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I guess its that time of year again...

Want to hear something ironic? The first day of spring this year a black bear climbed up on my deck and broke off my suet bird feeder and made off with it. THE EXACT SAME THING THAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR ON THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING in my front yard!! At least he didnt break anything on my deck.


Ok Since its finally turning into spring here I thought I'd share something cute with you all. Last year or the year before we had a fox den somewhere near our property and got to see two young fox kits grow up and play in our yard much to my german shepherds disapproving whines.

This year the foxes are back and figured under my shed would make a great den. We figured out as much when I found 4 clusters of Pheasant feathers scattered on the way to the shed. A real shame as I have never seen a pheasant on my property. Well as of yesterday the babies have come out of the den for the first time and we now have 4 baby fox kits! I made a video:


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Chuck(G) said:
You get foxes and all I get are turkeys making a mess of my yard and driveway. :)
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Not many turkeys anymore as one of my neighbors with more land decided he wanted to deforest all of his property. Scared away most of the wild life. I miss all the animals we used to get.
 
Gary C said:
Must be nice to have so much space !
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Well it has been Gary, but its shrinking every day with the forrest being cut down and new developments. We moved here for the complete isolation and beauty of it. Working at Yale every day in a putrid city of sirens and crime I wanted somewhere to go home to with no sounds of people at all.. And it has been great up until recently. I dont know why everyone feels the need to bulldoze nature... The animals will have nowhere left.
 
Same here--I used to be unable to see the home of any neighbors. Then gentrification and McMansionitis set it. I still keep about 20 acres untouched, but as soon as I leave this vale of tears, I'm certain it will be denuded with more McMansions.
 
Had I known this "town" would have basically built a boulevard with EVERY SINGLE FAST FOOD AND FRANCHISE you could think of in the past 5 years, I wouldnt have bought here. It has caused soo much traffic. And all the new development.... ::Sigh::

Down the mountain from me is a Valley with the Housatonic River and wetlands (they flood constantly with alot of rain.. they are flooded now [side note I went to do a craigslist pickup for a commodore 1702 monitor yesterday and the Connecticut River is pretty high right now too]. They have been leveling this swamp area and building mc mansions and condos like you wouldn't believe. Wife and I are talking about selling when my Sons in college in a few years.. Were thinking Maryland. I miss the ocean and milder winters and longer summers are appealing to me... I know they are just going to develop this mountain range sooner rather than later.
 
1944GPW said:
Wasn't Maryland where there were some earthquakes the other day? I thought you only got that sort of thing in California?
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New Jersey, so not far off. We felt that one all the way here in CT. My wife came up to me "did everything in the room start rattling?" I told her "nope" although I had the window open and it was windy. News confirmed it. I lived in San Diego for a while so unless its a "real" earth quake.. its not worth noting. Anything under a 5 is very minor.

We had another minor one we felt here back in 2012 or 2014 I cant remember.. Everyone sitting at a desk said " Oh my god did you feel that?" I was walking around so of course I said.. "Nope"
 
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I was in a second floor office in 1989 when the Loma Prieta quake hit. My 6' bookcase full of books started walking its way toward me; sheetrock nails were popping out of the walls. I got outside to see the ground rippling in waves as if it were water. That was the one that pancaked a section of the Nimitz in Oakland. The crazy thing is that I had a collection of bottles on the top of my kitchen cabinets. They all were knocked to the floor, but not a single one broke.

I'm sure other Pacific coast natives have similar stories about other quakes, e.g. the Northridge one.

You East coasters don't even have volcanoes...
 
I've been recommending it to those wanting to build their palace for years. This spring, we had a Mr. Tissander moment. A many-gpm flow into my yard from a neighbor, killing my grass and making me wonder if my home's foundation will survive the onslaught.

After complaining several times, it turns out that the guy (now gone to the great compost pile in the sky) who put in his septic drainfield, opened up an underground (seasonal) spring. Of course, neighbor now needs a new drainfield because the old one's saturated. He dug a drainage ditch to keep the flood off my property and I can look forward to grass growing again.

Crazy thing is that he had to go down 350 ft. for his well...
 
Well the reason I bring it up as the house the book/movie is based on is my neighbors house. The lantern at the edge of their property still says "Blandings Way". Its a beautiful home, one of the oldest around except for the farm up the road a bit. Clearly it was all Forrest when that house was put up.

Sad thing, Blandings bankrupted himself on the house and had to sell. He only made the money back when his book became famous and they made the movie, regardless the new owners never sold it back to him no matter how much he offered. Sad end to that story. But the house endures......

Here it is: maps
 
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When I click that link, it shows the house to be in the middle of the Gulf of Guinea, somewhere south of Accra. Heckuva place for a dream house--the water in the cellar problem must be epic. :)
 
Chuck(G) said:
When I click that link, it shows the house to be in the middle of the Gulf of Guinea. Heckuva place for a dream house--the water in the cellar problem must be epic. :)
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Cut and past the entire thing into the addressbar and it will work I assure you.

Otherwise its just 41 degrees north for some reason

edit: I fixed it
 
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