gatorcast from paul smith

Today is a gorgeous day, mid 60’s, no clouds and a light cool breeze.  I pulled my lemon tree out of the garage for some sun.  I hadn’t realized it was about to bloom.

I found this beautiful flower on the rose bush in my front yard.  

Several years ago I made this bird feeder.  The birds rarely went inside, but the squirrels did.  We took it down a couple of years ago to take down a tree and I never put it back up. 

Last week I cleared the part of the yard where it was and leaned it up against the fence standing straight up.  Yesterday I saw Gumbo sitting it and decided it would be the perfect place for it.  So I put it back in the ground right next to the fence so he could get in it.  Crazy Cat!  He was totally asleep right before I shot these pictures.

This morning Lisa and I worked on a ‘fern’ bed in our front yard.  Inside and living with the fern were thorny vines that have plagued us for years.   On the surface then are strong, sometimes very thin, plants with small green thorny leaves that seem to go on forever.  But today we were patient enough and had good gloves, decided to find the other end.  This is what we found.

Notice the thorns all of the way to the tip.  To me it looks very alive.   Like a little monster with arms and legs.  Here is the first one Lisa found. 

I made into a crown of thorns before I sent it to the trash pile.   This is the bed before:

and then after.

These guys have invaded my yard.  I knew I ‘ve had a problem, even put stuff down to KILL them, but it seemd to not help.  I googled this site and it basically said LOOK for them and how.  So I did.  And I found the little guys.   I plan to nuke them gain tomorrow.