Amazemerize

One of the advantages to living right next to a huge lake is that when I decided to go fishing I can literally walk to the lake if I had to. Plus we have a pond within a hundred yards from the house where I can go if I do not want the crowd at the lake. My grandson has caught the fishing bug and I bought him his own rod and reel. He now asks to go fishing almost every time he is at our house which is almost every weekend, a fishing buddy is not a bad thing at all.

For the first time this fall while I was watching the weather on the TV I heard the weather man say the dreaded “S” word. Yes it is a four letter word that is as bad in my opinion than any other four letter word any sailor could mutter. Snow is not a welcome word to me any time and the first time of the season is as bad as any electric shock or as bad as any dog essence you could step in and bring into the house with you any day. I hate snow, I moved to Arizona many years ago just to get away from snow and ice and I sure do not need it here in Nashville, I mean we are in the South. No snow need apply.

Every year in August I get so many weeds in my lawn it almost is a grass free zone. This year I have taken the battle to the weeds, I have sprayed the broad leaf weeds I have pulled some I have spread fertilizer with weed killer in it. This year I will have a weed free lawn if it kills me. The weeds have been fought back so far and the grass is still holding its own. So if nothing silly happens between now and winter I will have a great start on a weed free lawn next spring and all the hard work will be well worth it. I hate weeds and I hope they have spread the word to their evil weed family that my yard is off limits for weeds.

Tomato worms are destroying my crop of tomatoes they are disgusting little critters too. The only way I know to get rid of them is to pick them off the plants and crush them. ~N~ is so disgusted by them she screams and makes me come pull them off the tomato plants.

See the little critter hanging on a vine in front of the big green tomato? ~N~ can spot them from 6 feet away.

I remember as a child my grandmother pulling them off the plants with her fingers and stomping on them. I am not so tough I have to have a tissue to grab a hold of them, guess we are not as tough as the older folks in our lives.

Mother Nature speaks again with a typhoon in the Philippines that has killed 800 just to add to the others killed this year so far in natural disasters. This year has been especially nasty with so many tornadoes, fires and now floods. I do not remember so many different disasters all in the same year. Mother Nature has been very angry this year so far and the hurricane season is just starting.