I Love This Time of Year

Comment #8

rdgrnr — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 01:15:45 GMT

Yeah, that's all we were seeing until yesterday/

Comment #7

sully16 — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 01:09:15 GMT

Nope , just those little white ones.

Comment #6

rdgrnr — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:23:19 GMT

Anybody seeing Monarchs up North yet?

Comment #5

rdgrnr — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:21:36 GMT

Yep, got my maters and peppers in today and watered 'em down real good and then natcherly, it started torrential pouring ass rain. But maybe it'll keep the rabbits away 'til I can get a fence up.

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eddessaknight — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 21:07:36 GMT

Monsoons here, help keep those thumbs green :-)

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sully16 — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 20:47:45 GMT

Love this time of year, Humming Birds are the coolest.

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rdgrnr — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 19:16:12 GMT

I might be disguised as a nun.<br />Cwazy wabbit...

Comment #1

hearsetrax — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 19:11:40 GMT

"you poor little maroon

Original Blog Entry: I Love This Time of Year

rdgrnr — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 18:37:36 GMT

The Hummingbirds just started showing up in numbers last week and today I saw the first Monarch Butterfly.

I planted a butterfly garden of sorts behind the courtyard and all around my new house and now they're here to entertain me and the blond for the rest of the summer. I enjoy that. I have bird feeders and suet baskets and hummingbird feeders and bird baths for everybody.

Now I just have to do battle with some of the wasps and the squirrels and the rabbits.

Since I now have neighbors I can no longer shoot the squirrels from my window and eat them. And they had become the bane of my existence up until recently. When you have bird feeders (which I couldn't have before cuz of bears), the squirrels will NOT stop at anything to get that seed. I tried everything with no luck. Until a couple weeks ago. That's when I found bird seed with hot sauce in it. The squirrels just sniff it and don't want any part of it. It's a little more expensive but it's worth it to me. They don't even hang around here anymore like they used to.

The rabbits are another thing. I can't shoot them here either. They not only eat vegetables, they eat my frigging flowers too! I guess I'm gonna have to rig up some kinda fence for them. PITA!

Today when the sun gets low I'm gonna put in 3 more tomato plants (Called maters here) and a couple pepper plants. Maybe I'll stay up late and catch them rabbits in the act and scare the hell out of 'em with my Nancy Pelosi mask.

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