Carol's Pond

  Carol's Dragon Fly Ranch Home of Carol's Pond May 30, 2022 A special Thank you to all of the Veterans. The way this country is moving I expect to be called back to active duty any day. I don't really want to confront a bunch of any old men and nobody in their right mind wants to either. To my knowledge, no one has relieved any Honorably Discharged Veteran from his Oath to Protect and Defend the Constitution. And sadly that need to defend the Constitution may arise. It has been a busy week here at Carol's Pond. Whitey and Blue Boy have both stopped in for a visit and a meal. Samantha Jane, Blue Boy and Jr have all been here. More about Samantha Jane in a minute. But the real action has been at the shop. The building has a covered porch down one side. The cheap bastard that built it used particle board for the roof decking. And then on top of that he did not install the roof properly. As a result, the roof on the porch leaked and the particle boa...

Carol's Dragon Fly Ranch Home of Carol's Pond May 16, 2022 The Beginning On May 16, 1964 I was on my way home from the The Lebanon Reporter on my bicycle. I was north bound on Lebanon St. That is a down hill run and I was late and was moving right along. At the intersection of Lebanon and West North St. an elderly lady in a 64 Corvair made a left hand turn and hit me broadside. The bicycle will mold to the front end of a 64 Corvair as though it was part of the bumper. Or an early model brush guard. This was about 11:00 a.m. Saturday morning. It was Wednesday before I knew who I was and where I was. This altercation lacked 1 day of being 38 years before my head on with the Mack truck on May 15, 2002. While still in the hospital, my friend Gene Voorhies and his sister Janet would come to visit. Gene would come and see me and Janet would go and visit Carol. Carol was in for test to see if she had osteogenic sarcoma, bone cancer. While I was still in the ...

  Carol's Dragon Fly Ranch Home of Carol's Pond May 15, 2022 Today is the 20 th anniversary of my head on altercation with a Mack truck. Since then I have had 8 surgeries and 6 kidney procedures and there are 5 more to come. All because of a low life drunk thinking he was in a hurry. But I got lucky 3 times: 1, I am alive, 2, I can walk and 3 the Lord took him before I had to. Hopefully the Lord kicked him out to Hell. Samantha Jane has become a pipe walker. On the deck, rather than wooden sides there are pipes to keep one from stepping off. She likes to walk on the pipes and she is a bad influence on Sam Jr. Rather than walking the pipes and getting exercise, he chooses to just lay on the pipe and soak up the heat. Blue Boy the great blue heron has been visiting over at the neighbors and Whitey has been AWOL. Rex Jr. is doing fine and he and his Mother have rejoined the herd. After such a traumatic birth they were kept separate from the herd fo...

Carol's Pond May 2, 2022 It has been very entertaining around the pond recently. Blue Boy the Great Blue Heron has decided that he likes to perch on the turtles log. I am not sure the turtles approve. But at least he does not stay long. And speaking of turtles, I saw one going across the yard heading for the pond. I don't know if it was a traveler just stopping in or if it had been searching for a nesting site. I have not found a nest. I figured they would nest on Goat Island, but I have never seen any signs of it. Samantha Jane the green lizard, had been acting up. She parades up and down the railings on the deck, expanding her throat to a nice red color. She is trying her best to get Sam to snuggle with her. Sam Jr. hides most of the time. But today, I became a great Grand Father, sort of. I was heading into town to get something from the grocery and noticed 5 or 6 buzzards around one of my neighbors cows. It was obvious she was having a difficult birt...

  Carol's Dragon Fly Ranch home of Carol's Pond April 10, 2022 We had a rip roaring thunderstorm about 10 days ago. There was very heavy rain, but Goat Island is still Goat Peninsula. I think Mother Nature is mad at me for mooning her on New Years Eve. If she doesn't bring us sufficient rain soon, I may moon her again. The drought has killed several of the trees, 7 trees may have to be removed. I am going to give them a couple of more weeks to see if they leaf out but if they don't, I will have them removed. There were some travelers that stayed on the pond for a couple of weeks, resting up before continuing on their migration. I don't know what type of ducks they were. They would dive down to feed and come up some other place. I would like to see them stick around all year. Samantha, Sam, Sam Jr. and Bill provided the entertainment this morning. Samantha was at the west end of the deck, bobbing up and down trying to attract Sam. Sam was at the...

March 9, 2022 The wildlife here at Carol's Pond is very entertaining. But we still have one beaver that is causing problems and I don't know how many armadillos but they both have to go and the sooner the better. The yard looks like it has been strafed by a machine gun, compliments of the hard shell rats. But the real entertainment was yesterday and was provided by Blue Boy, the Great Blue Heron and a flock of buzzards. I am not sure what the buzzards were after, but they were not friendly to each other. I think the buzzards wanted the fish Blue Boy had and that is where the fun came in. It appeared Blue Boy had a large crappie and the buzzards wanted it. In his hurry to eat the fish Blue Boy got it turned around and rather than holding it vertically he had it horizontally. But it was too large for him to swallow it that way. He kept trying and trying and frequently he would dip it in the pond to try and keep it wet and slippery. It appears he finally was able t...

  February 1, 2022 Carol's Dragon Fly Ranch Home of Carol's Pond The last week of January is my anniversary week. Some of them are enjoyable anniversaries and some suck really bad. That may be gross but it is the only way to say it. But before we get to the description of the anniversaries, there is some other news. Last week I looked in the back yard and there were hundreds of Purple Grackles or common blackbirds. I assume there are working their way north in anticipation of spring. I hope they are right. And there were some ducks that stopped in today. There were only 5 or 6. Something startled them and off they went. I seldom see ducks. Lake Bob Sandlin is on the west side of Mt. Pleasant and I suspect most stop there rather than on a small pond. Also last week, I had an MRI of my head and received some excellent news. The scan did NOT indicate Lewy-Body Dementia. LB is a very aggressive type of dementia. I will have 2 more scans to try and determin...