We had 3 inches Monday morning in about 2 and half hours. Yesterday we had another inch. As dry of a summer as it's been I really have to say "Enough Already".
My traps all caught MICE. No voles.
My traps all caught MICE. No voles.
poor little creature...
I was hoping to catch the vole/voles, not mice, as I've seen him/them around. Possibly one vole has died as I found one just sitting in the grass, looking very blind, as my kids and I had crowded around him wondering what was wrong with him staying so still (this was before I realized my problem) and he had flies hovering around him-never a good sign health wise for an animal. I felt bad for the dead little mice, they look almost like cartoons of cuteness. I can't imagine they were up to much, but I have no idea. Peanut butter, just a few drops, were on the trap.
My one Fort Portal Jade bean got hit by the vole, but amazingly the seeds though not completely dry were perfectly formed in the few pods I cracked open. I'm hoping that I'll get enough to fill a cupped hand.i did not get out very early this morning to set traps so i thought that i'd missed the window of opportunity for the morning, but as it turned out... i set the rat trap with peanut butter spread on the bottom of the pan and then a little on the top too, along with sticking some raisins underneath and one on the bit of metal that is on the trip pan. a few minutes before i was finishing up i heard the trap go off and figured from the sound that i didn't catch anything, but the miscreant was in there and it had an instant death. a pretty healthy and big chipmunk too. said "I'm sorry." and buried it.
if i'm lucky this was the only one. i haven't seen many others around lately so we'll see...
i got some of the earliest dry beans all picked and i don't think there's much more anyplace else yet.
Fort Portal Jade had some pods that were dry, but the seeds weren't fully formed. there are some other pods on the plants, but i'm not sure i'll get anything from them. so much for planting them early enough to get them to finish early...
in the earliest Purple Dove plants i went through and got all the driest pods so we're ok with those for a few days yet before i'll go through again. among the plants there was a few plants that had and off type pod, but since i didn't like the fresh beans and the pods weren't that easy to shell and i didn't notice the seeds being different enough or interesting enough i'll cull those plants. this may be similar to one of the other Lobitz purple beans i've grown so having this type show up was not a big surprise to me. so far though i have not found any other off-types in PD. i usually check at least one pod from a plant to see if the seeds are different and nada so far.
