Did you find the inspirational Garden Junk photo albums by our friend here, purplemoon ...I'll attach the link...lots of goodies there & esp totems & BB's which you show an interest in! Welcome to the forum! Jeanne S. Here is a link that might be useful: Garden Junk Inspiration Album ...'Totems'

That's interesting! That really must be an old ball! So the shell of it was rubber or plastic??? I had posted to Kirk about my experiences with them. One I tried drilling a hole (to make a bubbler fountain). Well, my drill is wimpy and got stuck about halfway through. FIL drilled it with his all the way thorugh and even another BB too! The one I partially did came out with polyethelene and what looked like wood shavings. BUT, one ball that I had in my garden cracked. My son and I did it in all the way in with a chisel and a hammer. It's innards were a barbell shaped foam conrete material. Some of the older black balls were made of rubber on the outside I know for sure. WEll, yours, even though injured, looks like it still has life in it. I'm thinking a rooster/chicken head with feathers coming out the holes. Oh, the Martian with the helmut from Bugs Bunny, a quails head with feathers on top....or a mosaic-ed BB. Have fun with it. Love, Jules

Will check the branches-hope its just a break! My dogs aren't allowed in the front yard where this plant is and I have not seen stray dogs around here. My dogs certainly haven't alerted me to any dogs roaming around outside. So I don't think I can blame leg-lifting! We are in northern indiana (is that zone 10? Newbie at gardening!). The damage is on the south side of the plant. What is winter damage and do I just trim it off? We watered good and long before it got really cold and then didnt water after that. Is he dying of thirst???

Hello, I can quite a bit and my great uncle just gave me all his jars. Well, some of them look really old. I don't want to use them if they are valuable- I'd like to maybe put dry goods in them and not take a chance of breaking them. None of them are blue. Some of them say Atlas, One is tall- skinny- never seen one like that. Some of the Ball and Kerr's look old. In total he gave me about 12 boxes and about 20 of them look old. Any website or markings on how to find out how old they are?? Also, a friend gave me her mother's jars and two of them were the Mom's jar- I put them on a shelf- Loved those!! Never seen them before!! I loved reading the posted- glad I'm not alone about keeping jars!! Haha! I was the only one of my friends canning when I started and since them I gotten a bunch of them to start!! Kyla in Al