A quick picture of the garden:
Mostly tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, and broccoli in that shot, because let’s face it- little bean and pea sprouts aren’t all that photogenic.
And here is a picture of the ferocious guard dog watching my front yard while I relax on the porch:
No one gets by without a very stern barking.
Violet
Lily! She looks fierce in her striped collar. I’m sure you’re very well protected.
Your garden looks great. With the heatwave you’re having, you’ll definitely have to keep it watered.
Incertus (Brian)
I don’t know if this will interest too many of y’all, but I wrote a post which includes a discussion of politics, contemporary poetry, The Boondocks, Barack Obama, and a poem by E. E. Cummings. It wanders a little. I suppose a link would help.
SiubhanDuinne
What a fine, alert, happy dog she is! It’s almost impossible to realise that’s the same hurting, cowering, timid little girl who stole your heart nearly a year ago. Lucky Lily, and lucky John.
P.S. Garden looks good, too.
Violet
@SiubhanDuinne:
Yeah, she’s really filled out and looks so happy and healthy. She looks nothing like the sad, scared dog of last year. You did a wonderful thing, John Cole.
Chat Noir
Hurrah for Lily! What a difference a year makes. Healthy, happy cats and dogs are a very good thing. And the garden looks excellent as well.
No new “Treme” tonight but there is a new “Breaking Bad.”
Did anyone watch the HBO movie last night about Bill Clinton and Tony Blair’s relationship? Pretty good. The last clip with Dubya and Blair at a news conference after Bush was awarded the 2000 election made me wretch. Still hard to believe a dumbass like that was ever POTUS.
calling all toasters
I think it’s more like a very stern nuzzling.
jeffreyw
Mmm…chicken fajitas
Comrade Luke
Ill Doctrine on Rand Paul.
Awesome.
SiubhanDuinne
Here’s a sample of today’s Bobblespeak Translations (hope nobody else has posted yet):
Gregory: when will we learn that your next effort has failed?
Dudley: we should confirm our next failure in about seven days
Gregory: how much oil are you spilling into the Gulf?
Dudley: somewhere between A Motherfucking Lot and a Giant Shitload
Gregory: why so slow?
Dudley: we don’t want to make things worse
Gregory: worse? How could things be worse?
Dudley: our next move will crack the earth’s crust and unleash the minions of satan from the depths of hell
Gregory: it seems you are incompetent idiots who ruined America and had no plan at all
Dudley: no we had a plan to deny everything – it worked great until the oil washed up on shore
Gregory: did you lie to everyone
Dudley: look we’re frustrated too – did you know oil is very slippery?!?
Gregory: I did actually
Dudley: ooh look at the big brain on Greggers
Gregory: should BP CEO Tony Heyward resign for destroying his company and a regional economy
Dudley: Tony Heyward is doing an awesome job dodging responsibility for wrecking thousands of lives
It’s all at http://www.moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com.
SIA
I love the photos of Lily in HER yard.
Also garden looks very nice and tidy. Well done.
skippy
saw this on a tv forum somewhere:
who knew dennis hopper would outlive gary coleman?
too soon?
Josie
You can be proud of the garden and Lily. Gardening and taking care of rescues both take large amounts of patience.
SiubhanDuinne
@skippy: Well, maybe I’m a bad person, but it made me laugh.
SIA
@ Incertus
Sounds fascinating. Going to check it out later on the PC. Want to see how you tie Obama, ee cummings and politics together.
QuaintIrene
Of course Lily gives them a stern barking/talking to. How dare they walk like that right in front of her and her territory. Do they think this is some kind of public sidewalk?
Ivan Ivanovich Renko
@skippy: yes, damn you. I was not ready to snort beer through my nose.
monkeyboy
John, your garden looks a bit ambitious
large.You may turn into the sort of person who winds up going out at 1:00 am to leave bags of tomato’s at stranger’s front doors.
PeakVT
No one gets by without a very stern barking.
More intimidating than the average Democratic politician, that’s for sure.
Currants
I’ve been thinking of trying this system instead of individual stakes. Not that I have so many tomatoes, but tying them individually as opposed to weaving a whole row at once, as needed by height, seems more like something that might get done (because there is always too much gardening to do in the summer so something’s always behind).
Libby
Wonderful shot of Lily. Her transformation has been a joy to behold. Garden looks great too. You have a wonderful life John Cole.
Libby
@SiubhanDuinne: Don’t you just love Bobblespeak Translations? I stopped watching the shows years ago, after I discovered CoT’s transcripts were so much more accurate and much more fun to read. Now instead of pissing me off, the idiot bobbleheads make me laugh.
demkat620
Are you planning to put in a fence for the rabbits and deer?
cat48
I’m truly beginning to hate the Dems who live in NOLA. Carville was bitching about NO being abused by bigguv & their shoddy work ever since the 1950’s this a.m. Before the black Jimmy Carter was even friggn born. Brazile says big gov has always mistreated them & does not understand how hurt they both are. Does the prez have to be a psychiatrist-in-chief also? If so, I certainly wish they would medicate some of these folks.
Can’t even watch any news anymore on the weekend because someone from NOLA is on there whining about how the usurper has failed them today.
I think Noonan was probably right. It’s over for O.
PurpleGirl
Nice picture of Lily and the garden. Lily is definitely blooming from your love and care.
Watching one of the best WWII movies ever made: Mr. Roberts.
Sailing from tedium to apathy and back again, with an occasional side trip to monotony.
demo woman
Lily leads a charmed life.
@PurpleGirl: Do you have hankies with you.
lamh32
Okay,
I’m watching the Wiz on some random channel, and is it bad if I say that I love the Wiz, can’t stand the Wizard of Oz.
It’s probably cultural, but I can remember watching The Wiz on TV with my mom. To my young mind and still now, The Wiz just had much better songs than The Wizard of Oz. I mean, I like “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, but how can it compare to
Home (this is the Stephanie Mills version, but still the song is great)
Mean Ole Lion
Ease on Down The Road
Brand New Day
And let’s be honest, The Wiz definitely had more soul than the Wizard of Oz.
RedKitten
Watchful Lily is watchful. Has it not even been a year yet? It’s amazing the difference that can be made in a dog in such a short time, given love and patience, isn’t it?
Next year, I will have a small vegetable garden, and I am greatly looking forward to it. I’ll have to coordinate something with my MIL, though, because she puts in a HUGE garden, and already shares the bounty with us. So I’ll probably grow stuff that she doesn’t grow, or doesn’t have luck with, like peppers, asparagus, parsnips, garlic, and winter squash.
SamKitten is growing his two upper lateral incisors at the same time. He will look like the world’s tiniest vampire, if those central incisors don’t make an appearance soon.
lamh32
@lamh32:
How could I forget: Brand New Day
SiubhanDuinne
@RedKitten: pictures of tiny Sampire, please!
SiubhanDuinne
@Libby #21: yes, same here. Why waste time watching the actual shows when Bobblespeak captures the pith each week?
Was it you who first started posting the Translations here? Whoever it was, many thanks!
RedKitten
@SiubhanDuinne: You can barely see them right now, so I don’t think the camera would catch it. But if I CAN get a good picture of the new teeth, I will.
In the meantime, did you see the new video I posted of him blowing raspberries?
Alice Blue
Both Lily and the garden look well loved and well tended.
Lucky Lily. Lucky John, too.
SiubhanDuinne
@RedKitten: No! Last I saw were the ones of him crawling (or is it creeping? I never remember the difference). I’ll go have a look.
TuiMel
@SiubhanDuinne:
This says all I would have said. Congratulations, John. I am so happy that you found Lily.
SiubhanDuinne
@RedKitten: Hmm, no raspberry-blowing recent photos unless you have new site that I don’t know about. But when I click on your handle, the last photos posted are the set of four of Sam crawling (at what looks like breakneck speed, BTW).
SiubhanDuinne
@RedKitten: Oh DUH, you said video, didn’t you? Okay, lemme go searching again.
PurpleGirl
@demo woman: Yes. The ending always gets me. Even knowing what is coming, it gets me.
asiangrrlMN
@SiubhanDuinne: Even better, it’s video! Adorable as hell.
Cole, Lily looks so happy and confident and alert. Makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.
RedKitten
@SiubhanDuinne: My bad — it was in my general photostream. I had forgotten to add it to my “Samuel” set. That’s since been rectified, so you should be able to find it now.
Mnemosyne
@RedKitten:
See, I see all of these adorable pictures of SamKitten and think, “Hm, he is awfully cute. It would be cool to grow our own person from scratch. Maybe we could manage one …”
And then the kid next door starts his twice-daily screaming tantrum and I wonder how long it would take to get my tubes tied so I won’t even be tempted anymore.
It’s a dilemma.
Ken
Well, the guard dog looks alert, well displined and ready to obey it’s master’s command. Someone needs to be alert to protect the crops. On the other hand, where’s Tunch, patrolling the ‘back 40’?