In gardening we all are constantly learning from the plants we tend, sometimes they don’t like the soil, they are too wet, or to dry, too much sun or not enough, it can be frustrating sometimes!
This week was one of those garden weeks that makes me wonder if my hobby is controlling me or might send me to the crazy farm.
I had two of my most beautiful pumpkin plants bitten right in half by the murderous slugs!
If Mother Nature has a court system I want a hearing!
But, the slug buddies across town seemed to have conspired with the other murders, taking my new Echinacea plant nearly to the ground. In our back garden.
I am filing charges!
Then Mother Nature sent me this as I went into my cabinet on the back porch to get my pots to start more plants…
Disclaimer: If skeletal remains are not your thing please STOP reading… or looking…
I can’t hide this crime so I put it on display…
So when the World seems to be going down the slow slide into the abyss, and the US government can’t get their crap together enough on a budget deal so that many of us who get paid each month can not be stressed!
Mother Nature keeps doing her thing without us humans.
So she gifted me this…
Or she gifts me a rare sighting…
All reminders that we need to take the Good and the Bad all in stride.
Is there anything growing where you live right now?
Do you think I might see a June pay check?
Place your comments below, we always love to hear from our loyal readers. The answer is NO, we have not been out on the water yet this year!🫤
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Here in Alberta the daffodils and tulips are in full bloom and everything else is greening up nicely! We just got some rain to top up the residual moisture from snow melt.
The US Debt Clock is an interesting site. Pretty much tells the story of what happens when a country spends way more than they earn. Hope you have a nest egg to tide you over!
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Hey, thanks for the thoughts and I am sure I will be fine but I also know several of my veteran friends who live pay check to pay check and I hope this issue isn’t the lady nail in the coffin, so to speak.
Tulips are wonderful and so are daffodils. Thanks for sharing your part of the World with our readers.🌱❤️
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Sorry to hear about the slugs and collateral damage. Very nice strawberry.
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Thanks!
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Ah a Small Magpie Moth (Anania hortulata) not really a day flier guess you must have disturbed it’s sleep!
For slugs sink a jar (or similar) into the ground and fill with beer, they die with a smile on their faces!
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Can I be charged as an accessary to alcohol abuse?🤣
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People eat snails; I wonder how slugs are?!? Not planning to experiment, myself. Here most daffodils are past, and the late tulips are blooming, as are lilacs. We had a late hard freeze a week or so ago, which may have impacted a lot of the fruit trees. It also knocked back the invasive Japanese Knotweed and most of the sumac.
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Not planning on experimenting with eating slugs either! Thanks for the update from Vermont.😊
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I found this post quite entertaining, especially when you demanded a hearing. Lock away those slugs, I say.
Glad for that ripe berry. Frustrated by the government situation and happy to simply have green here in Minnesota with lilacs and allium and maybe peonies and irises blooming soon.
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Thanks for your slug support!😂
Sounds like Spring and summer are finally blooming there, enjoy!
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I’m sorry to hear about the slugs! It’ so frustrating to have your plants destroyed, I’m sure. As for your paycheck, I believe you’ll get it. As much as the parties hate to work together—ever, on anything—they know there will be hell to pay if they don’t meet the deadline somehow. That has to rise above the “win at all costs” mentality that dominates Washington these days.
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I certainly hope you are right on the government thing. I have already called my Congress people a gave them the “get off your asses and make a deal speech”! Selfish they all are once they get elected to represent all of us!
Thanks for stopping in at our humble blog and adding your comments.😊
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Good for you! They need to hear that speech from more of us!
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Thanks Ann, but seriously I feel I waste my breath when I call…
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Okay, you gave me a hard laugh with “If Mother Nature has a court system I want a hearing!” I want one about the tree roots that keep resulting in gashes about my body. Luckily I do not have to worry much about slugs – problem is our local raccoons have decided digging up my decorative plants at night is a lot of fun…and a good way to get back at me for keeping them away from my feeders. Good luck on the paycheck, dysfunctional seems too nice for our political system at the moment.
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