Once again, I "overdid it", and I'm paying the price. My body is just plain getting too darned old for this kind of foolishness. Here is the BEFORE picture:
And here is the AFTER picture. Same location, same scene, a few hours later. Notice what I did all afternoon?
And it wasn't "pick apples", although I did have to pick up several hundred little apples which were all over the ground. Walking around on hundreds of 2-inch round spheres is downright dangerous when you're wielding a running chain saw.
Speaking of chain saws, the hub of the sprocket at the end of the bar on mine finally rusted out. In an uncharacteristic stroke of good luck, however, it waited to fail until after I had finished the apple tree. It went out on me while I was cutting down the bushes around the back of my garage out by the lower-forty.
With it being 15 years old, I don't know whether I can get another bar, or whether I'll end up buying a whole new chain saw. Fortunately, it failed gracefully, and nobody got hurt.
It took the better part of six hours to cut, carry the stuff to the brush pile, and clean up. There was at least a ton, maybe two, of branches, limbs, etc, not including the bushes from behind the garage. The brush pile is down the hill. I made about 40 trips, down and back up. I'm sore. I'll bet tomorrow I'll be even more sore.
In addition to the baby birds in the nest on the ladder out in the carport (see yesterday's post), there are numerous other nests around the yard. This one is under the deck, just outside the downstairs family room door. Here's the mother.
The flash caused her to skeedaddle, so I got a shot of the babies. Click on the picture below to get the larger version and you can see their mouths open. Yes, they are making noise, just like most babies.
Out in the carport, there's a very noisy bird with a nest way up above the carport light fixture. The mama bird makes a noise very much like a rattlesnake ... "ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch" very, very fast. It's a very tiny bird. the whole grown bird itself is probably less than two inches long (that's a 2x4 to the left for comparison). I don't know my birds, but this is not a common sparrow.
This bird has built its stick nest *inside* the abandoned nest of a barn swallow. The swallow made a nest primarily of straw and clay, this bird's stick nest is inside, and there are several babies inside this nest, but I couldn't get a good picture.
Dubby got me a new battery for my laptop, and a car adapter to charge the laptop while in the car. This will save weight in my luggage: I won't have to take my inverter with me on my business trips where I use the computer in the rental cars. (Explanation: My laptop is my GPS ... I can't see those itsy-bitsy teeny-tiny little screens on the Garmin and Magellan units. I can, however, see the map on my laptop screen, and the GPS receiver sticks to the dash and plugs into the laptop.) And she also fixed me some nice fried fish, fried egg rolls, and creamed spinach for dinner. I guess maybe she loves me after all...
And here is the AFTER picture. Same location, same scene, a few hours later. Notice what I did all afternoon?
And it wasn't "pick apples", although I did have to pick up several hundred little apples which were all over the ground. Walking around on hundreds of 2-inch round spheres is downright dangerous when you're wielding a running chain saw.
Speaking of chain saws, the hub of the sprocket at the end of the bar on mine finally rusted out. In an uncharacteristic stroke of good luck, however, it waited to fail until after I had finished the apple tree. It went out on me while I was cutting down the bushes around the back of my garage out by the lower-forty.
With it being 15 years old, I don't know whether I can get another bar, or whether I'll end up buying a whole new chain saw. Fortunately, it failed gracefully, and nobody got hurt.
It took the better part of six hours to cut, carry the stuff to the brush pile, and clean up. There was at least a ton, maybe two, of branches, limbs, etc, not including the bushes from behind the garage. The brush pile is down the hill. I made about 40 trips, down and back up. I'm sore. I'll bet tomorrow I'll be even more sore.
In addition to the baby birds in the nest on the ladder out in the carport (see yesterday's post), there are numerous other nests around the yard. This one is under the deck, just outside the downstairs family room door. Here's the mother.
The flash caused her to skeedaddle, so I got a shot of the babies. Click on the picture below to get the larger version and you can see their mouths open. Yes, they are making noise, just like most babies.
Out in the carport, there's a very noisy bird with a nest way up above the carport light fixture. The mama bird makes a noise very much like a rattlesnake ... "ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch" very, very fast. It's a very tiny bird. the whole grown bird itself is probably less than two inches long (that's a 2x4 to the left for comparison). I don't know my birds, but this is not a common sparrow.
This bird has built its stick nest *inside* the abandoned nest of a barn swallow. The swallow made a nest primarily of straw and clay, this bird's stick nest is inside, and there are several babies inside this nest, but I couldn't get a good picture.
Dubby got me a new battery for my laptop, and a car adapter to charge the laptop while in the car. This will save weight in my luggage: I won't have to take my inverter with me on my business trips where I use the computer in the rental cars. (Explanation: My laptop is my GPS ... I can't see those itsy-bitsy teeny-tiny little screens on the Garmin and Magellan units. I can, however, see the map on my laptop screen, and the GPS receiver sticks to the dash and plugs into the laptop.) And she also fixed me some nice fried fish, fried egg rolls, and creamed spinach for dinner. I guess maybe she loves me after all...
3 comments:
Wow, yes, I do love you. But you noticed!
Looks like a tufted titmouse. They like to eat bugs.
I heard you had some good pictures of some birds up...much to my surprise you also have a ton of great pictures of the trips you've taken with the family. I guess the quiz is an extra bonus and the history lessons a double bonus, thanks!
MB
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