Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam

If you ever watched Monty Python, you now have the spam song going through your head. I apologize.

I also apologize in advance for the pain-in-the-tush of having to fill in a Captcha word in order to post a comment. Those things drive me crazy, but I've suddenly been hit by masses of spam (which Blogger eventually catches and removes, doing a fabulous job, but it is still quite irksome), so it was either enable the word verification or set the blog so no one could post as "anonymous."

Is one of these options less irksome than the other, do you think?

I've had this happen in the past, and usually after a bit the spam dies down (probably because they can't get through) and I can take the annoying dingus off. In the meanwhile, I hope you'll still leave your lovely comments anyway.

Tomorrow--the first gardening post! (Or maybe today, if I get to it...)

Thanks
Deborah