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Monday, May 18, 2015

Dog Diaries: Hooper / The Gardens

Hoop's nasty eyelid tumor is bigger and is bleeding. She's going to an eye specialist in Seattle on the 28th and they will do the removal that day if needed. The procedure doesn't require a general anesthetic so she can come home in the afternoon and won't even need to wear an Elizabethan collar. Not that she'd wear it anyway. I just hope we can get through the next ten days. I wonder what we can do in Seattle all day?

Happenings in the garden

We took a trip down to the Whitney Rhododendron Gardens in Brinnon and picked up a few new rhodies for the space under the bedroom window. The gardens were amazing even though we were past the peak of the bloom period. I picked up a Trillium and creeping dogwood for the shade bed as well. I love my shade gardens and can't resist adding something new.

The tomatoes are moving right along and we're harvesting lettuce and carrots now. There are lots of salads being made. The peppers might grow soon if we have a good run of warm weather. This morning I was working up a sweat in the sun but by two o'clock clouds and fog rolled in to drive the temperature down a good ten degrees. We were shivering by the time we took the dogs for a walk. If it brings rain that will be good, but so far nothing.