The audio in the clip below starts as I am walking in our house toward the front door in March. As I open the door, with the pond a few metres from the house, this is the sound we get every night for several months in the spring. Click on the small arrow below.
Last fall, several truck-loads of seaweed, Garry Oak leaves, a pile of chipped wood from the orchard and farm, and a load of rotted manure were piled and mixed for composting. The tractor has been invaluable in keeping this pile turned and now in transporting it to the gardens. In March, visitor Jochen Kumm practises his skills with the backhoe and bucket .
I had been working on getting basic electrification in the barn so since the ground was soft, I decided to do the last leg to the house. Then I decided to run a water line up from the standpipe at the house to behind the rock wall at the picnic table area… Looks like a moat, but will get it filled in this week.
March 2015:
| Adequate Responses | Inadequate responses |
| 4, 5, 10, 11, 14, 16, 18,21, 23, 25, 26 | 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 15, 17, 19, 20, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32. |
| 11 acceptable responses | 18 did not answer the question. |
So which of our acceptable answers got the No further response is required comments too?. We did not ask for one… looks like someone didn’t read the question!
January 2015:
See Oil Spill Risks for our area on three websites :
December, 2014
As we have done for many years, this year again we took part in the Christmas Bird Count at Race Rocks on December 28. Val George, an experienced birder spent the morning out there and in the process came up with the rarest find of the Sooke Area bird count, A Boreal Owl.
I have put together a gallery on the Race Rocks website to which we add images of ships passing by in the Strait of Juan de Fuca with seals, sealions and marine birds in the foreground click on this image to link to the gallery :
(accessed in the NYT March 14, 2015)
Parts of the eastern United States were cooler than average last year, but globally 2014 was the warmest year in recorded history.
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One Cedar tree in the corner of Alex and Virginies garden which I planted 20 years ago was transplanted in order to open up the light.
