Spring Peepers Have Arrived

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A Del Quote (to go with Bearclaw’s)

“The Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world. . . I ain’t never seen ‘em, but my common sense tells me the Andes is foothills, and the Alps is for children to climb!…These here is God’s finest sculpturings! And there ain’t no laws for the brave ones! And there ain’t no asylums for the crazy ones! And there ain’t no churches except for this right here! And there ain’t no priests excepting the birds! By God, I are a mountain man, and I’ll live ‘til an arrow or a bullet finds me!” – Del Gue…

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Ostara

“March is a green, muddy month down below. Some folks like it. Farmers mostly.” -Bearclaw Chris Lapp

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I HAVE A THEME SONG

I created The Pithole Hermit theme song using Suno AI.
Turned out pretty good.

https://suno.com/song/0a113c52-c97a-425e-94aa-a06e962acb7c

Here is another my daughter created.

https://suno.com/song/ebf333fb-8fdf-4530-bd07-181bcf7571b3

One more I made about Arduino and Raspberry Pi. Two hobbies of mine.

https://suno.com/song/1ae1c319-b3e2-40d6-9925-1e01bd362e69?sh=CYU8ym0qu83R7DA4

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A Trapper’s Christmas Eve

The Hermit performs Robert W. Service’s A Trapper’s Christmas Eve on Christmas Eve in the bitter cold.

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I call it The Sand Wich Project

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Gardening, or is it farming?

Memorial day weekend so I decided to post photos of what I have planted so far.

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Actual Huckleberries

As I mentioned in my previous post, I call huckleberries any small, wild blueberries.  Well, I decided to find out which ones actually are huckleberries.

In the large patch near me there are at least 3 different types of berries.  Two of them look like normal blueberries but grow on low bushes or high bushes.  Strangely enough these are called High Bush and Low Bush Blueberries. The 3rd one is a very high bush.  The berries are darker.  Almost black.  And shiny.  Blueberries have a dull coating on them.  And these berries don’t have as much of a “crown” on them, as I call it, like blueberries do.

These are Black Huckleberries.  They taste different, but good.  The seeds are harder.  They have what I consider an almost cherry taste.

In my several acre patch of berries, the Black Huckleberries appear to be the most abundant.  Maybe because they grow above the rest.  The blueberries are often hidden under the huckleberries.  Also the blueberries seem to ripen sooner than the huckleberries.  Although some berries from all are ripe at the same time.  At this writing many blueberries are almost done while most of the huckleberries are just ripening.

But that varies a lot with amount of sunlight.

 

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I’m Your Huckleberry!

These are huckleberries for as far as the eye can see.

The strange thing is that they are a wide assortment of types of blueberries.  Some huckleberries, some high bush, some low.  I use the generic term huckleberry for any wild, smaller blueberries.

Last year there wasn’t one berry.  This year they are loaded.  Now if I could just get some ripe ones before the bears strip them clean.  Bears don’t wait for them to ripen.…

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Blood on the Plow

Crows ate most of the corn seeds I planted before they sprouted.   The rest they pulled out after they were growing.   So I have resorted to the black arts before I replant.

(Note: The scary breathing is just the way my normal breathing sounds on video.  Another reason I like being a hermit.)

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