine the tarmac top is a bit too warm!
This guy is a regular visitor. Less energetic than usual - normally jumps the fence.
This guy is a regular visitor. Less energetic than usual - normally jumps the fence.
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