Critters
Curious about what’s living in Grandpa’s Pasture Garden? One of the joys of gardening is discovering that the garden has become a habitat for delightful critters like this frog I found out in Grandpa’s Pasture just yesterday (9/5/21). Some of the lengths of irrigation pipe need new gaskets. Since I haven’t gotten to that yet, several portions of the field puddle during the weeks we have water, and the frogs love it. I’d had no…
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About Me
The year after I graduated from college with a math degree and a plan to teach high school math, neither of my interviews resulted in a full-time job. After substitute teaching for a quarter and being mistaken for a student even by the middle schoolers, I went back to college and took classes to enable me to add a couple of additional certifications. One of the areas I took extra courses in was biology, and my favorite two courses were ornithology and systematic botany.
Even today I remember Dr Nestler and our class’ weekend trip to Malheur from College Place, Washington. I never would have been so thrilled about birds if it hadn’t been for him. Sadly, I do not recall the name of my botany professor, but I loved the class, the field work, and even the soggy specimen-collection camping trip to Wind River that ended two days early after everyone’s gear ended up soaked. I bet those great learning experiences are part of the reason I’m fascinated by garden critters. (And maybe this year’s jungle gardens back at home are such a great critter habitat that I’m seeing things I’ve never seen before!)
—The Midnight Gardener
Grandpa's Pasture Garden 
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