[Albion Wilde]

Friends, I saw this alarming article in the DailyMail this past week about organized South American burglary rings preying on California homeowners who have shrubs and other bushy plantings in view of their doorways. They are hiding digital devices disguised as vegetation in the shrubbery to learn when the owner is out so they can break in and steal.

Camera is in the leafy wad. See the USB plug on the other end?

See the camera lens in the center? This one was shoved into a thick hedge shrub:

Many of you have big rural spreads; but it's not hard to imagine that this crime method might migrate to suburban areas beyond California. Thought I'd share the link so you can be on the lookout.

Cops issue urgent warning to homeowners who find strange item outside their home

[FamiliarFace]

Thanks. I’m watching them, and they’re watching me.

We don’t have much compared to our neighbors, but I’m not taking many chances. It’s not a matter of if it happens, as to when it happens. We all know it’s coming down the pike. Obama and Biden have seen to that.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Thanks for sharing that! Better to be safe than sorry. We are buried a mile in at the end of a dead end road that is marked as such. It looks like our land belongs to the neighboring Horse Ranch, so that helps. It may as well; the local kids have permission to ride/train horses on our trails and they take full advantage of it.

At my house, it’s hard to get past the dogs making a ruckus. They recognize and LOVE the Fed Ex Man, though. ;)

At first glance I thought, ‘Oh, No! Another NEW plant disease I have to learn about,’ LOL!