Not So Tiny Guest And Ussies

 We had buckets of rain the other day, made our grass grow...well...like weeds! The lawnmower was not happy with the thickness and left many clogs instead of mulching it. So soon petcretary will go over it again.And very soon, cause the weather is going to get very hot again. UGH! And humid, to make it even better...not!

Well she managed to get one more privacy panel up Friday evening, but the sweat was dripping off of her...so she will wait with getting the doubled ones on over it all. They help a bit at keeping all the barking down. Us pups CAN see through it, so we sit and watch for activity on either side of the house to have a bark. BOL!

Other than that, petcretary keeps busy with many other chores, it seems there are so many more in the summertime than in the winter. Fill the bird feeders, which they seem to eat way more of now, maybe because of all the cowbirds, starlings and grackles which are not there in the winter, and they all eat like pigs! Even though we have more than one hummingbird feeder, they are not around too much here, this year. And the bee balm which usually finds them all over it,  well they are not. Water the plants, esp the newly planted saplings...clean up after the doggies, pull out weeds...and so on and so on...always something to do, inside and out.

The snowball shrub ( Viburnum ), is either very stressed out from the dry and very hot weather we had recently...but at any rate it needs to be cut back or even dug out...which is a shame, it makes such a pretty sight every spring. I don't know if it is diseased, or has a bug/mold infestation, but it is for sure looking very sad. I will start with a severe pruning, and then wait and see if it comes back next year. A white lilac in the backyard has also seen much better days, so out that will come too. Arghhhh, smells like WORK.

Anyways, here is a moth I have not seen ever, in the 39 years we have been living here. It was quite large, and was on one of the may apple leaves.

Haploa lecontei    

Well, we like to watch petcretary and snoopervise when she is outside with us doing chores...so she got these cute ussies of us...

We missed yesterday's All American Pet Photo Day, so we are showing flashbacks of MrJackFreckles,  Pipo & Minko being patriotic...afterall they were American born 'petizins'! (Images taken in 2010)

We have joined up with all the other Sunday Selfies at The Cat On My Head. Thanks for hosting Kitties Blue!