Monthly Archives: August 2013

The Dog Slept!

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Last night was the first night Dog has slept straight through since coming to live with us 2 weeks ago. I now have a slight understanding of the relief parents feel when their babies finally start sleeping soundly. I’m hopeful (probably prematurely) that this means no more midnight wake up calls to take her outside so she can wander around aimlessly.

Dog use to live in a kennel situation, as such, she is use to doing what ever she wants whenever she wants. Meaning she wakes us up to play at odd hours, sleeps when we want to play with her and adamantly refuses to go the washroom when we would like. Slowly she is getting use to abiding by a stricter sense of time which she’s not sure she likes, however on the flip side she also gets to enjoy things like the couch, dog park and stealing expensive meat off the counter!

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Story of The Cucumber Plant

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My sisters and I plant a vegetable garden at my father’s house every spring. Usually the task falls to my twin sister to maintain the garden but in a twist of events all us children moved out this year after we had already planted the garden. My dad is not much of a gardener so he’s only been watering the plants.

When I stopped by his house on Sunday the backyard was wild. The cucumber plant appeared to be heading the invasion in a bid to seemingly take over the backyard. The onion patch in its entirety was lost as a casualty in addition to a substantial portion of grass. In total I collected 12 cucumbers off the plant that were full size, previously I was told they had gather 6 others yesterday… quite the haul of cucumbers. After pruning back the rest of the plants and weeding I looked to tackle the cucumber plant.

After some overzealous pruning it turns out I accidently uprooted the plant…opps so there will be no more cucumbers. In consolation however we have over 15 to figure out what to do with. Does anyone have good recipes for cucumbers?

The good news from the garden is the berry bushes, which we planted 7 years ago that had YET to produce berries, are producing this year. Of course all us berry eaters moved out this year too!