Thursday, October 18, 2007

Wednesday, 10/17/07

Not a good day for getting anything done outside, so I stayed inside and worked on catching up with some of my bookkeeping.

This morning we were in a cloud, with "fog" heavy enough that you might as well call it "mist". Conditions degraded to light rain during most of the afternoon, although we did get a heavier shower or two around six o'clock. The south wind has been building steadily. Thunderstorms were in our forecast, but they missed us. There was quite a bit of severe thunderstorm activity and even tornado warnings north of us in Missouri.

Obviously, we are on the verge of getting another cold front. It's supposed to slowly seep its way into our area on Thursday. It isn't much of a cold front and is only forecast to drop out low temperatures into the lower fifties Thursday night, and on down into the upper forties Friday night. Our high temperatures are still supposed to climb into the upper seventies or lower eighties during the day, though.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Leopard Frog



A leopard frog hiding in the asparagus bed out in the garden.
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Tuesday, 10/16/07

Spent most of the day trying to get back into my daily groove (rut?) after returning from an art fair in Springfield (MO) this past weekend.

This afternoon I did a little cleaning up out in the garden. I cut down and removed the dried corn stalks and tossed them on the brush pile out behind the garden. We'd decided to save the dried out ears of corn that remained on the stalks for the squirrels. Evidently, the squirrels got wind of our plan and decided to go ahead and help themselves. This morning I saw a squirrel carrying an ear of corn across the yard. When I got out to the garden this afternoon, I noticed several bare corn cobs laying around the garden. And, when I started removing the stalks, I found no ears of corn that still had any corn left on them. They'd been shucked and eaten on the stalks. Nothing except a bare cob remained.

I really don't have a problem with the squirrels salvaging the corn we didn't get eaten, but now that the corn is gone and the squirrels have identified the garden as a source of food, I certainly hope that they don't move on to our remaining tomatoes.
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