lol same and idk how it happened this year, I dropped mine off early last week!! 👍

So cool! I love seeing tarantulas. Years ago in SE AZ after a monsoon I saw “the March”. I had to pull over and park b/c there were so many of them crossing the road! Fortunately no other cars came by. I thought I’d never get home but finally the crossings subsided and I could leave. Incredible!

There were a handful of volunteer seedlings around the new penstemon. So I dug them up and put into 1 gal pots and planted them pot and all, in the garden. Fast forward to today, I’ve dug them up, pot and all, and will take them to Seattle to overwinter. Next spring they’ll go in the ground!

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Loved the bucket drum brigade!! We were right next to you guys for awhile. 🩷🩷

Ha ha we were worried about that guy - he looked like he was trying to hold that head up with one hand- was it heavy? Awesome costume with the coppers as well 💪

I find all those chants to be super cringy. Hey hey ho ho…oh no oh no. I want to sound like a crowd of European football fans. ⚽️

It was absolutely howling at my placea couple hours ago. One of our chairs flew off the deck!

Haha yes! We’ve had more rufous hummingbirds this year than I can count. From what I can tell, there are 6-8 different but overlapping territories on our property. Sometimes it’s hazardous to be outside! 😆

It’s been windier than usual here this summer and I’ve seen very few butterflies in our gardens. Cabbage moths excepted. Lots of bumblebees and a record number of hummingbirds, but I’ve missed the Swallowtails.

There are ten because I ate two of them 😆

They were at our place last week for Serviceberries!