Saturday, January 21
Jan. 22nd, 2023 01:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
VERY warm weather for this time of year.
That I decided that even if today wasn't likely going to be stimulating, I could be productive.
I burned the moldy hay that was sitting at the front of the barn. These were mainly a few stray square bales from last year that were on the bottom of the stack, and had gotten wet on the bottom (even though I had them on pallets).
It wasn't a huge pile, around four or five bales (some of it was loose), and the crap I cleaned up from the floor.
I let it burn in a pile out on the snow while I did other things.
I changed the cat litter, as well as taking the accumulation of used litter sitting in pails on the back deck out to the designated dumping area. It will decompose.
Then I cleared the snow off of the back deck.
I took the accumulation of recyclables out to the shed to await a trip with the truck in the spring, and took the pail of veggie stuff out to the compost pile.
Then I came in and had a bath and changed the sheets.
So, I had a reasonably good day that will make other days nicer for having things cleaned up a bit.
I learned that there are feral monkeys (Rhesus Macaques) living in Florida, that have a strain of herpes virus that can be transmitted to humans, and can be fatal. As if Florida didn't already have enough problems.
"The first recorded introduction of monkeys in Florida occurred along the Silver River in the 1930s in what is now Silver Springs State Park. A commercial river boat captain, Colonel Tooey, released approximately six rhesus macaques on an island in the Silver River in an effort to increase tourism. Rhesus macaques are excellent swimmers, which allowed them to swim to the forest and begin breeding. By the 1980s, their numbers reached around 400 animals. From 1984–2012, population growth was controlled by trapping and removing macaques; approximately 1,000 macaques were removed from this population by private trappers and sold to biomedical research facilities. This removal effort was very controversial and has since been halted. In 2015, it was estimated there were approximately 175 rhesus macaques among five groups in Silver Springs State Park, and the population was growing."
There are other groups of monkeys from research facilities, others from botanical gardens, and escaped pets. There are Squirrel monkeys, Vervet monkeys, and Rhesus Macaques. It is the Macaques that carry the Herpes B virus, which can be transmitted through feces and saliva.
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/UW491
VERY warm weather for this time of year.
That I decided that even if today wasn't likely going to be stimulating, I could be productive.
I burned the moldy hay that was sitting at the front of the barn. These were mainly a few stray square bales from last year that were on the bottom of the stack, and had gotten wet on the bottom (even though I had them on pallets).
It wasn't a huge pile, around four or five bales (some of it was loose), and the crap I cleaned up from the floor.
I let it burn in a pile out on the snow while I did other things.
I changed the cat litter, as well as taking the accumulation of used litter sitting in pails on the back deck out to the designated dumping area. It will decompose.
Then I cleared the snow off of the back deck.
I took the accumulation of recyclables out to the shed to await a trip with the truck in the spring, and took the pail of veggie stuff out to the compost pile.
Then I came in and had a bath and changed the sheets.
So, I had a reasonably good day that will make other days nicer for having things cleaned up a bit.
I learned that there are feral monkeys (Rhesus Macaques) living in Florida, that have a strain of herpes virus that can be transmitted to humans, and can be fatal. As if Florida didn't already have enough problems.
"The first recorded introduction of monkeys in Florida occurred along the Silver River in the 1930s in what is now Silver Springs State Park. A commercial river boat captain, Colonel Tooey, released approximately six rhesus macaques on an island in the Silver River in an effort to increase tourism. Rhesus macaques are excellent swimmers, which allowed them to swim to the forest and begin breeding. By the 1980s, their numbers reached around 400 animals. From 1984–2012, population growth was controlled by trapping and removing macaques; approximately 1,000 macaques were removed from this population by private trappers and sold to biomedical research facilities. This removal effort was very controversial and has since been halted. In 2015, it was estimated there were approximately 175 rhesus macaques among five groups in Silver Springs State Park, and the population was growing."
There are other groups of monkeys from research facilities, others from botanical gardens, and escaped pets. There are Squirrel monkeys, Vervet monkeys, and Rhesus Macaques. It is the Macaques that carry the Herpes B virus, which can be transmitted through feces and saliva.
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/UW491
