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?
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