Happy Thursday. Pushing through the work week. Starting off in the upper 30s and heading to the upper 50s with sunny skies. Wordle 1,580 3/6 🟨⬛⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Up and at 'em. Woke up to a slight chance of rain this morning. I'm not sure when they snuck that into the forecast. Chance of frost tonight. Wordle 1,579 5/6 ⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

45 minutes of #BeagleMusic after I got home from work. I'm taking full advantage of Daylight Savings Time while it lasts. I love my light in the evening! Belle had her first episode of rolling in something stinky which then led to her getting a bath once we got home. 🤦‍♀️😝🤣qæ

Husband: Do you know what compound butter is? (He was watching Bobby Flay on TV) Me: I do not. Also me: And I don't care. Me again: OK now I have to Google it. 🤷‍♀️😆

The big maple tree behind the house is not quite as big and beautiful this fall because of the drought but the sun shining on the mist in the old pasture does make a pretty fall scene.

Yes I'm up and moving. Feel sluggish like a tortoise. Going to be one of those keep pushing through type days. Wordle 1,578 3/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I absolutely hate the new camera update on Android. It is WAY too easy to move the slider and record video on time lapse which then can't be fixed. This had great sound in real life. ,😭😭😭

It ended up being a five squirrel morning. I misjudged that little one on the end. I had been passing up all the little ones. All gray squirrels. I never saw one fox squirrel. Crazy to think that 30 years ago we only had fox squirrels and no gray squirrels.

What would a morning spent in the woods be like without me finding a mylar balloon. It's been a while so I have no idea what number this is for the year.

First stop of the morning. I wasn't exactly stealthy getting here as I felt it necessary to move a bunch of downed limbs on the path as I walked along. 😁 And I forgot my binoculars. I hate that. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ But man this tree I'm sitting against is soooooo comfortable. 😴

Good Monday morning. I decided to do some squirrel hunting this morning. I've been debating shotgun or rifle in my head all morning. I think shotgun. Fall turkey is open too and a shotgun will give me options.😁 Wordle 1,577 3/6 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Now that the soybeans are off of the field, I spent a couple hours this afternoon metal detecting one end of the field. Apparently I have found the bullet graveyard where all projectiles go to die. 😂😂

There goes the sun. I had to walk down the road a little ways to get this view. I don't have very many picturesque sunset spots on the farm.

Got some brush sprayed. Cut some saplings growing in the old pasture. Treated the stumps. Got nervous that it might rain on my freshly treated sprayed spots so switched to metal detecting. Now I'm in for lunch and some football.

I'm not sure what I'm going to get into outside today but it's beautiful out. I've got the chain on the chainsaw sharpened. I've got the weed wacker. And I've got the metal detector. 😂😂😂

Otis is still wondering why we got a puppy. 😂😂

Good Sunday morning. I slept in until almost 7:30am probably thanks to some cold medicine. But I feel good and well rested so I'll take that. No concrete plans other than bacon and eggs for breakfast.😁 Wordle 1,576 4/6 ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Here comes the sun.

It's been several months but I finally have a couple trail cams up and running again. I put one in a spot where I used to have one several years ago. I had forgotten how many rabbit videos show up here. 🐇😂😂

Left the house right at the end of the half and didn't get back until 3 min left in the 3rd quarter. Snapped a picture of the combine. Mother Nature knocked another tree across my path.🤦‍♀️ Changed a trail cam card. Stopped and chatted with the crew who were breaking for lunch.

I have slid from a morning of doing nothing to sitting on the couch and watching college football. 🏈 😁 #GoBucks

Nothing planned today so moving slow. Dogs are walked. Need to feed them. It's cloudy so no pretty sunrise. I think I might be getting 2nd cold of the season. That's annoying and so was today's Wordle.😂😂 Wordle 1,575 5/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Can anyone help me identify these stick seeds? It kind of looks like Virginia stickseed but all the pictures online have much smoother edged leaves so I don't think that's what this is. I'm in Ohio.

Well well well. I decided to take the dogs for a walk this evening to go get a picture of the combine running. But when I got to the field the combine was way down at the far end. Not running. And a pickup truck was back there. Looks like the guys are off to go find a part. 🤦‍♀️

Mid afternoon adulting complete. Meeting with insurance agent. Then went to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to renew my license plate. Walked in and NO ONE WAS IN LINE. 🤯 Then off to the village diner for a 2pm lunch/dinner like proper old people do on a weekday. 😁

We are out chasing bunnies this morning. Belle is intermittently going into the weeds with Otis, or going into the weeds by herself, or running back to me. She's all over the place. 😂 #BeagleMusic

Here comes the sun. Venus is above the trees on the right.

I'm starting to stir. Dark out and temps in the 30s. Going to be sunny today. I think I'll run the beagles 1st thing. The combine showed up last night so beans will be coming off today. Wordle 1,574 5/6 ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 🟨⬛⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I'm being watched while I do evening chicken chores. Tied to the beagle hitching post aka a fence post. 😁

Happy Thursday. Waking up to 37°F/3C so looks like we will have our first frost. Last day of the work week for me. Definitely looking forward to being off. Wordle 1,573 3/6 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I have spent a good bit of this evening retrieving items from under the dining room table and saying "no, not for puppy". 😂😂😂

I would like to take a moment to thank all the people I follow who give my timeline its daily dose of dogs, cats, birds, other animals, flowers, mushrooms, trees, landscapes, food, music, art and other happy posts that balance all the other stresses in my life.

I have a couple very ugly rough looking molting chickens right now. I'll tell you what, this chicken molting thing is not for the faint of heart. Although some do it more gracefully than others. 😂

It's amazing how pups' colors can change. Belle's head was mostly black back in August when I got her. Today it's mostly brown. The remaining black will likely continue to be replaced by brown hairs over the coming months. It will likely stay black down the back.

Belle and Otis playing tug of war this morning before I left for work. Otis is not being serious. 😂

Here comes the sun.

3:30am puppy potty break. Still warm enough that I can get out of bed and just put on a sweatshirt and tennis shoes. Tomorrow I'll need pants too. On a bit of a roll. Another good starter word and then a lucky guess. Wordle 1,572 2/6 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It was a rainy day and a soup kind of day. I had a bowl of my homemade hen-of-the-woods soup for lunch. And now for dinner, I had some of the homemade broccoli cheese soup I made the other day.

I forgot my phone when I went to work today and now I'm home and we've been reunited. 😂😂😂

And we have rain! I haven't had a rainy dog walk in awhile. Cold front is coming. Lows in the 30s and frost/freeze advisories are expected later this week. I change my starter word every day. Today's was a good choice. Wordle 1,571 2/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I'm getting ready to relax in bed with the upstairs bedroom window open. This will likely be the last window open night for quite a while. Rain moving in tomorrow and then we will have lows in the 30s the rest of the week. I'll enjoy listening to the crickets and the katydids.

Lots of local for tonight's dinner. Fresh sweet corn (yes I cut it off the cob LOL) Fresh tomato. Wild turkey breast, shredded+ BBQ sauce sandwich. Local (new to me) beer. #FieldToTable #EatLocal

Otis wants to know why we got a puppy. 😂😂

And a second tree across one of our paths (see last post). 🤬🤬🤬 It is not in the way anymore. And there was actually a third one that I didn't photograph because it was really small and took one cut of the chainsaw to move. 😁

Damn it Mother Nature. I just finished cleaning all the down trees off of this path a few weeks ago. Well this old lady can still use a chainsaw to some extent.

Happy Monday morning all. I decided to veer off the road with all the traffic from people going to work and walk down my neighbor's lane. I hope everyone has a good day. Wordle 1,570 3/6 🟩⬛⬛🟨🟩 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Here comes the sun. I had to take the photo in vertical to get the contrail. And Venus is off to the right. 😊

Apparently someone is helping the environment by picking up roadside trash on our evening walk. She carried it all the way home. 😂😂 #Belle #Otis

I got some outside work done this afternoon. I removed an old trail cam that wasn't working well and replaced it with a new one. And trimmed trees and branches away from that area. Then I weed whacked around the pond. Our habitat guy sprayed all the phragmites and it's dying back.

Farming equipment is starting to make its way over to our farm. Looks like we are next in line. Maybe tomorrow? #soybeans2025