It’s been brutal lately.
I don’t know how Syd managed with his face uncovered. His beard probably helped.
I dug out a bit of mosquito netting I haven’t used since I bought it 25 years ago in Australia. Not perfect, but not bad.
Got mosquitoes?
Category: Dog walks
Tree 1, fence 0.
Oops.
A new sighting of Bun Bun
You may recall something I posted four months ago.
I don’t walk around the neighborhood often, but hadn’t see him in a while, but there he is, and again happily I spotted him first, and put Mocha on the leash to walk by. The rabbit only moved to lie down where he was sitting, and Mocha had absolutely no inkling that he was there.
Puppeeeee!
And Syd.
Dead, or faking it?
A peaceful walk around the neighborhood.
A large, red-pained pole that’s charred at the far end. Why, and why? And from where?
And then a dead–well, most likely dead–comadreja. We didn’t hang around to find out.
Fires
On New Year’s Day 2009 a huge fire deforested much of the area in which we walk dogs.
Almost 12 years later, in October 2020, another fire raged through.
Fortunately, many of the trees survived this time.
14 months after the last fire, last week, another big fire.
And yesterday on the dog walk we see this:
Wind from east northeast. The others came from the southwest. No sign of any activity. Around an hour later, Syd heard a helicopter (we leave from his house to walk), and this morning it appears to be out.
Almost 12 years between fires, then 14 months, then just over a week. Following that progression, we could have expected the next fire in 3-½ hours. Glad it didn’t happen.
After the fire
A huge swath of our dog walk area became scorched earth during the fire. It will be interesting to watch what grows next.
Meanwhile, while there were still spot fires burning, someone rode through on a bicycle. Go figure.
Burning stump
A scene from yesterday: dried stump from last year’s fire springs into flame.
Bye bye boo tree
The “Boo!” tree, 30 November 2017 and 20 October 2020
31 December 2021
A road, sort of.
It rained last night. A lot.
When I first started dog walking with Syd, he told me this area would fill with water in the winter. I found it hard to believe in the middle of the summer!