No, it’s not named Monica, and it doesn’t design handbags.
Garden porn after the cut. I snapped these right as I smelled rain. Minutes later, we got a t-storm.
I’m reasonably sure the pepper’s a cayenne. It makes great salsa, and isn’t a sweet pepper by any means. The other picture is another one of the singing mutant chorus orchid. You can see how the newer flowers lower down the spike start out more whitish, and turn yellowy as they age. I couldn’t resist getting my stabbed garden gnome in the background. Imported from England, he moans every 15 seconds or so, if I put in an AA battery and flip his switch (don’t go there, folks . . .).
I was going to ask about the gnome. Very English, a murdered lawn ornament. Mind you, probably get complaints with all the knife crime hype at the moment.
Nice big cobweb in the corner too.
I’ve tried to get a decent picture of the web inhabitant, but can’t. It’s a rather small spider, considering the size of its web, mostly dark brown, but with iridescent green on its belly, and three yellow spots. I have a good half dozen of them around the catnip patch.
Call him Boris. All spiders are Boris.
Least that’s what my mum says. Any time there is a large spider about the house, she says, ‘oh look, it’s Boris!’.
She’s a bit odd like that. Some years ago there was a rat in the house, probably brought in by one of the cats. It went behind the furniture and I couldn’t get it. Eventually it climbed up the back of the hifi and jumped up to land on top of it.
My mum saw it and called out, ‘it’s Rodney the rodent!’
Of course muggins here spent a sodding hour chasing the thing, eventually out of the house.
Well, if you ever get a bat in the kitchen, I’d recommend a tennis or badminton racquet to stun it, and an oven mitt to remove it to the great outdoors. Spatulas are worthless.
Oh, I could use one of my dad’s nets for that. He keeps fish, koi, and so have a few nets for scooping them up. That could work.
Love the idea of trying to bonk one with a spatula. 😀
I love the image of you dancing around with a fish net, Git. I’m sure it’s effective, but damn, is that a funny image! Git Gets OUT with a fish net. Sorry. I’m bad.
Crit, I’m guessing your Mom is a fan of the Who… 🙂
It’s probably better than the butterfly net I am always threatening the Git with in IM.
Make sure there is plenty of swearing when you add sound to the image.
At first I spend a lot of time berating the cats for bringing in a poor creature, but as I chase it around I get fed up and start swearing at it and threatening it with the cats, and then go back to swearing at the cats telling them to go get it. Then back again to swearing to the mouse/bird.
Did used to bring in frogs too. They were odd. They would lie there and you’d think them dead, then scoop and chuck them back into the pond and off they’d go! Squealed a lot too.
My mum could have been a Who fan. She had good taste in music when she was young. Now she knows about all the latest shitty pop groups, while I’ve gone back to the 70s.