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When we last discussed the Frogs' Mitigation Area (FMA), gentle reader, I left you all with a bucolic picture of thinly disguised garden bragging. We'd cleverly finished planted a truckload of irish and Scottish mosses and thyme, just before the rains started.
Read below the orange rapids, and discover that it appears we were too clever by half, and were outsmarted once again.
-On the rare morning when it wasn't raining, I'd begun taking coffee on the back porch looking out on the FMA, admiring our handiwork. As my gaze flitted from plant to plant, a disparity caught my eye. What? Why would we not have planted those mosses and the thyme? Yet several plants lay uprooted on the ground, their naked roots quivering in shame, gasping at exposure to the cruel elements.
Well, !@$%, I have to replant those immediately. I cursed my fate, as I searched for a garden trowel, well before the double expresso had integrated itself into my veins and prepared me for the daily grind. Then I have to look for gloves. Change into jeans. Find a ratty towel to kneel on, so my knees don't get wet. Dig.
Fortunately, a few trowel fulls of soil removal swiftly revealed the culprit; evidence that would stand up in any garden court. Where once the moss had been planted, now there were buried peanuts.
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Thank you for reading. I'll work this morning so I'll respond to comments before lunchtime,