Posted on 01/24/2008 10:53:49 AM PST by Gabz
Yes, it is growing -— I think it’s great!!!!!
Was going back through this thread to make sure that I hadn't missed any nuggets of information, and noticed your comment.
Geese will also do the trick, but they pose problems of their own. I have some Canadians that spend several months with me every year (same geese, but that's another story) and we have become quite good friends. They seem to enjoy hanging out with me when I'm outside and one day they were very busy in the garden plot. I hurried over to shoo them out and realized that they were pulling up and eating the purple nutsedge, so I left them alone and went back to mowing.
About an hour later I went back to check on the geese and they had stepped on and broken most of my newly planted peppers, and several of my tomatoes that were not staked yet.
Live and learn, as the saying goes!
I get sidetracked so easy, but everything leads to something else, which leads to something else....
Brain lint. I call it brain lint. I do some creative writing and I needed a name for a cook that was being hired in one of my stories. Vesta popped into my head, and it fit, so I left it. Got to thinking about it later. Where did that name come from? Googled it and guess what? Vesta is the Roman goddess of the hearth. See? Brain lint! Why would I even know something like that and where did I pick it up?
Who knows. Sometimes brain lint really dows come in handy!
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That bit of info was useful to me. :)
I love it!!!! “Brain Lint”
That’s cool!
Glad it was! Most people have never seen hummingbird moths because they’re out early and late, and sometimes on cloudy days.
It can be a lot of fun. Then again, when somebody’s having a discussion and you come up with some obscure factoid... I’ve been looked at like a 3-headed alien more than once!
My kids just laugh and call me encyclopedia.
LOL! That’s great. :)
I saw the droppings on leaves and was quite perplexed at what could cause such a large dropping. I thought a bird was visiting but I have never see a bird dropping that looked so symmetrical and segmented. I looked up over the area where I saw the droppings and I was amazed to see this huge bright green thing with one end raised in the air. I took my pocket knife and flicked it off onto the ground and dispatched it with a big ol' stomp of my boot! I found many more in various size ranges which met the same fate.
Gee, what nature can throw is amazing!
The moths are great! It’s just the offspring that are horrible! They can eat a tomato plant over night. Live and learn. Congrats on your first garden! Have fun!
Are you feeling better? I hate a cold ... I am a male so they affect us worse than you gals! At least that is how we guys see it!
Better, thanks. I actually managed to go to work for half a day, but that was all I could stand. I am really hoping hubby doesn’t get this! I know how bad it made me feel, and he’s conviently managed to stay out late and early hunting most of the week. Last of duck season, dontcha know. If he gets this, I’m going to a motel or something! LOL
My wife thinks a sneeze from one of our Irish Setters trumps anything I could ever come down with ... problem is I agree with her! LOL! Gosh they are spoiled!
I’ve got 3 chi/rat terrorists. Yours can’t possible be as spoiled as mine! LOL
My youngest son told me a long time ago—I know who you love more. I get hurt, you tell me not to get blood all over the bathroom. Dog gets hurt, you take him to Raleigh!
Long story there—dog got run over, had to take him to specialist—he has more pins and screws than most airplanes.
HELL HAS FROZEN OVER!!! IT IS SNOWING IN EUREKA CAL!!!
Snow?!!!
We didn’t even get any here last week when most of the rest of the state did! Not that I’m complaining! Pictures of snow are nice. :)
Too funny!! My oldest (chihuahua) is 11-weighs @ 17 lbs, and thinks he could take on Godzilla. My 2 females (rat and rat/chi)are 10 and 8, weigh in at 12 lbs each. They are more spoiled than our kids ever thought about being! We’re having quite a time with the grandbaby and the chi. The chi has been baby for so long, he just doesn’t understand.
When the grandbaby was about 6 months, he crawled over to hubby. Hubby was laying on the floor, and gbaby pulled up onto his chest and made a noise. Hubby asked, “What is he doing?” The rest of us were rolling. Gbaby was growling!!
I guess he thinks he’s a dog, or they’re funny looking people! When gbaby started crawling in earnest, he carried his toys in his mouth. It’s amazing what babies, even that young, pick up on.
Oh, and mine love chicken gizzards. I boil them up and cut them in pieces. That’s their treat.
Time sense? Oh my gosh. If I’m even a minute or so late getting home, you’d think it was the end of the world!
YIPPEE -— now I know where what we were supposed to get last night decided to go!!!!!!!1
I am lucky! I thought I would have a problem with the dogs digging in the garden. I had bought some wire fencing to put around it but planted and forgot to put the fence up. They never bothered it so the fencing is in the shed. But the female does dig in my wifes Elephant Ear plants. Strange.
Rats love to dig. Fortunately, we have a pretty big yard. Most of their damage in the garden comes from them running through it. Dogs and kids (of all ages) love fresh dirt!
We have voles, and the rats have destroyed our yard going after them. They’ll stick their noses in a tunnel and dig ‘til they run out of tunnel or they catch the critters. The yard looks like WWIII.
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