Saturday,
June 24, 2017 – Twin Fawns, Tomato H
ornworm
On our way to go shopping this morning for P-day
we saw a rare treat beside the road. Our neighbors, Elder & Sis. Winegar
live only a few doors south of us. (Our grandson Elder Kyle Johnson and three
other service missionaries live in the lower level). A few days ago the Winegar’s
told us that a mother deer had left her two fawns in the grass of the yard next
to their house. Today we noticed the two fawns were still there. Evidently that
is where the doe leaves her fawns for safe keeping until she returns from
browsing each day.
Today when we returned from our P-day errands I
discovered a lot of leaves missing off of our tomato plants. Last week I
discovered a lot of stems eaten off by the deer so I closed the lid to the wire
cage that surrounds the tomato planter so the deer would not be able to eat all
of the leaves and stems. But today’s damage was inside the wire cage. Something
else was eating all of the leaves.
Upon close examination of our six tomato plants I
discovered worms, lots of Tomato Hornworms.
I got to work hunting high and low for the culprits that were devouring my
tomato plants. My search resulted in the capture and eradication of 24 worms. I
hunted for quite a while and I’m sure I didn’t find them all. From now on I will be
looking in the tomato plants everyday for worms. I am very stingy; I am not
going to share my tomatoes with Hornworms.
Today Sis. Johnson and I treated ourselves to a
movie. We went to the “Plaza 3 Cinema” in Keokuk, IA. It’s only 15 miles south
of Nauvoo and we drive by the shopping center every week on our way to Wal-Mart
to do our weekly shopping.
We saw “Cars 3” the next sequel in the “Cars” movie
franchise. It was very good, we liked it a lot. Sis. Johnson liked it so much
she said we will be buying the two disc set when they are released.
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