Bird Day

 It has been a long day in which I woke up way before I wanted.  I've decided to play it like I will get the job and prepare myself for the third shift.  It will be a three day work week, about ten hours a day.  Well, night and morning.  I've wanted a three day work week for a while, let's hope I like the schedule as much as I think I will.  Thinking about this as I sat on my hammock swing today I imagined how nice it might be to sleep outside during warm summer days.  Then a helicopter flew over and motorcycles zoomed by.  I'm currently in a how-this-will-effect-my-home-life frame of mind rather than a what-will-the-job-be-like frame of mind.  Daydreaming and the following are my happy things for today:

• I've been trying to come up with names for the different yard areas we have.  I'm having a hard time coming up with anything original.  Where the pool was, the yard by the garden, aren't really names I was hoping for.  Even 'relaxation grove' doesn't quite hit the spot for me.  I'll have to discuss it with the family later.  What I am realizing though, is that ruminating seems to be a happy thing for me today.
• The blueberry and strawberry plants have netting over them finally.  It took some time and mistakes were made, but I think it will work.

Strawberry.

Strawberries and blueberries covered.

• The birds have been enjoying perching on the frame before I got the net up.  They seem to still perch there and I haven't noticed them trying to get in yet.  👍
• While observing the netting and sitting in the hammock swing I had some robins get fairly close while looking for food.

A pretty pair.

• The deer are getting into the garden.  At least I think it was deer.  We haven't finished the fence yet.  The tops of about half the peas are gone.  I did a quick covering of those with netting too.  It will become part of the fence, but for now I hope it will do.  On one of the plants that didn't get the top chomped off there is a flower.

I planted two different types
and don't remember which this is.

• Earlier this week when I was pulling up bittersweet I thought I might be near a bird nest.  Today, I might have found it.  I was getting ready to pull more of the autumn olive tree away and there it was.

Fairly sure it was built after the tree came down.

• Also pretty sure a hawk flew overhead.  

It was being chased by another bird.

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Currently reading: The Backyard Homestead, by Carleen Madigan.

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Stringing the Peas

 It was a hard to get motivated kind of day.  It took a little bit, but I did motivate myself.  The first task was to put the tomato plants outside for a little fresh air.  Today the air did seem fresh.  The temperature was not as hot as yesterday which made working out there much nicer.  Other happy things for today:

• One of the things that has been on my list for a while was to tie up the pea plants.  They were starting to hold onto each other, now there is a string.  

In progress string tying.

• One of the other things I've wanted to do was to get a soaker hose near the strawberries and blueberries.  I bought a kit a few days ago to assemble soaker hoses to fit anywhere.  There is now a soaker hose at the blueberry and strawberry plants.  It was so easy to put together that the peas got a soaker hose too!

I still need to cover the hose with something at the top.

• When I went to get the regular hose I found a nest.  I'm pretty sure it is abandoned.

I didn't use that hose.

• In the middle of the day I took a rest on the hammock swing in the shade.

Not sure how I got the light beams?
I wasn't able to repeat that effect.

• In the evening Giedon had his last Scout meet of the season where they gave the awards earned during the year.  Families can attend.  It was outside to allow for social distancing.

Gideon outgrew his uniform this year.

• Then there was the moon from the parking lot.

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Currently reading: The Burgess Book of Nature Lore, by Thornton W. Burgess.

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