Backyard Antics

Been a busy morning out - thankfully it's nice a cool! In addition to receiving three loads of dirt already (let's be honest - I'm just signing the papers), I've been moving all the potted plants, trimming them down to whatever looks like it still has functional growth, adding stuff to the compost pile (or starting a new one with questionable leaves - do you compost squash/tomato leaves if they had downy mildew, or just turned brown and dried up?), etc.

I have to say I'm SOOOO grateful to mom and dad for getting me the garden cart! I've used it quite a bit this morning - mostly for moving big, branchy, unmanageable potted tomato plants...


...and other heavy stuff! (Eh hm... Ok, I didn't actually push it around with Tucker in it, but he DID like getting up in it on his own a few times)


He's also been trying to venture off into the neighboring unsold lot, which is full of waste high weeds (that's how ours would be if I hadn't weed whacked it and hit it with weed killer awhile back). Tucker: "Would you STOP trying to put me in the now-overcrowded garden so you can control where I am!? I want to roam! I want to wander! I want to..."


"....ooh, I want to check out this small potted catnip you moved back here to the garden to distract me! This is niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!"


...and now he's feeling all frisky and was a little more manageable for awhile. For awhile.


Tucker supervising: "Ok, move this tomato in the direction I'm pointing my nose..."


This year's most-prolific, and therefore, most-hated (after awhile) tomato - or at least the one I'm most-tired of: The Ildi. Oy!


"Pleeeeeeeeeeeease let us come out and play! You let Tucker come out! Why not us!?"


Tucker overseeing his acreage:


I finally brought Moxie and Simon out for a short bit. She's really well behaved, and was having a BLAST chasing some tassled long grass around that I was dragging for her. I had to keep Simon parked up on the back steps. Too far off of them, and he gets this wild, dilated-eyes look, like "I don't know you. Don't come near me or I will run. I will run into those woods over there. Don't touch me!" And that gets a bit scary - not knowing if you can catch him. So keep him by the steps and he's fine.