We’ve had a really wonderful day here today, just enough warm with a lukewarm wind blowing, mostly sunshine but also some clouds every now and again. We must have had rain during the night because the grass was a bit more wet than it would have been if it only was morning dew. According to my phone we also had thunder in the middle of the night but even I having the window open all night I slept through it without noticing it 🙂
After we had come home from our morning walk I started to continue to remove the old stump and as many roots as I could from the old Japanese quince. There’s still lots of big roots left in the ground but what ever will grow up from them will be thin twigs and those are easy to remove until they finally gives up. I’ve removed almost all flowerbeds in my garden but this one will stay, I’ve even started to make it slightly bigger. Also I’ve planted some young perennials in to it, well the Kankakee mallow isn’t small but the others are.
I’m visiting my friend in the gardencenter tomorrow and see if they have anything I want. Nothing unusual as I had back in the days but more common flowers, I really don’t want to fuss with plants just so that they barely survives 🙂 🙂 🙂 Easy and beautiful is my new goal 🙂 🙂 Plus I bought seeds on sale online so anything growing from those will be in that flowerbed and any leftovers will be planted here and there in the garden and what survives our winters and the dogs running around like crazy over them will be welcomed 🙂
It is time for that last cup of tea for the day and I might also have a bowl of cornflakes. I think it actually is the milk I’m after, cornflakes do after all not taste that much 🙂 I have to admit that I pour cinnamon all over it so it could be the combination milk and cinnamon 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
I see you have a tumbling composer, as I do. It sure gets heavy to turn! I now have a squash and nasturtiums growing out of it so I guess I won’t turn it until they die back! Good luck with your new plant plans! Dogs can be a problem with their digging and things, although mine only digs where he finds a spot we have dug recently. I guess it smells nice.
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Hi Carol!
Yes I have and You’re absolutely right, it weighs tons 🙂 🙂 🙂 I emptied half of it when I planted the rhubarb seedlings and it still weighs a lot 🙂 Nothing growing in it though since it’s placed so the sun hits it almost all day and anything in there boils, I had some insects living in it until it became hot here, even ants liked to be it but then the heat arrived and they’re all gone.
Thankfully my dogs only dig when they want to eat dandelion roots, they do however run through anything while they are playing, yesterday they ran straight on to a clay pot and now it has big cracks in it 🙂 🙂 🙂
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I see Sarah has a new collar with a bell. Is she tolerating that, and how’s her hunting with it?
My cats always used to wear collars (though I removed the bell) until I got my youngest, Tony. He was only 5 months old when I put a collar on him. His mouth bled in his gyrations to get it off, and he would strangle himself with it rather than wear it.
Once they saw Tony “naked,” Max and Roc rebelled against their collars all of a sudden, and now none of them wear collars.
When I brought Tater home, she had worn a collar for 5 years (and it had a little tag with my name and phone number on it). But she had such a bad time adjusting to my cats, I took her collar off so she wouldn’t be the oddball.
They all have microchips, but I’d like them to wear collars so that if they ever did get out and someone found them, they’d know they weren’t feral strays. But they have other ideas about collars, none of them good.
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Hi catsworking!
Well she did have a new collar until some time during the night, she came back home without it 🙂 It didn’t affect her hunting though, I found a big mouse dead on the lawn and unfortunately the dogs also found it and before me so I think it is time to deworm them now 🙂 🙂 🙂 She accepted it without any protest though, surprised me a lot because they usually behave like Your Tony a.-a9 a.-a9 I’ll need to buy another one now 🙂 🙂
It is now a law here that all cats must be microchipped, of course not all will be but anyone who takes their cat to the vet will have to microchip them and be registered as the cats owner.
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When they wore collars, sometimes one of mine would show up without it, and sometimes it would take me weeks to find it. But they have to have breakaway collars so they don’t hang themselves with it.
I don’t think it’s a law in Virginia for cats to be microchipped. I got my 3 boys from a shelter that had already chipped them when they first came in. Tater was a stray my sister found on the street, but she got a chip probably on her first vet visit.
I heard tapping outside briefly today, so the thing that dug the hole might be back. The pest guy is supposed to come tomorrow, so I’ll ask him to stick a stick in the hole to see how deep it goes. I just hope he doesn’t poke whatever the animal is and make it mad!
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My guess is that I’ll never find hers but I’ll check along the hedge and behind the trees close to my kitchen. It would be nice to find it because keep on buying collars, even though cheap, will cost a fortune in the long run 🙂 🙂 🙂
They wanted people to take value cats more and they seems to since it costs money to chip 🙂 🙂 Still lots of feral cats around and some of them could be chipped but who checks that?
I’m really curious about what animal it is!
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My pest guy wouldn’t even look at the hole, and said he didn’t see it when he would have walked right by it before. He thought it might be a groundhog or a dog, and gave me the name of another company. The stones I threw over the hole opening still haven’t been moved.
I’ve never heard anyone mention groundhogs around here, so I would be surprised if that’s what it is.
My bug guy is not very good. He doesn’t even seem to know much about bugs. I think the job is just a paycheck. But if I were hired to crawl around people’s houses and kill their bugs, I would study as much as possible about bugs so I’d know what I’m dealing with and which are dangerous.
As he was leaving, we walked by my 2 cars (one belonged to my late mother), which I haven’t driven in several days, and there was a huge web between them with a big spider sitting in the middle. The bug guy just stood there until I asked him to please break it up for me. So he took off his cap and waved it through the web. Sheesh!
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Hi!
It looks as if You’re right, it’s just a pay check job. I would have been so curious to what it might be! At least he’s not afraid of spiders 🙂 🙂 I often have small spiders building nets close to my rearview mirrors, some even manages to stay there when I drive somewhere 🙂
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