Ants, Poison Ivy and Cactus Rustling

The ants were right on schedule and hopefully so was I.  Last year they devoured large amounts of leaves and pretty much left many of the shade trees almost void of leaves.

Before

Why do they not eat these horrible mesquite trees?  This is one of the many baby trees popping up everywhere on the property...yeah, even on top of rocks :-(

The Esperanza froze over but it is making a nice come back.

The bougainvillea is also coming back but unfortunately it is surrounded by poison ivy and other prickly plants. I have no idea who put this wired caged enclosure that I can not remove...must of been mother's worthless handyman.

Last year I was told to pour hot water on the poison ivy...I did in places where it was all by its lonesome but I can not do that where it has wrapped itself on pecan, shade trees and other plants. Again why doesn't it wrap itself around some horrible mesquite trees?

Pecan tree

Later in the afternoon I went to check on the red ants and was happy to see there was no movement.  Sorry for the poor picture quality.

After

Tffnguy of Terlingua or Bust fame http://terlinguabound.blogspot.com/2014/04/new-wife.html has a reader named Pablo who posted a note on his blog regarding Terlingua Cactus Rustling.  If anyone out there wants to come dig up our cactus drop me an e-mail at terlinguadreams@outlook.com and come dig to your heart's content.  They are free and I promise not to have you arrested :D

Good night.  May you all have Terlingua Dreams.

Gardening

Up early to set out the trash.  Mother wanted me to plant the bougainvillea in the hole I dug up last week after the rains.  After we got that done we re-potted some plants.

The ant mounds have multiplied but I had no get up and go this morning to make it to Home Depot.  Anyway as many as there are...it is going to cost a bundle to not kill them...but at least minimize them since you can never really get rid of ants :-(

My EZ Eyes keyboard is wearing out and I have to pound on the letter P to get it to take but considering it did not cost that much, I guess I can't be too upset.  Heck, it is not like the millions they pay some basketball players only to blow a championship game...grrrrrrrrrr!!!

Good night.  May you all have Terlingua Dreams.