Iconic Halloween
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Halloween, obviously.
I'm sure you were! I hope you all made it through safely. I really do know how it is. When it's a bad forecast I pull out the hardhat! m.youtube.com/shorts/9yhST...
BIG cicada! This critter is approximately 2 1/2" long. Resting up for a long night of calling. Always fascinating insects!
🦌 On a break from work and I'm at the park. Talking to a critter!
📦I have now opted to be a personal organizer/packer of homes to be sold! LOL! A word of WARNING to some of you: NEVER HAVE ENOUGH DECORATIVE PILLOWS TO FILL A STANDARD U-HAUL!!! Decorative pillows and decorative candles seem to breed like rabbits!🙀 Crazy!
🐸 The last of the large tadpoles. I moved it's tote to under the catalpa tree that has other shrubs all around it and lots of debris/leaf litter. As I was dealing with Pierogi cat, it left the tote. No sign of it! Let's hope frog programming kicks into high gear and it makes it to adulthood! #Frogs
LOL! They're fast when it comes to wrapping their prey! Haven't seen any of the yellow black garden spiders(argiope aurantia), yet. August, maybe? Hmm.
🍅 Finally some fresh vegetables! Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes, yellow crookneck squash, Patio Baby eggplant(it's so cute!) Taking forever to produce, weird weather is probably the culprit. If anyone cares to know, Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes are reliable, taste good, and can be grown in a large pot.
🐸 HELP! I found this guy on the rim of the large tote. He STILL HAS HIS TAIL!!! I've not read about this! They have a stack of rocks that rises above the water in the center, a plexiglass panel for algae and early climbing. I poked him, he jumped back on his rock. What do I do? #Herpetology #Frogs
🐸 The large tadpoles have arms now! They don't seem to eat their frog food so I am thinking they are eating mosquito larvae. ??? They're growing fast! They're cute!
🐸 Larger tadpoles now have legs. I made them an island and they have frog food. Smaller tadpoles just had 50% fresh water change and the water is still green. They seem to be thriving, darting around. Noticed some smaller tadpoles in there which means another frog sneaked in and left babies.🙄
☠️ Alfalfa set up his pool and got a bit of color today! He's drinking lots of alcohol in preparation for his night of fireworks supervision.Yes, he teleports so you all should keep that in mind and expect a visit if you are partcipating in firework jackassery(his words.) Alf LOVES hating on stupid!
☠️ Alfalfa has been provoking Pierogi cat today and is being punished as a result. Some of you may recall that Alf is terrified of water balloons. He's trying to slide off but continues to stick pretty well. He'll be stuck there for hours! He looks EXTREMELY uncomfortable! LOL!
Thanks!!! Temps in upper 90s, moved them to shade. Do you see the handprints at the bottom of the clean water tote? Was filled halfway with fresh water, CLEANED prior to filling. Noticed it today. I really don't know how to protect them from critters. I have chicken wire. Maybe?
Did you photograph this? 😱 I couldn't live around them, even though I find them extremely fascinating! I grew up visiting the St. Louis Zoo herpetarium. These are the original handrails from 1904 World's Fair, I believe. It's a fabulous structure!
🐸 Found another type of tadpole in another tote. Much larger than the others. Seem to be 5/6 in there. Zooming around! (I change their water, too.) I worry about raccoons using these totes as a snack dispenser.
🐸 Tadpoles are doing well. I replace almost 40% dirty water with clean every two days. I am preparing other totes to start dividing them. The water needs to stand to heat up and start growing algae. Next year, the rainwater collectors will have screens so I don't need to WORRY about tiny lifeforms.
☠️ Someone is lurking in the mini-swamp that doubles as my rainwater container for the garden plants. I scooped out a couple gallons and IT appeared through the dense, pea green water. I think this is his gator pose? He's such a tiny twit!
🍉 A Sugar Baby baby! It's a fuzzy little thing! Hope I can grow it to the size of a baseball, at least. Will be an accomplishment having not amended the soil and using only fish emulsion as fertilizer. Could not get manure this year, I usually use it for pumpkins and melons. A good experiment!
I LOVE hummingbird moths, too. Had one in the petunias the other day. I don't kill many insects at all but the hornworms are very destructive, as you know. They had really stripped branches quickly. A sacrificial plant would be okay if I didn't care for tomatoes. They are impressive moths, though.
🦝 Someone has been playing in water. I have two large, shallow pools behind the shed for the fuzzy critters and tiny hands still poke around in everything else. I had bowls out to collect rainwater for the plants, this is why I worry about the tadpoles.
🐛🐛 Two more tomato horn worms today! Nasty looking mouth, looks like tiny teeth! 😱😱😱
🐛More caterpillars are making their presence known. The Catalpa caterpillars are pooping over everything and EVERYONE! Poor Pierogi! He's outside in the shade of the Catalpa tree with caterpillars pooping above.🙄 They will become Sphinx moths when/if they mature. People use them as fish bait.
🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛 Five tomato hornworms on the tomato plants, stripping branches! I haven't had them in 14 years! They have been snuffed out. So destructive! Encountering them is not for the faint of heart! Guess I need to put Neem on the tomato plants this year.😕 #GardenPests
☠️Alfalfa ambushed Pierogi😾 this afternoon! Pierogi, like most cats, hated having something fall on him. Pierogi took off, Alf spat at me and ran away. Alf is shirking his garden patrol duties. I told him to stay by his pumpkin or it will disappear before Halloween. #Caturday #Halloween
☠️I just heard Olivia Newton John's Xanadu🎵up by the garden and investigated. While waiting for the pumpkin to grow, Alfalfa is watching true crime makeup tutorials and is trying to learn how to vogue. I've had a rough day, I'm leaving him alone. He's scaring the frogs and the💋puffiness scares me!😲
I think Peter Jackson's The Frighteners didn't do well. I LOVE this movie!👻👻
☠️ Alfalfa found the first pumpkin of the season! I told him he needs to sit by it until the end of September, hoping it will keep him out of trouble.👹 Unlikely he'll do what I ask. He's so very loathsome! (2 of 4 Lumina plants died due to critters.🙁)