☠️ I'm leaving Alf up there for the night due to the use of punji sticks AGAIN. (Easy to find Alf tonight. He was hiding in the tall grass when my neighbor came up to mow. He's terrified of lawn mowers!) I hope the owl I saw earlier swings by and nabs him! 👿 Such a corrupted goblin!

☠️ 2/2 Yes, a trap. Alfalfa loves toothpicks and skewers. I'm giving him a bit of credit. It IS slightly foot shaped. The menacing idiot is still angry with me. LOL!

☠️ 1/2 This can't possibly be a trap set by a vengeful Alfalfa, can it? 🙄

🦉I believe I saw a Barred owl this afternoon. Didn't expect a daytime sighting. I was starting to work in the yard and saw a large, mottled, chunky thing glide low across the yard. I thought Hawk at first, then realized it was too thick. Unusual to see one, am hearing them nightly in the distance.

☠️ Looks like dry, stringy chicken but with a crunch! Mold and black ants are a bonus! I told Alfalfa I may need to do an autopsy to determine cause of second death, he ran away in a fit of weepiness. LOL ♾️! (See previous post.)

☠️ Oh! A true massacre! I heard shrieks of, "Why can't they leave the dead be?" and wailing in the garden. Came upon this scene. Looks like a critter found Alfalfa's long dead pet pumpkin and used it as a chew toy. I reminded Alf that he likes to play with corpses and it made him cry harder! Heh.😈

☠️ Alfalfa is still running around in the garden. He has selected a yellow squash to be his summer pal. Unfortunately, their friendship will be brief. The little squash and buds must go! (Plants too small.) Yet another scar on his psyche. LOL!

☠️ 2/2 ...I planted another pumpkin. I started 4 Lumina (white) pumpkins. I also found a volunteer vine that could be a basic orange pumpkin. ??? Either way, it has ended Alfalfa's keening period...I hope. Of course, maybe he's becoming more quiet during the night due to the owls coming closer.

☠️ 1/2 Alfalfa has returned, unfortunately. He is rolling his pet pumpkin around the yard, the same pet pumpkin from last year. He wouldn't allow me to bury it until...

A plant I removed from a shared driveway with my neighbor is this Yarrow. He kills everything and I managed to get one before it was poisoned. I now have clumps of it here and there around the garden. Will condense them this year. Bonus plants for the bees and birds!

Wild Penstemon/Beardtongue that I rescued from a heavily shaded treeline a few years ago. It was a scrawny stem and now it's a large 18" clump. I will need to transplant it later this year, it's being swallowed by Goldenrod. I love finding bonus plants!

❓️❓️❓️Attention botanists! Can you identify this fuzzy leaf plant? It has no fragrance, it's not oregano. Found a few plants like this in the upper yard, unlike anything else around. Anyone know what it is? I would very much appreciate help with identification. TY! #wildflower

Iris day! Pretty purple-red colors. Don't know the name of this particular hybrid because my mother threw away all the plant tags.

Geez. Had to pull over. Extreme wind, rain, and hail. A piece of hail flew through my window and into a bottle of ice tea! LOL! Waiting out the storm in St. Louis county. #STLweather

🐍Do not harass snakes (like I do.) This is a Dekay's Brownsnake(probably), formerly Midland Brownsnake. It was not happy to see me. They usually flatten like a pancake to look big and bad. This is a larger one (they grow to be 13" or so.) I covered it back up.🙄 Toward the bottom is a wolf spider.

Vultures! Strong breezes today and they are flying low, skimming the tree tops.

☠️ Alfalfa has come up with his solution to protecting himself from raptor attacks after I told him the owls are now very active. I'm sure the little helmet will protect that tiny noggin filled with dust particles and darkness.🙄 #GreenBayPackers

☠️ Came across this idiotic being while walking to the garden. Alfalfa is busy this afternoon protecting his ducky from bunnies, deer, chickadees, and lizards. You know, the vicious wildlife. I'm really hoping the owls start to hang out in the yard soon.

Tiny grasshopper I found in my garden tool bucket. Smaller than a dime. It posed for this photo and then proceeded to JUMP INTO MY COFFEE! 🙄 At least it's better than having June Bugs use me as a landing strip.

Dame's Rocket. Yes, it can be invasive. Yes, it can be controlled from spreading. I keep it for the bees. It came in a wildflower mix from the late 80s, they claimed it was phlox. Has a great fragrance!

😼 Waking to find THIS on my chest! What kind of expression is this? This is Jellow, by the way.

🐢 Saw this critter in the back yard today. A rare sighting! I'm lucky to see a turtle once a year and it's always a relief to know they're still around.

☠️ I heard giggling in the upper yard as I was beginning to weed the garden. Found an adorned Alfalfa sitting on a branch, spying on me. He won't reveal his evening plans, as usual. I then told him crows like shiny things. He shrieked in terror. He was gone when I finished weeding. LOL!

Hummingbird moth (a type of Sphinx moth) on lilac flowers. I've seen the moths with different colors. This is the first one of the season!

😼 Niblet Ann's second time out this year. We almost didn't have a photo today because LAST TIME she was out she went missing...until 10:20 PM. It almost killed me searching and coming up empty. I had resigned myself to the fact she was gone and would not make it through the night.🥺 So naughty!

☠️ Alfalfa raided someone's #Easter basket today and has taken a 🐇hostage. He's quite smug about it, too. He's wearing his new #Peeps helmet and has stolen another knife. He's been tormented by real bunnies lately, so I guess this isn't surprising. He's pathetic.🙄

I grew up with this. Things are so complicated now. m.youtube.com/watch?v=4a2w...

☠️ Alfalfa is wearing a bug 🪲 on his head and mangling french (probably) again. He tells me,"C'est mon l'insecte de Juin chapeau!" June bug does NOT like Alf. Alf says the rift dates back to the days of the pharoahs when all the scarab beetles despised him for some unspecified reason. Of, course.🙄

Old lilac beginning to bloom! Don't know the name of the hybrid but has been on this property for at least 50 years. I saved another from my neighbor who kills shrubs ON MY PROPERTY!

🐸 Sound only. Tree frog hiding by my back door. Can't disturb anything to film it so you get sound only. There are three calling to each other in recent days. One always likes to hide by the back door!

Tonight's moon. Kinda mad I couldn't get an earlier photo while shopping. The moon was lower and huge!

🦃 Turkeys!!! Excited to see one adult and six juveniles today!

☠️ Heard Alfalfa wailing somewhere in the yard and came across this. Yes, this is his pet pumpkin from last September, it's petrified. Alf's blubbering away. I'm not too sympathetic due to his recent threats upon my life, but there may be a proper burial. Of course, a critter will dig it back up.🙄

Temperature swings are KILLING me! 91°F yesterday, today 54°F, tonight 29°F. High heat 🔥🥵🔥 in MARCH! 84°F coming monday. Awful fluctuations. Some plants are coming back. Here is Baptisia Australis/False Indigo saying, "Hello! I'm back!" #Gardening

☠️ Alfalfa is now securely tied to the Brick Of Shame with added sprinkle of BBQ Fritos. I told him raccoons and coyotes are very active lately. I paused for a moment and we heard quiet footsteps approaching in the leaves. I'm not up for it tonight! Tiny idiot should be regretting it by now!😡

☠️ He's threatening me for sneezing too much.

🌚 The moon tonight. Looks full but it isn't. Small clouds moving quickly and a few stars.

LOL! My t-shirt selection today. I just realized I have this on and am doing yard and garden work now. It was the only clean lightweight shirt I have because we're going between very cold temps to very hot temps. I still have my winter clothes out. Appropriate, I think. #Halloween #Gardening

☠️ Checked on Alfalfa tonight. Looks like he got into my #Halloween decorations again. He threatened to "slice and dice or flabe" me with the utility blade. He means FLAY, by the way. I threatened him with a water balloon(something that paralyzes him with fear.) LOL! Little punk!

🍅🌶 I did a STUPID thing on Friday. I bought a flat of 48 plants, tomatoes and peppers, for $19.99. I don't know one person who gardens, so I can't give away extras. Gardening fever is a curse! (Had to buy early because the husky size bib-overalled farmers clear out trays of veggies every year!)

☀️🥶From high of 88°F today to 39°F tonight to 55°F tomorrow. Getting VERY windy, temp is beginning to drop. I may not recover. I guess I'll move the plants in again. (The wind is definitely cool air, guess it will get colder.)

☠️ I decided to check on the progress of Alfalfa's hunt for chipmunks🐿. He has proudly captured a kiwifruit🥝🥝🥝! I can see where he mixed things up, both are roundish and fuzzy. Anyone would make the same mistake.🙄

Does anyone else get depressed when it gets HOT🔥 outside? The extreme temperatures so far this year are really messing with my existence.

☠️ Alfalfa is now trying to catch a chipmunk🐿. He says he wants to put a saddle on it ond go chipmunkback riding? He's really getting on my nerves.

☠️ Alfalfa skulking around the old shed. Why? There is a big, floofy bunny 🐇hiding in that area! He's trying to exact revenge on the bunnies in the yard who continue to startle him, those who ruin his heinous plans to harm all (almost all) lifeforms. Doubtful it will work, he's terrified of them.🙄

Oh, yes. It's begun. ( From yesterday.)

Watching Max Velocity on YouTube now. He's following the storms today/tonight.

Vultures flying above me at the very beginning of a severe thunderstorm. Torrential rain ATM.

☠️ PSA! Alfalfa gives his annual #SevereWeather and #tornado advice. He reminds you to have a hard hat, first aid kit (bandage on his head today), flashlight, food, water (NOT bleach, he's tricky!), and charged phone on hand for #SevereStorm emergencies. (He already ate all the cookies.😡)

☠️ Alfalfa's FEAR face! LOL♾️! He tells me he was going to battle it out with the raptors, conquer his fear of them for once and for all! I told him I saw a hawk flying with the vultures this morning, and now we have this.🙄Now he'll be publicly shamed for his idiocy. I should've left him for the🦉!