carolyncat353's Blog
carolyncat353's Blog
Jun 3, 2008 | 7:15 AM PST
It's been Hot! Humid! Dry! Summer is here. Got home yesterday and had a kitchen, living room, down the hall, in the bathroom and in my bed room FEATHERS!!! Durn little cats caught a bird (not the first) and brought it inside to torture yesterday while I was gone! Everything was knocked off my kitchen window sill (some whimsical stuff, a little vase of zinnias was saved!, one of my McCoy flower pots with a jade plant in it, and all of my little "toads" I got from my grandmother--ALL IN THE SINK!! Nothing broken except my little lady bug pot hanger. I have bird poop on my kitchen curtains ( I guess he was trying to fly through the window!), things were knocked off a REALLY high shelf in my bathroom ( I know the cats can't get up there, so Bird, again). Finally found the bird in my bed room. Had to sweep (nope, can't 'sweep' feathers), wet mop to try to get all the feathers out. Then, last nite, they bust through the cat door with a June bug! Chased it around for a while before I finally caught it and DESTROYED! They're eating my Mulberry leaves!
Sunday my back yard neighbor came over and showed me 2 of his hibiscus blooms-measuring NINE (9) inches across!! A deep mauve one and a white one!!! I remember seeing those giant babies at our garden show, but I don't remember what they were called. He's going to give me cuttings! My hibiscus is only about 2 feet tall-Sure is slow coming back this year...
Replanting cucumbers and squash this pm. All other vegetables are doing great! Can't wait for canteloupe!!
Later Gators!
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Jun 3, 2008 | 7:38 AM PST
I had a cat once that loved to bring the mice from outside inside the house to be able to hunt for the next few weeks. |
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Jun 3, 2008 | 7:40 AM PST
May have been dinner plate hibiscus. I have some type of lunar-something hibiscus that gets huge blooms, too. Comes back every year. |
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Jun 3, 2008 | 7:58 AM PST
As for the cats...my husband is not a cat-lover so the only time I got to have one was once, years ago, when I saw a mouse in the house. I'm pretty much terrified of anything that has more legs than I do (and some things that have as many), so I slept in my car for 2 nights until my he finally relented and let me get a cat. I went straight to the Adopt-A-Pet place and picked out the first cat that looked like he could get the job done, took him home and closed him off in the kitchen/dining room. It probably didn't take 10 minutes for Mousezilla to sniff out that mouse. He tortured it for the longest time before finally killing him. I didn't set foot back in the kitchen until I was sure the mouse was gone. I always heard that if you see one you have many more, but I never saw another one. Mousezilla was great but I couldn't keep him forever (would have, though) so we found him a good home several weeks later. |
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Jun 3, 2008 | 7:31 PM PST
I don't have a cat door.Thank goodness for that. My cats bring their various catches, birds, mice, ground squirrels, snakes and others to the glass door to show off. They are so proud. As for June bugs, we always tied a thread on the back leg and let them fly around. That was something we waited for every year when we were kids. Creative toys for poor kids. We were all poor but didn't know it. You all have a great day and happy gardening. Bill Mitchell |
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