Fauna and Flora

  Recently, my girl stated, "Mom, July is almost over and you have not written a blog!"
I would never know she was adopted, she is so much like me. Who thinks July is almost over on July 6th? Only a child from my loins, right! or my child from India, who has my DNA swimming through her veins as I type! Nurture or Nature, will always remain a big debate, just not in our household!
 I reminded her, that we had just returned from South Alabama, on a girls trip, I have time!! Thanks for reading my blogs Em, and keeping me on my toes. Oh my its July 10th, where has the month gone?

 The first ten days in this July have "Gone with the Rain!" The heat turned up, and the heavens opened. The syrupy air hangs heavy, and we saunter through the days. These are the days of my youth, minus the beach!
The beach at my backdoor, would be my Nirvana. Instead I have the flora and fauna in abundance this month. In Atlanta, the flowers have bloomed and bloomed again. It has been a beautiful spring and early summer, UNTIL the bunnies and deer came to stay. Never have I concerned myself too much, I figured that they needed some blossoms. The bunnies are so cute, there must be sooooo many, and in one night my garden was gone. Nibbled down to a few stalks, I called all Barons out to witness the destruction. Then proceeded to google natural remedies. No luck, nothing worked, and now I have no cayenne for chili! So I went to the depot and bought deer and rabbit spray(especially after google told me to pee in a jar and sprinkle my urine all around, lord!). Sprays scare me, I don't want things to die, just not like my beauties. ( although I did hear, that my neighbor saw a hawk grab a bunny for lunch, and I did not cringe! Food chain!)

Well, before I spray, I decided to read the label, and I noted that the ground has to be dry! It has rained for 10 days, what the heck, is someone suppose to do? I thought about blow drying the area, but I think a storm is coming!  The spray sits on my counter, and the fauna is happy, the feast continues. It has been dry in Atlanta for the past several years, when I could spray but didn't need to! Now it is raining cats and dogs and bunnies and deer, and the bottle says, spray in a dry area!!! I am sure Satan has something to do about this mess, a friend of mine got bit by a copperhead so now I cannot even go in the yard!! and Lucy the lab, has a box turtle cornered in the yard!!! I live in the burbs, what is it with all the animals!!?? It is like a huge petri dish around my house, everything is growing!!! 

I have no complaints , I have had cut flowers for two months, and now you can see all my 4th of July flags, because all that is around them are stalks!! So I guess its, a win-win July, at least for this day, and if you listen to Emma or her mom, ME, July is almost over!!!