Rainy Weekend

I've still been taking Eddie to the dog park often, and am happy to report that he now runs off to join dogs as soon as I unleash him. He doesn't come check in with me as often, and he now spends more time with dogs than with other people.

Yesterday Eddie and I picked up Aaron's aunt and we drove to OKC to see the new house. They closed on Friday, and don't have anything moved in yet, and with the day-long rain, didn't get anything moved yesterday. The house is wonderful, and on 5.25 acres. The A squares can't wait to be fully living there. The B squares will probably visit next weekend.

During the past week I have taken some pics around the yard.

My 4x4 'garden' from last year. I suppose I'll work it up and try growing banana peppers again

I noticed for the first time these itsy bitsy weed flowers the other day. Maybe Cranky will know what they are

This is what the bitsies look like from ground level

Cranky IDd the these as violets without benefit of the stalk and leaves. Impressive!

We Saw the Dogs

Yesterday during my lunch I went to see one of the 2 dogs I was interested in adopting. She was very sweet and I liked her, but I wasn't smitten. Today Ed and I picked up my mom and went to see the other dog, and he was pretty darn cute. Except for his coloring, he's like a miniature Ed with his ears and tail and stance, and his personality is stunningly similar. So of course they didn't like each other. Only one alpha dog at a time, please. So I'll keep looking.

Later Ed and I went to the dog park, and there were barely 40, if that many, dogs. Today was a perfect weather day, and I bet folks assumed the park would be too muddy due to our harsh rains yesterday. Because the park is on a slope it wasn't muddy at all, but there were streams of dead clumpy grass wiggling throughout, the way it does from a hard rain.

I mowed this evening, and in my pre-mowing ritual I found a small garter snake under the old wagon. It stayed put while I got the camera, and even posed when I picked it up. While holding Miss Snakey up for her pose, I held the camera with the heavy lens in only one hand. I took a good number of shots, so of course I'm going to include one here.

Teeny white bloom on a grassy weed

Teeny lavender bloom

Wild strawberry bloom

She was about 12 -13 inches long, and looked healthy

Best one-handed pic I could get of her tongue flick

Scale pattern on the snakey

Morning Colors

Yesterday I viewed online some dogs up for adoption, and I like 2 of them. I'm going to visit one tomorrow during lunch and the other one on Saturday. On Sat I'll be taking Ed and my mom with me to visit. I'm still not sure I'm ready to get another one, but I'm starting the process just in case.

I got to sleep a little later this morning and went out back with Eddie. The colors were wonderful and I just had to take some pics.

Is this henbit? Like all kids, I've always loved it

The little redbud transplant has its first blooms ever!

        

Dandelion, they are plentiful

Don't know what, but there was one trio in the yard

My first jonquil or daff was here for the recent snow storm

Mark was trolling in the compound

After approving all my pics, Ed went into trance mode