We finally got an inch of rain after a month of nothing.
The pond is at a level normally seen in late August.
Pumpkins that I planted more than a month ago (inside the weed patch) aren't much bigger than the ones that I planted 10 days ago,
Some of the rows germinated nicely and a couple rows have big gaps.
I did a little bit of physical (hoeing) and chemical (roundup) weeding.
On arrival, had this one mouse in a trap out in the barn.
Last visit, I was fighting the thistles by mowing the clover plots.
Those plots look great now.
The rain really helped the clover too.
Last trip I sprayed the Round Ready soybean plots.
And it successfully burned down the weeds leaving just the soybeans.
Unfortunately, I think the deer are eating the soybeans faster than they can grow.
Hopefully a little more rain will get them to jump up. I put this crop in partially to feed the deer but also to knock down the seedbank of weeds in these old plots.
I'm still working to prepare for next year's cape buffalo hunt. Using mink oil on a couple of new leather products.
I'm regularly killing lung sized jugs with the 375 H&H but I need to improve accuracy.
This is how to carry those magnum cartridges and keep them in reach.
Some monarch butterflies are about. This is a butterfly milkweed.
And common milkweed. Both important to the monarchs.
Here's the current progression of the prairie plot.
The fawns are all over all of the cameras.
My annual lament about how the ticks torture these deer.
And some general herd photos.
The bucks are putting on inches of antler right now.
Missed this shot earlier. The developing wineberries (yum).
Fox.
Coyote.
More fox.
And a turkey. I'm not sure where the Tom's went. Only hens on camera now.
Another coyote.
Chores.
Spraying the soybeans.
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