the miserable gardener

Greetings and salutations everyone; yes, once again, and at last, it is I, Chess the purebred border collie, here to bring you the latest news from our garden, or, in this case, news from the past few days. You may remember me from such posts as “Grapevine Down” and “The Littlest Bunny”, among so many, many others.

Here I am in a characteristic pose. The guy I live with said I was “too close” and that I had touched the lens with my nose. Well, whatever, huh. Anyway, our internet’s been down for several days, and though I didn’t care much, the guy I live with had to learn to live without the internet. If you asked him how he made it through those days, he spent it “reading, and in contemplation”, but in fact he kept moaning and groaning and wondering when the internet would return so he wouldn’t feel “so horribly isolated and alone”. He has me, you know.

Even without the internet, things happened.

The guy I live with said that kangaroos had invaded our garden. I didn’t believe it. But maybe it was true. I know what a Roo is because I ride in one when I have to go to the Bad Place, but this, I guess, was a different kind. And, well, you remember Earl, the squirrel with the notch in his ear? The guy I live with said that Earl got married, and he’s going to be a daddy. The two squirrels found the nesting box my mommy made (for birds, though), back when it snowed, and then they took a bunch of twigs and shredded burlap and made a very cozy nest.

That’s Mrs. Earl there. Yesterday evening she fell asleep while we watched her, and Earl climbed up the grape vine and snuggled into the nest, beside her, though you can’t really see him in this picture.The guy I live with says there are going to be a bunch of baby squirrels pretty soon.

We also have bats. The guy I live with spent some time trying to take pictures of them, but they fly really fast.Eventually he was able to make a movie. It isn’t very long, because, as I said, bats fly fast, and besides, the guy I live with says I was pestering him for attention and he got distracted.

That pretty much sums up everything that’s been happening lately. I’ll leave you with another excellent picture of me. The lens was cleaned, by the way. 

Until next time, then.

Hello everyone; once again it is I, Chess the purebred border collie, here to bring you the latest and most semi-apocalyptic news from our garden. You may remember me from such semi-apocalyptic posts as “The H Word”, which I just posted.

Here I am in a pose in which I seem to be a good deal more nonchalant that I really am. It was a bad day for both of us. Our internet was out for a couple of days, which the guy I live with said was a drag, and it’s hailed every day but one in the last week, which even I agree was a drag, but today, well, today was different.

Today is a sad anniversary for us, but really, we’re so traumatized by today’s weather that it’s paramount in my mind, and in what mind the guy I live with has left, which probably isn’t much.

He worked in the garden a little this morning, and took some pictures.

Allium litwinowii

Allium nevskianum

And then  it started to rain. And then it started to hail, again, but this time, really big hail. There was a tornado warning and the sirens went off, and we hid downstairs in the closet, waiting for the end. I was really scared, and if the guy I live with was, he didn’t really let on. Much. 

Hail piled up in the neighbors’ front yard.The guy I live with says that weather like this rarely strikes our side of town, and even the weather person on TV said the same thing, so he wonders why this keeps happening in a place where weather like this is rare.

He says the garden is trashed and that we’re going to move; something I’ve heard over and over again since I showed up here. We’ll see.

It’s days like this when the best thing to do, after things like this are over, is to go into the living room and spend time with my favorite toy.

Until next time, then.