Lyras Tierleben

[oloriel]

In non-baby, non-human news...

... there are two does in my garden. Or were, because even though I snuck upstairsladder really carefully and opened a window as silently as I might to try and take a photo, they heard it and disappeared.
One of them was watching the road, while the other was eating - I don't know, something that grows in my garden apparently. Perhaps this is why my boxtrees look so desolate each spring? Seriously though, there's been just the tiniest dusting of snow today, nothing so serious that they should be leaving the forest to pillage my garden. WHAT.

... 'náro still climbs the ladder, sleeps upstairs, doesn't know how to get down, and panics when he is carried downstairs.
Mr. Darcy, on the other hand, sneakily taught himself how to use ladders both ways. Well, he's been the more athletic of the two for a long time. Yet I'm surprised every time when he demonstrates just how clever he is. (He can open doors, too, but his technique betrays that while he has accepted that This Is How Doors Open If They're Closed, he hasn't grasped the physics behind door handles. (Phew!) I guess if you're patient enough to try again and again and again and again after you don't immediately succeed, actually understanding leverage principles is optional).

... did I mention that on top of the deer, jaybirds and woodpeckers, now the squirrel also keeps coming to our suet cakes? I put these things out for the poor little hungry songbirds and who uses them? About everyone who likes seeds, peanuts or suet, apparently. Am I the only person around here who feeds birds in winter or what?

... I suspect both bee colonies are dead. The blue colony is definitely dead because there are no living bees inside and stuff has started to grow fuzzy green fungi. The red colony might be dead because nothing seems to be moving inside, but then I didn't dare to probe much in case they actually are alive until some apprentice beekeeper tears them from their warm little ball to see if they're still alive. But if they're still alive they're precious few and winter isn't over yet. So I'm not optimistic there. >_>

Comments

[mirien.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear about your bees. Will you try again?

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Of course! I've got all the expensive stuff here now and I'm not ready to give up after just one try. With the wet autumn and early and hard winter I'm not taking the loss "personally" anyway - even experienced beekeepers have been having troubles. I'll just have to see where and when to get new colonies!

[vout.livejournal.com]

Tut mir leid wegen deiner Bienen. Vielleicht schaffen es die Roten ja noch.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Wär schön! Ansonsten verschiebt sich die Honigernte halt nochmal >_>

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

*crosses fingers for your bee colony*