AngelsGarden's Blog

~~Hottest Part of Summer~~
Jul 22, 2008 | 7:37 AM PST

Its been pretty hot.  Mid to upper 90s everyday.  Not alot of rain either, though we did get a few minutes yesterday.  I missed it though, I was taking a much needed nap :)  Now that the kids B-day parties are over I am shifting my focus to other things.  Like weeding and sprucing up the garden and flower beds.  Night before last I weeded the front flower bed part of the way.  I also dug up the glads that I wanted to keep from by the dogwood tree.  I trimmed them down a bit and replanted them in another spot.  The bulbs are 2 or 3 times the size they were when I bought them.  A few of the Sunflower seedlings got planted towards the back and a daylily came out of a pot and into the ground.  I wouldn't normally be transplanting in this heat but the daylily was getting too dry in its pot, hard to keep up with it.  Some things were trimmed up a bit, the Rose Bush and the Dahlias.  Maybe I will get to finish that be off tonight. 

Yesterday morning it was the Hot Peppers turn for weeding.  My little one wanted to help.  So I got her up early and we went out to the garden.  I was concerned about snakes, so she worked on some safer projects.  Halfway through the weeding I saw a snake tail!!!  I put on my leather glove and caught the 3 inch monster.  LOL  Really he was only about 3 inches.  He went over the back fence.  Then we saw a skink and a toad.  Neither of which was happy about what I was doing.  Once the bed was cleaned I put in organic fertilizer stakes and started the sprinkler.  The toad was not happy at all about the sprinkler, so I moved him away a bit. 

Later when I went to look at the tadpole pool I found a bigger snake!!!!

Hubby mowed last night while I did a little bit more weeding. Here is a pic of the toad.

P.S. I also added some more Pictures to the Mushroom album and the Critters album.