Friday 17 July 2009

Days Out!

In June, Paulster, Drama, Blondie and I had a couple of afternoons of fun in the sun. Neither were far from the house--one at a nearby park/field where we kicked around a football [soccerball]. Drama got bored with the physical activity and picked up the camera for a while--so the photos are courtesy of her.

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The other was at the Harefield Dogs Trust. A no-kill dog shelter near our house that held an Open Day. It's quite evident that our life doesn't allow for us to have a dog live with us (not to mention that Sulley and Kenny would not be impressed in the least)--but we could go say hi to the dogs and tour the facility.
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There were several activities on display, from flyball to agility and several dog shows.
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Good fun!

Garden Update - Part 2

Well, the tomatoes and cucumbers and strawberries are still growing. In addition, new sunflowers have germinated and are well on their way.
See.
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There's one flower that I'm particularly waiting to see how it turns out. It's called a "Ladybird" poppy. Ladybird [ladybug] poppies are red with black spots--as you might have surmised from the name. Drama planted several seeds and now there's one surviving plant that is growing nicely.

We've had decent success with the seeds this year. Blondie brought some mystery plants up that she started from seeds--turns out, they're daisies! And are now providing a huge pot of colour and happiness to my patio. They were growing nicely and one night I came home after several days away to see lovely, bright colours bursting from the pot. They made me so happy that I laughed out loud--which only reinforced the neighbours opinions that I'm a crazy person.

Here is Blondie with her flowers!
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And here's another shot of them a couple of weeks later... and guest starring is my Sweet Sulley, of course!
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They just make me happy!

And of course, you can't NOT know about how well our cucumbers are growing. Here's me being silly with the first two that were harvested! We ate them...and have since harvested 3 more--necessitating the sharing with the neighbours. There will be sharing with those of you here in London...I think we'll soon have more cucumbers than we could possibly eat--so, consider yourself warned!
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These garden miracles don't just occur...they need the garden terminator to take care of them...here's me in my "Wellies".
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