Each year, my friend has a fishing trip with the guys from college at a house on the north end of Sapelo Island, the part that is completely wild with hogs and rattlesnakes and alligators. Except for one other small house owned by Georgia’s DNR, my friend’s house is the only house on the north… Continue reading Blackbeard Island
Native American Garden First Planting
Native American Garden We aren’t using any pesticides on our plants. We aren’t shooting the squirrels, although I have explained to my son that in a time of hunger, we wouldn’t have to worry about them because they would have already seen the inside of a pot. I only hope they leave us enough for… Continue reading Native American Garden First Planting
Seedlings
Germination Room 1: Formerly Known as the Dining Room Instead of buying plastic germination trays, I wanted to show my son how to reuse recycled materials like cardboard and the rolls from toilet paper in some totes on loan from the warehouse.
Digging the Tadpole Pond
The Yalobusha In the backyard, we dug a Yalobusha, a tadpole place. We dug it after school together between dirt-clod throwing contests.
Tiny Baby Tree Frogs
Tiny Baby Tree Frogs I was noticing fewer and fewer tree frog tadpoles, and I was sure that a single juvenile female bullfrog was eating them and eating too many of them to be sustainable. The tree frogs had been singing and laying eggs for three weeks until the bullfrog showed up after a rainstorm,… Continue reading Tiny Baby Tree Frogs