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Toad-ally awesome Wednesday

May 25, 2014 Elizabeth

Beautiful day today. Finally starting to seem like spring. Steve has seen several toads while mowing but mostly tiny ones. Here's 2 good sized toads in the yard today. … [Read more...]

Spring, Toads Bufo americanus, Toads

Emerald Ash Borer

May 10, 2014 Elizabeth

Spring is officially here. Temps were in the seventies this week and Chip's allergies are in full swing. We've been watching our trees and it seems our ash tree has succumbed to emerald Ash borers and has died. Here's a pic of the tell tale sign of the larvae. Here's a shot … [Read more...]

Dogs, Landscaping, Spring Dogs, Insects, Trees

INaturalist.Org

April 30, 2014 Elizabeth

I was reading a lot of the static pages of the blog this week and I realized that I need to do a lot of updates to the citizen science portion of this blog.  There is a GREAT website now that wasn’t in existence when I started this blog.  I’ll be adding this to the res … [Read more...]

iNaturalist, Toads iNaturalist, Toads

Update on Chip

April 24, 2014 Elizabeth

I’ve obviously neglected this blog pretty bad. Steve and I were talking about it today as the bill came due for hosting and I thought I should work on some updates. I realized a few things. 1) When I got my smartphone, I stopped using my camera and I stopped importing my p … [Read more...]

Dogs Chip, Medical Nightmare

Sleepy Friends

March 3, 2014 Elizabeth

I was going to title this post, “Fast Friends”, but really there is nothing fast about these two. They have become good buddies though! … [Read more...]

Cat, Dogs Basset Hound, June, Quincy

Battling Cabin Fever

February 22, 2014 Elizabeth

As winter wears on and it’s not fit for man nor beast outdoors, what are we left to do? *Squirrel is made of Legos. Almonds are made of almonds. … [Read more...]

Squirrels, Winter #polarvortex2014, Legos, Squirrels

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