Rudigrrr Wolf has found a new favourite thing to do at THO. The “hobby” is to play with, amputate and eat the legs from the daddy long legs (Opiliones) spiders that hunt there.
We have dozens of amputees in the cloth porch now.
I think that the spiders do not allow this to happen without a fight. The consequence for Rudigrrrr is that he has swollen glands so he went to Hamilton with Big Papa Wolf to get checked out by the vet.
Any suggestions on how to deter Rudigrrr from hunting spiders?
Today has pretty much consisted of sweating, whining about the heat, playing a little Skip-O, but we relented and finally got off our chairs for a few minutes.
We put up a bit of fence for the pole beans to climb. Not too much work. We used about 5 feet of left over fence, two barely used boards, c-fencing nails and six screws to attach them to the base of the raised bed. Took about ten minutes but made us sweat like hell.
I hope the beans don’t think that it is too hot to climb.
At Tiny House Ontario my morning ritual is to look out the window to see how the forest survived the night. There are changes every single day even if it is simply wildlife that is moving around. Currently, the forest is gasping for a drink. The tops of the maples have started turning yellow in response to the current drought conditions. It took 100 litres to give the garden a drink and I suppose that the forest would need about a million litres for it to help them through until the next rain. That is a hundred of those water trucks full and then there would be the issue of getting it spread around.
The ancestor tree next to the cloth porch is the only tree that seems to be OK but of course, I always give it my bath water, dish water, left over tea and coffee including the grounds and leaves as well as melted ice water from my cooler. Lucky tree.
Today, when the forecast called for rain I think I even saw Dictator chipmunk doing a little dance. Sadly, the rain turned out to be less than a mm. The good thing is that it did cool off the air a bit, so there is something to be grateful for.
There is hope! I just looked up the weather on my computer and found that the forecast calls for possible storms tonight and there is rain on the forecast for the next couple of days too. I hope that we will have a few days of slow steady rain. I am sure that the farmers would agree! I can’t wait to tell the chipmunk!
Hj and I carried in 100 litres of water for the garden yesterday. We are fortunate to have neighbours who are kind to us because we do not yet have a well on our land.
Today the garden looks really good again!
Hj, also did a bit of clearing nearby so that we can get the solar panels set up there next week.
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