Given that most of the people that follow this blog also happen to be friends of mine in life and on Facebook this may be sort of a cop out entry but it's been over a week and I needed to put something up and I really don't have time for fresh material today. What I have to offer tonight is a combination of old artwork and an update on my garden. To start with, the update:
My garden is doing so well! My patio tomato is pumping away at fattening up my little tomatoes (4 now plus more flowers!) and all the herbs are getting thick enough to allow me to indiscriminately give Norman lots of fresh herbs every day. When I bought the Cilantro it was a sad little thing but now both plants are thick and happy little bunches.
On the downside, just as I was getting excited about the fact that my tomato plant that's going to grow the large tomatoes had suddenly started blossoming like crazy (19 flowers on a bush that's only maybe 20 inches tall!) all of a sudden I started getting holes in the leaves. Well, I phrased it well enough on Facebook so here's the play by play of how I responded. It was an extraordinarily rational response, no doubt. ;)
11:00 am
"Oh, my old nemesis Tomato Hornworm. Appearing out of the blue eating all my tomato leaves and adding insult to tomato-injury by pooping everywhere. Remember: my grandmother was the lady that cackled while she snipped the heads off your giant grasshopper friends with her garden scissors. I suggest you move along."
6:41 pm
"Dang it! 3! Three times the same hornworm? Three individual hornworms? I'm not sure but, Mr. Hornworm, you were warned and you didn't heed the warning. The next time I find you on my tomato plant I will put you in the birdfeeder. The question is will it be in one piece or two. >:("
9:10 pm
"In the continuing saga of Me vs. The Hornworm I had an ironic setback: while I had no qualms putting hornworm #4 in the birdfeeder & felt no guilt doing so, the Hornworms scored a win of sorts because he caused me to feel guilty when, in trying to dislodge him from the leaves, two of his feet stuck to the leaves and came off. I'm telling myself it was a ruse & he actually just kicked his shoes off to make me feel bad. It's a Hornworm psyche-out."
Later, in resonse to a friend laughing at me and telling me
"Ha ha ha, he tried to play you for a sucker." I responded
"Right? I'll take him down. I'll take him down to Chinatown."
As I said, very rational. ;) I'll be house-sitting for Chad's brother in Beaufort, SC for a week so I'm hoping Chad's mom will follow through with her promise to check the plant 2-3 times a day for the little buggers. I don't want to come home to a Swiss cheese tomato plant!
So that's that. Now, I promised you some garden based art.
About two years ago I doodled out what ended up looking like Winnie-the-Pooh meets Dr. Seuss kind of tree. I thought it was cool in a wacked out Lorax sort of way. This is it here:
Well somehow it turned into this twisted little cartoon. It's the only cartoon I've ever made so I hope you'll find it funny. It may be a one time engagement!
My next entries will actually probably be photography of a sort. There's lots of pretty stuff around Beaufort so I can only image it'll lend itself to it.
Ok, so there you go. Hope you can get a chuckle and I hope that all your gardening is going well and none of you have to fight the dreaded hornworm. :)
