Have you noticed lateley??

Have you noticed the grape vines lateley. Here in NC they are completely loaded this year. Wild vines with 20-25 grapes per cluster, and the store bought have about 25-35 per cluster. And this is the muscadine and the black grapes in the wild. Niagra and Candace from the store. Hanging down on the river banks some of the grape clusters ae huge with grapes already the size of pencil erasers. The ones in my orchard arent that big yet just the size of bb's. It was always said when the grapes put out its gonna be a wet hot year.

Matter of fact my beets done well for the first time ever. Usually I would get enough to do 10 jars. Thats out of a 8 x 50 ft plot 1 row every foot. This year planted the same way but I got 83 quart jars and 48 pint jars put up. and still got stragglers out there puffing up. No change up in fertilizer or planting methods. Nor watering methods.

Wild Blackberries are doing bad this year. Very little new growth and very few berries. Same for my Navaho's vines...... very little vine growth.

Fruit flies are doing great this year. I can fill up two fly strips with about 70 a day on each one. No fruits or veggies in the house though. They are outside in the outside fridge. The flies hang around the kitchen sink and the back entrance doorway. Spray poison has no effect on them. Supa Fly!!

Have you heard a whip-or-will lateley? Those are some awesome sounding little birds. I heard one two nights ago while standing in my back yard. I listened to him for about 15 mins. I havent heard one in this area in well over 15 yrs. I do hope they are making a coomeback. Ir would be so awesome to sit and lesten to them at night like I did when I was a kid.

Have you noticed the population explosion in wild rabbits also. Used to you would see one in a great lone while. Then in the last five years it was like an explosion of them. Now you can see them everywhere. In peoples yards, beside the roads everywhere. Me and some friends hunted them last year and the first day we nailed well over 30 of them.

The Mallard ducks are setting nest's again. Usually they only do one nest a year. This time they are doing two. Whats making it wierd is that the young they hatched the first time havent even got thier colors yet. And they are hanging around mama's nest for over half the day.

Hips and inflammed joints. Mine overnite swelled and feels like its gonna lock up any second. Did this two nights ago. Two other family members has experianced this the same day as well. Not to mention a nurse over at the doctors office complained that hers was doing it also. Said she has had about 30 or so people all complaining about hip and lower back pains in the same general area on thier body. I know last year we all had a "crick" in our necks roughly in the same week. I believe its some kinda germ warfare and our government is testing on us.

I am just puting this stuff down so as to document it. Someone may be researching this one day and stumble across it. Never know what trends will follow suit.

I am getting old and slowing down and paying more attention to stuff around me. Be sure to stop and smell the roses!! Thanks for reading and replying or even sharing what you may have noticed!

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