The Thousand Dollar Dog is in Trouble With Me, The New Job, And The Lions Of March

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Posted by admin to Dirt, LOVE, Mr. Hyper, Sasha, animals, daylily, ferns, ghetto, grass, herbs, holidays, houseplants, pets, snow, weather, weekend, work, yellow on 2008-03-04, 07:02:00

28*, feels like 18*, 63% humidity, NE 12 mph wind, cloudy, FLOOD WARNING The thousand dollar dog is in big trouble. Mr. Hyper blamed the cats on getting into my ghetto grow light stand, knocking it down, eating my ferns, unpotting them, and eating most of the catnip plants soil and all. But I knew better. I was angry. I had been babying these plants, tenderly administering my love to them. I had

Pupdate and a Plant CATastrophe=Screaming Plants

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Posted by admin to Flowers, Sasha, cheapskate finds, crappy stuff, daylily, grass, herbs, houseplants, leaves, pets, screaming plants, snow, veggies on 2008-03-01, 05:57:00

20*, 73% humidity, W 6 mph wind, fair Sasha yesterday was not feeling good at all. She had the dry heaves, trying her best to throw up. I'm blaming the pain meds, I know they do the same thing to me. So I have not given her any today to see how she does though this morning she seems to be feeling better and ate with the appetite of a puppy. Yesterday, she was doing her hardest to get to some

Pet and Plant Updates

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Posted by admin to Buttons, Little Osa, Pink, Sasha, Winter, blue, chores, daylily, garden, herbs, hostas, pets, photos, roses, shrubs, spring, veggies, video, yellow on 2008-02-27, 09:32:00

Since I don't have much in the way of winter interest in my garden yet other then this dwarf arctic blue willow..... I'm going to stay focused on the inside today. My old gal Sasha is in for surgery today, so while the dog is away, I've been doing a bit of spring cleaning. getting rid of a godawful amount of dog hair from the couches and all that. Just seemed like a good idea to do it now while

Herbs Line Up

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Posted by admin to blue, cheapskate finds, food, grass, herbs, pets, seeds on 2008-02-24, 07:14:00

I have some herbs already in the yard, this list will be of new ones I am starting this year. Catnip- I've already started it in the house. The cats help me keep the seedlings pinched so they will grow bushy. These were Ferris Morris seeds.Peppermint Mentha x piperita-- Already started in the house. I wouldn't mind at all if this escaped into the lawn...The seeds were a freebie from Celestrial

The WOES of Cat Ownership, Sasha pupdate, and TOO MANY SEEDLINGS!

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Posted by admin to Freya, Little Osa, Sasha, cactus, daylily, garden, ghetto, herbs, hostas, houseplants, pets, photos, roses, seeds, succulants on 2008-02-16, 08:04:00

31*, feels like 23*, 54% humidity, SSE 8 mph wind, fair, FLOOD WATCH Sasha Pupdate: Sasha is now schedualed for surgery on Wedensday-- They are going to remove the growths and flush her kidneys too. Too Many Seedlings! Remember those Rosa seeds I ordered from Angel Grove Tree seed? Well I had no idea every seed would decide to sprout. I have over 80 rose seedlings, and I haven't even begun to

Sasha’s Test Results

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Posted by admin to Sasha, crappy stuff, pets on 2008-02-15, 19:05:00

16*, 65% humidity, Calm wind, fair, FLOOD WATCH This is what we have so far- Tumors---not cancer but still NEED to be removed if she is healthy enough. Bloodwork--- came back ok, nothing serious. We already know about the roundworms and are in the middle of treating that. Urine---The vet has to talk to us tomorrow about this. Its NOT FINE. The receptionist on the phone message said there were

Don’t ya just love these stamps?

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Posted by admin to Flowers, Sasha, crafts, crappy stuff, pets, photos on 2008-02-12, 11:51:00

Trying to think cheerful thoughts, and these flowers certainly are cheerful. Has a bad day at the vet today. Just want to hold Sasha an cry a bit, my poor baby. :(Hoping the tests come back better then the vet thinks they will.I'm really sad now so I'm going to go paint, do something to keep my mind off this mess.

Update: Busy—too busy to blog? For SHAME!

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Posted by admin to Flowers, Freya, Little Osa, Waldeath, crafts, daylily, girlgonegardening, gourds, grass, herbs, holidays, houseplants, pets, photos, vines, weeds, weekend, work on 2008-02-10, 08:11:00

1*, feels like -21*, 44% humidity, WNW 24 mph wind, fair, WIND CHILL ADVISORY, FLOOD WARNING First, a warning: Blogger's spellcheck doesn't seem to be working right now for me. So proceed with caution if mispellings send you running for a red pen. Running with pens can lead to loss of eyes. Ok, I admit to being a bit preoccupied latey between work, job interviewing, studying..... But this all

Catnip Junkies

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Posted by admin to Freya, Little Osa, herbs, pets, photos on 2008-01-23, 16:16:00

Seedlings…. Too many!

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Posted by admin to Flowers, cactus, chores, daylily, garden, herbs, houseplants, pets, roses, succulants, trees, veggies on 2008-01-16, 11:20:00

Today I got around to separating some of my seedlings-- the catnip and the daylillies. This is bad... Why? because I didn't expect so many, that's why. I misjudged how much space they would take. This was my plan: A shelf for perennial flowers (I already have a shelf and a half plus a kitchen windowsill), a shelf of herbs for my herb garden this year (already there is a half shelf of just catnip