Another grab-bag

Today was taken up with little, fiddly things.

Quicksilver and I went for a walk and played "Quicksilver, COME HERE!" 

Repetitions are the foundation of classical conditioning. In the factory, the standard was between 1000 and 10,000 repetitions to gain mastery. In a factory pumping out 442 vehicles a shift, that amounts to a month on a job without rotation.

Muscle memory is not something you can think-into-being or arrive at by means of logic. You just have to do it.

While we were walking Quicksilver started batting the tall weeds growing alongside the road. Three of those tall weeds were orchardgrass. All three emitted puffs of pollen as Quicksilver hit them. 

Garden update

50 feet of beets were transplanted and after I depleted the seedlings, I seeded the remainder. I have 100 feet of row left in the potato patch to populate.

Southern Belle took a flat of seedlings to her church yesterday evening: Rose de Bern, sweet peppers, Tagetes minuta and Tagetes lucida. 

Southern Belle is scheduled to get another four, 10' rows of sweet corn seeded today and I will probably finish out the sweet pepper seedlings in her garden.

Luna moth

I found him, spent, on the floor of our garage. Not a bad way to go, really.

I wonder if he came out of one of the cocoons I saw on the persimmon tree?

Ducks

The color of the Khaki Campbell ducklings looks exactly like our brown, Michigan loam when it is damp or shaded. When they are resting and not moving, they are almost invisible.

After two days-and-nights, I released the male Rouen duck to be with the others. It was hot and I could not ensure he would get sufficient water or shade to survive, so I rolled the dice.

The older (girl) ducks treat the young ducks with the disdain that 23 year-old college graduates would treat 7th grade girls. The drake (male duck) pretty much ignores them as well.

That was a happy ending.

Zeus met Pepe le Pew last night

 Nobody is very happy about that.

Tomorrow's work-ticket

More "Quicksilver, COME HERE!"

Mowing the Upper Orchard.

Making and installing cages to protect trees from deer.

Maybe go fishing with Shotgun.