About my deadwooded oaks & dead peach tree
More good news.
I’m happy to learn that oak galls are not that harmful to the trees:
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/IN022
I’ll be happier come Fall when I can get the dead wood pruned & the trees inspected tho.
aaaaaaaaaaaaand… the peach that was showing no signs of life & even had some withered branches? It’s sprouting leaves & new growth, and it’s become the favorite hang out for the baby cicada killers from the nest on my front deck. It must have just wanted more heat & dryness. Plants can be tenacious, for sure & they’ll surprise you, if only you can find what each individual plant needs. There’s some good life lessons for all of us 
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June 19th, 2008 at 8:43 am
I’ve been looking at and falling in love with “tiny living” lately and found your blog through one of my searches. I would like to ask you if I could do a short interview, perhaps 5 or so questions and a picture or two of your choice, for some “Tiny Lifer” profiles I’m planning for my blog.
You can see the referencing post here if you’d like to see what I’m talking about.
Each profile is intended to give people who are living in conventionally sized homes (1500+ square feet) a look into what it’s like to downsize, whether for ecological or financial reasons, or simply a desire to simplify their lives.
If you’d be interested, please email me at greenplantDOTblogATgmailDOTcom with the name of your blog and your square footage. I’m hoping to keep most of the profiles in the 1200 square foot or less range.
Thank you!
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I’d love to be profiled thanks! I’ll send you an email now.
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June 29th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
I like the look of your blog,good reading and information. The nest of wasps you see are probably yellow jackets and not cicada killers as the cicada killers dont build nests. They dig a hole in the ground then hunt down a cicada, sting it to paralize it, stuff it in the hole, lay an egg on it and start over again. By paralizing it and not killing it, the cicada will keep fresh so when the larva hatches it can eat it alive. Kind of gruesome but hey, thats nature. The cicada killers and the tarantula killers are our biggest wasps, over 2″ long. I have taratula killers around my place a lot, but then I have a lot of tarantulas.
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Hi Bob-
Love your blog too.
Thanks for the info! I know we have cicada killers, because I’ve seen the burrows in the ground. The little yellow & brown wasps on the porch don’t look small enough to be yellow jackets (at least not the yellow jackets I grew up knowing up north), and they seem pretty mellow, whereas I’m used to yellow jackets being very territorial.
I wonder what they could be?
Regardless, I’m happy to have bug hunters on my property as long as they don’t try to hunt me (ha).
Man, the bugs grow big in Texas– gotta learn to respect ‘em & live in balance with ‘em, well except for the fire ants maybe.
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