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The 3 little toe heads selected what appears to be an animal trail to a creek as our new fairy house building site.  We placed a pre built bark house by the water, under an arched Hemlock branch.  The other 2 houses start at the mailing trail and sort of lead to the 3rd house. 

Emma wants to build on the creek bank and that requires some stone foundations ... I'm all for it!

I already have little Halloween and Christmas decorations and fairies ready to move in!!

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We've had a lot of rain and the front rock garden with happy hosta and beautiful Hydrangeas around huge shady oak trees trees makes me want to roll around and absorb them.  Intensely green moss and white flowers....so natural with the stone.

Yes.

I look forward to being home again, moving plants and adding to others. 

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I'll have a minute to check the yard on trip back home, then off to finalize lake house for guests.

I yearn for overcast rainy days to dig in the dirt soon.

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My yard looks so nice....a short hard rain yesterday and current deluge has me yearning to plant things in this breezy chilly air, but guests checked out of lake this morning.  Have to figure out housekeeping and get it ready for 16 guests in 10th.

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My yard looks so nice....a short hard rain yesterday and current deluge has me yearning to plant things in this breezy chilly air, but guests checked out of lake this morning.  Have to figure out housekeeping and get it ready for 16 guests in 10th.

Hoping there's a gap in other things so you can get some planting done, Lighter

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Back home and everything is green and happy with the rain.  The yard is taking care of itself with little effort.  I enjoy the time I do spend, when I'm weeding, etc.

All 8 transplanted Hemlocks look healthy with new bright green growth apparent.

My deck feels serene and I'll cut fresh ferns and Hemlock for the vases before Sunday dinner with my girls and their friends.  Two pots if Pho....one vegetarian in the crowd now.  I think the vegetarian PHo is more delicious than the beef!

Going to ice drinks down now and get the rest of the meal prepped.

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Nice to get the yard to a point where it's looking after itself, Lighter.  Makes everything easier.  Dinner sounds delicious.  We have found the vegetarian haggis to be nicer than the meat one   Don't tell the neighbours!  Lol x

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I won't tell, Tupp😉


::looking up haggis::

Sounds like a fancier version of our liver mush.  Sounds terrible, but is yummy crisped in a pan, yup yup yup.

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We had a rabid raccoon Thursday in a popular walking area bordering my yard, Retired Nurse's yard and the school forest preserve.

The Yelly Guy neighbor and his dog were chased and he ended up shooting the poor suffering creature.  It was dreadful and I'll thank YG and limit interaction.

I do worry bears will dig up the raccoon and spread rabies.  What a nightmare.

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As long as there is plenty of forage around, the bears will fill up on that first Lighter. (Altho I haven't seen hickory nuts or acorns, yet.) A sickly piece of carrion would be way down on their wish list! Animals KNOW when other animals are ill.

Our bears are roaming, in preparation for hibernation, looking to stuff themselves with calories for their long nap. Mountain lions too, apparently. A couple in the county south have a Ytube channel about their homestead, and they lost an older lamb last week. They seem a little too spooked by the ways of nature around here, to last too long... but they're TRYING and definitely teaching their kids the lifestyle. I watch their channel, coz they're neighbors at a distance. When we had the spring fires, so did they.

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We had a rabid raccoon Thursday in a popular walking area bordering my yard, Retired Nurse's yard and the school forest preserve.

The Yelly Guy neighbor and his dog were chased and he ended up shooting the poor suffering creature.  It was dreadful and I'll thank YG and limit interaction.

I do worry bears will dig up the raccoon and spread rabies.  What a nightmare.

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These are the sorts of problems I'm glad I don't have to deal with Lighter, makes my frustrations with the cat bringing in mice very trivial I hope it doesn't get dug up as well, sounds like a very unpleasant situation to deal with.  I've forgotten who's who now, was Yelly Guy the very troublesome one?  Or was that a different one?  Either way, glad he got it dealt with.

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Oh ...YG is the troublesome one.

I noticed a ghastly odor walking the pug...assuming YG walked the carcass right behind my house and buried it.... not so deep OR it's been unearthed.

FYI...rabies passes mainly through saliva innoculation.....bites.  It's unlikely a dog contracts rabies through licking infected blood or saliva as rabies isn't robust outside it's host.

I'm not thanking YG.  The NC has been a balm.

Pug had a checkup today...needs a dental cleaning....I spoke, at length, to doc about rabies concerns.  I'm ready to stop thinking about it, but for the dead animal smell and fear hungry bears will eat the brain and go rabid.

The doc thinks I should dig it up and take the raccoon to wildlife folks for cremation, but that was a job for last week.  Not this week, nope nope nope.

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The chances of a bear being THAT hungry right now are slim & none, Lighter. Put your mind at ease.

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Bears around here are active and huun-gry, Amber.  We just had bears put down for breaking into homes.  Not good, but I'm trying to stop googling "rabid bear" vids for now.  I'm sorry I looked.

The bottom just dropped out with hurricane on way.  I blew leaves and cleared drains. 

::trying not to picture rabid bears AND flash floods WITH COVID in the house.

Oldest DD wanted to come home while sick and is in quarantine in my bedroom.  Youngest DD is unhappy about it....her immune system truly is precarious.  Oldest DD has great immune system, so ......this isn't optimal.

Thunder just crashed and sent off Pug barking.  I'm gonna move the cars to the street and make sure candles and flashlights are ready.

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It's been raining all evening and morning.  The yard's full of little creeks.  I'll check storm drains at first light.