Do You have a Garden Companion?

[digitS']

What a great picture of the ducks especially, Wife'! It is good you salvaged some beauty from that bishop's weed!

Puppy sitting has become an adjunct to my life lately.

Dear Wife complained 1 too many times about Dear Daughter's 9-month old puppy today when she brought her by while the 2 of them went off to do, what women do. Mostly, that's a mystery to me. But anyway, I ran some warm water and gave the puppy a bath while they were gone. Five pounds of wet dog . . . had to heat up her pillow so she wouldn't shiver herself right out of the towel afterward.

I took her around a bit to the gardens last year but she was still an, uh, almost said "tiny thing" but, of course, she still is. This year, we should spend more time together out there: Jumping over squash vines, racing thru the sweet corn, and chasing butterflies.

She will probably need a bath when we get home.


Here she is at the edge of the garden last year. You can click on the picture for a song .

Steve

 

[Smiles Jr.]

I think snakes are one of the most beautiful animals god ever created. It beats me why so many are afraid of them

This one's for you Hoody . . .

 

[Smiles Jr.]

Meet my best friends. They keep watch over the flocks, the over the livestock, over the neighbor's cows, and the gardener (me).

 

[thistlebloom]

Pretty dogs!

 

[wifezilla]

Steve, I would be terrified I might accidentally step on that cute little thing!!

Here was one of the other cats (Zeus) "helping" me today...

And the ducks helped me clear the rest of the ice off the grass...

 

[digitS']

My garden companion was almost right over my head this morning. A song sparrow singing in the neighbor's raspberry and grape jungle. I was pushing back vines from the kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate .

Steve
that picture of Garbanzo is still in the photo gallery, don't know why it isn't here. hart's "dog & butterfly" is still on youtube .

 

[bobm]

My newest garden companion is a half grown Cotton Tail Rabbit that sarted to show up in the evenings 3 days ago. It crawls under the backyard fence and has a munch or two of the grass clippings ( that I get from 5 neighbors for groundcover use). I don't know why it prefers the dried grass clippings rather than growing plants of my yard or green grass on the other side of the fence where it comes from .

 

[dewdropsinwv]

My garden companion when he's around is Monty.....

 

[canesisters]

Mr. Cougan.
Anywhere I am... there he is.

 

[Kassaundra]

I had an awesome and beloved garden helper

Yeta the wonder chicken, sadly she was not a respecter of fences and is no longer helping me garden


I now have a new helper

Pebbles