Hello all, Well, it is now Thursday evening and the weather is beautiful outside in the 8o's. Since it is Thursday, McBeefy will not be dragging me to the park to walk as he has class this evening and we walk on MWF. Although the weather is beautiful the drought seems to coming back as it has been two weeks now since we've had any real precip. Maybe some this weekend though. Tomorrow morning I go to the Wise County Soil and Water Conservation Facility to pick up my 30 replacement pine seedlings. Guess what I'll be doing this weekend. I have a wild hare and I'm looking at web sites and thinking about raising Quail on my back 40. There is a place in Kentucky that sells eggs and baby birds. I'm probably crazy for thinking about it but Quail don't really live around here. I guess it is too dry or something. Dove, on the other hand, are very prolific. Anyway, I thought it would be fun to raise them and release them into the wild. We have a few Jack Rabbits that come into the yard occassionally but I think they are on the endangered list. We had a family of 4 about two years ago but I've not seen any for a while. Skunks, Possums, Coons and Armadillos however manage well with the encroachment of man on their habitat. I'm also wanting to put out some grape vines. I planted four last year but the drought sent them to the promised land. Anyway, hopefully these pictures will post. Some of them are from the Wildflower Seed Farm just east of Fredericksbug. Not the huge wind chime. Enough for now. Older Whiskey...
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Keep them watered next time. We have apple orchards, blue berry, straw berry, black berry farms here no grapes that I know of. Jessica has a winery trail that in the fall is open to the public in the fall I believe--Carbondale, Illinois. I can't wait till I receive my bulbs and can start planting and creating my new garden and waiting to see how many bulbs Crazy Squirrel ruined. Ready to plant trees and expand my fence. Oh well one day. At least it will keep me off ebay and I won't have to go to the junk stores every weekend just to get out of the house.
Another thought about your quail==the coons will eat them and coyotes or dogs like ate Sandra's poultry.
I can think of three wineries within a day's drive near my house: one at the foot of Lookout Mt. (makes an excellent Scuppernong) one off HiWay 75 on the way to Knoxville, one on top of Monteagle. There is also one up Hiway 127 North almost to the Kentucky line. Have tried them all.
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