What's everyone up to right now?

[Jackalope]

Goats are a great idea. However, in this case, my primary problem is removing the underground rhizomes from Himalayan blackberries. I don't think goats will touch those and in any case the source of the infestation is not on my land. There otherwise isn't enough forage to keep goats interested for very long.

[Rev. Rye]

Now that the iPad and iPhone’s photo streams are sufficiently synced up, now is the time for me to share the story of Eggiweg.






As I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, when I go up to Door County, I like to see what’s playing at the three main theaters, American Folklore Northern Sky Theater, Door Shakespeare, And Peninsula Players. Yesterday, we decided to see A Murder is Announced, the sole play they’re putting on while I’m up there. It was a pretty good adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel, even if I wound up guessing pretty early on who the murderer was (at this point, I tend to default to the one who seemed to give the least shits about the announced and then completed murder.)

Anyway, there’s a small garden area people can wander around before the show or during the intermission, and while wandering it, I found what looked like a perfect looking egg-shaped rock. Upon touching it, however, I figured out that it wasn’t a rock. It was an actual egg.



I took some pictures of it, including with a ruler I had handy, and sent them to a contact in Wisconsin’s DNR. During intermission, I showed it to Dad and some other people who overheard my talking about it. And I decided to take just one more photo of it (for proper scale) and sent it off to that DNR contact.



Not knowing what the fuck it was, I just left it on the green, where it would be less likely to be stepped on.

The good news is that DNR woman got my message. Unfortunately, however, she said, “I'm not an egg expert, but I scanned the Families of birds quickly and saw that the chipping sparrow and purple finch eggs pictured on the website look similar, however, the chipping sparrow is too small at 18-13 mm. The size of the purple finch egg is 10-15 mm.” The size of the rectangles on the program I used for scale are about 3.5x6 cm. She’s sent the email to other contacts in the DNR who might be able to figure out the mystery. FWIW, my Dad thinks it might be a wild turkey egg. Well, technically, he thinks it’s a turkey egg, but knowing what I know about turkeys, the domestic turkey is so huge it can no longer reproduce without human help, so it would have to be a wild turkey egg.

Sadly, odds are, Eggiweg is probably no longer viable. And even if taking eggs from the Wild was legal, I wouldn’t have the means to try and potentially keep it alive, and there’s just no point in keeping a dead turkey egg that you’re not going to eat.

[arewethereyet]

Giggling to myself. Told husband he does a better at cleaning the windows on the patio doors that I do.

He’s currently proving me right.

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[Fireball]

Goats are a great idea.  However, in this case, my primary problem is removing the underground rhizomes from Himalayan blackberries.  I don't think goats will touch those and in any case the source of the infestation is not on my land.  There otherwise isn't enough forage to keep goats interested for very long.

Well, they could just be rented for a week. As far as completely eliminating encroachment, I think they dig pretty deep roots, too. I'm sure there is a solution, somewhere. Flamethrower onto the neighboring property? Burn the photosynthetic part of a plant often enough, the roots eventually die? If fire doesn't cut it, I got nothing.

[The Valkyrie]

Having lunch at RNZAF Ohakea.

[arewethereyet]

ooops

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[Fireball]

ooops

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So, broken glass, or just really schmeared? There is no one in my house who can make something clean like I can.

[Jackalope]

Goats are a great idea.  However, in this case, my primary problem is removing the underground rhizomes from Himalayan blackberries.  I don't think goats will touch those and in any case the source of the infestation is not on my land.  There otherwise isn't enough forage to keep goats interested for very long.

Well, they could just be rented for a week. As far as completely eliminating encroachment, I think they dig pretty deep roots, too. I'm sure there is a solution, somewhere. Flamethrower onto the neighboring property? Burn the photosynthetic part of a plant often enough, the roots eventually die? If fire doesn't cut it, I got nothing.

The problem is that the rhizomes go a long long way underground. I'm eventually going to do a kill-n-till on much of the yard - that will take care of the rhizomes as well. Might use goats then. I wonder what my dog will think of that? LOL

[Fireball]

Well, they could just be rented for a week. As far as completely eliminating encroachment, I think they dig pretty deep roots, too. I'm sure there is a solution, somewhere. Flamethrower onto the neighboring property? Burn the photosynthetic part of a plant often enough, the roots eventually die? If fire doesn't cut it, I got nothing.

The problem is that the rhizomes go a long long way underground.  I'm eventually going to do a kill-n-till on much of the yard - that will take care of the rhizomes as well.  Might use goats then.  I wonder what my dog will think of that?  LOL

Just like Kowalski in that episode of Ren & Stimpy being rent-a-dads (I think I have that right, it's an old memory)-
MEAT!

[Jackalope]

Hmmm.... There's a local org that LOANS goats.