The Year in Review!! Jo's Blog
July
30 - The eaglets are as big as turkeys now! Blueberries just
beginning to fade. Almost daily sightings of a doe and two small
fawns near the end of the driveway.
July
23 - Wonderful days. The eagle chicks (like big chickens now) are
feldged and speniding days at the campsite across from the nest.
The loon chicks are now diving. We've been picking tons of
blueberries and they just keep coming! Raspberries still ripe
too. Wildflowers fully in bloom. Revision of our air
conditioning now complete and working!!! Ted is coming back to
the dining room starting tomorrow! Welcome chef Ted. We
will now have two fine chefs to serve our wonderful dinners.
July
1 - guests spotted the loon with a pair of chicks! wild roses in
bloom. lots of reports of blueberries. Eating wild strawberries!
June
25 - Butter 'n eggs, one of jo's favorite flowers along the gravel
road. Picking wild strawberries! even some blueberries over
a month early. The blue flag iris dominate the marsh - an acre of
them! Fishing continues good, one of the guests cast his line and
hooked - a dragonfly - who promptly attracted a pike.
June
20 - May flowers and Canada May flowers fringe the paths. The
young eagles are lusty, a young blue heron was spotted on So. Farm;
loons and a beaver came right up to the canoe. All just a
five minute paddle away. What a wonderful place to live.
June
7 - Fishing off the dock continues to supply Tasha and Derek with
evening meals. May flies are also feeding the fish.
May
30 - Bunchberries all in bloom, wild honeysuckle, lots more
strawberries. And the sand flies arrived. Lots of new
warblers.
May 28 - Jo's Mom died this afternoon - just 32 days short of 103 years . Peacefully .
Jo will have to completely recenter her life after 6 years of
caregiving.
May 18 - Humming birds arrived! Chestnutsided warbler sighted.
May
14 - Rain wonderful Rain! First Rosebreasted Grossbeaks, two
Mallard drakes doing a courtship dance at the beach - Two Cooper's
Hawks hit the windows this last week. White Throated Sparrow is
doing battle with his image in the window for hours every day!
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