Ah, Spring!

April 29, 2007 | Filed Under Main |

Yes, it’s finally here. Still a bit wet (my basement may never dry), but it’s warm and cloudy with hot bursts of sunlight. Everything is blooming – my perennials, the trees, the weeds. Even my son’s Chia Pet! Just waiting for my roses. But they are probably waiting for me since I have not spent any time with them. I need to feed them and get new mulch to put around them. Dust them probably. Don’t get the idea I know anything about gardening. It is survival of the fittest in my lawn. I plant and water. From that point forward it’s “live or die” (like in the SAW movies). Especially grass. God grows grass. I can’t grow grass. See, my front yard is the domain of a large collie. There are places that he is down right cruel to grass (lately, I’ve been thinking of putting astro turf there…). And plants! No plants in the front yard. Jules is a digger and he LOVES plants. Plants rarely survive his love. Little wire fences are no match to the hundred pound collie who needs to dig. That’s the other thing about Spring. The ground is soft now so Jules can dig with abandon! Age has not slowed down his digging. He builds himself beds and he buries his Frisbees… all along the foundation of the house. Sure – he has one hole right in the center of the yard, but the majority of his tunneling exercises are right up against the house. I ‘m sure to come home one day and see the whole house listing to one side… that is unless Jules is thoughtful enough to prop it up with Frisbees.

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