Garden adventures

Greyson and I have decided to dig up the sharp gravel around our house and in the paths leading to the garage and game room. We plan to replace it with river rock and flagstone stepping stones like we have going to the hottub. On the sides and front of the house we want to make what they call a "gravel garden" where you plant alpine type plants that like good drainage, in the gravel. We have some boulders we will move around and hope it to be very interesting. I am also considering making a "stream bed" out of the downspout water. I am not sure how that would work yet but I thought it could be fun. We are going to have to rake and shovel out all the old gravel. If anyone wants to help feel free to stop by.

Today is our anniversary. We were talking about playing tennis tonight but that just doesn't seem special enough. However if we combined a good set of tennis followed by some back breaking gravel moving, then your talking. Nothing more celebratory then that.

We started our healthy living again today. I went for a jog with Ada off the leash. She was good except for one brief chasing of the neighbor cat. She just couldn't resist and she was outside of the shocking range before I could zap here. But she came back to me all pathetic with her head down and her tail between her legs. She knew she was being bad.

Quark brought another live chipmunk in the house 2 days ago. It was quite feisty and took us awhile to get it back outside. Then yesterday I went out into the game room and here was this stupid chipmunk again inside the building (it still had the same slobber mark on its back from the day before). I grabbed it and took it out into the bushes where it was supposed to stay and gave it a lecture about houses and cats.

-Mel