Well, mama is running around, as usual, nervous like a sack full of turkeys, as papa’s grandpa used to say, but actually, she’s trying to catch white butterflies that, in California at least, just love to leave their little eggs on the tomatoes so that one day, blithely skipping out to the garden to check out the progress of say, Buffalo Steak tomatoes, or Roma, or Chocolate Cherry, mama dreamily starts wandering through the vine and then SHRIEKS BLOODY MARY, recoiling in horror at the (rather pretty and interesting) tomato HORNWORM that lurks on a leaf and guess what? They come in TWOS. But mama thinks they may not exist here in France and so why is she rushing around and going bonkers? Because she has to leave her garden for a few weeks and she’s NUTS.
Hey, I’m going, too, but you don’t see me getting all riled up over a butterfly!
Instead, I just take a snooze in the sage…a sage thing to do, no?
You are so lucky you don’t have these. We get some every year, I never realized they came in twos. It amazes me how much one can eat, in a few days they can finish an entire tomato plant.
That was someone else’s, thank heaven, but poor plant with that creature around.
That worm is making a pig outta himself!
A good observation. A real piggy would be easier to handle!
Jan met one of those once after it dined on her tomatoes – the only ones she ever got to grow. It didn’t live to eat and tell.
Have a fun vacation.
Oh, that Jan of yours. I do not wish to imagine what she would do with one of those…oh, boy. Mama cuts them in half with scissors. A horrible job but hey, they are uninvited, that’s for sure.
Oh me cats and kittens LouLou dat worm is just eatin’ up ya’ll’s ‘mater. But ifin they don’t exist in France then how did dat one get there? Ya’ll have fun. Maybe your gardenin’ neighbor will look after your mommy’s garden while ya’ll are gone.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Raena
Yeah, there is someone really nice who will come in and make sure those butterflies find another garden to land in! But the truth is, mama found out that they don’t HAVE these horny words here, and she’s really happy. She got that photo from the internet, but she has her own photos from California and can’t find them. Just as well, I say…
Oh meow LouLou dat’s really cool. Somewhere on this planet is a place dat doesn’t have any deadly or bothersome bugs, but we furgot where it is. Mommy says it would fur sure be da place to live tho’. MOL
Luv ya’
Dezi and Raena
Yes, only good bugs. HAHA.