I just need to vent a little

KEEP PRAY FOR HER AND OTHERS PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE TOO.

Thanks Everyone. the fire seems to be under control now. since there was fire before on the same area... there is hardly anything to burn anymore. that is a relief!

Thank God.

Thank Goodness. WHEW~ I am glad to hear this.

OMG WINRERMOOR ...YOUR KEEPING AN OBITUARY FOR YOUR PLANTS?IF I DID THAT, YOU MIGHT AS WELL DIG A HOLE FOR ME, CAUSE I WOULD JUST DIE OF BEING REMINDED OF ALL THAT WORK. HE,HE,HE. ANOTHER PLANT DONE GONE... FOUND 2 CATTAPILLARS ON MY DILL. NO MORE LEAVES BUT IT HAD SET SEED, WHICH I COLLECTED. I PICKED THEM OFF AND TOOK THEM TO A DISTANT AREA,IN CASE THEY WERE PREMATURE BUTTERFLIES.

tink, they most likely were destined to become moths, and I always do the same thing. I don't keep an obit or death registry for my plants, but I should start at least a list of those in ICU. But for now, it would include all I have left, I fear. Cause of death will no doubt be one of the following: deer, rabbits, grasshoppers, sorry soil, intense heat, what have I forgotten? Maybe I should include mosquitoes, since they frequently deter me from administering needed care.

LMBO, I think you left out the japanese beetles, aphids, and the ever popular cucumber beetle. I have these pest to deal with.
I had a field day on two japanese beetles the other day, I was out watering my tree rose and found two of the buzzards helping themselves to one of my beautiful roses and to make matters worst they had the nerve to be doing the WILD THING
Well I got the powder and commence to dowse them with it, since that seem to be taking too long I just squished between my fingers and put their rotten butts back to fertilize the soil. They won't be making any new babies on my roses...nuff said

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Windsurfer, you really know how to get right to the heart of a problem!

Thanks my dear, I hate destructive bugs and I wish I could stamp them out everywhere so we can enjoy our gardens in peace, they make wonderful fertertilzer....at least they are good for something lol.

Eeewwwww, crunch. Yuck. Snip is better, drowning best (at least I don't have to hear them!) LOL

LL I am sadistic, just as sadistic as they are on my roses,gourds, and other plant....they have to pay!!!!

*giggle* You know how to tell bugs with exoskeletons from those with endoskeletons? One goes crunch-squish and the other goes squish-crunch. *giggle ~ giggle*

You guys are crazy you know. But I agree with you. Something is eating my marigolds. Now marigolds are not the most pleasant smelling flower & I figured no self respecting bug would want it. WRONG!!!!! I have replaced several marigolds but think I may be fighting a loosing battle. Something has picked out one of my young Hostas for its' meal. Every day I check it and some more of a leaf is gone. I treated it for slugs but that didn't work either. Of course, this is one Hosta that I wanted to keep.

Shall we declare war on most all BUGS??!?!?
Afterall, I guess there are some beneficial bugs.

Thanks Wingnut, now I will be able to tell which type of bug I am stepping on.
Now was that squish-squish, crunch-crunch no that's not right,....crunch-squish....squish-crunch...Right?

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Wingnut, you showoff! I always thought it would be more like crack, snap, or snap, crack, but now you cleared it up. I shall listen more carefully the next time I chance to smash a grasshopper.

Yeah, Naturegal! Ya' got it!

*Grin,* Aimee! I had a great biology teacher in high school. He was a nut! When we disected frogs, he took one out of the jar and pressed it up against the blackboard to make a frog shape there in the chalk dust which he proceeded to draw all the lines out from to label the parts! Then, as we laughed our heads off, he tried to erase it, but it smeared so he looked at us with an "Aha!" look and said, "That's art! I call it 'Frog in the Wind'." He even went next door to get the art teacher to come look at it! I loved biology!

What a guy! It's teachers like that who keep students interested and in school. I had an old fossil who had also taught my mother and father, and didn't like them, so he didn't like me. When I scored a 99 on the final, he actually had it re-checked, determined I could not do that well. I did have it right, and he then assigned an extra exam to the only two of us to have scores above 90. The other student was a teacher's daughter, the same one he had told to re-check my exam, and I think he was sort of penalizing her for not finding an error. But when she and I made exactly the same on a second exam, he accused us of somehow cheating and put us in separate rooms for another exam. At last, he conceded our grades were correct, then said we would get a 10 point deduction because he didn't want the football players to look bad and needed to lower the curve. I never cared for sciences because he taught everything in my high school. Later, in college classes where no one knew my poor drop out parents, I enjoyed some classes like entomology, bacteriology, physics and animal husbandry. But I never learned how a bug's infrastructure determined his final sound.

Oh, teachers like that make my blood boil! Both my parents were teachers, Daddy had a Master's in Education as a matter of fact. They would never have quashed someone's spirit like that! Mom even taught me in a couple of classes in kindergarten. All I remember is I didn't get any special treatment, but I loved it! She made it all fun. We talk a lot about teaching, especially when I became a CPR instructor. I like her style.

"But I never learned how a bug's infrastructure determined his final sound." ROTFLOL!!

Amiee I know what you mean, in second grade I had a nun that was so old her wrinkles had wrinkels and she scared me to death. I tried to go back to first grade, and I told my first grade teacher that I didn't want to leave her.
I started having problems in second garde, after raising my hand to answer a question and got it wrong. She had me to come to the black board to show her how I had came up with that answer, well when I added instead of subtract she wacked me on the hand with a ruler. The whole class thought that was funny and every since then I slep in her class.