Finally! Locally grown strawberries are delicious.
Turkey hens have been appearing with their chicks. Their numbers will diminish as dictated by the law of the jungle.
Wooh! I felt the magnitude 4.5 earthquake with an epicenter about eight miles northwest of Ottawa, IL. No damage has been reported.
I lost my work gloves last week. This weekend I found one near the little pine cones. Numerous holes had been chewed through it and the cuff was gone. Soon this glove will go to the dump.
Yesterday ants crawled inside the mailbox. A few were crushed by the delivered mail. Most departed after the door was left open to let the sunshine in.
In the course vacuuming the laundry area I lifted a board from its cement block support and discovered a long-abandoned mouse nest.
Tonight's tornado warning meant 25 minutes in the basement. If you don't have a weather alert radio then think about getting a weather alert radio.
For the whole day yesterday and part of today I had my contact lenses switched. Ha-ha!
I failed to get a good photo of a bee after taking nearly 300 shots. They are pretty cool bees.
On the recent Iowa trip I dug out some Ten Foot Pole and other music I hadn't listened to in awhile. Some of the songs are still in my head. Oh, yeah!
Today's top story: a turkey hen was in a tree 20 feet above the ground with four chicks. The chicks were about 10 inches tall. The chicks flew about and jumped on the hen before they all flew out of the tree.
Just on the Wisconsin side of the border, across the Mississippi River from Dubuque, you can stop at a rest area and behold this view of the valley. It is not designated as a scenic overlook.
My grandfather began his trucking business in 1929. To this day he's willing to scoop gravel, sand or dirt any day of the week for customers that drive up.
Based on a sample size of one: in an Iowa restaurant, if you have a choice between a "regular" or a "small" serving, choose "small" unless you're very hungry.
I saw Hidalgo. It rates about a C+, perhaps a bit higher if you favor movies without swearing.
Now it's mosquito season. The local news is warning that there are multitudes of mosquitoes due to the excellent May rains.
"Mosquitoes are relatively fragile insects with an adult life span that lasts about 2 weeks."
Today we made a pepper planter. It also has marigolds in it.
The blue horse was not at the free table today!
I began using a spam filter this week. After three days, it has a perfect record of detecting spam.
