Thursday Gardening!!

Hello! Lautrec here...we have had a TON of rain lately and when we get a lot of rain in the summer, a lot of these pop up in our garden:

(yes, they are edible.)

Something else also loves the rain and damp...and the mushrooms...these:

(Yuck! Yuck!)

Thankfully, this guy (below) and his buddies like to eat the above 'yucks' ... this guy might not eat very many this summer, I'm sure he will in a couple of years!

(He was as big as my thumb!)

Ah, and there are also these fellas that like to eat the 'yucks':

(Isn't he magnificent?! His underside is a fluorescent green!!)

I especially like to uncover nice surprises like frogs and lizards even if I'm not allowed to eat them. They are so cute!!

Have a great gardening day!

Thursday Gardening!!

As you may or may not know, we are members of the Society of Feline Gardeners (please see Cory Cat Blog for more information) so every Thursday we talk about gardening. Well, today I was looking at the grapes we have growing in front of the house and I told Mom that maybe we should cut some of them off. She said that it's too soon; we have to wait until they turn purple - which should be in a couple of months.

Darn, I was all ready to put on the gloves and start snippin'!!

Mom was picking weeds when suddenly something moved...a little tiny toad!!! She showed it to me and I was kinda afraid of it...I don't know why but I kinda freak a little when I see small crawly things..oooo!...they give me the willies!!!

I just saw that little guy move and I HAD to close my eyes and look away! Yeah, I know, I'm not much of a Mancat am I!! Sure. Fine. Laugh at me...at least I'm not afraid of spiders!!

What? Did he say he isn't afraid of spiders? Liar!! He just sorta looks at them, has almost never touched one and for sure he has NEVER eaten one! I eat them all the time...I do it for Mom (Mom hates spiders so she 'trained' me to eat them, but little does she know that I would eat them anyway because I think they are mighty tasty!!). I don't eat toads though...not because I don't want to (though I don't think I would like their taste!), but because Mom loves all other little creatures, she says that toads and frogs, lizards and butterflies, birds and dragonflies and snakes are all off limits...we can only eat spiders and mice. So, Lautrec only gets mice (THAT HE STEALS FROM ME!). Mancat? Ha!! Think again. FRAIDYCAT!!