Lisa's Garden Adventure

 Well, this Monday's random things are all various levels of sadness. First, the saddest, my cat Benny (seen on the left sidebar) had to be euthanized.  I mentioned his vet visit in March .  After another visit about a month ago he started taking medication, but took a turn for the worse Friday, hiding (which cats do when they are in pain), barely able to walk, not eating...  Like Baby Cat (see left sidebar), Benny just showed up one day and moved in, becoming a spoiled house cat. Benny had recently discovered a flattened paper bag was cooling!  Lesser, by far, sadnesses are the Pluots, and the fence (next photo).  Lots of them, and the ones I get are delicious (peeled, the skins are sour), however the earwigs are ruining them!  It doesn't look like much, but these breaks in the skin turn into rot.  By then, they've moved on to other fruit.  When I searched "earwig damage to plums," (Pluots are 75% plum, 25% apricot.  Plumcots are 50/50....