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Creatures that visit my garden

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A snacking gray squirrel. Isn’t he or she cute? As long as the squirrels are eating bulbs that they’ve dug up from my garden beds, my strawberries, digging holes or climbing on my bird feeders – they’re welcome. Otherwise I don’t want them in my yard. I guess you could say it’s and on again off again war.

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This is a Pink Spotted Hawks moth.

This is what tomato hornworms turn into after their done munching on our tomato plants.

This moth really did look like a small hummingbird as it flitted around my garden a couple of years ago. I’ve seen a few of them every year except for this year. I’ve only ever seen them at dusk or after dark.

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What kind of creatures do you have in your yard? We have several people on GTS that are from Australia – can you show us some of your garden wildlife sometime?

Don’t forget to visit As the Garden Grows for another GTS post.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.





Online Safety deposit box

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Now this is something I might be interested in. I always worry about “what if’s” – What if someone breaks in? What if the house burns down? What will happen to our important paperwork if something happens?

Most people use bank safe deposit boxes to store their important paper work such as their will, the mortgage agreement for their home, insurance policy paperwork, and the deed to your property, but what if you could also store a copy of your most important paperwork in the first truly secure Online Safe Deposit Box? If disaster struck, wouldn’t it be handy to have copies of all your policies and paperwork in one safe and convenient place?

You could even keep a copy of your passport or important cards and I.D. that you keep in your wallet, then if you were on vacation and were robbed or lost your wallet you could access this information from just about anywhere you are in the world. You’d just need to log on and download your information.

If you’d like to try this you can get a free small-sized online safe deposit box for one year or you could upgrade your account and get a larger permanent box for as little as $3 per month. The company states that this service is completely secure and encrypted with servers in multiple Countries.

I’ve never heard of a service like this but I can imagine all of the possible uses for an online safe deposit box. Great idea.

My Stalker

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My little old lady neighbor is at it again.

We took our window air-conditioners out about two weeks ago. When the living room / dining room air-conditioner was in the window Sofie couldn’t see me if I was sitting at my desktop computer. Now that that air-conditioner has been taken out and put away she has a clear view of me from her dining room window.

It’s an even clearer view when she moves her curtains aside and stands in her window staring at me.

I’ve taken to waving at her when I see her. She backs quickly away from her windows and the curtains close again. LOL Sofie- If you can see me, I can see you too!

If Chris and I are going out she’s often in her front window looking out or on her front porch. She always asks where we are going. Unfortunately my husband often tells her the truth – and often the truth is we are going to yet another doctors appointment for me. If she hears I’m going to the doctor she gets all worried and often gets teary. Why on earth does my husband tell her where we are going when he knows it makes her cry? Anyway, my doctors appointments are usually just routine appointments, it doesn’t mean I’m deathly ill just because I’m seeing a doctor.

If she hasn’t seen me sitting at my desktop computer she’ll often come to our back window and knock on it. She scares the crap out me every time she does this. I’m just never expecting a knock on the back window even though I should be by now since she does this every second or third day.

She’s nice little ol’ lady, and I know she’s lonely and that she worries about me, but her devotions really creeps me out.

Does anyone else have any overly friendly or overly nosy neighbors?

Garden Sabotage

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My crazy little old lady neighbor is at it again!

I think she’s been trying to kill my garden piece by piece.

This year she’s attacking the little plot at the end of our shared driveway. She’s putting cement crumbles on it.

Her son did a lousy repair job on a hole in her walkway last year where she was convinced a mouse was living. Needless to say, after some cold weather the whole thing is a crumbling mess and she keeps throwing the chunks in my garden.

Now she’s putting all the little green keys from our other neighbors huge maple tree into this tiny garden bed. I found about two feet worth of maple keys there today. It was really fun getting them out from around the two roses that grow there.

Is it garden envy? Senility? Dementia? I don’t know, but I do know she’s really starting to tick me off. Remember my garden scraps post about here? And the stalking? Uh huh.

Search Engine Optimization Blog

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Some of you are startled when you find out just how many blogs and websites I own and manage. For those that don’t know – I have five blogs, and two major websites and I might add a few more blogs or websites to my network in the coming months.

Yes I am a geek and I’m not too proud to admit it.

Over the years I’ve learned a lot about Search Engine Marketing (SEO), page rank (PR) and many of the other aspects of promoting a website and getting it to the top of the search results so that people can find my sites easily and come visit and see what I have to offer.

I know all of the things that work best for my sites and have a lot of experience with creating and promoting sites but I don’t have a lot of interest in writing about it. However, I’ve recently come across the SEO Blog that has a lot of very useful information on it that I know many of my readers will find useful.

Do you have a niche blog or website? A popular blog that you want to take to the next level? Why don’t you visit the Search engine optimization blog and learn what you can do to get your site to the top of the search engine results?

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