Here we are again at Saturday, so it's time for some Trail Cam Snaps. Let's get to it...
I call this one "Racoon Butt":
First off, I did not have the trail cam out when something ate one of the redbud trees we planted yesterday. It also wasn't out when the mama deer brought her brand new, teeny-tiny baby past the house this morning. I swear, I'd need like 5-6 different cameras to catch everything.
Anyway...
Here's another version of "Is that a camera?":
I blame Monday's government holiday for making me forget about yesterday's post. I even had it started and everything. Derp. Anyway...
I think I might've figured out FB and their damn bots. It's all about those banned words I've mentioned before. If I use the words 'killed/kill' or 'murder/murderer', it's more likely to slap me with a content warning and tell me I'm a spammer. Fuckers. I'm talking about a MURDER mystery where people get KILLED and there's a KILLER on the loose. I've already told FB their bots are insane, but since it's only bots reading the complaints, I doubt it'll get anywhere. I'm not going to hide those words, but I may have to reword some stuff for future marketing. Turds.
It's been raining here for about 24 hours. Okay, Mother Nature, that's enough. Thank you. Go drip for a while at Mom's house. Her plants need watering and if you do it, it means my sis doesn't have to.
Copied from my FB post yesterday: "Hubs and I were out on the sun porch having a smoke, when we heard a fawn bleating. Actually, the dang thing sounded like it was shouting "MOM! MO-OM!" at full volume. Within seconds, a doe comes charging up the hill hell-bent for leather and ready to fight, with another doe close behind her. She stops just inside the neighbor's backyard and a fawn runs up. He (it had to be a buck fawn making that much of a fuss) immediately starts nursing like nothing much was going on. She allowed it for a couple minutes and then wandering off down the hill again, with him trailing along behind her."
I hate when FB changes my font and I can't figure out how to make it stop, other than inserting new paragraphs and moving the changed text up so unweirded paragraphs drop below it. Frankly, it's a pain. On the other hand, the font adds interest.
The trail camera is awesome, but all those pics are filling my harddrive. I mean, one night I got like 350 pics. The next, it was like 650 pics. At 1-3 megs each, those things fill my 'puter up fast. Yesterday, I went through deleting, which, if you know me, you know I can't stand deleting pics even when they're blurry. Anyway, I did it, and I'll have to continue to do it or face the very real reality of running out of space.
Running out of space on a computer harddrive... I'm one of the old souls who maxed her computer out regularly, so I had to go through on a regular basis and delete shit. It was either wipe it out of existence or move it to floppies. And since my deletion anxiety stems from back then, you can imagine I had a LOT of floppies. (3.5s aren't really floppy. I remember the real floppies.)
Anyway, I have a lot of pics and some of them are pretty cool, so tune in tomorrow for that. If I remember...
Peace out.
Ack! I meant to post this way earlier... like this morning... but I got distracted, which is the story of my life. Anyway...
I took the camera down during the day and then I keep forgetting to put it back out. To my dismay, as soon as I took the camera down, the foxes started showing up again. Grrr.
Anyway, here are some shots I got from earlier in the week:
Rocky Raccoon on my porch, snacking on suet crumbs.
On the left is Sissy. Next to her is her son, Scout. The butt in the background behind Scout is Lumpy - Sissy's mom.
I'm not sure who this is, but she's pretty interested in the camera.
I hope to have more pics next Saturday, so tune in next time.
Here we are again at another week. Let's see what happened.
I wrote. I still don't want to talk about it much. Suffice it to say, I wrote 4 nights in a row and ended up with around 2800 new words, all on one WIP, so there ya go. I'm not celebrating, in case this is an anomaly. The hardest part about writing after so many months away is retraining my fingers to type as much as I want for as long as I want. Derp.
I marketed. A little. Blink moved a whole 17 copies. Woot. Not sure what this week will bring. I'm at the end of a 90 day KDP reup, so this week might be a little iffy.
Reading still isn't a thing, but I made a little progress with Rudy.
In baking news, yesterday, Hubs made me a cake from scratch - yellow cake, chocolate frosting with a layer of strawberry jam in the middle. Yum. It's not the prettiest thing, but it's been more than 20 years since he made a cake, so I'm not harshing him too much about it. He was going to make the frosting, too, but after the cake wouldn't come out of the pan and ended up kinda roached, he left the frosting to me. Hey, it tastes good and he tried, so that's all that matters.
On the activity front, I wasn't. I did some garden stuff and I went shopping. Meh. Didn't bother weighing myself. Weight: Fat.
The trail cam has been fun. See yesterday's post. The new mower is awesome. So's the new greenhouse. Shopping for the win. Woot.
The garden is growing right along in the greenhouse. I have one little grape tomato growing and one little Early Girl tomato. The green peppers are trying to come back from getting munched, as are the black cherry and the persimmon.
Yesterday, I cut my hair. Short. It was bugging me, so off it went. It looks pretty cute, if I do say so myself. No, there aren't any pics.
Speaking of cake... Today is our anniversary. 22 years. Go, us! And tomorrow's my birthday. 56 years. Go, me! (Yes, people shouldn't leave important dates lying around the internet, but we make sure we never use those dates in any security questions or passwords, so there ya are.) We aren't doing anything for either. We don't give each other cards or gifts anymore. I think that stuff stopped about 15 years ago. We're happy with each other and celebrate each other every day, so no prezzies are necessary.
And that's it for me today. What's been up with you lately?
Hello again. I don't know how you feel about it, but this trail cam stuff is fun.
Anyway, here I am, checking out the placement of the camera...
This one shows pretty much all of the regular deer visitors to the feeding area:
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed seeing some snaps from the trail camera. Like I said, I know I'M having fun.
First off, Happy Mother's Day to those who are moms or have moms. My furbabies are unimpressed by the holiday, as is my human baby. I'll call my own mom in a while.
Not much is going on in my little portion of the world. I'm still stuck in what basically amounts to neutral.
The gardening is going okay. I planted some more carrots this week and I fertilized everything using used coffee grounds. One heaping spoonful per plant. Then I watered everything. One of my munched green peppers has itty-bitty leaves, so it's trying to live. My black cherry and persimmon trees are showing signs of life. Also, I picked more nettles to refresh my 'weed tea'. In about 10 days, I'll use it to fertilize the plants again. (I saw a video saying potted tomatoes need to be fertilized every ten days, so I'm going with that.)
If you missed yesterday's post, I set up my game camera and have started taking pics. Except I messed with a setting somewhere and last night's trial was a bust. No night pics at all. Derp. The worst thing about this camera so far is the lack of instructions. And no, the company's website doesn't help. At all. Derp. I'll fuss with it later. Anyway, here's me feeding the deer this morning.
Early in the week, Hubs and I mowed the lawn. I love the new mower. It's so light and so easy to start. Yay. I got in some other activity this week, too, but not really anything specific. I doubt any of it had any effect on my EWA. Earlier in the week, I weighed myself, so... Weight: 177.8
We've been seeing foxes in the yard. At first, I thought it was one fox, but over the past week, I've gotten better looks at them all. From my estimation, we have three young foxes and one older fox. Or rather, 3 that are about 2/3 size and one full size. One of the little ones has a white patch on its side, another has a dark patch, and the third is uniform in its grizzled gray/red. So yay. I hope they stick around. They're good for eating vermins. I do hope they don't eat the baby raccoon. Then again, I hope the coyotes don't eat them. Nature's a bitch sometimes.
Other than that, not much going on around here. I need to get off the net call my mom and wish her a Happy Mother's Day. Later, Hubs will call his mom. All is well. Have a great day, wherever you are.
I finally set up my trail cam yesterday. I tried putting it a couple places, just as a test. Here's from the morning:
Here's one from the afternoon:
And finally, here's a night shot. This one was taken after we went to bed.
The camera itself isn't a top of the line model. It only cost like $50, so I wasn't expecting super great things from it. I'm pleased with the photo quality, which is the most important part. It's not a wifi enabled model, so I have to actually plug the thing into my computer to download photos, and there are some hiccups with that. Still I give it 4 stars. Well worth the money.
=o)
