A Waste of a Good Beer

 Hullo! This post is from the spring. I know... it's a long story... anyhow... you might think from this picture that I am sitting at the campfire ready for a campfire... with my beer in hand... Well. No.

See... firepit is not in use right now...

No... the beer is for something far less fun and appealing...

See this pot... do you see any nasturtium seedlings?? No!!!

Why, you ask? Because the slugs ate all the leaves and left a few stalks and that's it!!!

And the dahlia???

Munched clean... argh!!!!!

It's not a good scene... soooo many plants and sooo many munched off!

Even in the greenhouse...

And yes... we have tried eggshells... they just roar right over them. Sigh.

Sad little stubs of plants...

So we are pulling out the heavy guns...

A beer trap! Slugs love beer (who wouldn't) and if you sink the container so it's level with the ground and fill it with beer... the slugs slither in and happily drown.

Or at least that's the theory...

we are also spreading more eggshells....

Gardening is hard work you know... Between deer, raccoons, rabbits, slugs and goodness knows what else... 

But it sure is pretty.

Short Hike

Hullo... we are visiting a small little park which apparently has great sunrise views! I am on the hunt for a good sunrise location because the summer solstice is coming up and... I want to get up super early (like super early)... and see it from a good vantage point.

This trail looks like it heads uphill...

Oh look, a little mushroom poking through the moss.

Is a bad mushroom too... Fliegen Pilz in German and... Fly Agaric in English we think...

And here's another one... 

I'm seeing some sunshine as we head upslope...

Well, this isn't a bad location but... I'm almost in somebody's backyard!

This little park is on a rocky knoll with houses down below and I guess their backyards come up to the rocky knoll...

These people even have a hot tub... I think this is a bit too public for my tastes!

Oh... nice... some honeysuckle!!

And some more of the little orchids... oh... wait... I don't think I've blogged about them yet... these are orchids! Not like the lady slipper ones... these are Western Coralroot... cool...

And here we have a Liquorice Slug... I don't think they're really called that... let me check...

Ah yes... these are called... wait for it... Black Slug (a.k.a. Large Black Slug or Arion ater). Huh... go figure.

They are native to Europe and invasive in BC and the US Pacific Northwest. Which means I should probably step on it and squish it but... sigh... it's a happy little slug so... I'll just leave it.

Finally... I think this might be an archaeological discovery called Stacked Stones... I wonder what Little Fox, my archaeological pal thinks of this...

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