It feels really good to be able to work hard.
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Damn it I was gonna take before and after pictures but forgot.
Anyway, a majority of the area is covered now. Ran out of cardboard and there's some stuff I can't move myself.
#MECFS #Journal #Recovery2026 #YardTales #rewilding #solarpunk
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Today I'm planning to work outside. There's so much to do out there, but I need to remember not to overextend, even if I'm having fun.
I've picked a tiny spot of land to rewild. For today I'd like to clear the junk and lay down cardboard to "solarize" the grass and burdock there, basically a […]
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Ey was such a big bird! An absolute unit.
No matter how prepared I am, I'm always shocked at the size of ravens in person.
I couldn't see em the whole conversation till ey flew off. Ey was hiding in the ticket. But even eir voice was huge.
I put out peanuts while repeating whatever ey said […]
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I talked to a Raven today!
#YardTales #rewilding
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While I was out there, I had a conversation with a grouse. First grouse I've seen here. At least, I think she was a grouse. She was up in a tree very interested in what I was doing with the compost pile. Maybe she's been the one digging to take kitchen snacks? I figured it was a ground rodent […]
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A delicate purple bloom with thin tendrils, about the size of a US quarter. It is coming up among pale green young grass (also noxious and determined) and half-rotted pine needles and cones.
The same bloom at a different angle, to show what's left of the pile it came from.
Look at this little knapweed bloom I found. In November. Under a pile of yard debris that has been there since midsummer.
This is why these guys are noxious. They are the life that finds a way.
(The pile is now in compost.)
#compostodon
#CompostTheRich
#YardTales #rewilding
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TIL that when a baby turkey loses their mama, ey walk all over the place going "PERP PEEP PEEP!" really loudly.
I think I heard her respond. But e didn't seem to have heard her. I hope she finds em!!
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They're back! #YardTales
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Now Midnight keeps visiting the spot. Wherever I see turkeys when she's around I make a big deal of it. She was outside and probably watching them, too, because she showed up immediately after they left.
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I do believe wild animals can identify and remember individual people if they care to.
When the flock was passing through over springtime, I talked to them a few times, even though they skedaddled. So I wonder if she remembers me from then.
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A mama wild turkey surrounded by four hlaf grown babies.
A closer view of three babies without mama, wings outstretched and cleaning their feathers with their beaks.
Here are more photos. I chose the original set very quickly.
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I first saw her today out the kitchen window while making breakfast. She climbed to the top of the gravel pile and stood there a long time. A baby followed her up and then lost footing and slid down while pecking for bugs on the way down. She could see me then too.
Then she came around behind […]
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I only saw four babies today. It's hard to count because my windows are so small and they do spread out. But I think there were more of them when they were puffs.
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There's miles and miles of empty fields, meadows, and forests all around. I have to wonder why they keep coming here. Why she's camped outside my window. She knows damn well I'm in here. It's been at least ten minutes. (Just coughed with my window open, and she's unstartled.)
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Wild turkeys have been outside my window for some time now. Mama knows I'm here, been keeping an eye on me as they preen. I'm just sending safety signals, softly letting her know what an honor it is that she trusts me. (Alt later.)
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I managed to add some stuff to the compost pile today. It had too many sticks and long weeds in it, made burying kitchen scraps harder. There is a pile of debris someone else made that I saved from being sent to the dump that I've been slowly (weeks) adding on. But I have to sort out or break up […]
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The baby turkeys have been coming around a lot. Several times past my window just today. They grow really fast.
There's another wild turkey, I don't think it's their mama, who has a hurt foot 😞 came limping past this morning.
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An art-deco style statue, about 18" tall, of a white woman, uncannily thin and elongated, in a clinging draping light green dress, with extremely long straight strawberry blonde hair. She appears to be growing out of the gravel pile that looms above her, with one leg in motion as if to take a step. Her fingertips are touching the top of her head, elbows pointed outward. She has a sublime look on her face, eyes closed, as if meditating and contemplating the universe. A mantis has laid a papery egg sac on her chest and neck, beige, within the same color palette, with a tendril that travels up the side of her left cheek to her nose.
The same figure angled from above to take up more of the frame, and slightly off kilter to form a mood of imbalance.
Many years ago I saw this figurine in a Ross discount store. I was captivated by the expression on her face, in a spiritual way. I didn't buy it, and then regretted the decision, thinking I'd never see it again.
But when I went back months later, she was on […]
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I think I saw a legless skink in my compost.
When I opened it up to dump some kitchen waste in the wet sloppy center, a "snake" slithered out, about the size of a fat baby garter (may 5-7" long), but it looked "wet". Like frog skin instead of scales.
Took me till today to realize that legless […]
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A window, out of which is a bunch of plants, with a tiny blue bird eating seeds. Is maybe 3", hummingbird sized, but they is not a hummingbird.
Zoomed in with even worse quality, closer view of the bird. It is mostly blye with an orange chest, grey wings, and a little white bar on the wing.
A different angle of the blue bird.
What kind of birdo is this one?
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There were two crows cawing on a lamp post high above the grocery parking lot. I wondered if they recognized me from the times I've cawed at them from my yard. It is quite a distance but I know they travel far.
But I dared not call attention to myself from the humans.
Another crow joined them.
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A bright yellow bug with big arms and a black pattern.
Two of them, on a railroad tie.
All three bright yellow bugs on a railroad tie.
These little dudes.
Anyone know what they are? They came off a tansy flower I was picking for indoors.
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I am CRACKING UP.
I saw movement out the trailer window and looked up to see a wild turkey hen chasing Midnight!
😂
I am 100% sure Midnight instigated that fight, but I didn't see how it started.
I wish I had!
What I did see was hilarious enough.
Turkeys are like bananas — anything […]
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I know I should go in and trim off the dead stuff. My health hasn't allowed much care for these things as it is, just a lil watering a couple times a week but not nearly enough to get established for having been planted only a month. I did finally just get the lavender planted, the last thing in […]
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A small plant with long stems and stara shaped leaves basking (or baking) in the sun. Surrounded by sawdust and large chunks of bark, and the edges of a rough stick fence. There is a purple bloom, tall like an inverted grape bunch.
The same bloom zoomed in. Closer we can see the people bottom of the bloom, and the top is still budding in a pale green.
My sad little lupine that got eaten down to the nub by deer has finally bloomed again!! She's doing her best!
The deer have stopped trying to eat the garden. I don't really do anything different. Maybe they've migrated for the season (I've only seen them […]
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The crickets get an early start around here.
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I hear some froggos out there.
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