California Gardening: California winter #2, 1 by SingingWolf

SingingWolf wrote:
Well, I commiserate with you about the ants. Making that baseboard fascia repair I found a trail that goes under the house. I hope they eat the termites. My ES is always experimenting with new concoctions to kill ants. It's not them I worry about, but the mice and rats that come in if they get too wet and cold. Horrible. That is how I learned that steel wool (but copper foil works best) used to plug in those openings around your pipes keeps some of them rodents out of my house. Really that one Mama Rat was as big as my cat. Let DH tell you that story. I don't want to.
Would rather show you all some photos I took around my yard.
This woodpecker nest was spotted in the elderberry by the cabin. I knew I'd heard one pecking away around here! : - )