White-tailed deer

whitetails will eat the bumper off a Ford.
Very destructive here, standing up on their hind legs and tearing ALL the bark off fruit trees; fortunately we have more mule deer than whitetails.
They just nibble at stuff.

Cougar! OMG 😯 😯
Dawn and dusk are the most dangerous times.
There have been cougar attacks nearby recently too.

Jim, glad you'll get rain...about time, huh?
Way too late for drought-stricken farmers unfortunately.

Barb

White-tailed deer

Jim, glad you'll get rain...about time, huh?
Way too late for drought-stricken farmers unfortunately.

Barb

But not to late for the Castor beans that have got to be around 13' now,
if we get 4"+ of rain they may clear 15'

So has the rain started, Jim?
You running around naked yet?

I can imagine the smell of the hot soil as it gets rain...at first it always smells like burnt skin from the BBQ 😆 😆 😆

Barb

We got pounded today with rain and wind we had a tornado watch and flash flood warnings, remnants of Hurricane Isaac.

Has not done **** here as usual.

Maybe .20" so far(looks like it's winding down too!) this really sucks!

Aw, Jim, crappy that rain is missing your place!!!!

Bryce sounds like he got more than he needed.

Barb

.29"

A third of an inch.
Useless 😥

My Castor Beans fell over in the storm the ground is really saturated. Its like a sponge.

Don't even fart next to them,they blow over that easy!

We may get storms and heavy rainfall yet-this week.

I better take some pics of the Castors in case they are blown away.

They have to be 13' now and just waiting for some heavy rain to move again...
they have been around 12' since the beginning of July.

Something I am not used to feeling today....81F with 74% humidity and 72F dewpoint!

--this is normal here but lately some of our lines look like this 97F humidity 8% dewpoint 30F.

lol yeah mine blew over Maybe I can stake them up I really need some seed to ripen so I can save them for next year. Its super humid here and the bugs are bad I was outside earlier and i kept getting bit by mosquitos. At least I wont have to water anything.

Took some pics of my Castor Beans today, they look pretty tragic, tried staking them up but there to heavy so im just waiting for the seed to ripen so ill have some for next year then ill hack em down I guess. They fell on top of one of my Trachy's I planted this year :(.

Took some pics of my Castor Beans today, they look pretty tragic, tried staking them up but there to heavy so im just waiting for the seed to ripen so ill have some for next year then ill hack em down I guess. They fell on top of one of my Trachy's I planted this year :(.

Fell on the Trachys huh....?

Mine will probably take out my E.Ventricosum and E.Glaucum when/if they ever fell......

Which reminds me,I need to do a weather post 🙂 😯

Yeah they are pretty heavy, it fell on the Trachy but it will recover, the castor is just blocking a lot of its light and scuffed up the leaves a little. Thats all.