If you’re a mockingbird with crested caracaras in the neighborhood.
How to kill a Sunday afternoon
If you’re a mockingbird with crested caracaras in the neighborhood. If you’re a mockingbird with crested caracaras in the neighborhood. Summertime
And the cotton is high.
Solution to the puzzle
Little water buckets next to trees for no apparent reason. There are five little buckets spaced around the park.
We can always come up with some kind of explanation for something we haven’t seen before. Our self-imposed rule is that our explanation doesn’t have to be right, it just has to make sense in some way. This time though; nothing. Couldn’t figure it out. We gave up and asked Bob. Turns out, it’s all about the rabbits. And the dripper system. Jackrabbits and cottontails. They’re everywhere. It’s true, we, and Henry, watched those rabbits every day. The park was having trouble with rabbits chewing holes in the drippers that water the trees. Rabbits have to have water, even desert rabbits. Maybe especially desert rabbits. The park solution was to set out water buckets for the rabbits, and keep the water buckets fresh and full. It’s working. They haven’t had any water lines chewed since.
We can always come up with some kind of explanation for something we haven’t seen before. Our self-imposed rule is that our explanation doesn’t have to be right, it just has to make sense in some way. This time though; nothing. Couldn’t figure it out. We gave up and asked Bob. Turns out, it’s all about the rabbits. And the dripper system. Jackrabbits and cottontails. They’re everywhere. It’s true, we, and Henry, watched those rabbits every day. The park was having trouble with rabbits chewing holes in the drippers that water the trees. Rabbits have to have water, even desert rabbits. Maybe especially desert rabbits. The park solution was to set out water buckets for the rabbits, and keep the water buckets fresh and full. It’s working. They haven’t had any water lines chewed since. Unsolved Mysteries
At Rusty’s RV Ranch.
See in the photo above? That little red bucket? It’s just there. What do you suppose it’s for? Here it is a little closer. We saw a Park utility cart stop at it briefly. It looks like it has water in it.
It’s probably not a low-tech watering solution. We’ve seen those before in the back country. Native plants are planted, then they put a large bucket of water with a small hole in it next to each one, and the new plant gets a nice slow prolonged watering to help it get established. That’s not what this is, though. It’s right next to a tree that has a higher tech watering solution. There are drippers run to each tree that give it a good soaking once every week or so. Yes, the little bucket has water in it. Park maintenance cruises by and makes sure there is always water in it.
It’s a puzzle.
See in the photo above? That little red bucket? It’s just there. What do you suppose it’s for? Here it is a little closer. We saw a Park utility cart stop at it briefly. It looks like it has water in it. It’s probably not a low-tech watering solution. We’ve seen those before in the back country. Native plants are planted, then they put a large bucket of water with a small hole in it next to each one, and the new plant gets a nice slow prolonged watering to help it get established. That’s not what this is, though. It’s right next to a tree that has a higher tech watering solution. There are drippers run to each tree that give it a good soaking once every week or so. Yes, the little bucket has water in it. Park maintenance cruises by and makes sure there is always water in it. It’s a puzzle. Even though it lasted three months
It was a modest trip. It only involved five states (Unless you count Oklahoma and Utah. We didn’t stay in either of those; just drove through them briefly.) We only drove 5,000 miles. I only gained 4 pounds. Henry is happy to be home again too.
