Slow Friday
Mar. 23rd, 2012 10:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoWas slow but it did finally come to an end. Got home, found a small (really) amount of cash waiting in payment for my Irish music appearance last Saturday. We went out for dinner and used it. ;p
Stopped at Wally-Mart for cat food, cheap breakfast cereal, and a couple of other items, came home, going to bed soon. Model train show tomorrow, Gary wants to go, so go we shall. Report afterward. I need to get photos of the landscaping he has done, too.
It was densely overcast until just before sunset. Now it's almost clear with lots of bright stars, and, most miraculous, still 60F outside so you can just go outside and gaze up at them. Most striking is the alignment of Jupiter, Venus and Capella in a straight vertical line above the western horizon. The Pleiades are quite visible near that, and Canis Major is bright to the south with Orion standing over him.
The exceedingly warm weather has brought out all our spring bulbs at once. Gary has waves of daffodils that are supposed to bloom in a cycle that takes most of the month of April. Almost all of them are blooming right now, at the same time. Scylla is popping out all over, and the day lilies and iris leaves are standing six inches tall before the trilliums even show. Looks like a bad year for slugs, they are everywhere. Probably the warm weather and mild winter has brought them out. *refills his big salt shaker*
Vet came today for the horses, said they all look good in terms of weight. I've been concerned that they are on the thin side this spring, but she says otherwise. Asher had a bit of allergy a week ago and we started rinsing his hay to reduce the dust, which seems to have nipped it in the bud.
Our vet agrees with the animal control: rabies in raccoons has not been observed here. She says the symptoms observed in the raccoon and squirrel yesterday were either distemper or poison, just as I thought. The squirrel disappeared overnight, and I hope it wasn't taken and eaten by a fox or coyote.
Stopped at Wally-Mart for cat food, cheap breakfast cereal, and a couple of other items, came home, going to bed soon. Model train show tomorrow, Gary wants to go, so go we shall. Report afterward. I need to get photos of the landscaping he has done, too.
It was densely overcast until just before sunset. Now it's almost clear with lots of bright stars, and, most miraculous, still 60F outside so you can just go outside and gaze up at them. Most striking is the alignment of Jupiter, Venus and Capella in a straight vertical line above the western horizon. The Pleiades are quite visible near that, and Canis Major is bright to the south with Orion standing over him.
The exceedingly warm weather has brought out all our spring bulbs at once. Gary has waves of daffodils that are supposed to bloom in a cycle that takes most of the month of April. Almost all of them are blooming right now, at the same time. Scylla is popping out all over, and the day lilies and iris leaves are standing six inches tall before the trilliums even show. Looks like a bad year for slugs, they are everywhere. Probably the warm weather and mild winter has brought them out. *refills his big salt shaker*
Vet came today for the horses, said they all look good in terms of weight. I've been concerned that they are on the thin side this spring, but she says otherwise. Asher had a bit of allergy a week ago and we started rinsing his hay to reduce the dust, which seems to have nipped it in the bud.
Our vet agrees with the animal control: rabies in raccoons has not been observed here. She says the symptoms observed in the raccoon and squirrel yesterday were either distemper or poison, just as I thought. The squirrel disappeared overnight, and I hope it wasn't taken and eaten by a fox or coyote.
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Date: 2012-05-26 08:47 pm (UTC)