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What didn't happen
When we didn’t go out to Roundrock on Sunday (because of the challenging weather conditions), we didn’t do all of the following things:
We didn’t stop at the game camera we had left on the tree across from the suet feeder, and we didn’t download all of the pictures of the a number of woodpeckers (including, probably, an ivory bill) that had visited. As a result, we also didn’t put in fresh batteries and move it to a new location, salted with lots of corn and peanuts that we didn’t take down there with us. And because we never went down there, we didn’t manage to set up the other game camera (the one that is still giving me fits) to give it one last chance to perform.
We didn’t check on the pine trees to see how their fences were holding up either. We would probably have observed that they were holding up well, and we might have even seen some vandalizing attempts by the deer captured by the nearby game camera when it wasn’t shooting the ivory billed woodpeckers.
We didn’t go down to the lake to listen to the ice booming, and because we didn’t do that, I won’t be giving you the audio on a video clip of it this coming Saturday. Too bad about that.
Another thing we didn’t do when we weren’t down there was hike up to the unfenced part of our southern boundary line and sink a couple of fence posts in the spots where we had found two old survey stakes on recent trips. And after we didn’t do that, we didn’t try using line-of-sight to plot the direction the property line goes based on those two points that are established. Thus we didn’t try hanging temporary bits of survey tape in the trees and to see if we came out close to the southwest corner where another stake rises.
Because we didn’t go to Roundrock, we didn’t sit in the comfy chairs, shivering a bit in the weak sunlight to eat our sandwiches. We didn’t find that all of our firewood was too wet to build a fire, so we didn’t decide not to make a fire.
We also didn’t get the truck bogged down in the sloppy mud of the road across my neighbor’s meadow, in the soft area where our road turns into the trees down to the lake, or in the pecan plantation where I would have imprudently driven my truck despite admonitions from Libby that that would have been a really stupid idea.
Here are some things that might have happened today though:
Missouri calendar:
- Opossum young are born and climb into the female’s pouch.
- River otter litters are born now through late March.
- Abraham Williams, Missouri''s third governor, born with only one leg who served a scant six months in the office, was born on this date in 1781.