Just add a little cinnamon!

  This has to be one of the wettest summers on record for the Bayou and surrounding area. Most years, we are in a full drought during late summer/early fall.  The plants are usually withered and dried.  By this time, leaves are usually falling from trees due to the lack of moisture.  The fire hazard rate is high and heat is stifling.  Not this year, however.  It has rained nigh on every day for the past several months.  Hard rains...inches of water is being dropped each day.  The place is beginning to look more like a rain forest than a marshy bayou!  Not that I am complaining, though, as I love this type of weather.

  Just to show how wet our hillside is, I found that the ground, itself, has grown mold!  Lovely fluffs of white mold can be spotted every few feet of any hike about the hillside.  Whether there is some other stuff beneath this mold remains to be seen.  I have not yet felt inclined to topple one to find out just what the mold is covering.  For all I know it may be dog poop! Nope!  Not going there!  The white mold can just keep on doing what it is supposed to be doing and I will admire it from a distance.  It is rather an attractive thing if you can get past it being mold.  It sort of resembles some miniature fluffy, white pup....if you have a great imagination...or really bad eyesight.  I have both.

  I was given the following bit of advice on "yard mold removal".  It seems that some folks find this stuff repulsive and wish to go around decimating each little fluffy "pup" of mold.  This is not for me.  The rain will merely replace the fluffs in a few hours regardless of my efforts.  But!  The advice is something that I would try if I was so inclined.  "Sprinkle the affected area with a heaping coat of cinnamon!"  Nice! Could you imagine how nice the yard would smell if I covered the ground of 8 acres with cinnamon!  Hey, it is fall, you know, and pumpkin pie spice does have cinnamon in it....sooo...just saying.  Still, I think I will forgo buying a half ton of cinnamon to eradicate the mold.  It can keep growing and, at the rate it does cover the ground, it will soon appear that we have an early winter complete with snow!  Even though, snow rarely is seen this far down in the Deep South!  So, go ahead and feel free to mold the ground, Little White Fluffs!  I do not have enough cinnamon on hand so don't you worry your little fluff about it!