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<\/a><\/p>\nFrom peonies to chives, May is the best\u00a0month for eye-candy. See more at:\u00a0May Flowers<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hangs out by our water feature, eating mosquito larvae and making a splash when we walk by. Obviously we had to put quaaludes in the pond to get this shot. Just kidding…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Plenty to eat for man and beast – lettuce from our garden and sunflower seed from the feed store, purloined by acrobatic squirrels.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Not sure how it happened (do they perch and hover, spray the eggs, or what?) but frogs eggs appeared in the rain barrel off the back porch and soon hatched into tadpoles.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We love working at The Plant<\/a>\u00a0with all the pretty people and flowers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rich in community, conversation and local food.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The best time to go after the honeysuckle is early Spring, when\u00a0its fragrance turns\u00a0work into\u00a0aroma-therapy. Camille noticed the honeysuckle was taking over our fence and Fred’s forsythia, so she went into\u00a0action.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bob keeps the yard\u00a0looking nice. The\u00a0secret to a easy\u00a0lawn is to give it a quick mow once a week.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bob discovered a new game, and Camille discovered the cache. Geocaching is an addictive, outdoorsy\u00a0game where\u00a0people hide containers. Bob pulls up the list of locations\u00a0with specific GPS coordinates and clues on his phone we start walking. \u00a0The phone makes a sound when we are close. Once we find the treasure, we open it and triumphantly write “troutsfarm.”<\/p>\n We noticed the more serious cachers use rubber stamps. In the\u00a0larger caches\u00a0(we found a two-cup container in a tree earlier this day) geocachers leave little toys and icons behind which you can exchange for something of your own. In addition to the note in the cache, you register your find online. Anyone can make a cache as long as they follow the rules at\u00a0geocaching.com<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n May is our\u00a0“travel north” month, so we drove up\u00a0through Virginia into Pennsylvania to visit family and friends in\u00a0Amish country.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We wiled away a few fine\u00a0hours with our friend Donna in her pretty yard, sharing stories, snacks and laughs.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Every yard should have a flock of flamingos, but especially folks who have lived in Florida.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We had a delicious dinner at Matt and Jenn’s, including mushrooms from the farm down the road sauteed with garlic and spinach on a\u00a0biogas-powered\u00a0burner.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Three nights in PA yielded a little time with\u00a0everyone. See all the photos on this page: Family Reunion<\/a><\/p>\n THIS MONTH’S QUOTES:<\/span><\/p>\n “I still blame myself – for what, I can’t exactly say. I might as well condemn myself for choosing the wrong parents, or the wrong planet.” – Sy Safransky<\/span><\/p>\n “Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand. It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick falls across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance.” – Beryl Markham from West with the Night 1942<\/span><\/p>\n “Wisdom is not a product of thought. The deep knowing that is wisdom arises through the simple act of giving someone or something your full attention.” – Eckhart Tolle<\/span><\/p>\n The best way to locate a page or photo from past issues is with this handy Search Engine<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Get the back story via our blog at Plastic Farm Animals<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Flowers, food, frogs, family, friends and fun – sounds like a fabulous month to us! <\/p>\n <\/p>\n MAY FLOWERS <\/p>\n \n From peonies to chives, May is the best month for eye-candy. See more at: May Flowers<\/p>\n <\/p>\n OUR LITTLE FROG <\/p>\n \n Hangs out by our water feature, eating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-album","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8550"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8778,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550\/revisions\/8778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}OUR LITTLE FROG<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nGOOD EATING<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nFEEDING THE GENE POOL<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nA PLACE OF BEAUTY<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nHEALTHY, TOO<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nHONEYSUCKLE ERADICATION<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nMOWING SEASON<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nA FINE FIND<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nON THE ROAD<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nGARDEN\u00a0PARTY<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nA FAMILIAR BIRD<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nCOOKING WITH GAS<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nDINNER AND CHUCKLES<\/h3>\n
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[Troutsfarm]<\/a>\u00a0* [May, 2015]<\/a>\u00a0* [May Flowers]<\/a>\u00a0*\u00a0[Family Reunion]<\/a><\/h4>\n
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