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For Tucker

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I have been looking for a special something to plant in honor of my sweet boy, Tucker.

This week I found just the right thing!

I love this so much, it’s like each tiny little flower is hand-painted.

My dog before Tucker was like that.  Bailey was black and white and I used to say he was hand-painted by god.  Especially when he was little.  In case you don’t know, the spots that are going to have black hair are dark and the spots that are going to have white hair are light.  Their little tummies don’t have hair when they are little, and Bailey had one tiny little black testicle and one tiny little white one.  So adorable!  Hand-painted by god.

Anyway, here’s my Tucker hydrangea.  This is just as the flowers are starting to open.

This one is a little further along.

Further still.

And a close-up of the photo just above.

Anyway, it will be 5 months on Friday.  So unique, just like my sweet handsome crazy boy.  I love you, Tucker.

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  3. 3.

    WaterGirl

    As you can see, Tucker was a big fan of looking out at the flower gardens.

    *that he stood there admiring the flowers had nothing to do with the dogs next door, that may or may not have been outside at that moment.  He would always walk to that spot and look out, and now Henry does the same thing.

  5. 5.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Even from behind he looks like a nice doggy :)

    Wishing you the best. We are almost 2 years from when we lost Juniper and we still miss/think about her all the time.

  8. 8.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Gorgeous Tuckerflowers! That’s really a sweet way to remember him. Thank you for sharing with the rest of us.

    Can’t believe it’s been five months already. As Edna St Vincent Millay wrote: “Life goes on; I forget just why.”

  15. 15.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @CarolPW: Thanks :)

    She was kind of the perfect dog.  Didn’t have an aggressive bone in her body.  Never growled.  Almost never barked.  Just a real sweetheart.

    We are hoping to get another dog again once we move to a place where we have the space/yard, but that won’t be for another couple years.  Miss having a doggy in our lives.

  16. 16.

    CaseyL

    WaterGirl, that is a lovely flower, I love how its petals are edged so it does almost look like a drawing (more dramatic as it unfurls, before the petals fill with pink).  A beautiful tribute to Tucker!

    @trollhattan:  Holy moley.  The comments note that the nail was there to keep bees out.  That particular bee definitely did not like being told where she could and could not go!

  17. 17.

    Dan B

    Looks like one of the Japanese Hydrangeas that are crosses of Lacecap Hydrangeas.  I wish I had space for one but it would have to be in the small shade section near a spigot.  Excellent choice!

  20. 20.

    CarolPW

    @UncleEbeneezer: ​
     I can’t imagine living without a dog. Grew up with them, and after I went to college was without one in my life for 2 miserable years. Since then I have had at least one dog for the last 50 years.
    Although the current resident had an encounter with a skunk at 1 am this morning and some of the luster has rubbed off the dog. I wish the smell would.

  22. 22.

    Ken

    @CaseyL: That particular bee definitely did not like being told where she could and could not go!

    Every now and then I wonder what weird analogy to thought processes is involved with something like that, and realize I’ll never know.

    Mind you, I have the same reaction when I try to imagine how a baby develops language, and I did that once.

  27. 27.

    stinger

    What a lovely hydrangea!

    FYI, and not to spoil the notion of “hand-painted”, flower petals with a different color on the edge are called “picotee”. I have a picotee lilac, Sensation, that is dark purple with a white edge. So striking.

  29. 29.

    Pete Mack

    What cultivar of hydrangea is that? I’ve never seen one with frilly sepals before.

  31. 31.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @eclare: When the Woofmeister died my wife was so heartbroken she said, “I don’t think I can do this again.” I knew she would, it just might take some time.

    A week later I was secretly browsing the internets for another Lab/Lab mix. Little did I know, she was too. That farce only lasted a week at most and we were both actively looking, she more than I. It took a month or more, but after several false starts we had Billie Jean, a dog that had been thru the mill (literally, a puppy mill as a breeder).

  32. 32.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @stinger:

    I wish you’d take some photos and submit them to Anne Laurie for one of her garden threads. Sounds spectacular!

    And thank you for introducing me to the word “picotee.” Wonderful word! I shall seek out opportunities to use it in conversation.

  35. 35.

    Juju

    That’s a lovely tribute to Tucker. I was sorry to read about his passing.  I know you miss him.

    I have some good dog news in my life. I’ve been waiting for a rescue dog that would work with my 89 year old mother who is delicate and has a bit of dementia.  Two weeks ago we got a beautiful terrier mixed breed mature girl named Ruby Jean, and I can’t imagine my life without this girl already. She’s also so good with my mother. On Sunday I’m going to pick up a retired breeder golden retriever girl  who needs a mentor dog, and some socialization and love. Her name will be Lulu or Millie. I’ll know when I meet her. We’re hoping Ruby Jean will fill the role of mentor. Ruby Jean is such a good girl, it may take a bit of time, but I think she is up to it.

    It’s taken over a year to find dogs that the rescue organization thought would be good with my mother. I have missed have dogs in my life and I’m beginning to feel like I can breath again.  I’ve been so stressed out lately, that it felt like I couldn’t relax my forehead. I’m not feeling that way as much now.  Whew.

  39. 39.

    trollhattan

    Gavin has further thoughts about DeSantis.

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Gov. Ron De Santis have been trolling each other recently on the pandemic, abortion, LGBTQ rights and more. But Newsom said Friday that what pushed him to air an anti-GOP ad in Florida over the Fourth of July was DeSantis’ treatment of the Special Olympics. The state threatened to fine the organization $27.5 million if it didn’t drop its COVID-19 vaccine mandate before the 2022 USA Games in Orlando last month.

    Special Olympics officials complied. “He did something that tipped me very directly, and that was going after the Special Olympics. I had an emotional response to that,” Newsom told The Bee, his voice catching momentarily. “That led to the consideration of doing something a little bit more expressive and that was the determination on the ad.” Newsom spoke to The Bee in the U.S. Capitol, where he has been meeting with federal lawmakers this week on issues such as wildfires, gun violence and education.

    https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article263508468.html#storylink=cpy

  40. 40.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @trollhattan:

    Who the fuck does DeSantis/the state of Florida think he/it is, telling a private organization like the Special Olympics how they should run their event?

  46. 46.

    karen marie

    So sweet!

    One of the things I love about hydrangeas is they’re easily dried.  When I lived in the West Fenway (Boston) I made baskets with the willow that grows along the Muddy River that flows through the Back Bay Fens and decorated them with dried hydrangeas from friend’s gardens.

  47. 47.

    Elizabelle

    @Juju:   That’s great news.  Welcome, girl doggos.

    @ WaterGirl:  Tucker has some beautiful flowers in his honor.  Sweet pup.

  48. 48.

    karen marie

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):”Special Olympics officials complied.”

    I can understand why they caved – canceling would be a huge problem and expense – but given what everyone knows about Florida, the Special Olympics should have never chosen to hold their event there.

    I think questions should be asked as to why that location was chosen and by whom.

  50. 50.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @karen marie:

    Perhaps the location was selected long before DeathSentence’s hard right turn and they couldn’t afford to cancel?

  52. 52.

    J R in WV

    @CarolPW: ​
     
    1 qt hydrogen peroxide
    1/2 cup sodium bicarbonate
    Dawn soap enough to make it soak into the coat/skunk

    Dissolve the sodium bicarbonate in the hydrogen peroxide, add Dawn, wash the critter(s).

    Wash and rinse. Repeat as needed.

    this was developed by environmental scientists working on remediation, it really works!!!

  53. 53.

    CarolPW

    @J R in WV: Thanks! The first time she met a skunk it barely grazed her and I used hydrogen peroxide on it. No hydrogen peroxide was available after that (covid use as hand sanitizer) and when it did become available again it was no longer on my shopping list because I had given up.

    But I did discover this time (another graze) that hand sanitizer actually does a reasonable job on a skunked dog.

  54. 54.

    Ruckus

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    DeathSantis thinks he’s governor/king/president/head asshole.

    He is actually only the first and last of the above 4. More important he very likely thinks he is owed 100% compliance to his every utterance, just because what he really wants is to be god. And not just any god but the actual head honcho. He’s confused honcho with haunch. Because he really is a buttocks, or in more common use, an ass.

  55. 55.

    persistentillusion

    @CarolPW: Dry Tide laundry detergent, rubbed into the coat, followed by an energetic rinsing off.  Don’t ask me how I know.

  56. 56.

    CarolPW

    @persistentillusion: At 1 am one unfortunately does not have a lot of options for obtaining hydrogen peroxide, Tide, tomato juice or other remedies if one does not already have them. And Bisket is kind of psychotic (hard start to life) so just throwing her into the tub for even a shampoo was not going to happen in the dead of night.

    If she ever gets hit fully (rather than just grazed – apparently she is a good dodger) I will haul her to the dog wash and let them deal with her.

  59. 59.

    stinger

    @CarolPW:

    At 1 am one unfortunately does not have a lot of options for obtaining hydrogen peroxide, Tide, tomato juice or other remedies if one does not already have them.

    This. And don’t ask me how *I* know!

     

    NB: I am not J R in WV.

  60. 60.

    KrackenJack

    @trollhattan: Way too late to the thread as usual. (It’s a west Coast thing)

    The logical conclusion to the video is the camera zooms back as the house collapses.

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