Accessible Gardening: Practical Matters for Physically Challanged Gardeners #7, 1 by seacanepain

seacanepain wrote:
Kay and I are still around. We’ve just been lurking the last couple of days. DW has been doing earth moving and concrete work. Those tasks exhaust her. She doesn’t stay awake long after she comes in for the evening
I’ve been a little under the weather. Nothing serious. Just feeling blah. Today was a productive day though. Halfway done with cleaning the closed-in back porch that functions as my workshop. Everyone has been complaining the path thru from the outer to the inner door was getting so narrow that soon only really skinny folks would be able to come in the back door. (Not many of those around here. :-) I’ve been promising to clean things up as soon as it cooled off some. It was a bearable 88 today.
Nadine got a tough lesson in the darker side of nature. She is ticked with Fenny and I. I lost most of my apple crop to deer. They even ate all the figs. I took off Fenny’s perimeter collar and gave her the freedom to guard the entire property. She took down a deer. Nadine found the remains when she went out early to mow. . She doesn’t really have a weak stomach. I think it just surprised her Fenny would kill. Fenny is such a goofy, sweet natured dog. Nadine’s little dog would chase down rabbits. Then, nudge them to get them to run more so he could chase them more. That was her image of how dogs behave toward wild animals. I think Fenny is part Rottweiler, a naturally aggressive breed. Nadine has decided Fenny is “too wolf-y” and needs to be made more civilized. She believes more attention and human companionship will accomplish that. They are bonding over a manicure. I doubt Fenny will do it again (even if she could) for fear her young mistress will paint her toenails again I don’t think frosted pink suits Fenny’s hair and eyes. If this does happen again, we’ll have to get Fen her own polish in a peach shade.
A handsome cane and a beautiful little girl! I'm doing much the same thing on our front deck for the same reason. The GS's think it is fun to jump off. I got halfway around with the lattice before it got so hot. Have to clean up the workroom first though to find what I need. lol.
Well, Carrie, I guess, we'll have to come up with another idea for our excess cannas. I don't think there is any hope of marketing them as inexpensive annuals in New England if they don't flower. I doubt anyone will want to grow them just for the foliage. Thanks for trying. This means Nadine will have to develop a recipe for the purple canna indica before they take over the property. You know they will use me as the taste testing guinea pig. The chocolate mint cupcakes were fantastic, but one of these days...... (Jim)
Photo: tater-dog & Fenny.