I did it! Image is hyperlinked: [ ](My Beautiful Disasters as an A^^hole Gardener) THANK YOU for the prompt. And thank you @owasco for tagging me and encouraging me to post. I have kept quiet to the point

Great photos - especially the cute furry vandal burrowing without fear of the dog! That orange lily. Oh dear. You have reminded me of one of my Top Ten Garden Disasters. It's in a post (maybe in 2016?)

You have trouble with PeakD? I cannot comment or upvote (or post) - For a ludicrous length of time now, I have failed to get around the No Access: WRONG PASSWORD Never mind that I copy-pasted it and saved

Sounds like an "I Love Lucy" episode! If I am very clever, and make like a contortionist, I can get the cukes. It's not easy, and I am not happy while doing it (a cucumber leaf jabbed into my

What is it with rabbits and broccoli - all mine got devoured, too. And the dogs - they no longer bother to chase these bunnies. They still chase deer, which the dogs will NEVER catch. In his younger days,

The brown, lacy leaves of Virginia creeper and wild grape, the decimated rose blossoms, the aftermath of the Japanese invaders. I DECLARE WAR It took several summers in a row of the soapy buckets, but

Blaze!! oh I love the majestic, manly one-eyed Blaze. And Tiger, the clown prince, and Cleo, the oops, not a girl after all - Thanks for the day-brightening photos And sorry I fell of the face of the earth.

Ohhhhh no, I'm so sorry for the loss of these epic characters in your life! On the bright side, she spared you the agony of the vet visit (who can bear to bring the needle on!): Found her peacefully ....

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#1 fertilizer, nutrient, additive, ingredient: LOVE. Yes! "I posit that there is a class of nutrients that cannot be measured, nutrients of love. Foods grown by your own hand, or the hands of others

You know me. You knew I'd have to look it up. I share the results because so much MATH is involved! the more complex bow of Odysseus’ time indeed takes a great deal of force to string and to shoot an arrow

True stories are the most unbelievable. Your friend must have a really powerful bow and arrow (compound bow?). I'm thinking of Ulysses, who alone could draw his bow. Nobody else had the strength. But I

Aha! I found the most recent cat montage.

Mike!!! How are all the cats? How's mother Mary and the misfits and the blind one (how could I have forgotten his name!!!!)-- wait, no, I am confusing you with the guy who had three cats, one of them a

Inner Killer unleashed by Japanese beetle - love it! And this - heartbreaking: I gave your bed away to erase one memory but it didn’t work Sometimes I think FORGETTING is good, and the fewer memories we

When hunting is haunting - what a great story, with photos too! This is one reason I've promoted entomophagy for years now - why do people eat cute, furry mammals who can make eye contact with us and even

ONE YEAR... I am so sorry!!!

Freewriting really is magical for tapping into memories that are stored, locked in a file cabinet in our minds, dusty, forgotten - then, WHOOSH! The portrait is now in storage (but not collecting dust,

I love that portrait! "by the up-and-coming Lydia Viscardi" - now i have to google more.

"I pickle when pickles need pickling" Great line - somehow it captures so well that you do what needs to be done, without taking on too many extra duties in a given day. Then we get to the end