Day 133 on vacation but missing the work

No dog news. After the rain last weekend, I expect to get home tomorrow to find the grass two feet tall all around the garden. But I'm hopeful I won't find it two feet tall in the garden.

Day 129 of Dog

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Radishes!

Wow--she's like all over the place tonight. She came over to see me before I even sat down at the computer. Then she curled up on the bed for a bit and almost immediately went back and started eating.

Is she trying to make me feel guilty for putting her in doggie boarding school tomorrow?

Day 128 of Dog - unbearable cuteness

Ahhh! She's curled up on her little bed. It did turn pretty cold and windy this afternoon. Rain that the garden badly needed, but my little Shih Tzu is a soggy, muddy mess.

Day 126 of Dog nothing special

Since I came home before dark, for once, I took them on an extra long walk today. It worked pretty well, I think. She did great and she definitely deserves a rawhide strip tomorrow--I'm getting one out right now.

But I barely got done sprinkling the seeds before dark, so I didn't plant any more potatoes. Here they are waiting.

Day 125 of Dog & I heart fruit flies not

I did bad. Since I went to work today, she was expected to eat her breakfast without the garnish of turkey.

She didn't.

Gardeners have trouble unbeknownst to normal man...imagine eating your salad, composed with fresh lettuce from the garden. Along comes a fruit fly and sits down beside her....

Hey! I've never had a fruit fly appear on store-boughten lettuce!

Day 124 of Dog & delight over dinner

I gave up waiting for them to eat their breakfast this morning at approximately 10:54 a.m. I pulled a slice of turkey out of the fridge, divided it in thirds, and cut it into very thin slivers and mixed it with their food. They're all eating now.

The to-do list for the day is growing absurdly long. Among other impossible expectations, I've planned to make two dinners tonight--one to eat now and one to refrigerate for later in the week. I'm trying to improve the kids' diets--it seems like for the last month or more they've been alternating between the same two nutrionionally devoid meals all week long. An occasional meal of barbeque on white bread with potato chips and pickles isn't so bad, but not three times a week!

Later--8pm. I just created something and it was awesome. I made this sphaghetti sauce I found on line, sauteed some veggies to go in it, made meatballs and penne pasta and put it all together. It'll be supper tomorrow. And I must say it--it was the best spaghetti sauce I ever tasted. The smell was tomatoes on steroids. The meat was from grass-fed cows and pigs from Local Yokel--a little over one pound ground beef and one-half pound ground pork. It has a whole different color and texture from CAFO beef.

Sorry I didn't get a picture of it but I will tomorrow.

For supper tonight they had tacos made with the grass-fed beef. I tasted a bit--good, real good. The ground beef didn't have half of the grease that grocery store beef does.

Day 123 of Dog & planting time

What is this deal that she won't eat breakfast on weekends? We have a schedule--on weekdays they get put outside at five. When I get up at six-thirty I bring them in and feed them. Werewolf and Zack eat immediately but she usually waits until I leave. So that's the problem? My intrusive presence?

She's out the cage now and sitting beside me...so maybe it's not so simple as a change in routine. Maybe she's waiting for something better than dog food.

She's more patient than me. I'm putting her out with a bone so I can get to work (play) in the garden. Planting season!

Later.  I gave up on breakfast and just put them outside with a nice beef bone apiece. Then I got to work planting--finished the Swiss Chard, onions, lettuce and radishes; planted half of the beets; transplanted the rest of the broccolli (not looking good); and planted the parsley I'd been growing in a pot since winter. I would have planted the potatoes but (a) all the books said I needed to let them dry for a day or two after cutting them up, and (b) there were so few eyes on the four potatoes that came in my two-pound order, I thought I'd let them sit out for a few days and see if any more eyes appeared.

Then I tried to buy some more at Calloway's, but the table under the sign saying Kennebac potatoes held no potatoes. Just table.

I'll get some pics tomorrow--the lettuce and radishes I planted two weeks ago is up now.