Rain on Wednesday

Good morning friends. It is raining for a change. For the last three months we have had only 1.6 inches of rain!!! Before yesterday we were 18 inches short of normal rain fall. It rained yesterday and it is raining today at least for now!!!
The first week-end Bambi spent with me it rained all week-end long!!! It never stopped. She was a puppy, well 5 months old and she wanted to be out side and she wanted to play too!! So we were outside and we played in the rain!!! She loved it. I and she were wet the whole week-end long!!!! We walked and walked!!! She never did like to play ball. I think that is the sight hound in her. My other sight hounds didn't like to play ball either.
They loved their stuffies and loved to chew on bones and play tug of war but no ball.

Love coming your way, Fern and Angel Bambi

Mondays Memories 6-27-11

Amanda
Joker
Bruce
My Babies for the last 30 years!!! All now at the Rainbow Bridge waiting for their mommy. All out there in our pet cemetery with a few cats.

We had high hopes for a garden this year and some things have been wonderful, but not everything!!!! It has been too HOT HOT HOT!!!!
It has been to dry. Although the last 3 days it has rained a little. One day we got a tenth, the next 2 tenth and yesterday 5 tenths. It is heading in the right direction.
I love all of you my Friends, Fern

Thank you all 106 of you !!!

Hi Friends in Blogville, Today's post is all about you!! You my friends!!
When I lost Bambi 3 weeks ago tomorrow you were all there for me. Saying the words that I needed to hear. You were so sympathetic and kind with those Oh so important words. You all have helped me more than I can express. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.
I miss her and I talk to her all day long!!! She will always live in my heart forever.
I received 106 comments from you who came to visit and tell me how sorry you were that she had died. It was such a shock to me b/c she had not been sick until she was so sick so fast. It was all over in 2 days!! She died with her head in my lap, me sitting on the floor with her talking to her with my hand on her chest feeling her heart!!! I felt it stop, it just stopped!!! I was in shock!!!!
Anyway people and dogs and cats thank you so much!!!
I don't know what I would do without you all!!!
I would be a very lonely old woman with out you guys!!! Thank you!!!

Love coming you way, Fern

Tomorrow is the first day of summer!!

Morning Blogville Friends. Having trouble loading pictures today. I will try again. These are not my first choice but I'll take what I can get.
The picture of me wearing my Love vest (that is what I named it) that I put on my lost post I thought I would show the front here. The vest got some interest.
Then sweet Bambi in her chair. Bambi loved her chair and that is where she was in the day time until she got where she wouldn't get in her chair any more. Some people said get her a stool so she could get in and out of her chair. I did that. But she never got in her chair again. I think it hurt her to move her body the way she had to to get in or sleep in the chair so we got her some joint pills hoping that would make her more comfortable. The pills did help her a lot but she she still never got back in her chair so Tom took it to the shop for people to wait in.
The picture above that is our one and only pet now who is also very old. She is 18 to 20 years old and she takes Joint pills meant for a cat too!!
Summer starts tomorrow and we have had the HOTTEST spring on record and one of the dries.

Love coming your way, Fern

Hummers and Memories

Hi dear Friends,
Above a Baltimore Album quilt I saw and took a photo of in the big quilt show in Paducah Ky back in 99.
When I lost Amanda I made this vest in her memory. I wish I could make something for Bambi. We are talking tree in Bambi's memory . Maybe a pink dog wood tree.?
We use to have 8 to 10 hummers every year. Then 04 happened and we had one hurricane scare after the other all hurricane season. The hummers left that season and didn't come back for two years. Then when they did come back they came in fewer numbers. This year we only have two and neither is male.
Bambi Bambi Bambi why did you leave me????????????? When we first started our life together she had been adopted out 3 times before me. People had her spayed in fact she still had her stitches in her when I got her. People had bought her a crate and some toys and all that came with her when she came home with me that day. People kept bring her back to the shelter and I have no idea why. She was the sweetest puppy you ever would meet. She wanted to please so much. Probably about 2 weeks into our life together we were coming home from an outing and I stopped out at the mail box. I use to drive a Ford extended cab truck. I opened the door to get out and she came out and I caught her in midair!!!!! I shoved her back in the truck and said NO NO and she never again got out of the truck until told to, including she last trip to the vets 2 weeks and a day ago. One time was all it took!!! she was so smart!!
Love coming your way, Fern

It is HOT HOT HOT

Friends we are still eating strawberries from the garden everyday!!! They just keep giving and giving. We have had to share with the coons and who ever else is robbing the garden every night. But we still have had plenty for us and I'll tell you we never get tired of them!!
It has been so hot the coons can't sleep through the day so they are up and about. It has been 98 or above for over 2 weeks and no rain. We are 15 and a half short of rain fall so far this year.
We have been having a low temperature of 82 to 85 at night.
This is just one pot of our purple basil. We have three. This stuff is sososo good if you like basil and you have a chance try some for sure try some!!!!!
After Bambi got well from kennel cough we started our longer walks. She loved our walks and she got a lot of them. In the beginning we would go to parks. She was so happy!!
I work in the gardens 2 to 3 hours every day and it is so hot I am dripping wet when I come in from the garden and it not from water from sweat !!!

Love coming your way, Fern