Judging from his size, I strongly suspect that this is the same possum which was in our compost pile a couple of weeks ago. Since I have not seen him in my compost pile in the meantime, it seems that he has been eating somewhere else. He ran in front of me, then cut over to the other side of the fence. 
Maybe he hid behind the Amaryllis under the Sago palm. He really scampers pretty fast.
Category Archives: Garden
Spring Flowers
This amaryllis is bursting into bloom!
These cilantro flowers are lacy.
Here is a partially focused bee.
These flowers are Impatiens, which survived from last spring, even though they are annuals. 
This flower is a perennial columbine. It has little columbines coming up around it, so maybe it will spread.
Cooked Lettuce And Snails
I found this 1/2 inch wide snail on some lettuce. I vaguely remembered having heard of some rather devastating parasites that can be present in snails in some alternate forms.
Snails are a common gardening problem, and so I decided to cook my lettuce, to be 100% sure that we do not catch any theoretical parasitic beasties. I have not seen that snails eat parsley, cilantro, oregano, or marjoram. In fact these seem to discourage creepy crawlies on nearby plants. I could find that snails are very common in Texas gardens, and I’ve seen them myself. I could find no place where snails in Texas gardens are stated to be dangerous online. Until I find otherwise, I am going to be careful and cook or at least peal raw vegetables from our garden.
The other reason that I cooked the lettuce, is that most of it is old and bitter, even if not bolted.
Here are the keywords I googled to find the link to the recipe which I used for our Stir Fry Lettuce: Chinese Stir-Fry Lettuce With Garlic Recipe . Rhonda Parkinson, recipe author, tells us that the Chinese always cook their vegetables. When I think about it, this seems to be my experience. This five star recipe worked even with our bitter old lettuce!