sweetpea vs endive

sweetpea vs curly endive


i've gotten endive seeds three times and they're not the same as what i can rarely get at the grocery store.


sweetpea doesnt much like the homegrown varieties i've found so far. she really likes the grocery store curly endive variety


she'll eat all of this


i need to find the right variety of curly endive to grow for her. thus far i'm not having much success. its frustrating.

afghans and booties by mom

these are the afghans my mom donated to bundles of love

this one looks a little trippy/hypnotizing in the photo because of the variegated yarn


but its really just a simple ripple afghan


a ripple afghan made from scraps




a blue ripple afghan (that puppy couldnt resist resting his chin on)




a cupcake afghan




and a pair of baby booties

blue scraps baby afghan

scrap blues afghan, made from all the tiny leftover balls of yarn at bundles of love


this one took 23 hours to complete. the longest i've spent on a baby afghan in a while. usually they're under 20 hours.


i track the hours because bundles of love charity (where i donate the baby afghans to) asks how many hours are donated.


fringe


i think it turned out pretty nice, and used up all those little balls of yarn, yay!

i found the pattern on pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/335447872217002966/
instructions are here - winkieflash.nl/patterns/groovy-ghan-en/

brussels sprouts leaves

i pulled the extra leaves off the brussels sprouts.


the dogs like eating the stems of the leaves. molly eating.


puppy eating


quit with the flashy thing

molly pictures

molly, impatiently waiting for dinner


love me love me pet me love me


settling in for a nap


napping by my side

mollys lump and surgery

the lump after our first visit to the vet where they drained it with a needle.




but the lump refilled with puss within a few days, despite antibiotics.


its hard to photograph a lump in black fur


so she had to go back to the vet and have surgery to remove it


they shaved a much bigger section of fur this time. freshly home from surgery, first thing she did was flop over and roll on it.


so she got to wear a tshirt to keep the leaves and grass and dirt off her wound.


puppy shadowed her for a while.


she couldnt settle when we got home. she'd lay down somewhere for like 5-10 minutes, then get up and walk around. go lay somewhere else. and again. and again.


she didnt mind the tshirt at all though.


she laid under the porch steps for a while.


its one of her 'go-to' places when she's upset or worried. the tub is the other place.


she was able to reach her stitches with her back leg to scratch. but i discovered that if i moved the knot in the t-shirt to be in the way of her leg, then she wouldnt scratch at it.


i was sitting on the steps. she came to sit next to me for a while.


but still couldnt settle and was up and about again


then she went back under the porch steps. she finally settled there and slept for a while.


after a while she woke up and came inside.


and needed some loving and reassurance


she crawled up in my lap, and checked out my laptop


but decided to sit next to me instead

NO ITS NOT FETCH!!!

i'm working up to putting the hoses away for winter. so i'm doing all the last fall cleanup. which means the bricks from the tortoise enclosure get taken outside and sprayed down. sweetpea makes a mess of them, they get pooped on and sloshed on from her bath tub, and food gets smashed into them. i take em outside twice a year, spring and fall, and hose everything down.

her enclosure, the bricks on the bottom right are where the heat lamp is clamped above. she can go hang out on the warm bricks if she gets cold.


the bricks. in total there are 8 of them.


the blue square i drew is where her bath tub gets set in for her. (cant leave it the bathtub there, she fouls it and dumps it over and makes a huge muddy mess)


bathtub


so anyway, i was hauling the bricks outside, and they're heavy. and i was throwing them off the porch step onto the ground over by the hose. and the dogs saw me throwing them and ran over and stood where i was throwing them, all ready to catch the next bricks i carried out! and i'm standing there holding the bricks yelling "NO! IT'S NOT FETCH!" and they're all jumpy and eager, waiting for me to toss them. *palmface*. there will be no trying to catch BRICKS, you dorks!

then they decided that whatever was stuck on the bricks was tasty *GAG*. so i turned on the hose and changed their minds. now the bricks and the plastic bin they were in are all clean and drying off in the sunshine. the hose water is REALLY cold.