I just wanna say -- the random comments thread

[canuk-gal]

@SparklieBug, Your new garden is going to be delicious. Is there anything you can use to keep the deer away from the garden? Can you plant marigolds around the vegetables? I read somewhere that deer are supposed to hate marigolds and avoid places where they are.

@canuk-gal, A big apartment with a deck sounds wonderful! The deck boxes planted with roses sounds really pretty. I love roses too. What color roses are you going to plant?

I bought the geraniums and ivy for the pots today. I was all happy and looking forward to the planting until I was driving home. Then it dawned on me this is probably going to kill my back.

Can your DH help plant?

I don't know what color roses, yet. I went back to look today after lunch out with a friend and I saw some options. I'll think on it, but I always tend to reds or pink reds.

 

[caf]

I'm just dropping this here. We lost one of our precious dogs last weekend in a traumatic way to congestive heart failure that became acute virtually overnight. Please research the subject if your dog has a persistent cough. Don't be in denial. Log you dog's respiiration at rest. It's a simple indicator. Over 30 is bad. Casper didn't reach that stage until the last 2 days of his life. YMMV all dogs are different. There are lots of treatments to try. He lived 1.5 years with it, but we feel we should have done more. He was on the top medicine all that time. We should have asked more questions and taken it extremely serious instead of just going with "but it's not a problem yet". It's always a problem with that diagnosis and emotional preparation is necessary. Take care.

I’m sorry @lyra. Losing any animal is so painful.