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Because MY PLUMBAGO PLANT IS GONE.
GONE.
As in, NOT THERE ANYMORE.
THE ENTIRE THING.
I kept that plant alive all summer when everything else had died, and I kept staving it back up when Balto seemed to think it was fun to dig around the roots — remulched, put down heavier rocks around the base, etc. And the [...]

(This is actually from last year – I was too lazy to try to figure out how to backdate this post.)

Establishing shot

Note the distance from the back door is only about 20 feet, and from the edge of the patio all of 6 or 7. The blobs on the glass door are the tiny snails [...]

Apparently one of the reasons the spiny lizards thrive at our place is because the harvester ant colonies are so extensive.
Personally, I’d like to have more lizards and fewer ants, because despite the fact that they keep the vegetation down in their areas, they like to tunnel right next to — and possibly under??? — [...]

No one can manage it half as well as the real thing.

We just had a guest come through. Anyone recognize it? Not like CP was gonna ask; he mostly held back, making comments like, “no, I don’t know what kind of snake it is, and I’m sure as hell not going to ASK it, either.”

Larger image here. (Click on “all sizes” to embiggen.)
ETA: it ended up [...]

If there was any question before, there’s not one now: Bulldozer Broadside Balto SUCKS as a guard dog. The instant sat down on the sofa, Balto was so there. I’m just waiting for my mother to visit and accuse me (however playfully) of neglecting the little red dog, seeing how he acts like he’s [...]

Okay, yes, I did name a dog after Halloween since she joined us the week before that holiday, but ain’t no amount of money going to make me name a dog Christmas. Just isn’t gonna happen… Plus, all the names I could contrive in Gaelic or Mandarin were names I could pretty much guarantee would [...]

Welcome to Texas: we have a mommy bird and her babies living in our garage.
She comes in and out, feeding them constantly, and she doesn’t seem to mind if I’m within two or three feet, so long as I don’t touch (which I wouldn’t). Considering there’ve been plenty of times I’m out in the garage [...]