This Just In...

So today I spent about 10 minutes making pop bottle bug traps. Then my sister and I placed them around our yard. But so far nothing has been caught. In any of them. I’m hoping by tomorrow afternoon there will be at least a few bugs in each of them.  Although today while we were playing outside, there wasn’t a lot of bugs bothering us. Only one wasp at the very end when we were getting ready to head inside. So maybe I already depleted the amount of bugs? Could I be that lucky?

Here’s hoping.

And an update on the bait for the traps – Sunkist doesn’t work as well as the yellow Mnt Dew. If you want some serious bug catching to go down, bait the traps with yellow Mnt Dew.

An update on our ducks and geese – They have moved outside. My dad built them a pen outside, including a roof. So nothing can get to them if it doesn’t open up the door. Which is good, because there’s all sorts of predators for baby animals when you live out in the boonies. And the mess is so much easier to handle when it is outside. Seems ridiculously easy to clean up now. They little birds have gone back to being cute. Like the other day, they were “out to pasture” (we put them in a gated area in the grass while we are outside doing stuff.) And they have this little tub in the cage with them that they can drink out of (although we still give them their food and water dishes) but its more for them to swim in. One duck and one goose will get in there in swim around together in fast little circles. It looks so goofy. And then the two little ducks were in there by themselves, swimming in fast little circles, and swam themselves right over the edge. They both just plopped out into the grass, and looked super surprised. I laughed…probably harder then what I should have.

We have also added a little black kitten to the mix of creatures in our growing (or would it be shrinking) yard. She needed a good home, and now couldn’t be more content with the one she found. Earlier we were playing in the sandbox and she was laying in my lap, attacking my foot. Then after a bit, just passed out. Cuddled into my leg, and passed out. I had to carry her back up to the house and put her in her pen. The whole time she didn’t wake up. Okay, she woke up a little, but that was to look up at me, cuddle into my boobs and fall back asleep.

And once again, I’m super proud of Thomas wanting to get up and take care of all of these little babies. It always amazes me how grown up he tries to be. And I hope he will always have that driving want to help other creatures. Take care of the animals…and enjoy it. Once I tell him that they’re babies and he has to be gentile, he is. Super gentile. Mostly..sometimes he needs a reminder, but usually he is super gentile.

Our animal tally right now :

5 Dogs
1 Cat
1 kitten
2 Ducklings
2 Goslings
5 Horses