Garden/PatioI spent most of Saturday afternoon cleaning out pots of dead plants and dirt (20 something of them - some of them very large) and hauling around bags of dirt. I spent most of Sunday being sore. But the good news is, my patio is mostly cleaned off and looks a lot better and I am ready for a fall garden ( Read more... )

I came home last night to find my passionflower vine was considerably less leafy than it had been the day before. A closer inspection revealed the critters who were munching on it. They look like something from the cover of a sci-fi zine: big and bright orange with big black spikes on them. I was scared of them, and decided to leave them be ( Read more... )