Look what I found in my agave!
Living on a corner lot fronted by a sidewalk on two sides, we’re used to finding random pieces of trash in our planting strip. Usually it’s things like beer bottles or fast-food wrappers. I even picked up some fried-chicken bones once (there’s a KFC not too far from our house).
But what I found the other day takes the cake – literally:
From a distance, it looked like, well, this: š©.
But when I got closer, I realized what it was: a half-eaten chocolate š©. Frosted with shredded coconut, no less. Does that make it a German chocolate cake donut?
At first, I was angry, but then I couldn’t help but laugh. After all, this was a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence. I dare say I will never see another donut wedged into an agave of ours.
P.S. It could have been a lot worse. A friend says that “the dogs in our neighborhood will frequently š© directly into the center of agave rosettes.” To which I say š«Ø,š¬ and š .
What’s the weirdest, or most annoying thing people have tossed into your garden?
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Beautiful blog
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteI second the dogs; the neighborhood pooches love to perch their territorial signposts. Wish it was chocolate donuts :P
ReplyDeleteGRRRR. I'm lucky that has never happened here.
DeleteDamn! People are so rude. I've found balls in our back garden from a neighbor with a really bad aim (small squishy balls like you would throw for a dog), pop cans shoved into the hellstrip yucca, a small teddy bear, a partially eaten hamburger (back garden, I think dropped by a crow), even a CD once. Probably the strangest though was the corn cob tucked into an Agave 'Blue Glow' inside the shade pavilion greenhouse. If a squirrel did it that was one strong (and brave) squirrel as the cob was large.
ReplyDeleteWOW, that's crazy! A partially eaten hamburger dropped by a crow?!? A corn cob in an agave?!? My donut is nothing compared to that.
DeleteWell, I'm glad your initial guess was wrong - it might have been harder to clean up! Off-hand, I can't think of anything that's been thrown into my garden, unless I count the blankety-blank firecracker shells that have occasionally landed there. Luckily, they're illegal here now, which doesn't mean they're absent during peak periods like the lead up to Independence Day but at least our closest neighbors aren't shooting them off.
ReplyDeleteYou are lucky! Your neighbors are very well behaved.
DeleteI’m a volunteer gardener at a church in Greeley Colorado. I find all sorts of random things. This spring I found an unopened bag of cocktail shrimp by a bush. That’s one of the strangest. Last week I was digging in a bed and found a rusted Master lock about 6” down in the soil. You gotta laugh.
ReplyDeleteLOL, maybe the shrimp were meant to go to a church potluck and fell out of somebody's bag?
DeleteDonut > Dog Doo. Here on a street without a lot of foot traffic it's been mostly cigarette butts from a particular visitor to the house across the street. Yecch. That guy hasn't been there lately, yay!
ReplyDeleteIt's odd, but I've never found a cigarette bound in the sidewalk bed. Maybe rats or squirrels take them away?
DeleteCompared to these responses, the donut is practically a gift! My weirdest (because we have a very long walkway next to us) was a magenta bowling ball engraved with a woman's name.
ReplyDeleteA bowling ball, that gets the prize for the most original random item!
DeleteThe neighbors in the Long Beach garden threw dirty diapers over the fence...I keep thinking what George Costanza would have done if he found a relatively fresh donut in the garden. And I hate coconut on baked stuff too!
ReplyDeleteDirty diapers. I don't even know what to say.
DeleteIt seems every year or two, we have people stop in our front yard and relieve themselves. We're out in the country, surrounded by miles of timberland, and the place they choose to stop is in our yard. The other thing people dump are animals - peacocks, cats, etc. Fortunately, that seems to be a much rarer occurrence.
ReplyDeleteWOW! That takes the cake.
DeleteA bold dog definitely dropped a bomb in my Agave potrerana last year. Not much to do besides hose it out.
ReplyDeleteCrazy! Compared to that, a donut is nothing.
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