My Green Thumb Fell Off

*sigh* Ok so remember how i was all excited that my grasses and flowers and veggies and trees were growing? Well....my thumb was green but then it fell off. My grass is now more brown than green, the bunnies ate my veggies and they were in a too-shady spot so they didn't really grow well anyway, Ned the Nut-Biter stole my peaches......and now i think i just killed my favorite tree!

My prized Pink Dogwood tree has had these brown crumbly leaves for awhile now. At first i thought it was a sunlight issue, then i thought maybe a watering problem. Well my mom sent me to this Walter Reeves website for this guy in Georgia that's like the Clark Howard of gardening and landscaping. Anyway, i soon discovered that my tree has this problem called Dogwood Blight. It's basically a fungus and it said that the affected leaves produce all these spores that make it spread and that you have to get rid of the leaves pronto. So i did! I cut every single leaf off the tree today because every one of them was affected. In the meantime my mom had me email a picture of it to Walter Reeves because he asks for pics so that he can help to illustrate problems. He's a busy guy so i wasn't really expecting much of a response anytime soon.

But i just got an email back:
"If it was planted in the last few months I'd suspect slow root establishment more that a disease. Crisp leaf edges show water stress."

Yep my prized Pink Dogwood is no more than a giant naked twig. And it's all my fault. :( To make it worse i "pruned" my rosebushes a bunch because they had funky leaves too. Pruning supposedly makes them grow more but we shall see.

RIP

My flourishing peaches are no more. I was visiting my little tree today and all of my peaches have vanished. While there is no evidence in or around the base of the tree we are working on the assumption that they have been murdered. We have a few suspects we'd like to question but they have eluded capture and are being considered very dangerous. We have placed two of our best hunters on the case. The following are pictures of two of the suspects the police would like to question. Using the latest in progression technology we have also included what the peach may look like if it is indeed still alive.

Suspects

Timmy Two-Caws

Ned the Nut-Biter

Age-Progressed Peach

Deadly Frisbee

Ok so i know i get bruised super easy and stuff but this is just ridiculous. I showed you a couple weeks ago (June 8th if you want to see the pic) about my bruised hand following a relatively mild game of frisbee. Well we played again last night when everyone was over for Father's Day.....and guess what happened to the *other* hand in the exact same spot?! Not nearly as bad but still...do i have some kind of bleeding/bruising disorder? I can't remember a time when i didn't have multiple bruises all over me. Mostly my legs, but i bruise super easy.

The Apocalypse

So i know there's a bunch of signs that signal the beginning of the end. At least that's what people tell me. Specifically my dad. Whenever Obama does...well pretty much anything; whenever there's a hurricane; whenever a leaf falls off a tree. Yeah i'm pretty sure my dad's told me those are all signs that we don't have much longer to live. He says its says so right there in Revelation. He also told me that the plastic things that attach tags to clothes are called Knicklepoppers. And that the Beach Boys are really singing "Doodlelove" and not "Good Lovin'" That i'm actually a Bat Kid that watches over the frog people. But i digress...

I haven't paid much attention to my dad's insistence that the apocalypse is near. I mean would God really end the world before Clark Kent learns to fly? With Izzie and George hanging in the balance? Before the release of Directv HD Tivo?! Methinks not. But i have found three signs of impending doom:

1) My 9 year old sister now has her very own cell phone. And she likes to talk. A lot.

2) It's raining frogs and i'm pretty sure that's one of those plague things. On our walk last night Jake had to shoo at least 5 frogs off the road.

3) Jenn isn't totally against the idea of babysitting. When I jokingly mentioned that Ally might need a babysitter sometime I was fully expecting a tirade. Instead i got a resume and a speech about her super-awesome-babysittingness skills. She didn't even use the word spawn! I was waiting for lightning to strike me dead at that moment but it hasn't happened yet. So i went and took a picture of the frog. Beware the face of the Apocalypse.

New Camera and Failed Scare-Bunnies

So i got my new camera just in time to bring to you....the failure of scare-bunnies. The green beans were the only veggie doing well (probably because i planted the garden in a too-shady spot) and the dang scare-bunnies totally did NOT scare off the real bunnies. Here is the resulting carnage of topless green beans. I have decided that Dala will now be the guardian of the garden. She'll just have to sit there until my veggies grow. Also included is a picture of a peach on my baby peach tree. Surprisingly the squirrels and birds haven't discovered it yet.

The Secret Life of Dala the Pittypat

Helping mommy with laundry.


Hunting bunny rabbits bigger than her.

She was crouched down and her tail was flicking back and forth like crazy. Roger Rabbit has lived in our yard for quite some time and usually doesn't run until you get pretty close but I was still shocked that he let both Dala and I get so near. We were only about 10 feet away! Although she thought long and hard about it Dala never did attempt to pounce. It wouldn't have ended well for her...Roger is pretty darn hefty.

**NO BUNNIES WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS SLIDESHOW**

Fail
After a hard day of "hunting" for dinner it's time to relax.

Wedding Bells

Can i get married again? I recently went to Kellye's bridal shower and then a couple days ago i went and watched Brittany try on wedding gowns. It's making me remember how fun and exciting it was! Plus you get all kinds of new things for your house. Which is tons more fun than having to actually go shopping and buy it with your own money. Too bad i'm already married and love the house i'm in now.

Brittany (my brother's fiancee) is going to make such a beautiful bride! This is the dress she fell in love with. They're thinking about doing a beach wedding in St. Augustine which would be perfect! She says they're not going to get married until probably 2011 but i can't imagine she'll be able to wait that long. I'm pushing for Summer 2010.

We have new neighbors! They just got the house yesterday but so far all i've seen is their cars. I'm nervous and excited at the same time. One of the cars had a spoiler and the other was a smaller car like mine (from what i could tell) so maybe they'll be near our age. It would be nice to make new friends!