Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Garden and House Decorated for Halloween by Family Spiders and Friends
I have not been in the front garden to do anything more than scoop poop for months. I turn on the hose and water things to keep them alive and that's it. Smae with the back garden. Inside the house, I sweep and mop daily and that's it. You cannot tell that I do this, because thirty minutes after...
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Monday, August 29, 2005
So busy inside that my garden came in the door to get attention from me.
There are spiders in all corners, I just noticed today, looking up for the first time in months. One Daddy Long Legs has a really intricate web from the bookcase to my computer desk and he works on it constantly, now that I've noticed it. June Bugs are crawling on the floors, there's a cricket in my...
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Saturday, August 27, 2005
Rains and Puppy and Insects
The rains have made the things outside grow out of control. I walk in knee high bermuda grass and cut back bamboo with a machete to keep walkways open and I repot cacti to get them out of the rain. The Puppy Who Sorta Lives Here tears up anything and everything that she can find outside and scatters...
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Friday, August 19, 2005
Garden is veritable mosquito growing lab. Unused to these rains.
My garden is actually Growing, the plants are taller, fuller, greener and happier than ever before. Flowers bloom and I must cut things back often. But, the helpful planters' water holding bottoms are full of moisture, if not actual water, and the mosquitos are having fun propagating like locusts....
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Monday, May 16, 2005
This Fat Moist Desert Escapes Drought This One Year
The winter's rains have brought an exceptional Spring time to my deserts. It is now possible to count the Palo Verde and Mesquite trees from a distance. The top level of the desert canopy, if I can call it that, is either yellow flowering Palo Verde trees or gloriously green Mesquite tree tops. This...
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Thursday, March 31, 2005
Old Daddy Long Legs and the Earth Quaking Day
Old Daddy Long Legs lived in a plastic basket in the garden. On this one bright and sunny Spring day, while he quietly waited for dinner to be flown in, someone rocked his world. Then, they shook it and turned it upside down and beat upon it. He held on for dear life, riding out the turmoil and...
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Monday, March 7, 2005
Oh Messy Garden that I Love...........
The rain has everything wet or damp, fallen or muddy, growing and scattered. The birds still gather in veritable herds and fight over the feeder. Noisy little things. The grandchildren kept running out into the garden at my party and shouting at the birds to 'cut that out'!!! The dogs are having fun...
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Friday, February 25, 2005
I Live in a Sub-Tropical Desert, ever heard of them?
We have had more rain than ever this year. The Weeds, the weeds are HUGE. People's raggedy old gardens, unkempt and unweeded, look like tropical fields of chest high growth. The only problem is that these are weeds and they will seed and they will be a plague next year. Today, however, the city is...
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Friday, February 18, 2005
My Garden is Knee Deep in Moisture and I can't wait to see the show !!
I cannot even imagine the glorious sights that await my aging eyes. This unusual rain pattern will make the desert pop with color and miniscule flowers and fields of wild flowers. I want to drive all over it when it happens and photograph the party. And the pollen is going to kill me. Small price to...
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005
I found a Note in my Garden from the UPS man.
It read that my new computer had not been delivered because I was not home. The UPS man had to kick in my gate to make it open, as it was swollen shut from the rainiest winter in years. I hammered it back together. It now stands open, just wedged against its post lightly. I was gone when he visited,...
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