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Penny
If you can’t eat it or play with it, just pee on it and walk away.
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I’m a mystery writer–read my ‘about me’ page to find out more. Feel free to check out the excerpts from my Doggoned Mystery series and take a look at my favorite pictures of our garden and what was once our pond. The Bull Pen page has pictures of our bullies past and present and friends.
I am a total slacker… I am sorry 😔
Once again I have neglected my blog. But things have been a little crazy, especially this week.
I have made another modification to my house. My birthday present to me.
Deer hanging around
We have a couple of does with fawns hanging around the neighborhood. One doe, I believe is the mother of the other one, has twins every year. The younger doe has one. This is the doe who comes to me for a treat each night.
I started feeding her apples and carrots when she showed up limping badly on a rear leg. She was having some trouble standing to nurse her fawn. I hoped that a little supplemental feeding would help.
It seems it has helped her enough that she’s walking almost limp free now and she’s able to nurse her fawn.
A good day.
The lawn guys showed up, yay!
I found my first ripe Kajari melon today. I planted a few seeds in my rocking chair pot and my raised bed and I believe there are at least 6 more in there. There is a little one in the chair. Guess what I am having for dessert tonight.
Penny is unnerdabed because a small thunderstorm passed through, she’ll get over it by dinner time.
Y’all have a good night. Thank you for reading this.
Baby steps again.
Last night I didn’t close Penny’s crate door. She never left the crate all night. My hope is to have her wake me up by jumping onto the bed. Not impossible, right?
I’m sitting on my front porch, it’s 11am, and already 82 degrees.
The hummingbird wars over the feeders are ongoing and fun to watch. 3 feeders and they fight over them. 🙄
The bird songs have suddenly stopped as a pair of hawks wheel about in the thermals above me, screaming their hunting cries. The only other sounds are my wind chimes and someone working on a nearby house.
It’s been awhile
So much has happened since I was last here.
Lucy crossed the rainbow bridge on July the 20th. It broke my heart. She was 15 and went into heart and renal failure. I miss her.
Penny took a few steps backwards after Lucy died. I’ve moved her into my bedroom, she’s adjusting, but very slowly. I am not going to push her because I know that any changes to her routine are set backs.
I’m doing 3D puzzles to relax and, hopefully, get my creativity flowing again.
Thank y’all for your patience. I am working on growing and moving forward. Sometimes the journey takes strange twists and turns, but I’ll get there.
Popping in to update
Had my left eye done in December. Wow, with the second cataract gone my vision without glasses is 20/25. I’ll still be wearing glasses especially for reading but dang it’s been a miracle.
Penny is officially staying. She’s Lucy sister from another mother, of that there is no doubt. They love each other.
They often nap together unner da bed. Penny comes out of her safe house more often each day. She comes to find me when she needs to go out rather than wait for me to come looking for her.
Penny is an eager eater and mealtime is a hoot. She dances for her meals and often yodels too.
She still hides from people when I have visitors but I think she’ll eventually get over it. I am not pushing her on anything, she’ll get there in her own time.
Take care of yourselves. Be kind to each other.
I’ll be back soon.
Time seems to get away from me.
Here it is, December already.
I had my right eye operated on, the cataract is gone and I am amazed at how well I can see. I get the left eye done in a couple of weeks.
Lucy is doing well, she’s hitting 14 very soon.
Pennywiseunnerdabed dog is still unner da bed but I am seeing more romping in the yard and lots of tail wags. I think, one day, she will be fine.
I am sending all of you joyous season’s greetings for whatever holiday you celebrate at this time of year.
Take care of yourselves, be kind to yourself and others.
She’s broken, lives under the bed, and is the sweetest thing.
I have had a foster dog since March. A very broken dog who spent 7 years as a breeder in a puppy mill.
I call her Pennyunnerdabed dog. She’s so broken, some days I just want to sit on the floor next to the bed and cry. But I don’t.
I coax her out with turkey pepperoni, maybe some string cheese, or crispy cracker treats.
My heart breaks every time she has a set back, which happens with great frequency. Someone stopping by can set her back weeks. (I still welcome anyone who comes in because it’s good for her to have to see other people.)
Oh, her good days are such a joy! The days where she shows some spunk, rolls in the grass, snorts, and does her silly bunny hop run. The days where she actually wants to play with Lucy.
Some day she might stay out from unner da bed and try sitting on the couch with me and Lucy. I will not force her because, damnit, she’s so broken.
Damn, snow.
It snowed in my little part of the south all day, and at 9 pm is still at it, only very lightly now.
The birds were at my feeders like fools at the grocery stores before a storm, emptying all the shelves, just because. I had to refill all of the feeders twice during the day.
I find great joy in the variety of birds my feeders bring in. Cardinals by the dozens, bluebirds, tufted titmice, chickadees, all varieties of sparrows, red winged black birds, starlings-the thugs of feeder birds, several varieties of woodpeckers, gold finches, purple finches, house finches…you get my drift. Never have I had so many birds as I have since moving here.
Daily, the flocks of mourning doves trundle along the ground under the feeders and clean up the leavings of the feeder birds.
The bluebirds have taken up residence in the bird houses I put up for them. They are my favorite birds. I love that they have nested here the last two years and have produced many young ones.
We’re supposed to have sun all day tomorrow, I hope all the snow melts away.
Take care of you and yours, get vaccinated, and wear a mask. Love you all.
https://www.petcraftsupplyco.com/ rocks!
A while back I ordered 2 toys for X amount from Amazon. Only one, Polly parrot arrived, there was no puffin. Today, after contacting the company the day Lucy was shorted one puffin, she received both a puffin and another Polly. She wore herself out playing with them. Yes, she is quite spoiled. The company is Pet Craft Supply Company and they are fantastic. Since Lucy really doesn’t need two Pollys one will be donated to the local shelter for somebody else to enjoy. Thank you Alexandra of Pet Craft Supply Company for making Lucy happy.
Today we met a new person…
I had a nice visit with a young man who came to do an estimate for window cleaning. The sunporch is in dire need and I have had no success in getting the windows clean.
Anyway, he’s Lucy approved and was more interested in what trees I had planted in my yard than counting windows. He and his wife are currently trying to grow stuff without a lot of success. I invited him to bring her over so she can snag some gladiolas and Japanese eggplants. (I am currently eggplanted out, the harvest has been so amazing that I am sick of them at the moment.)
I had an incredible harvest of tomatoes, peppers, and various herbs too. The garden is still producing. This is a picture from last month, the garden is almost twice the volume now.
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