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- Monday, 11/3: Ladybug Invasion Begins
- We picked more pecan nuts. Mary gathered several in the morning and in the evening. I grabbed some from above the first bin roof during our morning collection.
- I cut down a medium-sized hickory that had bark shedding, so I knew it was dead. The big Stihl chainsaw did fast work at sawing it up. Six pieces went into the machine shed next to the woodsplitter. The rest went into the woodshed. It amounted to two wheelbarrow loads.
- Mary finished popping the last two varieties of garlic in preparation to planting it.
- The Asian ladybug invasion of our house began (see video, below). It's a yearly event that starts on the first warm day in autumn after a killing frost.
- I moved tall cut grass with a wheelbarrow to the Boys' Fort deer blind and filled holes in the hog fence surrounding it with handfuls of grass to block a deer's view of me.
- Mary spread compost on the three future rows of garlic in the far garden and turned all of the soil in the western first row.
- I used a pitchfork to move weeds I cut yesterday off the trail between the ponds and weedwhacked head-height lespedeza weeds on the Wood Duck Trail. I got to Bramble Hill.
- I checked the pear wine and squeezed the nylon mesh bags. The specific gravity was 1.048.
- We saw the twin deer that hang around the house on the lane during our evening walk with Plato. Several minutes later, while walking to the compost bins, I heard deer thundering away on the other side of the cedar trees. That was probably those same two deer.
Asian ladybugs on the south living room window.
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