This lovely dog belongs to on of my husbands Cub pack helpers - I assume it is a whipet but am not really up on dog breds.
They came along to the end of year backwoods cooking in our garden and bought with them and amazing stake thing that screwed into the ground which they could then tie the do too!
I think this worked really well but only becuase it was a light framed dog who was very well behaved.
I found this snake skin in the garden - this was a bit of a relief as we hadn’t seen any sign of the adders who normally live on the compost heap. Snakes shed their skins rather than a few cells at a time like us.
Here is the underside - note the scales are more rectangular than the top side.
This is the top side and you can actually see the snakes patterning - I don’t actually know what type of snake this belongs too.
My little girl was a bit worried that it was a dead snake so we had to lots of explaining which ended up in some very interesting conversations.
My little girl finally got to harvest her carrots which we then used for a stir fry for our dinner!
Our friends Ulrike and Mike got us these lovely dwarf roses as a thankyou for letting them stay for my husband 30th birthday party! They not only had lots and lots of flowers only half of which where open when they gave it too us but we had it inside as our table flower for about 6 weeks before all the blooms went - it is several pllants which I am going to plant out into the rose bed I made last year - most of the roses I planted from similar presants have survived though I’ve noticed that once no longer pot bound they often decide they are not dwarf roses after all!
I was sitting in my little girls room reading to her when I saw what I initially thought was one of out cats coming to sit in the gully outside our house but it wasn’t it was a fox.
We rushed down stairs and without thinking I opened the front door to look and there was a fox with a largish bird in its muzzel on my front door steep staring at me!
Unfortunatly by the time I had my composure and camera it was high tailing it away.
The other frog appears to have disappeared from Jean’s frogarium which is a shame the mark two tadpols are still swimming around in their happily and the pond snail is still munching the algea. My sinarious are a) they’ve climbed up the side and hopped away hopefully without encountering cats b) Hydrogen who had a tendency to watch them has eaten them as a kitty snack by fishing them out of the pot in which case I should have put a lid on the put (I hadn’t done this so that insects would get in as a froggy supper) or c) they have mysteriously died and been consumed by the mark 2 tadpols leaving no trace.
I’m going for option a) and as far as my 3 yr olds concerned it is a cat free a)!
The Froggarium worked much better than I was expecting though which is great and we will definatly be doing this again next year.
Basically it has taught Jean about animals and plants all being connected ie it needs the pond weed, the plant, the snail, water lavea and the tadpols to actually work without all of this the tadpoles simply die :/
I am waiting to see if the mark 2 tadpols actually turn into anything now - they do seem very very behind.
The frogs have been getting more and more climby and I can only see one in the Frogarium today :/ I have looked even removing the sitting stones and the plant but there is just no sign of it so I’m hoping it has climbed out and hoped away to saftey and is not residing inside one of the cats tummys!
Or behind the oven decomposing etc…
Today me and my duaghter Jean opened the easter egg pressant I had picked up for her in the reduced section of the super market. It was two chocolate eggs, and some marshmellows in a Peter Rabbit plant pot along with some carrot seeds and a little marker.
I got her to fill up the plant pot with potting compost and she sprinkeled a fraction of the seeds - the pot isn’t really big enough for one carrot but she liked doing the planting and talking about how the seeds would grow into carrots to eat.
She then watered the seeds in with her water can - which came with more chocolate eggs and marshmellows in and came from my perants - it leaks as its apparently just a toy oil can but Jean had a fun time non the less.
I’m going to put it on the window sill with the tadpols.
My friend bought us a custard apple which was a strange and new fruit to us.
We were so intreged by it that we’ve extracted the seeds and have potted them up in the hope that we will get some custard apple trees. These will be restricted to the green house I think and if they germinate I hope they can be dwarfed by pot binding them - I suppose only time will tell!
I have just found out via Twitter of all things that tonight in about 1/2 hour it is the [WWF's Earth Hour](http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/how_you_can_help/signup/) - the idea being that we all turn our lights and laptops etc… off.
I know it’s a bit late to be posting about it but I thought it sounded interesting so went and had a look and am just about to sign up!
Conservation is only going to become a bigger issue.
Hopefully I will keep track of future events better!