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One of our two pecan trees isn’t putting out any nuts this year. I don’t know why.  The other tree compensates, however, producing an abundant crop.  I look forward to autumn evenings with a bowl of pecans in my lap, nutcracker in hand. Reg and Rog like to crack pecans and pick out the nut meat with their teeth. The gra*es were beginning to ripen, but I could not stand the awful hornworms.  Repugnant, fat buggers that expel a na*ty, black slime, During winter mesquite seed pods provide protein for birds, coyotes, deer, rodents, and ja*elina.   Our trees feed birds; Reggie and Roger “The woolly bear caterpillar — with its distinct segments of black and reddish-brown — has the reputation of being able to forecast the coming winter weather. According to legend, the wider that middle brown section is, the milder the coming winter will be. Conversely, a narrow brown band is said to predict a colder, snowier winter.” — Jim Muller, adirondackalmanack.com As in. .. where did it go?  Several weeks ago we had one week of the typical, daily cycle of afternoon or evening rains.  Then it came to a halt, leaving us with blue sky, fluffy white clouds, and three-digit heat. Here it is the third week in August and we’re still waiting for monsoon season. This time last year the yard was green and I was on the third go-around with the mower and weed-wacker. This year most plants in our yard are brown or the ground is bare.  The boys wear “paths” in the dirt where they regularly patrol the Stuff in the yard struggles to grow, yet in the flower beds the weeds are jumping up, green and happy.  I put a stop to their little party This bed used to hold rose bushes.  You may recall some of the rose photos from previous posts.  I hated to have them ripped out, but overall and over the span of a year, they just weren’t attractive.  Mostly straggly bushes of old wood and plagued with blackspot. The plan is to put in new, blackspot-resistant rose bushes at the right time in early spring (Feb. in AZ).