Filed under: Outside
The first astronomical day of winter brought icy weather to Pitman. The good news is, the days are now getting longer!
Filed under: Outside
A picture from a recent snowy evening.
Just a few random postings to keep everyone up to date…
Ethan continues to get better at fishing. The last time out he caught the biggest bass of the day!
The butterfly eggs hatched but the caterpillars are no where to be found. But I will keep looking for a few more days.
The house is almost finished being painted. Just a few more touch ups and then they will be done and move on to the garage. The garage needed a lot of caulking which needs to cure before they can paint.
The summer has winded down. The neighborhood kids go back to school on Thursday. Ethan had a great summer!
A few months ago, one of Ethan’s friends spotted some milkweed growing in our garden. We looked for monarch butterflies but at the time didn’t see anything. Well today I was out in the yard and I noticed a monarch butterfly near the milkweed. It was laying eggs! She laid one egg on each leaf of the milkweed plant.
We’ll keep an eye on the eggs. Hopefully some of them hatch so we can watch the caterpillars grow and turn into cocoons. I’ll try to document all the stages, stay tuned!
A few nights ago, I took out my telescope. All the kids were out and I knew they would have fun looking at the moon. They all lined up carefully and took turns. Our neighbors across the street came over too. It was a little too light out to see any planets, but with autumn approaching, that should change soon.
Here is our house circa 1940. Notice the porch has already been converted to an indoor area. I believe we still have the original door and most of the cedar siding.
Special thanks to our neighbors who gave this picture to us today. She used to live directly across the street from us when she was growing up (she lives further down the street now). The truck in the photo belonged to her father.
Along with most of the country, we had a lot of thunderstorms today. On average there was 100,000 lightning strikes per hour over the entire country! We still managed to sneak in an hour of fishing out on the boat, but it was cut short because of more lightning and thunder.
Today we had an unexpected guest at our pond. I couldn’t grab my camera fast enough, so here is a picture I got off the internet. It’s an immature Cooper’s hawk. I’m not sure what he was doing. They eat birds, not fish or frogs. Maybe he was just looking for a drink or saw some smaller birds around the feeder.
