Wordless Wednesday
Yes I know I’m behind.
It’s Thursday and this is my Wordless Wednesday (not so wordless) post! Oh well.
I love Astilbe when it flowers.
I’m not that enthused with it when it’s not flowering as it’s just a small clump of green leaves. However, when those shoots come up out of the leaves and flowers form I think Astilbe is quite a pretty plant.
I mentioned last week that if all went well we’d be picking up a new Labrador Retriever pup on Friday night. Well … we did and here she is:
This is Midnight.
She’s three months old and unfortunately we discovered on Saturday, only about 12 hours after we brought her home that she had a bacterial infection in her bowels. Yes, we got her home at about 3 am and by 4 pm on Saturday she was being seen by a vet (after passing diarrhea that had blood streaks in it!). So she saw a vet just 14 hours after arriving here.
Other than the infection which is now being treated with stomach medications and antibiotics she’s doing well and keeping both Chris and I very tired.
She’ll come and sit beside us or we’ll play with her with one of many toys and then she’ll run off into the kitchen to bark at her quickly emptied food bowl or her reflection in the stainless steel water bowl. Of course every time she leaves our sight she finds something to get into as well. Earlier today she brought out our duster which I thought I’d hidden away. Or she’ll tear up her puppy training pad and so on.
So for the past three days I’ll get to sit down for five or ten minutes and then I’ll have to get up to see what she’s up to or to clean up pee or poop. Yes, we’re trying very hard to house train her but her bacterial infection/diarrhea makes it kind of hard. It’s getting better though.
We’ve also been taking her outside into our back or front yards. She’s too young to go for walks in the park as she hasn’t finished her needles and parks are too full of germs for a puppy that hasn’t built up her immune system yet. So far we’ve had a little success getting her to go pee while outside, hopefully we’ll have success with the other main function soon too!
Wish us luck!
BTW I wrote about bringing her home Friday night on Tricia’s Musings if you’d like to read more about our adventures with Midnight.
One of my brothers is really into electronics and cars. Whenever he buys a new computer, a new television or any other gadget he sends tons of photos by email. He barely says anything in these emails … it’s just huge picture after huge picture.
I have no idea why he does this. I think I’m going to have to teach him how to use Flickr or another free photo storage place!
His latest set of photos were of his new car. The photos included the cars interior, exterior, car spoilers and well, everything!
I think he’s just so proud of what he’s purchased that he’s got to show it off right way by sending us 40 megabytes of photos!
Do you have any relatives that are like that?
Wordless Wednesday
I wish tulips lasted longer in the garden or rebloomed in the fall instead of only blooming once in the Spring. They are so pretty.
I grow a number of different types of tulips but I think these ones are my second favorite type of all. My favorite of course is the fringed tulips!
I brought our small hibiscus indoors about two weeks ago since it’s starting to get cold here. Actually tonights the first night that I’ve noticed it reach below zero! Brrr!
My hibiscus is happily upstairs in a sunny bedroom with all the other tropical plants and vines.
Each winter I cross my fingers that all these plants survive. Just being indoors doesn’t mean they’ll make it. They have to get used to being indoors in a drier environment again and then there’s pests like spider mites and white fly to contend with.
Well, whether my hibiscus survives or not it sure does produce beautiful flowers doesn’t it?
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