I guess it is “that” time of year again – we have been in the garden a lot the past week and have noticed many caterpillars.

So as usual we grabbed our cameras as quickly as we could and snapped a few pictures. And we will post more as we get them. Today I got a few really good pictures of two beautiful North American caterpillars. One was eating my rose bushes, the other was on my gate in the backyard. Luckily, I wasn’t stung by either, and was able to get good images of each.

The first was an Io Moth Caterpillar – actually more than one, but they all looked the same. All bright green, with lime green spikes and thick red and white stripe down it’s side. Enjoys eating rose bush leaves.

The second is the famous Puss Moth Caterpillar. While this caterpillar looks soft and friendly it is exactly the opposite. Beneath those soft hairs are poison glands and if stung can leave a nasty sting. Fortunately, this species is easily identified, but because of it’s appearance many are often naive enough to “pet” it – not a good idea.

Fixing up an old property will often involve removing rust, here is what you can do to get rid of rust and brighten up the look of your home…

Here is a before and after picture of what we were dealing with and how it came out.

First we sanded down the poles and pipes and used a metal bristle brush to remove the rust. After that we painted the area with Rust-Oleum metal paint and as you can see it made it look much better and it didn’t take too long…

With any home renovation you end up painting the bathroom. We took down all the mouldings, sanded and patched any bad spots in the wood, sealed and primed with Kilz, painted the trim white, painted the walls with Behr, the ceiling with Glidden ceiling paint etc…

Didn’t have much luck last year, but this year I got my jalapenos in the ground early!

Here is a picture I took this morning of my Jalapeno pepper plants in the vegetable garden bed. Hopefully this year we will have some Jalapeno Peppers to make some hot salsa with!

The Hybrid GS Lexus for 2008 looks nice. “The luxury hybrid sedan that delivers extraordinary performance and lower emissions.”

I looked up the gas mileage on it.

The car gets 20% better fuel economy than its conventional cousin: 25 mpg city, 28 mpg highway, compared with 18/25 mpg. According to Lexus, that’s good for a savings of about 200 gallons per year, or $560 at current California prices for premium fuel.

When the “hybrid automobiles” started coming out, I thought they didn’t look as powerful as regular cars, but more and more that is being proven to me to not be the case. Some of the hybrids are really nice, like the Lexus above. The better gas mileage and lower emissions is a good bonus.

Well now my wife is telling me she wants to “collect the Harry Potter Books” and I had to ask her, “do you plan on reading them?” Collect books? I have no idea why Harry Potter is so popular, but it seems now even my wife is wrapped up in the current media hype over Harry.

Nonetheless, this brings me to the topic at hand! Celebrity Mugshots.

I wonder how long until Daniel Radcliffe gets his first DUI and his mugshot makes the internet, alongside the likes of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan – why don’t these girls hire drivers to drive them around if they are drunk?