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28 June 2008

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Layanee

What a good daughter you are! The veggie garden does look exuberant.

Kim

The veggie garden really does look lovely! And I grinned about the Dan getting to go to Virginia... much as I'm sure she was pampered at the doggy spa otherwise.

I wonder... not that you really need another project, but would your dad go for a drip irrigation system there in your mom's gardens? Something he could just set on a timer or turn off and on while he was checking his beloved veggies?

Pam

Layanee, I think it's just that my Dad's lonliness breaks my heart. I wish I lived closer to him, you know?

Kim, Dan did pretty well - but I must admit to having quite low expectations. She settled down in the house, slept well at night - my biggest problem is still that she is a 'bolter' - so has to be on a leash constantly outside. She's a high maintenance little thing! I thought about soaker hoses too for the perennial beds. But honestly - I think he is feeling overwhelmed, and I just am not sure how well that would go (it is like he doesn't even see the flowers wilting). He's got soaker hoses in his raised vegetable beds - so that might work. My Mom's gardens are crazy huge though - and scattered all around - I'm just not sure how to handle them. Once again I brought a few things back, mostly things from the edges and not doing so well in teh shade: two large clumps of daylilies, three hostas (that had been eaten almost to the ground by deer) and some more of the Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle' that had also been grazed by deer.

Kim

I can understand that. As much as I get behind in my own garden (which admittedly is tiny) I couldn't even imagine someone else carrying on with it after I am gone from this house for whatever reason. On the bright side, it seems as though you do have plenty of time to rescue what you do want, as you go visit your father.

As far as the bolting goes... well, after 8 years of it with Coco, I have to say that at least you get to the point where it's just second nature. *grin* It only really bothers me during entirely new things, like camping trips, when I have to figure out new logistics for dealing with her.

Pam

Kim - it's the logistics thing for sure. My first dog, another pointer, bolted for her first five or six years, then sort of snapped out of it. The Dan would be in the next state in a heartbeat! It is becoming second nature...sort of.

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