nature
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Driftless Thursday: Doofus 3.0
“Doofus” is the name my husband and I gave the first deer who figured out our house is a great place to pick up a snack meant for birds and became a regular patron. Doofus 1.0 was brazen about it:… Continue reading
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Driftless Thursday: Critters with No Boundaries
I’ve written in the past about critters that come right up to the house: Last week we had a visit from a juvenile groundhog. I like to think it was the kid of the groundhog we saw earlier this year.… Continue reading
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Driftless Thursday: Just Saying Hello
I’m hyper-focused on final edits for Tangled Roots and exploring a shift in reveals to tell the best story. So, today’s DR post is an especially chill buck, just saying hello: I took this yesterday, out the living room window,… Continue reading
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Driftless Thursday: A Primitive Camping Story
It suddenly occurred to me this week that prior to moving to the Driftless area of Wisconsin in 2020, my husband and I had actually visited a decade earlier. In 2010, we had the idea that we wanted to try… Continue reading
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Driftless Thursday: Baby Pictures
Today’s DT post is a short photo album of June baby pictures. Enjoy! And there are more babies to come. Phoebe 2.0 (here is 1.0) is nesting over the bathroom window… Continue reading
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Driftless Thursday: Deer (and Critter) Resistant Perennials
When it comes to landscape gardening, I’m all about perennials. They are the ultimate of “work smarter, not harder” in gardening. Here’s my shortlist of recommendations for deer and critter-resistant perennials that also stand up to an amateur gardener. Trust… Continue reading
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Driftless Thursday: The bird bath became a deer bucket
Late in the spring I saw a video online that gave me an idea for a new garden feature. I made a simple planter with a center solar fountain, thinking hummingbirds might fly through it and other birds might enjoy… Continue reading
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Driftless Thursday: Rainbows
Last week we had some storms. Rain and thunder are a part of life, of course, but I’m one of those people who hate storms. I tend to spend storms comforting pets, worrying about leaks, and not being able to… Continue reading
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Driftless Thursday: Summer Snow
It’s the time of summer when we start seeing fluffy white bits gently falling, especially on a breezy day under a clear blue sky. It’s not summer snow, of course, but the eastern cottonwood does a fine imitation. These are… Continue reading
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Driftless Thursday: Brown-headed Cowbirds
When we moved to the country in Wisconsin, we were fascinated by the number of birds we saw and had to identify. We only moved from the Chicago suburbs, after all, how different could they be? Maybe we just weren’t… Continue reading
