Critters Feed and Seed

10/25/2024

I have a problem, I sense things, and I always know when it is negative. I rarely know what it is, and it is not always about me, or mine, I just know it's going to happen. The biggest problem is, often, though bad, the outcome is often good in the end. It is hard to know when to say things, and when to say nothing, for most don't listen any way.

10/10/2024

I want to say good job to those who joined me doing what had to be done in the South. I feel you all, no matter where you are. To understand that space does not matter, and energy is what matters, is all that matters. Until the next time.

09/26/2024

Critters Feed and Seed has been closed for more than two years and has no intention of reopening under the current business environment. The phone number is and has been turned to a private number for reasons to stop its use as a business phone. This site is clearly marked as closed, but the site can be viewed if you want to do so, there is many years tied to it. But Critters Feed and Seed is Closed.

08/27/2024

Swing shed

08/26/2024

You know it's hard when you don't have a good easy way to take good pictures. I really don't need or like cell phones, and I don't want to pay monthly payments just for pictures on stuff I am doing for myself. I'm sure many must think I am very egotistical, but I really do what I do for myself. I invite people to see my yard, because I get a good calm feel from my backyard, spite the fact that thousands of people in cars, and loud things go by my house all day long. But you know, I rarely really hear them. The ponds, and the fish, and the birds, the frogs and butterflies, dragonflies, and the grasshoppers and even the bees that visit all day. I am in the center of Dilworth, yet the majority of things I have right outside my door are friendly, even the bees. I never knew how many bees are friendly to a fault. I guess the city scares this stuff out of kids, the lack of water a balance of life, the knowledge of beings simpler than our selves. To me, I think we should worry about a lot of things, but it seems that people are what we should worry the most about.

08/22/2024

07/06/2024

Now I'm going to take you further into the future. Many people don't know what is coming, and I am not sure if I want to say anything, but I am going to tell you beware the 2030's. I rarely share what I know, for I'm not sure where what I know comes from. I know I can stay if I choose, I'm just unsure if I want too. Would it be better for me not, to live through a bad time, and have the strength to go through a better time after the bad part starts to subside. It's kind of a toss-up, to have more detail by living through it, or trusting what others tell you about it after the fact. Will it be enough for you to know that something comes, I don't know, but keep your eyes open. I have always had things come to me, it freaks some people out, most put it out of their minds and forget it. Do what you will with what I say, most ignore it, you will get through it, or not. Most people just forget it anyway.

07/06/2024

You know, life is an interesting thing, I have been trying to keep this to those who care, but I've realized how few of those people are. There are people that know this, but I wonder how much they understand. I'm in my 60's, and many people live past this, but many doctors are telling me my time may be limited. So, to the point that I may not remember who I am in my final days. Now me putting this out can make me a victim, and I'm very concerned about this, to the point of I am very careful who I consider to be safe to talk too. It's amazing how many of your family shows their true colors during these things, do they not realize that they can be in this situation on the way to death themselves? You know, the odds are with them, that they will be in my shoes someday. I'm not going to tell you those I have realized are not my friends, the list would be longer than I want to recount here, but it's enough to tell you that there is a reason for most people to forget previous lives, we are all very shallow creatures, I include myself in those numbers, for I can't tell you that I will not be seeking revenge for some in the between times. I look around at this world today, there is so much that is wrong, and it seems to be getting worse every day. I often think to myself, and I wonder if Heaven is as far away then the simple act of forgiveness, and should I rethink my ways?

06/28/2024

I keep getting messages saying there are people visiting this site, but I come in and there are none. Please be aware that Critters Feed and Seed is CLOSED. It has been closed for years now, and it is not likely to be reopened. Most businesses that sell Feed and Seed do not sell the proper seed for the center of the continent and instead they bring in mixes that half of the seed goes to waste. I have better things to do with my time. I leave this site up for its content and its lesson in futility.

05/26/2024

I don't speak enough of the Animal; it is the part of us that we use so often. In this life it determines our fate oh so much. We are two things though, we are the Animal, and the Spirit, but which do we serve, that is the question. The Animal is finite, the Spirit is infinite, but when combined and balanced, the two can do miraculous things beyond our own imagination. Take out the Animal, our passion goes with it, take out the Spirit, and our sense disappears. It's all a matter of balance and knowledge. Learn everything, learn nothing, choice, what a bitch.

05/24/2024

Wow, 2.5 inches here in The Unique Back Yard this morning. Not everything is protected from such a fast down fall, but it is being moved as we speak. We haven't filled the turtle pond yet, so we are transferring water from the bog to the turtle pond, and after the rain we will run it to ground when the soil can take it to the aquifer. We try where possible not to add it to the sewer system, for that only puts more pressure on the river. Soil is best off being used as the filter of water, that is not unnatural contaminated. There is much of our old system that leave things to be desired, moving good water to rivers with the bad waters to rivers that are contaminated, makes little sense, it all makes its way to the aquifer. Treatment of water starts before the treatment plant, keep the good water out of the storm system wherever possible.

05/19/2024

A quick look at what my wife and I have been doing. This is the fairy's homes that are going to be living in this part of The Unique Back Yard. It is not complete, and the plants are just starting, and some are yet to come. Once the plants grow, your going to have a problem even seeing the fairy's threw the arrowheads and other plants. They like it that way.

05/19/2024

Got through a night of rain and winds, and the pond took on a little too much water. We had to clean out the skimmer to get it to empty the extra water from the pond. We got most of the important construction around the pond done and it's starting to look good. It won't be long before I get them pic's up, and maybe even some live movies of the Koi.

05/18/2024

After a harrowing night of storms moved through the area while we were trying to build some protection for our main pond, I tacked up some cedar lattice in place. I was hoping to have time to finish an idea I had to make it easier to work on putting in and taking out plants that can't survive our harsh winters, we take them in and out every year. (For those who want to know, the main ones I am trying to include are Water Hibiscus. I have successfully over many years cultivated some big patches of Pink Hibiscus, but I have lost two years on the red and white Hibiscus.) These plants are favorites of Monarchs and I have successfully seeded the The Unique Back Yard with both regular milkweed & swamp milkweed, and I am adding more of these milkweeds to the main pond. I am seeing Monarchs coming to these flowers, and I'm not yet sure if they are born here in The Unique Back Yard, but I know the larvae showed up last year on their own. So I am having to use my imagination to make these cedar lattice slide open, up, for space does not allow for swinging doors. I was hoping to have this weekend uninterrupted to do this, for I need a third hand and my wife is the only helper that I have, and she works Monday- Friday. So, I got the wood I needed to do the finishing work last night, and I need the weather to cooperate this weekend, so I can stay on task, because next week, I need to be doing more planting. Unfortunately, what I'm trying to do is specific, and not a matter of just finding a list of the top ten pond plants. I know I should be trying to take more pictures, or even movies of what I'm doing, but my time is limited in many ways, and I need to get it done. I will do my best to bring final pictures to you, just give me the time I need to do it.

05/16/2024

For those of you who come from Critters Feed and Seed, you should know that I started The Unique Back Yard 5 years before taking over Critters Feed and Seed. Tuby is my passion, and its intent started with my interest in the Monarch, and what has been happening to our disappearing swamps. The balance of the farms to swamps have reached a dangerous level, and our natural system of good clean drinking water is suffering for it. Swamps are natural sponge's, meant to keep the, ("crap", for lack of a better word,) on the surface and breaking down. We have been taking out those sponge's, opting for more farmland, at the cost of good drinking water. This was my cause than, and it still is uppermost in my mind now. I still sit here in The Unique Back Yard and watch the birds bathe and drink from my ponds. I still feed them, and I see them ALL stop by my little swamp right on Hwy 10 in Dilworth, but I get to see the cycle with the Monarch's as well. Looking back, would I trade these last 20+ years for a life of Critters Feed and Seed, for The Unique Back Yard, yes, I would, but would I have let those who chose to pick bad directions in their lives to stop my direction in life. I choose the latter, but I ask today for God, the greatest of Creators, give me the time to set it right. Critters Feed and Seed is done, and closed, but if I have my way The Unique Back Yard is only starting, and that cause counts on us all, please join Tuby it is what is needed more today than ever.