Saturday, April 23, 2011

The first tulips are blooming!!

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Ranch Updates

It's a beautiful day at Sage Creek Ranch.  We're in that time of year when things are blooming, the temps are fabulous, the birds are singing and all is well.



These are the promised before/after pics of the tree clearing we did to promote and encourage our wildlife.

Before:

After:

The photo above is of the big pile of trees and debris from the clearing.

This photo (below) is before Tim planted the grasses.

This next photo is of the grasses coming in after the seeding:


Unfortunately, we discovered that some daisies that Tim had bought at Home Depot came home with Carpet Beetles.  After reading up on these critters, I wasn't happy with Home Depot.  If these things get in the house, they are very difficult to remove and they eat every kind of fabric (and well as a host of other things).  I got the 4 plants out of the garden asap and Tim sprayed (although spray isn't supposed to really help much, I thought it would be better than doing nothing).




However, even with the pests, it IS spring and the Indian Paintbrushes are beginning to bloom.


Sunday, April 10, 2011

Yesterday's Garden

Beautiful roses. Until today and we discovered both mealy bugs and carpet beetles. Ugh. It's too early in the season to begin our skirmishes with the mealy bugs.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Oh happy day

Feedin' the catfish at pond 1 (gonna have to create a better name than that).

Feeding the deer

Tim has some regular spots where he leaves some delish corn kernels for the deer. It's always gone when he comes back...

Feeding the catfish in the far pond

There aren't many of the catfish left in the ponds right now - the water is so low. And when we had all the rain last fall, we think the bigs ones made a run back to the big lake on the overflow water.

Oh Happy Day

Oh Happy Day

(I'm trying uploading to our blog from my phone - haven't done this before!)

We did some work around the ranch today for our Wildlife Certification.

The weather was perfect and the day was glorious!

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