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Glossary Of Swamp Hag Terms

Glossary Of Swamp Hag Terms

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  Better late than never… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~This list will Ebb & Flow~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Abscond:  Honey bee jargon.  It means to run away.  Leave home.  Pack up all your honey & pollen bags and get out of Dodge. Addy:  Big black Clydesdale mare. Amanda (Mandy):  Jenny donkey in my childhood and mother to Phineas & Erasmus & Bruno & Sassafras & Nugget. Amulet:  My first Siamese cat.  A combination of a blue and a cholcolate point. Anja:  My Younger Daughter’s second…

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~Solar Flares~

~Solar Flares~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* So I recently learned what “CME” means….. …..Coronal Mass Ejection….. *****(National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Explanation)***** This last weekend there was “one-of-those” or several of those that hurtled towards and hit the earth…on our side of the planet….. It kind of brings you out of your navel-staring moments and makes you look at the broader spectrum of things….. …..like the Universe and stuff….. It puts things in perspective…I guess?  Like…the galaxy’s a pretty…

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*The Coming Steam*

*The Coming Steam*

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* We try to get up early…… For the past months it’s been a regular routine…get up…open up the house…let in the morning air…and let out the night time staleness (i.e. slumbering hound flatulence)….. I’d like to say…I would be comfortable leaving the windows open all night long…but I’m not….. Some of the house’s windows are low…and too close to the outside ground….. Some of the windows have been replaced in the house where…

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~~~Duck Eggs For Breakfast~~~

~~~Duck Eggs For Breakfast~~~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Runner Ducks are seasonal layers….. They lay wonderfully large eggs…in the Springtime….. We’ve been taking advantage of their super-sized eggs this Spring….. Poached eggs for breakfast are the best….. Poached eggs on toast is even better….. Runner Ducks have tiny little ineffective wings…they can’t get off the ground with them….. …..they like mud…and love water….. The ducks have an inability to fly up into the nesting boxes that the chickens use for their…

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A Decking Project

A Decking Project

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I had an idea…a little while ago….. If we had a deck…outside the back porch door then…(at the very least)…the hounds would have to traverse over it before coming inside the house….. …..before dropping all of the sand that was Velcro’ed to their coats and feet while they were outside….. Maybe…(hopefully)…the pack will ultimately prefer to lay on the deck…rather than wallowing and rolling in the dirt….. Well…that was my idea anyway….. And…

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~When The Party’s Over~

~When The Party’s Over~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* In the past…(and currently)…… …..we’ve been the roadside rest stop for buzzards….. There’s something appealing about our land….. …..(I suppose that’s a bit macabre)…(and maybe I should be a little bit insulted)….. Nice roosts…nice shade…nice stagnant water source….. Some people don’t like vultures…(with good reason)….. Sometimes the birds have less that socially acceptable behaviors…(by a long shot)….. …..like their eating habits & taste palette…which could be considered less than popularly desirable….. But they…

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~~*~~May Day~~*~~

~~*~~May Day~~*~~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* It’s the First of May………….May Day….. May Day celebrations date back to ancient times….. *****(Some May Day Festivity Fun Facts)***** Bonfires…Maypoles…Flowers…Fertility…Stews…Barbecues…Baskets…Dancing…May Wine…and the May Queen….. It’s a holiday that’s halfway between the Spring Equinox and the Summer Solstice….. …..and the rhythm of the Seasons continues….. The temperature down here is starting to hotten up…we’re running headlong into summer….. And I don’t want to….. …..let the whining begin….. Graphical Tropical Weather Outlooks   |…

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~Here We Go Round~

~Here We Go Round~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* We don’t have a mulberry bush…we have a mulberry tree….. Normally it bears fruit prolifically….. The squirrels…crows…and general bird population…and ME do battle to collect the berries….. This year was no exception…with regard to the quantity of mulberries….. …..but the foliage is not right….. There’s a lot of fruit…but the leaves feel dry and they are curled at the edges….. They aren’t falling off…but they are sparser than usual…and they sure aren’t happy…

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The Bunny Plan…(Revised)

The Bunny Plan…(Revised)

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* We have a lot of “revisions” and/or “revisitations” of ideas here on our little farm….. …..I’d rather call them “revisitations” instead of mistakes….. …..potatoes…potatoes….. …..(and again…that expression looses something in print)….. My original idea of raising meat rabbits hasn’t quite gone as planned….. I mean…the rabbits did just fine…it’s the project that didn’t launch as expected….. But I’m not giving up….. At the beginning…I had cut and J-clipped the wire cages together… I…

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——-Bees…Again——-

——-Bees…Again——-

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Well…Here Goes….. I’m about to do it again….. I love the little bastards…(they scare me so)…(I feel like I owe it to Mother Nature to keep trying)….. Down here in sunny sub-tropical Florida…starting up new bee hives is usually done after the commercial citrus bloom is completed….. …..when the beekeepers have more time to evaluate their hives…make new ones…and follow the blooming spring…as it follows the sun’s seasonal warming northward….. If you think…

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We Have A DollarTree Streaker!

We Have A DollarTree Streaker!

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I’m thinking about hanging out in the Crafts Aisle at our neighborhood DollarTree store….. Apparently we have a serial Streaker(!?!)…in our county…and he’s only hitting DollarTree stores(!)….. He ran through our local DollarTree last week…AND I was even at the DollarTree last week(!)….. …..and I missed him….. …..I’m so disappointed….. My older daughter just gave me this news breaking gossip…after coming home from our store….. She noticed we had a full-time security guard…and…

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