We started the day with The Mystery of Delilah’s Purloined Food Bowl. It was a heavy duty black rubber livestock food bowl and it was left upside down and empty on the animal food prep table in the shed yesterday morning as usual.
I checked all the normal places I’ve seen possums drag promising food items, but did not find it. I looked in abnormal places as well, but did not find it. I remain baffled.
Here is Delilah having her breakfast, supplemented by butternut squash peelings and scraped-out innards, from another container I found in the shed.
While he did appear to spend the night in the woods across the street, Lurkey was back to his normal routines today.
It was a very long work day and I had to pry myself away, as I was deep in interesting data problems, so I got started on outside tasks later than usual.
I watered and lightly mulched the Elymus hystrix (Eastern bottlebrush grass) I transplanted out last weekend and the Panax quinquefolius (American ginseng) that has begun to come up. Then I removed some Cynodon dactylon (Bermuda grass) from a small area in front of the woodpiles that has been tarped for quite some time.
I think that is all. I also sat on the ground and stared into space a lot because I am quite tired and it will be an early night.