Ducks ALIVE in 2025!

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Puppies are napping right now, me, too, SOON. House training is...progressing, but when they hide their poo and run to the back door to go out, we are making headway. They know their names And "sit" now.
MEANWHILE, there IS some gardening going on at Duck's place...
I have been harvesting both hot peppers and tomatoes from my pots. Here are 2 shots of the front yard peppers and the pot where I started basil, died, started marigolds, died, sprouted zinnias and 1/6 nasturtiums.

 

[ducks4you]

Went to LOWE's Thursday, didn't quite find what I wanted. I have a stump of a tree that is fairly tall, and a wild raspberry is growing around it, about 7 ft tall now. I left it growing bc when you back up in our driveway towards to barn, you might hit the stump.
I was looking for the same as I bought a couple of years ago and used to stiffen up my chicken wire fencing most recently used for growing peas, and, in the past for growing pole beans. Looks a lot like this:

LOWE's doesn't carry them, so I had to settle for this, instead, bought 4 of them:

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Gardener-s-Blue-Ribbon-72-in-Red-Metal-Stake/1001462392?store=80&cm_mmc=shp-_-c-_-prd-_-lwn-_-ggl-_-PMAX_LWN_000_Priority_Item_Omni-_-1001462392-_-local-_-0-_-0&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22872375781&gbraid=0AAAAAD2B2W-CvDOgAU2yZcaPPxsaUtJtv&gclid=Cj0KCQjwrJTGBhCbARIsANFBfgsa9e1KVMBhQCuH6dw3OxEtlJQ7gHV-1oxaWN8nLx-p668GdLbb3LQaAvTIEALw_wcB

I need to both chop down the raspberries, pound in some rebar to create holes about one ft deep, then remove the chicken wire fencing poles and REPLACE them with the new red ones.
I gotta have Something there so we don't slam a car into the stump!
I have some flourescent spray paint to paint on the tops to see them in the dark, too.

 

[ducks4you]

Bigger store is the LOWE's wanted me to jump through hoops to collect on a measly $10 "rewards" (from a >$3K appliances purchase).
I printed the information out today so that next week I can go back and get them to give me my rewards.
Customer service has become nonexistent at many box stores.
I NEED to get more bolts for my tow wagon, so I will try again.
MEANWHILE, I bought some clearance plants. I picked up 3 mums, too small to transplant this Fall, but I'll bring them in to overwinter after I transplant them to a bigger pot for the front for "Fall decorating." pictures later on that...
Good price, $2/each, just potbound and dried out--another week and they would have been toast. I gave them a good watering.
I also was on the hunt for replacement office plants for youngest DD, who killed off her spider plant and brought home a flourishing Amaryllis, currently NO office plants. She will be hard put to kill This one.