Another feel sorry for me post

Again, please feel sorry for me. The garden really is looking much nicer, with very happy poppies, but the dogs tried to kill one of their own last week, and I'm two thousand dollars poorer because of it.

That's a lot of sudden debt. But I've gotten a little joy from the happy flowers in our sideyard, and the rain. Even with all of the mud, the rain is quite nice.

So now we have a permanently inside dog (christened "Cat") and three muddy monsters that insist on laying on top of my tomato plants. But life ... yeah.

I need someone to feel sorry for me today

Sorry for the graphic disgusting thing that follows (don't read it if you're eating, or plan to ever eat again). I just need a little sympathy thrown my way.

Every thirty minutes or so I've been going into the dog porch and cleaning up gobs of diarrhea. I can't let any of the dogs out into the yard because tree guys are here (gate wide open=dogs on walkabout), and although they're tolerant of dogs, falling tree branches aren't the safest environment for sniffy, nosey, barky beasts.

So. Four contained dogs. One with diarrhea. Who keeps licking his nasty sticky butt. And then throwing up.

I feel soooo sorry for him. Vet is closed today, and I wouldn't take him anyway without waiting for at least 24 hours to see if it goes away on its own. But still.

He's spread diarrhea over EVERYTHING! The couch cover, the ottoman cover, the floor (and the floor again - and again - and again (repeat several more times) - the floor hasn't been cleaned this much since we moved in).

I gave him a bath. He spread diarrhea all over our bathtub (ew!)

In short, IT STINKS!

And I can't clean thoroughly or disinfect anything until tree guys go away (b/c there's no place to put the dogs other than the dog room. The cats are freaking out enough as it is without having to share their space with dogs that smell like diarrhea)

So. I'm sick dog mom today. At least the trees are getting trimmed.

I'm almost glad I decided to stay home today, but it sucks because it's -- shitty. He's in the kennel right now. It means an even nastier bath later, but at least I can remove the cover from the couch so two Black dogs have a place to chill. Brown dog hasn't left her kennel all morning.

Poor Red dog. And yet, I doubt he'll learn to avoid whatever he ate to cause this.

FEEL SORRY FOR ME!!!!!

*sigh*

At least I have black pansy sorbet (unless N&D ate the last of it last night). Once I shower (again), I'm having me a pansy margarita.

Mmm. margaritas are such a wonderful panacea.

Some Recipes for Herb/Flower Sorbets which would explain the beautiful picture up top.

Posting!

Ok. There's still some weirdness with posting that I still don't understand, but it seems to be working.

Anyway. Lots going on in the yard. The irises are up. The anemones are up. The bulbine is blooming. The daisy is still kickin'. And everything is just, well, moving along. Planted some clumping shallots, a different type of buddleia (purple!), a couple of bronze fennels (the bulbing fennel that I bought by accident is HUGE!).

I took a whole bunch of free pansies and snapdragons home from Marbridge Garden Center in Manchaca (they were free because they were free. Not because I stole them). What a cool place. Also bought a Sky Pencil: the Ilex crenata of Tomorrow! but I haven't planted it yet.

Also have visited the Sunshine Gardens plant sale, the austin organic plant society's plant sale (at Zilker), Natural Gardener (of course!), it's about thyme, howards nursery ... can't wait until Wheatsville! And the Wildflower center is having their sale in april. I like to visit and ogle more than anything as I know most of what I'm planting is pretty and ornamental for the most part, but darn it, the yard is all grass and I hate grass. Grassy grass grass.

Monkey Man came to our house and told me all of our trees are Old and Sad. Termite Lady came and told me to not freak out about the termites in my pear tree. (And a termite mound in a pear tree ... ) I'm taking action requested by Termite Lady, and Monkey Men will be out on Wednesday trimming back all of the dead stuff way high up in the air. Too bad I have to work; I'd love to watch them.

TAH took some pictures. That's a double blossom purple poppy anemone. All of the other anemone's are just single headed. I'm going to try to let it go to seed (hard to resist cutting!) so I can plant some next year.

The Domino Garden

Spring Fever!

Hopefully this will post. It's been a while since blogger's worked with me. So this may just be fruitless effort.