June 8-10

To avoid having to spend two days mowing the lawn again, I made a trip up to take care of the lawn and do a couple of other projects. It has been raining and the temperature has been warm so most of the garden is up. The potatoes are still waiting to peak out. We may have a problem with the recently planted asparagus as the rain washed the soil over the plants. Time will tell.

It appears we have a lack of rabbits this year which is a good thing. As I drove in the driveway on Tuesday night there was a large owl sitting by the yard light pole. He may have something to do the eliminating the herd. The Sandhill Cranes are also back but there seems to be a lack of deer, another good thing for gardening. As I was mowing the lawn I almost ran over a fawn that was laying at the NE corner of the barn. Unfortunately it was dead, probably still born as it was really small. Other sightings, a blue bird, an eagle sitting on the field down the road eating something (I assume it was little birds or eggs as some birds were dive bombing it which had little effect on scaring it away) and a large pine snake crawling under the grainery. It's probably the same one Norb came face to face with when looking in the attic of the chicken house.