What you don’t want to find crawling on you.
Quite small but still bitey. Continue reading
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Longleaf sky
Strolling the driveway one evening,
a pair of longleaf I did spy
Took their picture, saw them rising,
Candelabra to the sky.
The bog garden and the Brown Dog, August 2017
Start with floating bottom in a pond…
Gretchen picking some bog from the floating bottom
The bog she picked
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Halbaradleaf Halberdleaf Rosemallow: same plant, two different days
Mighty Mule gate opener closer
The old part was missing something. Can you spot it?
My compliments to Mighty Mule support for diagnosing this problem immediately on the telephone after I’d tried numerous other ways to fix it.
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Five weeks of a banana tree
Gretchen got a dozen or so sticks of banana trees. Here’s one that happens to be in front of a camera.
Okra, cucumber, yellow squash, and more at Barnes Drugs in Valdosta today
Farmacy is today. 1:30-3:30 at Barnes Drugs. Corner of Savannah and Patterson in Valdosta. I will have okra and grits and lots of other delicious stuff. So will Thelma. Don’t miss out.
Okra Paradise Farms
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Solar meter running backwards 2017-05-12
If my electric utility paid me as much as I pay them for electricity, I’d be making a profit from my solar panels. As it is, I profit anyway by paying a lot less, the panels are paid for, and I get to watch the electric meter galloping backwards on a sunny day:
The little bars are moving to the left below the numbers, which means I’m selling solar power to the power company.
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Wren and Chicks 2017-05-11
The porch bucket wren chicks and their proud mama. Gretchen says it’s a Carolina wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus.
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Movie: Feed me! (17M)
Video: Continue reading67th Ham and Eggs show, Lowndes County only one left in U.S. 2017-02-14
The last of a century-old tradition: local ham and eggs, right here in Lowndes County.
When:
10 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017
1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017
Where:
Lowndes County Extension Office
2102 E. Hill Ave., Valdosta, GA
Photo: Michael Rivera, Wikimedia Commons,
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Daniel DeMersseman, VDT, 2017-02-10, Ham and Egg Show tradition returns,
Lowndes County’s annual Ham and Egg Show returns for its 67th year Feb. 14, 15.
The show once spread across every county in Georgia, said Velma Miles, chairman of the Lowndes Improvement Association. “We’re the only one left.”
Miles said the Continue reading