I hate bird netting, with good reason, but until I am able to frame my gardens inside hoop houses, the nets must come out. I wrapped several tomato plants in the nets yesterday, after finding three pecked fruits – one barely even yellow let alone ripe red. In the past, I’ve attempted to wrap the [...]
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They were giving away baby alligators after church on Sunday, at Brazos Bend State Park about 20 miles south of here. Well, OK not really, but you could “pet” them as long as you kept your fingers away from their snouts. The babies croaked as they were being handled by park rangers, and the sound [...]
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The night cat was annoying, but tolerable. She had obviously chosen to tiptoe over Emily’s three pumpkin hills because the dirt was soft and molded into fluffy mounds, and the night cat wondered how they might feel beneath her paws, the prints from which dribbled daintily from hill to hill, hopping over the little moats [...]
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Is another man’s swimming pool. If the other man is a couple of green tree frogs. These guys were incensed when the big clumsoid human started snipping freeze-dried leaves off of a whithered red banana plant, cutting closer and closer to the ground until he finally pulled the privacy curtain back from their hot tub [...]
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After a dozen or so February days below freezing, probably near the kind of record I don’t want to play again, spring began yesterday, at least the kind of spring that stops by for a week at a time in the seasonal tug-of-war that ensues here. Maybe winter will show up to ruin another weekend [...]
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It was a bust. Yes, I’d rather have the Weather Dudes err on the side of caution, but after three days of predicting up to 3 inches of snow here in the snowless Texas Outback, all I got was these teeny icicles. The promise of some catastrophic Winter Event was more than enough to prompt [...]
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I don’t think it’s particularly awful to vigorously defend one’s back yard, gardens, pet food or other outdoor possessions from marauding creatures, which apparently puts me in the occasional minority around here. Like around 10:30 Monday night, when I went out back to feed Bosco before going to bed. Only Bosco was further back in [...]
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 Partly Cloudy 86°/66° | Partly Cloudy 86°/68° |
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