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:...
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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...
You have to take a car because walking engenders too much Co2, if you have overindulged in snacks.
Here Red Oak is a desired tree, Bradford Pear not so much, Magnolia gets really big. We take out every hackberry start that we find. Nasty trees...
It's Tuesday, and the wildlife continues to take over. My husband went out to water the apple trees and saw a young armadillo! How do you tell a...
When an old, frayed, and torn tee shirt is not a cleaning rag. It's cut into strips and becomes ties for vines!
