Jun 27 - Jul 3

Wildlife Inter-Animal Internet Dilemma (WIAID)

When I planted all my fruit trees I was unaware of WIAID. This is a problem that fruit growers in Placer County have to deal with. There is a frequency of the internet that animals up here use to notify all other animals of when fruit is ripe. So the day fruit is ripe it is gone by 8:00 AM. I have gone to an apricot tree on that day with a box to carry away all the flavorful fruit, to find nothing left on the tree. Last year I had 200 Asian Pears ready to pick with all taken in one night. Think about it, do they use wheel barrows? How else can you take that much fruit? These nemeses are organized, which is further proof they have connections. If I can just find a way to hack into their internet I can slow them down long enough to get some fruit. I hear there are some displaced Russian Hackers that might be of use, I just have to find one that knows how to code in WIAI.

Jun 20 - 26

Life is never dull on the farm. So, when horses aren’t knocking you down, other things arise, or in this case fall.

Thursday night my son calls me outside to tell me there is an injured bird right in front of our house. There is a palm tree there where there’s always a nest of some kind at the top. So, I get out there and there is what appears to be an injured hawk. It appears bewildered much like myself, and even though hawks are not the friendliest of creatures and this one appeared very tame. As I stared at the poor bird, it looked young. I went inside and when I came back out it was gone, so I felt relieved.

Today me wife tells me the hawk is back. So I go out there and there is the same bird as before. I called a very smart friend of mine who knows everything, and he had me call Wildlife Care Association. I left a message on the hotline and while I waited I called a bird enthusiast I know and sent him photos. He said he it is a fledgling with down feathers and probably fell out of its nest. By then, the rescue place calls back and I tell this woman what is going on and she said if it is still there after 2 days that the parents probably have abandoned it. She would need to come get it, but she lived out by Florin road and couldn’t come that night so she had me put it in a box andI told her I would bring it to Flapjacks in the morning.

Hopefully I will have an end to the story, but until then I have included a photo. I think I will name him or her Flapjack.

Jun 13 - 19

Ok, I am writing without power so I will make this quick. The bigger of the 2 mini horses, Star, I wrote about last week appears to have contracted hepatitis. How the vet wouldn’t say. But my wife and I are supposed to inject this goop into the Star’s mouth twice a day. Don’t you just love it when a vet tells you to do something that is next to impossible. Anyway, we are out there, I try to hold Star’s head while my wife tries to squirt this goop in her mouth. We get excited because we think we are successful and Star opens her mouth and the goop falls out.

Jun 6 - 12

Ok so I had something happen to me that most people would think unlikely, but it IS me. So we have a couple mini horses. These minis are very food conscious. I also have a Great Pyrenees dog, called SoSo, who is also food conscious. So I try to feed them at the same time so SoSo is busy when I try to get the minis in their pen to feed them. Well the other night my timing was not too good. SoSo is actually bigger than the smaller of the two minis. Ok, so I am trying to get the minis in their pen when SoSo runs up and starts barking at the horses. Willy, the smaller of the two flips out and does this spin that knocks me to the ground. So as he is spinning his legs hit me and he falls on me. So now I am lying on the ground with a horse literally sitting on me. Meanwhile, SoSo is barking at both of us. Willy can't seem to get up and I of course I can't get up. For a moment there, I thought this kind of sums up my life. I am stuck on the "ass" end of a situation again.