I got up at a very reasonable hour, for me that is, and the first thing was to bring out the feeders as it usually is. Both big ones were empty and needed filling, which I did before we went walking around the park. We covered a little over a mile on that first walk. It was a bit breezy, and the wind had a chill to it. 

We met a couple of other dogs taking their master’s out walking just as Sandy and Mikey were doing to me. When we got back, I brought out the small bird feeders and refilled the two big ones. I thought that I needed to assess the merits of refilling those tomorrow morning and decide that it was worth one more try. The darn Grackles just waste so much seed and it ends up on the ground. At least, it gives the deer something to eat.  

Back indoors, I fixed breakfast that neither dog ate. Maybe, I need to change the food and think about something different in their diet. I ate mine refusing to be caught up in the dog’s bad habits. Incidentally, they always have hard food available, so they are not going to starve if I do not feed them. It does present a problem with Sandy and her medication as they are crushed up pills on her food and are too big to feed any other way. 

I settled down in front of the computer and worked on the blog for a bit before switching my attention to the website. I spent at least three hours working on it trying to work out the problems with the posting. Altogether, a very frustrating three hours. 

Then it was time to go walking again and we took the road that leads to Hwy 290. The reason for this choice was because this morning on our walk, one of the mature cows in the field next to the road was walking in the same direction as us and seemed very upset bellowing at the top of her lungs as she tried to find the other cattle that are in those fields along with her. Presumably, one was her offspring. 

This got me curious so instead of turning into the park, we walked up the road following the direction of the cow. I could not see the other two cows and two calves either so now the mystery was, “Where are they.” 

Unfortunately, the heifers are bred for slaughter but usually the couple of female adults are fertilized and the cycle starts all over again. The only part that did not make sense is where were the other two adults. As there was no way I would solve the mystery, we went back to the RV, but it still bothered me. 

When we got back to the RV, the first thing that I noticed was that the two big feeders were empty…again. So, I will not bother to bring them in tonight neither will I fill them tomorrow and they can hang there empty. Let us see what the Grackles do about that? They have trouble balancing on the other feeders so maybe they will leave them alone. Yeah right. 

It was not yet dark but out of spite to the Grackles, I brought in the feeders for the night. That was our last outdoor job for the day. The rest of the time was spent in the usual way with the evening meal and then watching a Premier League game on the TV. Incidentally, I was in bed by 9:30 pm. 

Written Monday, April 22, 2024, read my other blog at https://pondblog2011.com