The Garden

Mom's garden really blossomed while we were in Mary-land. Here are a few pictures.

This is the shade garden.

This is the side garden we see from the kitchen window.

This is the garden in our front yard. Most folks around here have grass.  Not Mom. I think it's much prettier.

Mom has lettuce and a-roo-gala in window boxes on the side porch railings.

Of course, no view of our gardens would be complete without a photo of our front steps and the colorful plants Mom has arranged there, and you can see me, too.

TEN YEARS!

WOW! Time flies.

TEN years ago. Count 'em. TEN!

TEN years ago I was hit by a car and left for dead in the middle of a busy street in New Haven Connecticat.

TEN years ago, my leg was broken in two places and my leg was dislocated at the hip.

TEN years ago, Malcolm rescued me, and then hundreds of cat lovers around the world helped with green papers to pay the very big bill and put me back together.

Lookit those stitches.

I am still here. I can run and jump and do whatever I want, thanks in no small way to the cat lovers who helped save my life.

TEN years ago I could have gone to the Rainbow Bridge, but I am still here, enjoying the simple pleasure of being alive.

It has been TEN years, but I have not forgotten those of you who helped save my life.

THANK YOU, once again, from the bottom of my little furry heart.



You can read more here: http://darlingmillie.blogspot.com/2007/06/one-year-rescue-versary.html

A Good Vacation Is...

Mom says a good vacation always includes....

Good food. (This is Dim Sum at Tearrific)

Fine Art. (this is at Anne Marie Gardens)

And Fambly.

Check, check, and check.

We'll be home soon. (I'm really eager to get out of these traveling digs.)

More Bread, and Cake

Mom made six more loaves of bread this morning, for my Mary-land fambly.

and this is all that's left of the big cake she made yesterday.

Today we all went for Dim-Sum, but I didn't eat any of that.

My CatGal Pal Delilah

Delilah is the new cat in my Mary-land fambly. She is tiny and delicate and doesn't take any guff from anybody.  We got along right away.

She is the real queen of the house.
 

Isn't she a cutie-pie?

Silent Sunday

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Baby Bump!

Mr Karate sent this photo to Mom last night! Only nine weeks left! Woo Hoo!

Wordless Wednesday

Millie Monday

I'm only going on the porch, Mom. No need to check up on me every five minutes. I mean, like, really!

Friday on the Porch

Yes, I am on the front porch. I love being able to go out there whenever I want.

On The Bed

It was chilly last night, so I slept on the bed with Mom. It makes a nice change.

The Squad is Coming

Yup. Mom called some guys called The Mosquito Squad and they are coming to spray our property with stuff to kill mosquitoes and ticks. Mom says I can't be out on the porch when they come, so I'm confined to the inside, but it's nice to know Mom won't have to worry about getting Lyme Disease again this year.

I'm fine, I just haven't been posing for pictures. Mom has been finishing up quilts and cleaning the house. And she has been reading. She just finished Before The Fall and now she is reading The Fireman. She loved Before The Fall but thinks The Fireman needed a good editor.

Sunny Saturday

Did you think I would be anywhere else?

June 2 2016 Google Doodle

If you don't do anything else today, please do this. Go to Google, and watch today's Google Doodle animation. It celebrates Lotte Reiniger, a German filmmaker who pioneered silhouette films.

It is so totally cool and beautiful. After you're done watching (and if you're anything like Mom, wiping the tears out of your eyes...) then click the link that says "Watch how today's doodle was made."

If you miss this today, you can go to: http://www.google.com/doodles to see it. And depending on where you live, you might not see this one. Google has different doodles for different countries. For example, Mom and I did not see Suzanne Leglen's doodle on May 24 because we do not live in France.

Wordless Wednesday

New Bowls!

Mom bought me some new food bowls. They are different from what she usually buys. (Mom likes Japanese rice bowls.)

I like the sentiments on this bowl.

This striped one is pretty.

This one is fun. However...

THIS IS NOT FUNNY!

I know it's just a bowl, but... MOM!!!!

Finally Friday

Lookit where Mom found me when she got home from day hunting yesterday.

Of course, that doesn't mean I can't spend any time anywhere else...

The Escape Route

This window in the living room opens onto the front porch.

When Mom opens the window and the screen, it makes a perfect escape route for me if somebody comes on the porch when I am already there. It also makes it possible for me to enjoy the front porch any time I want.

I love my Mom.

More, More and MORE Plants!

OK, Here are the other plants that came in the mail the other day. These are for planters for the front yard.

One of these is for in front of our big "Crocodile Rock",

 It will be tall and full of bright color. At least, it is supposed to be...

One is so Mom can look out the kitchen window and see something pretty,

and two to flank the entrance to the carport. Mom thinks some creature got to this one because one of the plants looks like it got crushed. Oh well. We'll see.

The stuff Mom had in planters on the front porch steps last year didn't make it through the winter. Mom was a bit bummed, but went to the local garden place and after a lot of thought came home with all this.

I think Mom is happier with these planters now. All these things like "part sun, part shade" and will grow to be very pretty and colorful.
 

Even I think these are going to be very pretty.

Hey, check this out, this was the shade garden exactly a year ago today. Mom was planting it.

 This was taken this morning. What a big difference! Mom has added a couple of things, and shifted a few plants around. Everything looks really good, and Mom is very happy.

Well, maybe not. Mom went to the Big Box store and brought back these herbs for the vegetable garden. Remember Mom got Lyme Disease last year and wasn't able to do much with the vegetable garden,  but this year she has made up for it. Here is Parsley and Dill, Basil and Thai Basil.

 They joined the Rosemary, Thyme, Oregano, Chives, some Basils and Tarragon that Mom has already planted.

In the corner under the carport, Mom has put some other planters of pretty colored shade loving plants in containers, partly so visitors won't walk into the big wind chime we have hanging directly above.

Mom also planted the Mint plants on the other side of the house. That area really needs work. There is kudzu back there, and it will take a lot to get rid of it, or to at least beat it back. The back yard is a real mess and Mom will work on that last.

There are seven bags of mulch stacked up just to the right of the planters in the photo above. Mom has to spread that around the area to the right of the driveway, where the peonies are getting ready to bloom, but that will have to wait because Mom is tired. (Gee, dunno why!)

Mom is two years into a five-year plan for redoing the landscaping of the house. Now she thinks it might be six year plan. All the plants she planted in the shade garden are doing very well, but that's because she had good dirt put in. She has lost some stuff she planted in the front yard, so she knows to fix that she has to put good dirt out there too. Still though, it's a good start. Mom has contracted an exterminator to spray the yard for ticks and mosquitoes throughout the summer, so she won't have to worry about that again this year.

Me? I'll be on the front porch.

Saturday Caturday

So here is the picture of the Shade Garden I wanted to show you yesterday. It is really looking good.

Mom is very happy.  She went out last night and bought dirt and a very big pot. AND she brought home MORE PLANTS!!!!

These aren't them. These are for the gigantic pot she bought, and they are going out in the front yard.

Me, I'm gonna enjoy being on the front porch all day long. Photos later...