2015

2/10: Fluff acclimating to the long cold winter

2/16: Over 2 feet of snow

2/16: Single digits and below zero at night most of February

March 21: The winter drags on. The sap is barely running. I took Maukie to the vet today. She weighs 19 lbs! Something radical needs to be done. She needs a treadmill.

Feb 25: Maus has an abscess on the right side of his face. It looks like it will drain through his eye. ( It didn't--behind his whiskers)

Loving cooked asparagus on salad

4/10: Today I took down all the sap lines and rinsed them out and bundled them for Ed to pick up.

4/10: Temps in the upper 50's. The first pond survivor heard me singing, swam over to me and jumped out.

Took down all the bird feeders. The bears are waking up.

4/12: I thought I had better get the pond cleaned up before the wood frogs laid their eggs but too late. . .

4/12: Now this newt really is a pond surviver.
I hope she finds a mate.

OK, not thinking. The "pond surviver" (above) was a wood frog and those must have been her eggs. She did not overwinter in the pond. She came out of the woods and to the woods she returned because that is what wood frogs do. There was no evidence of any frogs today. Could it be that no green frogs survived?

June 20: Installed the Euro plate today. It remains to be known if I can get away with it. Heading to Maine tomorrow. Spent a few hours detailing the car.

July 5: Found 6 large reishi today while boating around a lake. They were about 6 feet up on a dead standing hemlock.

July 6: Marinating Reishi in 3 quarts of 100 proof vodka. This is only half. I have to buy more vodka.

July 6: Alan called today to tell me I can buy 4109 Rte 313 for $20,000. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

26 July: my labels

They nest!