u/Old_Instrument_Guy

As the title states, I am allergic to American Beautyberry. Every time I trim them the pollen goes through my nasal passages like a John Deer Combine in a Kansas Corn Field with the Harvest Moon Rising. I end up choking on mucus for hours. So I yoinked 4 of them this afternoon and the other three will go away next weekend.

I have a good mix of natives and Florida Friendly plants going on, but I am looking for something that provides some scent. Other than the Mango tree in January, the garden has no smell, unless you count Milorganite a smell. Any suggestions?

My pup was diagnosed a couple months ago with an enlarged spleen. She had it removed on Wednesday and now was back home. The poor thing is heavily medicated and confused as to what happened. I can't recommend these bodysuits enough for a dog that has surgery over the cone of shame. It makes it so much easier for her to get around and disassembles kind of like a set of overalls so she can do her business.

On a side note, I cannot use the word "lost" in the title so she did not lose her spleen, she has misplaced it.

A critically endangered plant that lives only in several sand dune areas in Palm Beach County. I found one yesterday. It is currently blooming. This photo shows the evolution from a bud to seed in one photo

French sets of this era can be identified by the large round heads with ovoid finger wells on the bows. and solid brass screws. Later instruments had brass screws with steel inset threads and by late in the century they were substituted with all steel thumb screws. The finger wells also changed from this ovoid shape to somewhat looking more like a pointy a football.

The long rectangular space would have held a scale.

Enough with all the shiny new stuff. This set is by F. Darnay & Co and most likely dates to the later interwar era (1926-1944). The set has a unique small beam compass and a bespoke coordinator head on the large bow

I'm officially down to three working film cameras, my pentax67, Pentax k1000, and a Richoflex 6x6.

This vehicle was probably stored in the Florida Sun for the past 8 to 10 years. The headlamps the tail lights are all fogged up and a good bit of the paint was burned off of the rear end. My question is, why is the trunk substantially lighter than the rest of the back end? You can see it in the second photo. Are the trunks at different material than the rest of the body?

If this house/hardware is not old enough please feel free to delete.

This is a Schlage Door knob from around 1960. This hardware was exceptional in it's quality. These are solid bronze and not the junk they make today. The image is from a house on the ocean here in Florida and dates to 1964. This hardware is bulletproof when it comes to the ocean

I am looking for a source that might have these as either NOS, or reclaimed. I have tried Ebay, and Google Image search but to no avail. Does anyone know a source for 60s hardware?

It seems the gulf fritillaries have dominated over the zebra long wings. I currently have one chrysalis and five more in the making. I did find one zebra long wing on a separate plant.

There is an interesting survival strategy that came through natural selection. The caterpillars move off the host plant to another area to form their chrysalis. In this way other caterpillars won't accidentally chomp through the vine they happen to be mutating on.

I still have my hopes up for the one zebra long wing.

6 Passion vines & 2 Species. The Gulf Fritillaries have a week head start but the Zebra Longwings are coming on strong. Who shall win this battle of the mini Titans?

The full post of the strip can be found on the internet archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150428205442/http://www.airshipentertainment.com/growfcomic.php?date=20070204

I lived through the panic my parents went through when 60 Minutes did a piece on D&D and how we were all a bunch oh devil worshipers destined to commit suicide. My solution was to host the game at the house one weekend. My dad hung out for 10 minutes, said something like, " I don't understand anything you kids said for the past 10 minutes", and walked out of the room. That was the end of his fears. He just figured we were idiots. He was snot far off.

About 8 years ago my daughter met her now husband playing D&D online. He is from the UK and we are in the US. They are now happily married and she is freezing her arse off in Manchester. The longevity of this game is amazing.

A couple of weeks ago I notes Corkstem Passion Vine suddenly appearing in my garden. I now have five of them in pots and growing quite nicely.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FloridaGarden/comments/1sq7uqt/my_passion_vine_had_brothers_and_sisters/

Then I noticed Zebra Longwings in my Barbados Cherry, and for lack of a better words they had a week long orgy in my tree. They are nectaring on my Firebush as well as my Jatropha integerrima

https://www.reddit.com/r/FloridaGarden/comments/1tfw59w/zebra_longwings_barbados_cherry/

Over the weekend I caught one of the girls laying eggs on the flourishing Corkstem. It's interesting that she only lays eggs on the tips of the new shoots. Later that day I also noticed there were several small cats on the same vine. The one in the photo is just an inch long. I got home tonight and they fattened up quite a bit and nearly doubled in size.

Yes, the tree is called a Barbara, my daughter named it 11 years ago when we got it from Fairchild Tropical Gardens at the mango festival in Miami.

The tree did not have any visual damage from the freeze from this last winter, it started to grow new branches about 2 weeks ago with fruit still on the tree. I needed to trim it back this season, which I normally do after it's finished fruiting and just before the growing season starts.

However, I opted to forego most of the fruit this year in favor of a haircut, and trim back earlier in the season. This should produce more and better fruit next year with all new growth.