Dobby

We saw a really long deer last night. No picture, but the first half was looking at us, then a shrub blocking out a deer, then the hind end appeared making the deer look very long.

Great photos! I love puppers of all kinds! My very favorite is a big old English lab named Madi!

Thursday, May 19, 2011   
 
 

The Wonderful World Of Smiling Dachshunds!  Great Grin Jasper!   Thanks so much to our readers for sending in some awfully cute photos of your smiling little selves.  Sure puts a smile on our little mugs to see such happy Dachshunds!  'Jasper' and his mom Amy Francisco from Louisville, Kentucky write:   Dear Joey & Maggie,   Hi, my name is Jasper. I am a 2 year old Dachshund, and my mom and I love your blog. When we get online, it's one of the first things we go to. We watched the "Dachumercial" and while we agreed with a lot of what was said, we were surprised when she said that Dachshunds don't smile... of course we do!! I smile all the time, I'm a happy dog!! Mom even managed to get this picture of me smiling after playing one day.   Let's see those pearly whites Harley and Cash!   I also have two doxie cousins (Harley and Cash) that mom took a picture of once and they are totally smiling in it!! We doxies are awesome dogs!!     The world always looks brighter from behind a smile like Duncan's!   'Duncan' and 'Sophie' also write in with photos of their happy little selves:   Dear Maggie & Joey,   We just love your blog, especially when you post videos of other doxies - we love new friends in that strange machine that Mom always plays with! Anyway, we saw the Dachumerical and we disagree that Dachshunds don't smile just like adorable Ringo that we saw on your blog today. We may not be purebred doxies but here is more proof that Dachshunds do smile!   Sophie's smile is as sweet as sugar.  

The white ones are the dreaded cabbage butterflies that lay on the cole crops. I don't know why the drought would have singled out the monarachs. I had more butterflies than usual this year. Lots of fritillaries , a couple of types of swallowtails and skippers.  Also bon's cabbage butterflies in the hundreds. There were others but it is difficult to identify them on the wing and I'm not about to catch them just to find out what they are. Didn't see any sulfurs or the little blue azures. I had several other people ask why there were so many butterflies this year but even the butterfly expert from Penn State could not answer that question. I did ask here at the butterfly program sponsored by Friends of the Library. Nature has its own processes and they are frequently a mystery to man. We aren't getting the dinosaurs back either. It is what it is.

Black swallowtails? I think they lay their eggs on the Queen Anne's lace. There is also a poison hemlock down the road that can act as a host plant. We don't see nearly as many of them since the dog died. They like dog poop. Something about minerals. They would sit in the sun and enjoy the rays and what the dog left them.

I'm out of town at a seminar and the internet is terrible so you may want to type Monarch images into a Search Engine and check them out.
 
There are many butterfly species that you can find locally and raise for fun.  Monarchs are the only species that migrate.

We are doing this with guidance from Monarch Watch, Journey North, and the Folks Butterfly Farm in order to counteract what humans have done to them.  This isn't messing with nature.  A 90% survival rate raised in a protected environment versus a 10% survival rate in contaminated nature speaks for itself.

Excellent article that reminds us that when we mess with Mother Nature there are often unforeseen consequences. Providing what are better conditions for hatching eggs or growing plants also provides improved conditions for disease and introduced predators.  Brings to mind the woman who was starting an organic farm and thought that she could raise seedlings in the soil from her yard. She probably would have been OK but she decided to do it indoors. It made the bacteria and fungi in the soil so happy that they cheerfully killed off all her seedlings. The old gardener that put her right did a lot of head shaking. 
Nature has a balance. Unset it and be prepared to intervening again and again to reach a new balance.

Just received a link for an article from a reader.
 
7 Common Monarch Diseases, Parasites, and Caterpillar Killershttp://monarchbutterflygarden.net/common-monarch-diseases-prevention/

Causes rash/allergic reaction
I see them & sqish them...not in hoards just single ones. Maybe I shouldn't, but delt with these years ago & kids suffering.

Yes, looks like fur & has some black.

Drought, disease take toll on local monarch efforts

By Eric Hrin ehrin@thecourierexpress.com
 





 








 



 

By Eric Hrin


Karen Trudo, treasurer of BUDS Gardeners, holds one of the tagged monarch butterflies that were released this year.




 






DuBOIS

We hate ticks & chipmunks at our house!

I always thought I could make a lot of money if I could make biscuits that tasted like my dogs' butts. They are always licking them.

I must have removed 2 dozen ticks from our outside cat in the last 2 weeks. I can't keep him out of the woods, he loves chipmunks.
Anyone know if they make chipmunk flavored cat food?

It depends on whether the spirochete was able to lay eggs in your body before the antibiotic killed it.  If so then they can live in your tissues for quite a while before they decide to hatch and see if the coast is clear.  Then you have a repeat of the same symptoms but they should be milder as long as your immune system built up antibodies to it.  We should spend our lives getting stronger by eating, drinking and sleeping well.

I thought doxycycline cures the symptoms and puts the disease in remission but the disease could reoccure at any time. There is no cure. At least that's the way I understood what the vet told me.

Thank goodness for you. Your results probably were related to early detection. A vaccine probably to fight against the lagtime people get bitten and go to the doctor.

'Each time I was diagnosed, I was prescribed 10 days of Doxycycline, the antibiotic that kills Lyme. Each time it did the trick.'
 
 
If it's easily curable why did the CDC make a vaccine?

How useful. Thanks for sharing this mr d.

The Great Outdoors: Ticks are No Joke
October 19, 2016 12:30 am

I think that "one guy" was a vet from Reynoldsville. He would load his riding mower and equipment and truck on over to the cemetery. Also, he was looking for donations to help with the effort. What a beautiful job this has turned in to.

In the beginning of October, John Micks President of the Rumbarger Cemetery Preservation Society and the board members of the RCPS, gave a tour of Rumbarger Cemetery to several veterans in October 2016. Shown is the Soldiers Circle. Rumbarger has veterans from every war buried on Main Street. The board members place flags every year at all veterans graves in the cemetery. There is over 100 veterans buried in Rumbarger.

21 Gun Salute by the VFW Post 813 Honor Guard honoring James J Patterson on October 15, 2016

Wreath placed during the ceremony for James J Patterson.