I did managed to haul my ailing butt outside twice this week to water the plants. I didn’t look at them beyond noting they had been watered and had not been chomped off at the base by a critter. They looked alright to my eyes, but I wasn’t looking that hard. They were green, moist, and still standing, and that’s all I could really give a damn about.

Well, I just went out for a thorough inspection.

OMG! The banana pepper, which had a few tiny holes in a few leaves last weekend, had huge gaping enormous holes on almost every leaf today! Since the holes first started appearing, about a week after I planted the thing, I looked and looked and looked and could not find the culprit. Today, I found it: a tiny little bright green caterpillar. I’d show it to you, but two seconds after I found it, it became a tiny green smear on my front porch. I suspect the thing arrived with the plant, as I haven’t ever seen one like it before … or holes in any plant leaves.

Other than the horror of finding the bug that has been decimating my banana pepper plant, everything else looks great, but I really, really have to build a trellis for the snap peas this weekend. They have threatened to start strangling my pepper plants if I don’t get that done.

Oh, and we have bunnies in the front yard. I still have not seen the bunnies, but there has been massive amounts of digging in the newly cleared out front flower bed. It’s isn’t the sort of poo-covering that cats do either. I mean it’s DIGGING … deep digging … and the chewing of things … most notably the chomping off of every single seed I have planted as soon as the baby leaves push out of the dirt. In fact, some of the digging is at a spot of the house foundation where it would be extremely easy for a bunny to dig under the house. We will be fixing that this weekend as well. It’s bad enough I have to deal with a possum taking up residence under there every winter, I will not tolerate rabbits all spring and summer.

Looks like my garden will be moving to the back yard after all. Even with all the negatives to having it back there taken into account, I can, at least, secure the back yard from bunnies. Well, mostly. It didn’t stop Lunch and Dinner (the previous bunny population and likely the grandparents of the current crop). They came and went wherever they wanted whenever they wanted. But they also didn’t dig everything up and eat everything. Yes, they were far more civilized bunnies. This new bunch are both invisible and voracious eaters. I must protect my precious plants!!!

Ah … pizza is here. It’s time to eat, eat, eat! Then … SciFi Friday!

Man, I am so happy to be feeling so much better.