Bishops Mills Day

[Frederick W. Schueler]

Everyone,

Those who attend to the North Grenville Times would have noticed Tom
Graham.s announcement of this pivotal celebration, with its note that:

“Aleta Karstad and Fred Schueler's Fragile Inheritance organization will
have a table providing & soliciting insights on native & invasive
plants, consequences of the 2025 drought, plans for the Cheese Factory
site, the spread of lovely snails, and how to protect yourself against
diseases from ticks.”

...sorry we forgot to post about it on the list (a lot has been happening)

The day went okay - we got our stuff set up by the starting time, and I
was only somewhat inconvenienced by being stung on a middle finger by a
Yellowjacket I'd brushed at, thinking she was a bit of vegetable matter.

I sorted hundreds of Cepaea snails and shells by age and colour morph
from under the boards at the Goutweed patch across the street (amazingly
small mature shells, as if last year's drought prompted maturity at
juvenile sizes, and also the bones of the snout of a Shrew, which I've
supposed are the predator of the snails), and I talked to people about
Cepaea and Buckthorns. We had the Phragmites native & invasive samples
but not much discussion of those.

Aleta did a full time business teaching Tick lore and passing out her
poisoned puffs. About a third of the length of Main Street was yard
sales of stuff it was unlikely anyone would want to buy, one
alive-on-road Polistes Wasp on the pavement. Then we came home and took
a nap.

fred.
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Fragile Inheritance Natural History - https://fragileinheritance.ca/
6 St-Lawrence Street Bishops Mills, RR#2 Oxford Station, Ontario K0G 1T0
on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44.87156° N 75.70095° W
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