This is my idea of a winter break: Like most people I am understandably nervous about the lack of rain in our beautiful mountains but I say, “Make hay while the sun shines.”
I believe this means something like reap the hay while the sun is shining before it rains and gets moldy, sort of like my lawn.
While I don’t make hay, I am Jonesing for some Springtime, and since I am spending my holiday with twelve or so furry friends, I thought I would treat us all to some winter color.
And, yes, contrary to popular belief, dogs do see color. They just see it a bit different than we do.
The dogs have torn up my lower lawn so badly now that I have decided to perhaps slowly turn it in to something besides a lawn. I haven’t formulated a whole plan yet, so here is a preview of things to come.
I dug out a ring of lawn from around my giant urn and planted dahlia bulbs. On top of the bulbs I planted some winter flowers: primrose, Johnny jump ups, and snapdragons.
While I was working the dogs stole a bulb, two plastic pots, a glove and two rocks. You may ask, as I did, why would a dog take rocks?
The two rocks were taken by a golden puppy. Need I say more?
Now it’s just a waiting game to see which of the dogs I’m dog sitting will pee on the new flowers first.
My money’s on the golden.
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