ok....I'll just go back to sleep and when I wake up it will all have just been a nightmare right?

I was watering my roses this morning and I saw them.

The dreaded, the disgusting, defoliating, and rose decapitating devil beetle.

Yep they're here in Lower Bucks Co. I'm in Bensalem.

Shut the blinds, hide the kids and the dog. It ain't gonna be pretty.

This is sooooo discouraging. Just when my roses are flushing in all their wildly colorful and fragrant glory.

I'm rummaging around in the garage as we speak for my hazmat gear. This is war!

Last year I was too squeamish to squish.....but not anymore. I have a lot of new rosebushes and I will not surrender them to those horrible creatures.

Oh and guess what else I've discovered. A delightful little creature called a rose slug. Ewwwwwwwwww...just like the big guys only very tiny but still it sickened me. Is that what's been eating my rose leaves and NOW the JB's?

So today is a two-fer. Lucky ME!!!

And while I'm whining I have an abcessed tooth and I'm looking down the barrel of another surgery.

My gardening is where I go to get away from things that are bothering me. And now this?

Oh well.....other than that everything here in Bucks is hunky dory.

Whew....now that THAT's out of my system I'm gonna feel better right?

Sorry for the rant I'm usually very upbeat.

Just wanted to warn everyone be on the lookout and happy gardening!!

No, I mean it.... really!

Enjoy the sunshine!

Becky