Am headed out to Meijer Gardens in a minute to meet up with family, but I wanted to get this posted before leaving. There will probably be pics later of the garden visit.
I’ve been hard at work on Project Ant, as you will see in the video. I mention innumerable bugs I’m unveiling as the bark is peeled away from the logs. I will try to capture a video of them but no promises.
Hope you enjoy the video. Will be reading/listening to others’ blogs later.
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enjoy your outing Li! :-) I’m going to watch your video now!
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Thanks, and cool :)
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Wow, Lisa. You have a huge yard. It looks like you’re getting everything ready for winter. Good job with all the logs. You should have plenty of firewood. You need a good rest after all this work.
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Thank you, Colleen. I need to split most of them before they’d fit in the wood burner. It’s definitely giving me a sense of accomplishment.
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Lovely tour, Lisa. And, jeez, by the time you’re done with your bugs and ants project, you’ll be an expert. I’m also impressed with your exercising cat. Hope you enjoyed your visit of Meijer Gardens! :-)
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Thank you, Christian. Counting them up I realize now that the grass was hiding way more than I estimated. Dotty uses the wheel on an off all day now, after her week-long seclusion a few months ago. Meijer Gardens was wonderful. Got several good pics. Bugs gone wild there too!
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:-)
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There’s a lot going on! I’m glad you got rain, it looks great. How big will the witch hazel get? Are they trees or bushes? (K)
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I think witch hazel are considered bushes and get to be 10-12′ tall and wide. They should make an excellent hedge when they mature.
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Yes–I can see that.
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That poison ivy hurts just looking at it. My legs are coverred with scars when I somehow got into that a few weeks ago…Martha and I had rashes. No one but us two. She is alergic to everything. Sad about your angel with a broken wing…that is a good name for a song!
You have a lot to do but you have it under control.
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Oh no, Max, on you and Martha getting into the poison ivy. That stuff is no joke. Yes, that reminds me of the Willie Nelson song, “Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground” which I love. Thanks for the vote of confidence :)
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I can’t believe she was alergic to it also! I asked the doctor about it…he confirmed it was poison ivy.
I knew it wasn’t fleas…because Bailey and Jen didn’t have it.
Those logs…that sucks about the ants.
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Loved walking with you around your yard and seeing how the plants are doing! Fun to see a bit of your kitty on her wheel, too. :)
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Glad you enjoyed the tour, Barbara, and yes, she’s on a regular fitness plan now lol
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You have sure put a lot of work into keeping things growing and in good condition. Oh those ants and bugs! Hope with winter they will be gone for good.
hee hee – kitty exercise! <3
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You’ve a huge yard and lots of plants! Enjoy the tomatoes and have a wonderful family outing
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It’s a place where critters can gather without fear of harm from humans. Thank you on the tomatoes and yes, the family outing was wonderful. The grandbaby is jabbering a mile a minute now.
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Awesome! Isn’t it the best feeling in the world?
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<3
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Nice tour! We had an infestation of ants on a tree by the creek. We didn’t know about it until a strong wind keeled the tree over into the creek! It looked healthy, but it was dry inside and I even found a huge ant who was probably wondering what we were doing with its food source once it got removed from the creek!
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Thank you, Jules. After removing the peony bed, the sand pile from the larch dig, and de-barking and rolling the logs out of that spot, I was very surprised that there were relatively few of the wood-eating ants at all. They were mostly the small brown ones and zillions of their eggs, roly-poly bugs, centipedes, and lots of long flat white and brown worms/larvae (maybe centipede larvae?) They’re probably already deep underground. In Spring the games will begin :) About your tree falling into the creek, it sounds like the colony hollowed it right out and then the wind keeled it over. I don’t want to say I hate wood-eating ants, but they aren’t on my list of favorite insects. Where did you haul it to? I’m of 2 minds with the bark which is still full of bugs I’m sure. Part of me wants to haul it over to the brush pile and another part wants to burn it.
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The first two times we had trees fall and block the creek we were able to get the tree(s) out we just chopped up the wood and put it in piles (which after some flooding floated away). This last time we had to have help and they carted it (99% of it) away.
The tree seemed solid, but it was dry dead. While we have a fireplace, we don’t use it all that much. And I still have some wood left from when I actually bought wood. As for your buggies… Hard call. There are enough bugs aren’t there? Perhaps you have an outside pit where you could safely burn it and enjoy it at the same time?
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I have one of those concave metal saucer things that sits in a metal frame, with a mesh cover on it. I think you’re right with the bark, burning is best. It’s kind of soggy now but in the “firepit” out of the rain it should dry out enough to burn.
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Good luck :)
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