Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home
As I write this post, I’m sitting next to a big window we installed in a blank wall some years ago so we could see the back yard and National Forest beyond. I think this is the most gorgeous fall...
View ArticleBabies On the Jade Plant!
Baby Praying Mantises are SO cute! Earlier in the fall a big (4″+) green praying mantis moved into the house, probably after all those scrumptious ladybugs, gnats and flies that survive the last of the...
View ArticleAunt Granny’s Grape Jam Butter Cookies
…And another vermin-control tidbit To finish up this series of posts about gifts of food for the holidays [Here and Here], I’d like to share a perennial favorite recipe that makes good use of some of...
View ArticleGarden Pest Control
As June proceeds toward July and the garden’s produce starts to fruit and swell toward delicious goodness, it’s time to say some things about pest control. Whether you’ve got tomato/cornworms or...
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