Another unwanted guest

Morning everyone, 

Yesterday evening we had 4 baby half grown raccoons come to our back door, in daylight, two of which were dispatched, The other two ran for the hills. So we sat the trap once again, surprise, another full grown raccoon was in the trap this morning. This has been 3 days since we caught the other one. Thinking this must have been a family of varmints. Here is a pic of the nasty thing. It tore up the ground all around the trap even though it does not show that much in the pic.

If this was a family of them we still have two more to deal with when they come back. I sure wish these things would just stay in the woods where they belong and stay away from our home. We do have chickens and dogs and I know these filthy things bring ticks, fleas, and disease with them. 

When we lived in Ohio, one was acting funny in our front yard, we call the police, they come and he followed it through our yard until it was in the back yard, then the cop "shot" it and left saying they get a call two to three times a week on them. He said it acted like it had distemper. I was thinking rabies, not the other. Any way Vince wearing gloves got the raccoon and put in trash, we did not leave it there for any other animal to come and check out and perhaps getting the disease from the raccoon.

Love and Prayers, 

Margo

Nita's Beauty Bush

Hello everyone, 

Today I have a pic I took earlier this summer of one of Nita's Beauty Bushes that she planted by the front of the house. It has never had this many flowers before or at least that I have seen. Has to be because of all the heat and rain this year. In fact everything around this place has grown and flowered this year and it is like a jungle out here and it is hard to just cut the grass when needed because of all the rain. It smells so sweet when in flower.

Beauty Bush

 There also is one by the back of the house and out in the front yard. This bush has several others along the fence that we have cut back some. The gate is hidden. This one is almost as high as the upper deck on the home. 

Love and Prayers, 

Margo

My Lemon Tree

 Hi to all, 

This is my lemon tree. I had a lemon tree that Nita gave me (she grew it from a seed) I grew it into a huge plant in which a robin made her nest one year in Ohio. That tree came back down to West Virginia and still did not produce any lemons, never even one flower. So I let it sit outside and freeze. It had 1 and 1/2 inch thorns on it also. Then two years ago I bought a small lemon tree. He was about 1/2 foot tall when I got it two years ago. Last summer it put on one flower and then let it fall off later on. So it is two years old now and next summer I expect a lot of lemons.

Then this early spring, it sat on 8 to 10 flowers, still so cold outside, he lives with me inside during winter, they smelled so good, then as summer got here he had lost some of the flowers and had set on about 3 different lemons. But slowly all of the little lemons dropped off but one. This is the pic of the one that stayed on the tree and keeps growing. Not sure if it will be any good or not but just the fun of having one grow on a small tree for me is wonderful.

 I do have to re-pot this thing and give him a larger root area. I think the letting it get too dry before I watered it may have caused the problems, so larger pot and less problems and perhaps next year I will have a few lemons. I love to eat them with salt sprinkled on them, love them in ice tea also. 

Here are a couple of pics and one with my glasses to show some size for lemon. 

 

 I let the lemon rest of the rail of the porch because it is pulling the lemon tree over side ways. Not bothered with huge thorns either. 

Watch your pets, I feed this tree in the spring with its citrus food and Kricket was caught eating the citrus from top of the pot. He is ok and it did not seem to make him sick either. thank God.

Love and Prayers, 

Margo

 

My Avocado Tree

Hi everyone,

I have grown this little guy for about 2 years now. It was getting too tall, so I cut the top out, now it has branched a few times. I will have to clip to two longest branches back so the others can play catch up. I was hoping for an avocado but guess it is not going to happen this year. I do need to re-pot it this year. 

Here is a pic

My Avocado Tree

Don't know just when it is suppose to flower and set fruit. Have to wait and see what happens.

Love this little guy.

Love and Prayers, 

Margo