Doug has the green thumb in our family.
Perhaps it has to do with growing up on a farm,
or having his degree in Agronomy.
Nonetheless, he wears that hat in our family.
About 5 years ago he started a major project in the back yard.
He took out our entire hill of overgrown, dense sumac bushes.
(Okay, wait...... I do remember moving many, many, many railroad ties.
I guess I can't give him all the credit!)
We terraced our hill and slowly started to replant it.
This was prior to any planting-
Slowly, we started planting. We had fun picking out flowers, trees, bushes, shrubs, bulbs.
(ahh... my wittle Alex! So cute!)
So when we discovered a gopher was eating the roots to our rosebushes for an appetizer............
and moved onto our hill enjoying our weeping pussy-willow for the main course, we declared war!
A Victorious War too!
The other day the boys were outside playing on the trampoline when they ran in screaming with excitement.
It seems after checking the gopher traps many times with no luck, this time they finally laid their eyes on a real bonified gopher. And they couldn't wait to tell Daddy. We called him and told him we caught the gopher and daddy told them to wait until he got home to take a better look. So, we came inside and together we googled and learned all about gophers. We even found a fun little game to play on the internet about pest control. When Dad got home we went outside to take a better look at our prize. It was a Botta's Pocket Gopher and it would no longer be dining on our hill. When Alex asked what we should do with it Carter suggested that we wait until we have five gophers and then cook them for dinner. I do believe that boy has spent way too much time on Grandpa's farm!
(The Boys checking out the gopher.... I can't wait for our hill to be green again this Spring!)
Wow - awesome gardens!
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