Red-eared slider nesting season.

Always something to see @The Allen Centennial Garden on U.W. Campus (https://allencentennialgarden.wisc.edu/): The Gotch

VanDusen Botanical Garden

I was up by @Moth1992 .

At least the bail bonds place is convenient.
Gonna have to keep an eye out for the white car it's a cop.

Biggest spider I've ever seen in my life.

I got the craziest 'pet video' on my security cam a couple nights ago - at first it looked like somebody's big hand reaching over the lens and then it went entirely white giant spider crawling over the image LOL. Just an ordinary Bishop Spider but it looked huge....

Too nice a day to be inside.

Saw this little feller (this season's 1st Wooly Bear) during a breathtakingly beautiful Friday afternoon at Indian Lake (Dane) County Park. Usually see them in mid to late September; this one had more red than black which is "believed" to predict a mild winter. The Gotch

It's not every day someone hollers I just saw a giant rabbit on the job site.
What do you mean a giant rabbit?
It went around the corner.
Well it wasn't a giant rabbit but it was a black rabbit not even full grown.
I tried to catch it so my friend could come by and get it but it ran off.
Somebody either dumped it or it got away from the owners.

A couple of guys caught the rabbit and one is giving it to his daughter as a pet.

Bench outside the Carr Valley Cheese Factory in NW Sauk County WESconsin (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Carr+ ... FQAw%3D%3D) The Gotch

This lake is about a 4 or 5 minute walk from my house.

It's that time of year.

Granger Texas an old farming town just north of me.
Here's part of the old cotton gin.
Probably had a steam engine in it.
The gin still lives but I don't think this one.
But a lot of corn in the area too.

Nice sunset yesterday.

Every year Santa boards the fire truck and rides around in the neighborhood throwing out candy to children.

No Hot Seat, here; to wit:

BIL -n- Nephew chain-sawed out a hole on Legend Lake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_Lake,_Wisconsin) to take a Polar Plunge, and used the ice...um...cubes to craft a Frozen Divan: The Gotch

Cornelius_Gotchberg wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2024 7:01 am No Hot Seat, here; to wit:

BIL -n- Nephew chain-sawed out a hole on Legend Lake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_Lake,_Wisconsin) to take a Polar Plunge, and used the ice...um...cubes to craft a Frozen Divan:
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The Gotch

I used to have to do this in all the ponds so the cows could drink.
Once the hole was chopped out we just went by every morning to keep it cleared.

View from my front yard