Slugs and snails and big dog's tails

Woke up this morning g to a dull dismal day, Looking out of the window saw it was raining ….hard
Oh well I thought, it will bed in the latest shrubs and Geraniums I planted in the last week.
Lots of plants have been badly eaten with slugs, with one particular Chrysanthemum reduced to nothing more than a few spindly stems, I get so cross.
To help protect some plants I cut the bottom from a large plastic flower pot and put it over the plant and put in some slug pellets, I don’t like using them, but this way the slugs that get in will succumb and die inside the pots, it has saved quite a few.
It was my day to pick Barney up and I thought to myself, great, three wet dogs to-day, can’t be helped so did our walk all of us kitted up for the weather.
When I came back home I decided to check out the plants, I removed 15 snails and 7 slugs, some had been caught by the pellets, and some were a bit away from the plants but heading in their direction.  I popped them in a plastic bag with some pellets and disposed of them in the dustbin. End of slimy creatures.
Not the nicest of days and they don’t give out much hope for an improvement over the weekend. I’m glad I’ve done all my planting but there are a few jobs I would have liked to get on with, Never mind the sun will shine again. Enjoy your day.

Thank you for visiting and please come back, Arlene, Tango and Ruby

Didn't it rain......children

The weather girl said it would rain and the weather map showed rain but not until around 11 o'clock, so why was it raining at 7'am when I got up to beat it?? I was not happy, Anyhow, we got wrapped up back to the waterproofs and went out, we got wet, very wet, I was not amused.

Oh well as a friend of mine says in her best Scots...'it's only watter' and I suppose she's right, so I spent the day indoors thinking of what to do, I changed the curtains from the winter weight to the summer ones, I'm hoping Mother Nature takes the hint. It cleared up around tea time and we managed a dry walk.

Poor Zak is coughing and wheezing, I don't know if I mentioned, but one side of his larynx is paralysed, and he has been eating the rough couch grass which has obviously irritated his throat, poor chap he sounds quite stressed. I shall give him a small knob of butter which seemed to help last time.

I haven't seen my little hedgehog this evening, I'll check shortly to see if the food I left has been eaten.

 Some girl friends are coming up to-morrow evening for a game of cards, a natter and some snacks.

That's it for now folks.

Thank you for visiting and please come back, Arlene, Tango and Ruby