Just east of my home is a horse pasture that the owner had just spread some fresh horse manure from the barn. These ring-billed gulls are recycling what the horses couldn't digest. A farmer friend of mine told me that if you want to use manure in your garden, always go with beef manure - their 4 stomachs, along with regurgitating and re-chewing their cud effectively kills most of the weed seeds in the forage they've eaten. Horses only have 1 stomach like us and their stomachs don't kill very many of the weed seeds.
The harvest is almost over for everyone one around here. The grain dryers were running at every farmstead I passed today. The corn this year was exceptionally wet, right up to the end of the harvest.
Here's the mighty Maumee River heading to Lake Erie. Actually it is more genteel at this point, it gets mightier closer to Toledo. We are east of New Haven here, looking southwest toward Fort Wayne.
Hope all of you were able to get out on your bikes this weekend.
Happy riding!
6 comments:
I haven't been out on the bike for a week, but it looks like you had a wonderful ride. It's nice that the rain doesn't chase you off the bike. Good work at home and on the bike.
I like my bike too.
Of COURSE you like your Tricross! Don't be silly.
Here you can say it as often as you like and we will understand :)
Glad you got out for a ride, and it sounds like a fun one, despite the rain.
I'm impressed by how much you know about manure ... never even would have thought about it.
Apertome - you aren't the first person to say I'm an expert in manure. Some say I am very good at bull sh.. er, manure.
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