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Lovely Nova Zembla Rhododendron

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Rhododendrons are one of the plants that I think of when I think of spring. The photo above is a picture of my one and only Rhododendron Nova Zembla. I took this photo last May when the buds were just about to bloom.

The flowers of Nova Zembla are a beautiful shade of red that contains a hint of purple. There’s a pattern on the delicate small flowers as well. This plant is just lovely when it’s branches are bursting with blooms.

I wish it’s blooming season was longer, but I’d say that I get close to a month of blooms out of my Rhododendron each season unless it becomes too hot too fast!

I’m fairly certain that my Rhodo will do well this year as it’s had a nice protective cover of snow over most of the winter.

I also have two Azalea trees. They’re still on the small side and don’t bloom anywhere near as profusely as the Rhododendron, but they too are quite lovely.

Do you grow Rhododendrons or Azaleas?

Now I’m off to Orovo to get some supplies. I need to build my muscles if I’m going to have to keep shoveling all this never ending snow!

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I need another trip to Vegas

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Lately I keep thinking about our trip to Las Vegas last November and how much I enjoyed the sites and sounds of Vegas. I’m starting to think about planning another trip. Soon.

Perhaps it’s all the bad weather we’ve had this winter and the snow that just keeps falling this week, but I really think I need a holiday. I think it’s time I took a look at some Las Vegas hotels and perhaps book a room for a weekend or even a week!

When I was in Vegas in the fall I wasn’t well at all. There’s no guarantee that I’ll be ok if I go again, but it would sure be nice to feel ok and have some fun there. I did have fun on my trip but it would have been a lot better if I’d been feeling great. My husband on the other hand had a great time! On our first night he had to have the security guards help him find our room! I’d stayed out with some friends in a restaurant for a while when he headed back to our room after having a little tooooo much to drink!

If I do go on a trip to Vegas in the near future I’ll certainly try to stay in a different hotel than we stayed in last November. I didn’t like that hotel at all. Anyone have any suggestions?

Oh what a headache!

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I’ve barely posted on any of my many blogs over the last two days. On Wednesday I woke up with a severe migraine. I’d been headachey the night before, but I thought a good sleep would make it go away. It didn’t.

My headache just got worse and worse throughout the day. I just lay on the couch unable to get up.

I’m so grateful that we have a crate for our puppy. She ended up being in the crate most of the day because of my migraine. If we didn’t have a crate or if she’d been out she would have been jumping on me all day and making me feel worse. Don’t worry. I did let her out twice during the day and she had lunch too. She wasn’t totally deprived!

I still had a bit of headache on Thursday when I awoke and I guess it stayed with me most of the day but it was a lot better than the day before!

I haven’t had a headache that bad for a long time! I don’t know if I was fighting something or if the headache came on as a result of the strange weather we’ve been having here. On Wednesday we had snow and an ice storm all day and today we’re expecting a LOT of snow.

What do you do when you get a bad headache? Or are you like my mother in law and you’ve never had one?

The zipper pond?

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I only wish that I had a big enough property that I could create a cool landscaping design! Maybe not quite like the zipper pond that I’ve included above, but something interesting and unusual would be really interesting don’t you think?

We did landscape our yard when we first created our garden. We put in build up raised garden beds pretty much all around the perimeter of the garden. We used easy lock stones. We also created an oval that is attached to the garden beds on one side and it juts out to one side and acts as a partition between the patio and the back area of the garden. It helps to create a garden room.

Have you landscaped your property? Did you do anything interesting? I’d love to see some photos if you have landscaped.

Dogs in the park

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Speaking of capturing funny dog pictures! LOL

Now that we’re taking our puppy to the park on a regular basis it probably won’t be too long before we’ll see something like this ourselves. Midnight’s already got some doggy friends that we run into in the park and each time she goes we meet new dog owners and new dogs.

On Sunday we brought her to the park with a frisbee. She had a ton of fun playing with it. Unfortunately she mainly wanted to chase it and catch it and then chew on it rather than bring it back to us.

The frisbee attracted other dogs and it wasn’t long before another lab, a 13 month old, got a hold of her frisbee. It was cold out and the frisbee was made of a hard plastic that must have become brittle as it eventually cracked.

We took the frisbee away at that point as I was pretty sure that one of the dogs would end up with a cut mouth or something!

I guess we’ll have to get a softer rubber frisbee to play with next time.

It was fun bringing a toy to the park though. That was the first time we brought anything for Midnight to play with and it went over well.

Do you bring along something for your dog to play with when you go on a long walk or a visit to a park?

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