Weekend of July 21

• Friday-Monday
• Tom Jr. & Sr.
• Scrapple
• Mom, Scott & Liora
• Hersch & Aria
• Bought Stihl Kombi weed whacker
• Trimmed all around pond
• Baby robin
  
• Saw baby painted turtle in pond
• Saw 2-ft. snapping turtle in pond
• Picked blackberries to make wine
• Ralph new cap, bong, vest with multiple pockets
• Gets him name "Pockets" Ditchburn
• Al and Marc in boat to Al's island--can't make it.
• Flowers on zucchini plants
• Potatoes from field in roast beef
• New propane tank
• Marc hurts back throwing beer cap
• Dead fish on beach
• Bats feeding inside of barn during dinner
• Bat outside of roof during the day--heat?
• Pandora Sphinx moth
• Dropped chainsaw off to be serviced
• Blood-red moon
• Moth mullein
• Jam with Hersch, drums set up
• Spring we dug is dry
• Small animal skull

Weekend of July 11, 2008

• Baby swallows have left the nest. Five babies. Three parents!
• Black and white checkered bird spotted in elderberry bush, next to house barn.
• Blackberries are ripe.
• Picked ripe peas
• Thinned out the beets
• Put the last rafter on the barn roof. Now ready for strapping.
• Bought a sawmill attachment--not used yet.
• Found dead fish on the beach--carp?
• Marc built a work table for his ax.
• Left Monday morning.
• Ordered Stihl Kombi trimmer.
• Did oil change on the Polaris ATV
• Kevin gave Marc a power washer--not working.
• Found female Blandings turtle on the road on the way to the beach. Brought home in the cooler and released her to the pond.
• Grant/Denise visited in Cadillac
• Big poplar sphinx moth near the water pump.
• Saw gray tree frog.
• Found a hydrometer in the barn.
• Scarlet runner beans are flowering.
• Ordered service manual and toolkit for Polaris ATV.
• Snapping turtle we released into the pond was sunning himself in the middle of the "road" leading to the trailers.
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