Happy Friday to you all! I like Fridays--most of the household chores are done, we have a simple dinner in front of the TV while watching the PBS...
We were exploring Texas, and came across a big cat rescue. It seems some Texans think it's good to have tigers and lions in cages. These big cats...
Zigs, I love the way your fertile mind works! Great caption--short, sweet, and so apt.
Mart, so very happy to hear you got beneficial rain but no flooding! I was getting worried and about to send you a private message to ask how you...
Bless you for caring! We are fine--just got very beneficial rain in the amount of 3" over just under three days. Our rain soaked in, and now we...
Ah yes, and then there are the "gimme" garden visitors. One lady, in the middle of a garden tour, wanted to cut roses to make a corsage for her...
It's mid-afternoon on Monday, and we are having a beautiful rain! I feel for Dallas and Ft. Worth, which are flooded, but here south of the...
As much as I admire Tetters and Mart, I must disagree. Climate change is cyclical, but human activities are speeding up the process. Whatever we...
Pacnorwest, I know how frustrating getting help can be. When we had a large garden in upstate NY, so many visitors offered to come "help" me. I...
If you boil a funny bone, it becomes a laughing stock. That's humerus.
Lillium, snakes are great for reducing the varmint population. We leave snakes alone (except for the occasional photo) and let them do their...
Mart, we lived in upstate New York at the time, and I was the only one with a tan in February. Does that count? Lillium, yes we did get Cuban...
We were on a cruise years ago, and stopped in Venezuela. A couple of young men had a sloth, which for a quarter, I could hold, and for fifty cents...
[ATTACH] Thursday night and Friday we received 1 3/8" of rain, and here on Saturday morning we have Prairie rain lilies popping up all over the...
We have no squirrels here on the farm. There are lots of them in town, but none here. There is a pecan grove down by Sandy Creek, and they stay...
[ATTACH] Sorry about the computer boo-boo. I was posting a picture of the Texas night snake, and somehow messed up. Anyway, this is a...
Our little wildflower, ruella, which pops up in mid-summer, attracts different wildlife. Hummingbirds like it: [ATTACH] as do butterflies:...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
While taking Master Naturalist training, we had a class on butterflies and were given an identification guide beforehand. Some of the others had...
Rain, rain, glorious rain! We got 1" overnight, and now have 1,000 gallons of rainwater in the cubes and barrels. No hauling buckets today! The...
Separate names with a comma.
