Unwelcome Visitors.....

I caught these guys heading for the beds, outside the fenced yard.  They'd already dug up some Lamb's Ear, and made holes around the area. 

The little one scurried away.  The big one headed toward me.  I high tailed it back up onto the deck.  Armadillos' claws can do some damage.  He/she bumped into the wire we have around the base of the deck....to keep out critters...then, went slowly off in the other direction.  But, I think they both came back the next night.

Another wildlife challenge, here at Patchwork Garden.

Happy Gardening...

~~Linda~~

Be Careful What You Wish For...

My mother used to say 'Be careful what you wish for....you just might get it'.  It's advice I passed down to my children.

Well, I thought I was being careful, wishing for a 'little rain'.  You know, a couple inches, spread out over a couple days.

Tropical storm Hermine had a different idea.  We got almost 9...that's NINE...inches, here at Patchwork Garden.

And, we were lucky. 

As she moved north, Hermine dropped more and more rain.  On the other side of Austin from us, she dropped 15 inches or more.  All the way up to the DFW area, where she caused more flooding, and tornadoes, too.  I'm not sure just what made her so mad.

Since we have a little bit of a drainage problem here, we had a little bit of water in our garage.  That is nothing.  Lots of people were flooded out of their homes.  Tornadoes damaged businesses and homes.

We were lucky..

Sunshine in the Rain.

We'll be working on our drainage problem.  We'll be praying for the people who had messes made of their homes.  And, we'll remember

Be careful what you wish for....

This time, we were lucky.

Wordless Wednesday...Garden Helpers

Happy Gardening...

~~Linda~~

Sometimes I Wonder….

Sometimes I wonder, why I think I can have a garden, outside a fence.

This is partly my fault.  Instead of putting veggie scraps in the compost…where they forage it out, anyway….I threw it out in the grove…a little farther from the house.

It didn’t take long for the word to go out…’There’s food and drink,  over there at Patchwork Garden.’

These are our ‘regulars’.  But, they don’t usually come all at once.  I think Mr. P. counted twenty six.

Oh, well…..we just have to learn to live together.

HAPPY GARDENING…

~~Linda~~