CAPTAIN MORONI

This is me with two of my Tomato plants. this is just before transplanting, even though they are over ready. The tomato in my left hand is Moroni, a cherry Sungold tomato; and the one in my right is a Big beef named Pike, after a big toothy type of fish that lives in lakes around here. I have named all my SunGold tomatoes after Book Of Mormon Heroes. My Big beefs are all Fish names, and my Early girls are named after horse breeds. My best Big Beef is Pike, my best Ealy girl is Arabian, and my best sungold is Moroni; and i named him that before I knew he'd turn out good. I have given them all names so that i will take care of them better. It works! There like green pets.

The almost trophy fish

A little late but here it is, ( top,) is the the whooper so far, a large mouth bass . 4 lbs and 18 in. that I caught in discovery pond. 2 more pounds and he could have been a trophy.
I almost caught a much bigger one but it broke my 10 pound test line. I caught this whooper at the last minute just as mom called us home and we thought the fish stoped biting. On that day Ducky made the discovery of Bullhead cat fish that have been living in the pond in secret. We are going to try and catch those to, besides the giant Bass that got away.

above is not the same fish but another I caught at a lake called Sims Vally. In this picture I am teaching Ducky how to clean fish my way.

My garden

This is an angel face rose bud from my garden. of all four of my new rose bushes it was the only one to have roses. below is a M&M lady bug I did while backing cookies. when little princess saw me she immediately began doing her own M&M designs.

A walk in our 5 acre woods

Ducky and I took a walk in our forest each at a different time and we both took pictures. I took the two top ones and she took the other two. When ever I am away traveling somewhere, I have missed the rolling hills of the Ozarks, the scenery, the out doors activities, the little critters, and even the thunderstorms, also a particular annoying bug that makes a wee, a wee, a weeeee sound. Those little bugs are called cicadas. they come around in June,, or when it starts to get hot. Their wee wee sound is so loud it covers any other sound like cars or the little frogs, crickets and Whippoorwills. Cicadas were one of the things I knew I wouldn't miss when I spent the summer in CA...however, the first couple nights it took me a long while to go to sleep. It was too quiet.

Little night bird

In the months of early spring, you can hear this rare little bird called a Whippoorwill. I tried to stalk him to get a picture but instead got his voice. you wont see any thing because it's night time, but I think he sounds pretty. Where I live there are many night sounds and different ones at in different seasons. This is one of the night critters I enjoy listening to.

Check this out!

We caught all these fish at Discovery on April 20; The smaller ones are Blue gills and green sunfish, And the white ones are Crappie. This big fella in the lead is a foot long- the biggest one yet. That's big for a crappie. He's also pictured all by himself at the right. Sorry about the bad pic.s . Couldn't get the flash off.

A weee one with a big one

Were catching bigger and bigger crappie as we learn their favorite baits. This one is 10 in. long. The middle pic. is Ducky with her Blue gill. I rescued this Luna moth from Emma who seemed to have fun chasing it.

Wellcome to the World Frodo & Sam!

Robin hood's ewe, Alaska, had twins yesterday morning. Robin hood named them after Lord of the rings characters. We thought Alaska wasn't having any this year. But she happened to have two healthy white boys. Frodo and Sam are our first white lambs. The rest of our sheep are basically brown or spotted except their mother. This concerned ewe is not their mother, but their devoted Auntie Arabia, who will have at least three of her own soon.

Tasty

Many people have told me that Crappie taste good. It really does, but for all us to get a good taste we had to cut him in pieces ( he is a pretty small one after being flayed). Also I finally figured out an easier way to flay any type of fish. In short, cut along the dorsal fins and the skin just behind the head and gills and pull the skin off without descaling, (Which is the worst part of gutting a fish for me). Then cut the head and tail off wipe out the innards and fry it. Yum yum!

Fishing again

We went fishing to Discovery pond again, but only for a few minutes so we didn't catch very much. But I caught the first Crappie ever caught at our house, too bad he's not bigger. look at the size of his wee little mouth!

SUPER early fishing

This week has been sort of warm, with little bits of spring showers every now and then. One day was especially warm so my sister bunny suggested we go fishing. So even though we didn't have any real chance catching anything, we finished our chores, packed our things and headed to the pond we call discovery pond. It is the closest one to our house, so we didn't have any trouble walking there on foot. We have three fishing ponds near us. This is our 2nd favorite one. Our absolute favorite is featured in the post: September fishing.

When we stuck our poles in the water; fish started nibbling on our bait. My sister Bunny broke the record for the most fish caught in a day at our house, with the number of 9 Blue gills, Ducky came second with 6, and last me, with 4. Unfortunately, they were all small except one of mine so we took it and Ducky's biggest home to eat. But Discovery pond will not last much longer unless somebody who has the money fixes it. Silt, (dirt) is seeping in because of the cows that have been stomping around it.

Spring polliwogs

Ducky took her younger sister and brother hunting for polliwogs,(tadpoles) in our pond today. They caught many quarter sized polliwogs and salamanders. Our baby sister likes holding them until their smooth wet bodies wiggle in her little hands.
I didn't think they would come out till May, But since they did, maybe the fish will be out pretty soon too.