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We hit 82° yesterday. There are a couple freezing nights forecast for this week. So, it's the standard Mercer Hokey-Pokey Spring. Flowers start coming up, then it snows. This was two days before my birthday...
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On the April 7th, we had Frog Day 2021. It was the first time we had ever seen all the leopard frogs out on the pond. Each spot on the water is at least one frog...
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On April 13th, I drove to Rhinelander to pick up the piggies. The USPS would have driven them to Mercer for me, but they wouldn't have arrived until the next morning, sixteen hours later. Here they are in the dog crate in the basement...
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In less than two weeks, I had to open the other half of the crate, they were getting so big...
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Hopefully, this week is the last of the cold so we can move them out to the kennel next weekend. Here they are today...
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We had a pair of geese on the pond yesterday...
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First time we've seen that, too. We normally have mallards and blue wing teals hanging around. And the occasional merganser.

 

I picked up this year's twenty-five baby piggies yesterday.  They are down in the basement for a few weeks.  I stuck an old phone on a tripod and took a video.  One of them tries to fly at 3:17...