Day: May 3, 2009

My Garden, Photography

More Gardening

Shelly

I always feel like I should put “gardening” in scare quotes, because what I do is not real gardening. I haven’t even bothered to pull out all the dead leaves from last fall. I gave up about half-way through. I did weed, though, and I’ve finally planted the rest of the columbine (three kinds) and echinacea seeds. Aside from those, there are wild columbine, wild geranium, and about eleventy different kinds of lilies and irises.

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On the other side of the patio, I made a couple of new beds, one for heuchera and another for a combination of zinnias and four o’clocks. (The heuchera came from a coworker, who insisted it is not the same thing as coral bells. I didn’t argue with her, but it sure looks like coral bells to me. That’s okay, because it seems to be a different variety, and coral bells do really well in my shady garden.)

Also on that side are primroses, which are getting large. There should buds on them soon. The sedum is getting big, and the stupid basil plant that volunteered last year seems to be back. There is something growing where the liatris was. Don’t know if that’s what it is, or if the liatris died and some interesting looking weed decided to grow in its place. The one thing I haven’t seen is the asters, but I’m pretty sure that the grounds crew killed them last year, so I’m not surprised.

Pictures of that side shall be forthcoming, as soon as it starts to look like something.

Pets, Photography

Pandora

Shelly

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Pandora has slowly but steadily been going downhill the past couple of years. And then, the past few months, she really started to show her age. She was sleeping almost constantly, waking only to eat. She was wobbly when she walked. There were a few times lately when her back legs would give out on her. She was in good spirits, though, and didn’t seem to be in any pain. Her appetite was good, too, so I didn’t feel like it was right to have her put to sleep.

This weekend, she seemed especially bad, though, and I knew she’d be gone soon. And she was. She died tonight, curled up next to her food bowl, the little greedyguts.

Stupid me. I knew she’d be gone soon, but I stopped and picked up more canned cat food and a new bag of cat litter this morning. I didn’t even stop to think, until I was leaving the store, that she wasn’t likely to be around long enough to need either of them.

I’m going to take tomorrow off work, so that I can bury Pandora in my flower garden. I’m sure it’s against the rules, but she was a little kitty, so I don’t think anyone will mind.

Godspeed, Pandora.