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A feast for the dogs

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What’s the old saying about a dogs breakfast?

Well this sure isn’t breakfast. Looks more like a dinner feast for the dogs doesn’t it?

I think that if I set a fully cooked turkey down on the table in front of my Lab puppy it wouldn’t be sitting so patiently in the chair! She’d be right up on the table with her face deep in the turkey and I’m sure she’d think it was pure heaven!

My mother in law actually lost a turkey she’d just cooked, except she lost hers to a cat! The cat jumped up on the counter where the turkey was cooling and while no one was in the room it proceeded to eat about half the turkey! I can’t remember if it was Thanks Giving or Christmas when it happened, but needless to say we ended up having a much different main course than was planned.





My arbor rose

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This rose is Breath of Life. It’s a climbing rose. It’s actually the first rose that I picked out for my garden and I gave it a prominent place right at the entrance to the back garden. It’s attached to a rounded bamboo arbor and as it grows each summer I attach some of the large branches to the arbor so that the rose hugs one side and at least half the top of the trellis.

I also grow a large blue/purple clematis. It climbs up the rose and grows over the arbor. On the other side I grow honeysuckle in a large planter so the arbor is completely covered by the three plants.

Together all three plants make quite a lovely and dramatic entrance to the garden.

Do you have a special plant that you grow near the entrance to your garden?

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information. GTS participants remember to check in at As the Garden Grows each week so that we’ll know you made a new post!

Someone’s Thirsty

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Wow, this little guy must be very thirsty! Looks like it’s a baby squirrel.

I hope that there’s only water in that cup. Can you imagine a baby squirrel on a sugar rush?

Don’t forget to check out our other WW posts on As the Garden Grows, Tricia’s Musings and Odd Planet!

Dutchman’s Breeches

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Enough with the winter pictures of snow and worrying about where we’ll put it if we get another big snow storm anytime soon. Time for dreams of spring and early summer I say!

These lovely flowers are formally known as Dicentra spectabilis and more commonly as Bleeding Hearts. With Valentines coming up I hope that no one has a bleeding heart. Sorry … bad joke.

Another name that some might know this late spring / early summer blooming flower by is Dutchman’s Breeches. Perhaps they do look like old fashioned breeches but to me they kind of look like a little girl with pig tails. What do you think?

I know I’ve got several months to go before I’ll see these lovely flowers so I’ll have to be satisfied with looking at photos of them for now.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information. GTS participants remember to check in at As the Garden Grows each week so that we’ll know you made a new post!

When can I stop shoveling?

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This weeks theme is Heavy

We’ve had a few snow storms here in Toronto in the last week or two and I’ve been out shoveling the heavy snow! I guess it’s good exercise but it’s awful hard work when the snow is packed and heavy. My back ached each time.

Look how high the snow is on my tiny front lawn:

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It’s almost as high as our car!

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We’re supposed to get more snow over the weekend and next week. I don’t know where we’ll put it! The snow was blowing so hard the other night that you could barely see the led tail lights of the few cars trying to drive on the streets!

Please visit two of my other blogs that are participating in the Photo Hunt – We’ve had a lot of snow this week here in Toronto and if you want to see some snow damage in my garden take a look at As the Garden grows, then if you want to see what my puppy finds heavy over at Tricia’s Musings.

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