Sunny our dog loves to stay close to us. He’s usually underfoot and we have to step over or around our big dog.
When we’re in the kitchen Sunny is either between our table and the wall or snuggled in a nearby corner.
The odd thing about Sunny sleeping in the corner is that he uses the wall as a pillow. It seems that he is sleeping at an odd angle, but that’s the way he likes it.
Here is Sunny, enjoying his corner.
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Come ride down farm roads these days and you may end up with a two-tone car. I did.
Farm machinery is going in and out of wet fields, leaving trails of mud. It gets scraped off the roads as soon as the farmer can, but some recent mud is inevitable.
Take this as a warning. Harvesting this year is a bugger for farmers. They would rather not have the mud, but wet weather has made mudpies of many fields.
Lucky for me, my husband is fast with a power washer. Bob said he’d take care of the addition of mud to my car exterior.
It didn’t take much spraying to bring back the silver.
Thanks, Bob.
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Today, before the weather changes, Bob and I worked at digging up flower tubers.
The canna tubers were the hardest.
I was given a few tubers a couple summers ago and boy, oh boy, do those multiply and grow! It’s a good thing we plant them on huge planters–old stock tanks. Those raised beds are better than being on hands and knees.
Bob did most of the digging with a fork. I was trying to knock the dirt off the ones he gave to me. We ended up covered in soil.
All the stuff we moved will have to be moved again to put the cannas in a safe place for winter. Eventually the basement will be full of resting tubers, but not today.
Bob remembered his grandfather growing cannas in a rock garden in Illinois. I never saw one before I met Bob. It took me years to plant some of my own. I never liked the idea of having to dig them up each fall and replant them in the spring.
We have plenty to share. If you are nearby and want a few cannas of your own, just contact me and you can have a start on your spring planting.
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I almost missed this monumental day. I think it’s a good day to remember my good friend, Wendel T. Bear–the T. stands for Teddy.
Years ago, I had a slide show of Wendel. He went to school, the doctor’s office, grocery shopping, and a ton of other places.
Wendel did all kinds of fun things, like go shopping with his little friend, Pookie.
I started digitizing Wendel photos. Maybe someday, I’ll have a PowerPoint to take on the road again.
Wendel is waiting patiently for his new digital debut.
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