The clover patch wasn't exactly savaged and it will still become the Bee Zone but a gardener helping Yevette yesterday thought they were weeds so he mowed them down. That precipitated the Saturday Clover Crisis and it was a drag because Yevette grew a whole lot of clover from seed and I've been watching ever since. Of course she watches the patch as well and there will be questions which probably make no sense to anyone else: have you seen how the clover patch is doing?
There's been a growing anticipation in the Rockhouse of, man, bees are really going to dig this.
Then it came ..... THWACK!!!
It sounded like a horticultural disaster but Mister Greenjeans surveyed the site and found it wasn't likely to result in another book by Rachel Carson since the clover wasn't really hammered that hard, the roots weren't touched, and garden poisons are forbidden.
Don't bring that Round-Up around here, mates, as it won't be me climbing your case but rather Yevette and you seriously don't want to make her mad about anything, most particularly that clover patch.
The Bee Zone will still come and I don't think it will take that long before the clover patch is roaring again. It didn't quite make it to flower that time but they will flower multiple times in a season, most likely by constantly reseeding themselves and then it's a Bee Zone which will keep coming back.
Yesterday Cat and I talked about discovering as children how much bees like patches of clover and both of us did it the same way by walking barefoot in some clover. Yep, the bees will tell you this is my ground, man.
She also told me of some scary ground now because wasps are smart in the same way as crows so they know when the plums drop from the tree, wait a little bit for them to get really good. The result is the area around the plum tree during that part of the season is off-limits because of all the wasps. Crows are clever in knowing fruit fallen to the ground will ferment so the whole murder will come around to get drunk. That phenomenon is well-known and it amuses biologists / ethologists no end.
(Ed: murder?)
Yes. When many crows are together it's generally accurate to call that a 'flock' but the more accurate term is a 'murder' so two crows alone would be (cough) an attempted murder.
Elephants take things one better than the crows since they not only come out for a party on the fermented fruit but they plan it. They know if they keep bumping a tree then the fruit will come down so they can come back in a couple of days with all their friends to get hammered. I had not heard of this previously and Cat told me yesterday since it's part of a shared delight in the fascinating things animals do.
Cat loves horses and of course they're beautiful and elegant but it's the behavior most of all which draws her and it's instantly an attraction when someone is already familiar with Konrad Lorenz.
It was the same way when another friend knew off the top of his head the scientific name for Amazonian Discus and right away, yep, we can be friends. Anyone who has such esoteric knowledge floating around in his head is guaranteed to be a curiosity. We were friends until he disappeared in the Philippines some years ago as he went around fixing computers for a church. That's not a statement about terrorists since his heart wasn't in good shape so he knew he wouldn't be coming back.
There's been a growing anticipation in the Rockhouse of, man, bees are really going to dig this.
Then it came ..... THWACK!!!
It sounded like a horticultural disaster but Mister Greenjeans surveyed the site and found it wasn't likely to result in another book by Rachel Carson since the clover wasn't really hammered that hard, the roots weren't touched, and garden poisons are forbidden.
Don't bring that Round-Up around here, mates, as it won't be me climbing your case but rather Yevette and you seriously don't want to make her mad about anything, most particularly that clover patch.
The Bee Zone will still come and I don't think it will take that long before the clover patch is roaring again. It didn't quite make it to flower that time but they will flower multiple times in a season, most likely by constantly reseeding themselves and then it's a Bee Zone which will keep coming back.
Yesterday Cat and I talked about discovering as children how much bees like patches of clover and both of us did it the same way by walking barefoot in some clover. Yep, the bees will tell you this is my ground, man.
She also told me of some scary ground now because wasps are smart in the same way as crows so they know when the plums drop from the tree, wait a little bit for them to get really good. The result is the area around the plum tree during that part of the season is off-limits because of all the wasps. Crows are clever in knowing fruit fallen to the ground will ferment so the whole murder will come around to get drunk. That phenomenon is well-known and it amuses biologists / ethologists no end.
(Ed: murder?)
Yes. When many crows are together it's generally accurate to call that a 'flock' but the more accurate term is a 'murder' so two crows alone would be (cough) an attempted murder.
Elephants take things one better than the crows since they not only come out for a party on the fermented fruit but they plan it. They know if they keep bumping a tree then the fruit will come down so they can come back in a couple of days with all their friends to get hammered. I had not heard of this previously and Cat told me yesterday since it's part of a shared delight in the fascinating things animals do.
Cat loves horses and of course they're beautiful and elegant but it's the behavior most of all which draws her and it's instantly an attraction when someone is already familiar with Konrad Lorenz.
It was the same way when another friend knew off the top of his head the scientific name for Amazonian Discus and right away, yep, we can be friends. Anyone who has such esoteric knowledge floating around in his head is guaranteed to be a curiosity. We were friends until he disappeared in the Philippines some years ago as he went around fixing computers for a church. That's not a statement about terrorists since his heart wasn't in good shape so he knew he wouldn't be coming back.
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