Anybody else had to get one of these?
![[With bolt]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-17--frankentire/20200617_170715.jpg)
Thanks to Adel Tire for the fix, including a new inner tube.
-jsq
Tag Archives: Gretchen Quarterman
Wasps in the pond 2020-06-14
![[Wasps]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-14--nests-azaleas-sycamore-pond-wasps-tanager-spider/20200614_195446.jpg)
Box turtle and oblivious Yellow Dog 2020-06-11
Apparently box turtles don’t like blackberries, even when Gretchen offers them. And Yellow Dog doesn’t notice turtles.
![[Gretchen offers blackberry to turtle]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-11--turtle-dog/20200611_112541.jpg)
Gretchen offers blackberry to turtle
Gretchen finished weeding tomatoes 2020-06-03
Gretchen finished weeding the tomatoes.
![[Weeded tomatoes]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-03--garden-weeding-tomatoes-finished/20200603_125604.jpg)
Well, those tomatoes. She already weeded the other ones.
And I found those cucumbers in the okra.
-jsq
Weeding tomatoes and cucumbers 2020-06-01
![[Tomatoes and cucumbers]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-01--garden/20200601_121710.jpg)
Mystery pond berries 2020-05-03
What are these mystery berries that grow on the beaver dam and on islands in the pond?
![[Closeup]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-05-03--butterfly-snake-dogs-cormorant-heron-beavers-dogs-pond-longleaf-fencewire/20200503_150506.jpg)
We think they’re probably some species of Smilax. Continue reading
Dogs in beaver pond
Yellow Dog and Brown Dog cooling off in a beaver pond.
![[Dogs in water]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-05-03--butterfly-snake-dogs-cormorant-heron-beavers-dogs-pond-longleaf-fencewire/20200503_141956.jpg)
Gretchen is represented by her camera there on the right.
-jsq
Porch wren chicks 2020-05-17
The porch wrens built their nest so dark inside I never even saw their eggs, but now the chicks are hatched, four or five of them.
![[Flash: four or five chicks]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-05-17--porch-wren-chicks/20200517_110608.jpg)
Had to use my phone’s flash to see them.
![[One barely visible]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-05-17--porch-wren-chicks/20200517_110520.jpg)
Gretchen actually discovered them.
-jsq
Serpent 2020-05-08
The least menacing snake you will see today.
![[Not moving very fast]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-05-08--serpent/20200508_082734.jpg)
At the entrance to the Cypress Swamp. Brown Dog and Yellow Dog didn’t even notice.
-jsq
Gretchen and her Sycamore
She transplanted that tree when it wasn’t knee-high.
![[Gretchen, her Sycamore]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-05-03--butterfly-snake-dogs-cormorant-heron-beavers-dogs-pond-longleaf-fencewire/20200503_155048-rot.jpg)
Don’t tell her other trees she likes this one better. Continue reading