Category Archives: Daily Happenings

Morning Walk

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Wylie and I have been on many morning walks, today’s walk was one of the best.

Foggy start to the day.

This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24

Everyone is waking up! I have an app that records all the bird sounds. Some that we heard are: Nuthatch, cardinal, blue eye vireo, indigo bunting, bobwhite quail, red-bellied woodpecker, meadowlark, Harris sparrow. My bird app didn’t register the coyotes howling!

What a beautiful start to the day! Have a wonderful day.

Favorite Time Of Day

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I can’t think of any better way to start the day, than to be outside before alot of people are even up.

Sunrise over the wheat field with the elevator in the background waiting for the harvest.

A moring walk with a bit of fog.

Turtles have hatched.

Little fawn and last years little ones.

Canada geese and goslings

 

Dominator 3

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If you see this in your area, you should be concerned!  Luckily for us it was just passing through.

Reed Timmer, a meterologist, has built a series of vehicles for storm chasing.  The heavily modified Ford F-350, at a cost of $750,000, is built to withstand EF5 tornado winds of up to 200 mph. Click here  to read more about the Dominator 3

Dominator 3

Wylie could be their mascot.  Run Toto run!

 

Night Sky

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The good think about having a little furry companion is that you get to be outside many nights.  I love seeing the stars, planets, moon and occasional “what’s that”.

Photos were taken two consective nights in early October.  The SpaceX Starlink satellite “train”,  provides global high-speed internet.  When first launched the satellites are all in a close orbit and then become spread apart.  Eventially there is to be 42,000 satellites orbiting in our night sky.

I love how Orion is in this picture.  I only had my iphone and a pup in one arm, just pointing in the general direction of the satellites.  I was so happy and surprised that i was able to get a photo of them!

Warm Winter Day

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It was a beautiful winter day at the Kanoplis Lake.  I always like to go this time of the year to see the eagles in their nest.  This pair has been coming to this spot for years.  The park closes the trails around their nest.

Temperatures were in the 50’s today, but we’ve had some really cold weather with wind chills in the -10!  Parts of the lake are frozen over.

Wylie, the rock climber, we didn’t make it to the top!

Beautiful sky

So thankful for the nice winter day.  It’s going to change tomorrow and get cold again with only a slight chance of moisture.

 

Haunted Forest

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This was such a unique sound that I hadn’t heard before on our early morning walks. What made it even more interesting was that I had been on the phone the previous day to Dell support in India. When you have their support they “take over” your computer and in no time it’s running again like new!! Amazing, I highly recommend Dell computers and support. The tech saw my home screen and comment how beautiful it was and if that’s where I lived. That started a great conversations about our countries, one of the things he told me about were the monkeys and other wildlife. The first thing I thought about when I heard this sound coming from the trees, monkeys! Of course I know there are no wild monkeys in Kansas. I recorded the sound and sent it to my son. He told me they were Barred owls. It certainly is awesome to hear, I haven’t seen them yet but hopefully we will.

Happy Summer

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Officially the first day of summer, it arrived last night at 10:31pm.  It certainly doesn’t feel like summer, it’s only in the mid 80’s.  After a week of scorching temperatures, our high was 106.  That was hot.  Wheat harvest has started, but was slowed a bit today after some showers last night.

The sky was so blue with bright puffy clouds.  Just had to get out!!

Grader ditch with old fashion day lilies

Wheat field ready to be cut

The cattle need a bigger shade tree

Less traveled backroad