Tag Archives: Blondie

Dig out the dog: Arrow stuck under a storage shed 2023-07-15

We came home after a day on the river and had to dig out the dog.

Honeybun, Blondie, and Arrow stuck under a storage shed

You can hardly see the little pooch, but you can sure hear her complaining about being stuck under a storage shed.

I got a shovel and dug the opening out more.

She’s fine.

No dogs were harmed in the making of this video.

How she got under there is still a mystery.

-jsq

Dogs like water 2023-06-18

Turns out dogs like water.

Arrow, Honeybun, Blondie, at water spigot 2023-06-18

Especially Arrow.

Here is a YouTube video playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLk2OxkA4UvwDyXxn-2JbD8yV5vrShmCK

Facebook video version:
https://www.facebook.com/OkraParadiseFarms/posts/pfbid0LsEEoXSKQfFEztWjQcorn3g7d1nUPhGgiHmYBifQZhXmRMdQ52SNX5jzkEhVXHg5l

And some still pictures. Continue reading →

Maypop fruit 2023-05-29

The maypop Gretchen staked three weeks ago has climbed up the stake.

Maypop, fruit, dogs 2023-05-29

Gretchen tied it on some more. Continue reading →

Canebrake rattlesnake relocated 2023-03-21

This canebrake rattlesnake was too close to the farm workshop at Okra Paradise Farms, so I used a hoe to put it in a cardboard box and took it far away.

Snake, hoe, box 2023-03-21

How? I show the snake a hoe. It either gets in the box with a nudge from the hoe, or it gets in the box in two pieces.

Here’s a video playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLk2OxkA4UvxPbeykZkfos36dRbcvIIeu Continue reading →

Dignified dogs 2023-03-10

Always neatly lined up.

Blondie, Honeybun, and Arrow

-jsq

Seven-acre burn 2022-12-30

Another successful prescribed burn at the end of 2022.

This was actually the burn of the area in which the Treat’s Rain Lilies have since come up, six weeks later.

Fire and ash 2022-12-30

There’s more to do if we ever get good conditions again, as in dry for enough days after a rain.

For those who are not familiar with prescribed burns, they are necessary to the health of pine forests. Pine trees, especially longleaf pine trees, are more resistant to fire than other trees. So burns favor pines, and without burning, oaks, sweetgums, etc. take over. And burning temporarily cuts back the gallberry, blackberry, and Smilax vine thickets that get too thick for wildlife. Quail and other birds have already moved into areas of previous burns.

Here’s a video playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLk2OxkA4UvyyTZYEfjLstI_3DK0QDieb

Continue reading →