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Baby Hosta Baby Frog

Random Raccoon Thoughts

• Plants that cost less than $14.99 are not worth digging up.


• If you dig first, then play in the bird bath, your feet will get REALLY muddy for playing with the clean bird feeders.


• No bird feeder is too good to try to destroy.


• The heavy expensive bird feeders are often too heavy to get over the fence and will not, therefore, make it all the way to your own place of residence.


• All bird seed is good - especially that expensive kind with the cayenne pepper in it.


• A really clever raccoon can make his human do remarkable things like putting chains and locks on otherwise beautiful bird feeders.


• If the humans open the windows to sleep you are more likely to get run off.


• And last, but not least, it's worth staying up in the morning to watch your human come outside with a cup of coffee and see what all you've done!

Atlanta Botanical Gardens

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Bread Baking Day

Dough ready for first rise in a nice warm place.

First Rise

Ready for second rise.

Second rise

Hot from the oven

Delicious! Actually too delicious - with butter and jam!

Icy Sunroom Day 2

Snowy, Icy Georgia Day

Another Squirrel Feeder

There are times when I think my complex neocortex and opposable thumb are somewhat overrated! Albert can open this feeder a bit faster than I can. Should I be worried?

Baby Bunny Attack

Recently the sweet potato vines started getting naked up to about 6 inches off the porch. Also, patches of grass were disappearing. This is too good not to share! If he sticks around I'll have to name him...

Happy Mother's Day

I have seen the face of God in her face. I have touched the hands of God in her hands. I have heard the voice of God in her voice.

Thank you, Mom! I love you...

Garden Pondering

This morning I met Mr. Fox in my backyard. In a fraction of a second it became clear who my nest box robber was. I growled at him, why did I growl, and he ran back out of the yard using the bunny hole escape under the fence. I've never seen a red fox in person before and I was hoping that, when I did, he would not be in my back yard, licking his lips, and heading for my bird feeders! If I had had more time, I would have told him about the only other red fox I have ever seen - the stuffed one at the science center.

On a lighter note, I have harvested my first dill weed to put in my salmon salad at lunch. I also harvested parsley and rosemary for the dinner pork roast. I feel like such a farmer!

I have finished cleaning up from the giant, big-blow, storm on Tuesday. The yard looks beautiful but I need a bigger wheelbarrow...

On the lightest note of all, have you noticed how doves act? Always in pairs and always "after" each other. Mine are either sibs wanting to fight or lovers wanting to......oh well... I love the doves, their beauty and their mournful song, and I REALLY love their chocolate!

Garden Work

I went out early yesterday and worked in my gardens until I was weary. I pulled weeds, errant ivy, poison ivy, sticker vines, and Virginia Creeper (that does anything BUT creep). Then I rested in the gazebo and realized that no one would ever notice what I had done - only the few I had missed. Isn't life funny that way!