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Well for better for worse I have always used Frontline until we swapped to the Comfortis last year. The Frontline was not holding the fleas back and he was still getting itchy hence the change. Lucky you guys with no ticks or fleas.
Flynn is not a grazer either... he is a scoffer! If I left a bowl of anything down I don't think it would last very long. :D
I hope you had a wonderful Mom's Day!!!!! Did Ryan and his better half come to see you? Was the weather good?
I took a lesson from my sister-in-law's play book: I had the family here but hardly any work- I ordered everything made at the local market, hubby picked it all up and we plopped it all down hot on the dining table.
Ir was better than going out to eat because we got to sit at the dining table and talk and laugh for hours, Mom was here and so was my Koko.
No stress:D:D:D:D:D:D
Happy M day!
That sounds like a wonderful day Addy.
I hope you had a wonderful day too Susan!
Hubs and family made breakfast for me this morning and then we basically relaxed the rest of the day away. This evening we worked on getting started opening the pool. Over all it was a good day. :)
Hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin
Happy Mommy's Day to you, Addy!! I had a very relaxing day. Ryan was down to visit last weekend, as it had been his first chance to come down and visit since Christmas. We sort of celebrated Mother's Day last weekend. He and Ellen are coming down for Memorial Day weekend, which I am looking forward to. We've not seen Ellen since Thanksgiving.
The weather today was absolutely ideal. Totally blue skies, very low 80s and low humidity. Tons of pollen, but other than all that yellow everywhere, I don't seem to be bothered by pollen, ever since I gave birth to Ryan. Weird, huh?
Bob cooked some steaks on the grill, Ryan called twice and he posted a couple of pictures to my Facebook timeline-ones of the two of us when he was a little boy. I'm going over to VA on Tuesday and we'll have dinner together and he promised he has saved a hug for me! (Plus some other gift.) Somebody sure did a good job raising that kid!!:D:D
You asked-my hostas are all mostly up and looking fine. Some of the younger ones are lagging behind, but we're supposed to have a pretty decent week this week, so I think they'll catch up. My irrigation is running and everything has been fed, so I just need some warm weather and some sunshine to move things along. I just planted some French Vanilla marigold seeds which I hope will take so I can put then outside in another month. I can never find them anywhere. I meant to sow the seeds right when we came back from FL, but the illness got in the way. I think I lost 4 of my 5 roses and I don't plan to replace them. Hybrid Ts just don't do well here. I grew 31 of them in Arlington very successfully. Not here.
Have a good Monday, Addy! Woof, woof to Koko.
Finally my hostas are coming up and we may have leaves on our trees by next week. I cant plant my window boxes yet as it was own to 37 the other night so I still have frost worries.
I hope you are having good weather. we have had horrible rain day after day this week but today the sun is shining. It is hard to believe it is almost Memorial Day. Did you open the hot tub? We still have not opened the pool.
I do hope you visit with Ryan is tons of fun. I know you will enjoy it. Sounds like a wonderful weekend plan:):):):)
have to run, love you
addy
My little hostas are still coming up. My established ones are full. We have had a nice day here and there....total of three I think. The hot tub is open and running, after going through replacement of parts that broke through the winter cold. Thank goodness we paid to have it shut down and to have it opened. At least the parts and labor on the repairs were covered.....although it costs an arm and a leg for them to shut it down and to open it. Then it took several filter cycles changes to catch all the goop that was produced during this process, but it's nice and clean now.
You're on my mind every day, Addy. I wish I could help. Wasn't the race exciting yesterday? I thought of you then, too. As they rounded the third "corner" I said to Bob-he's got it, he's gonna win!
Love,
Sus
My hostas are up and full too, except for the two "blue" hostas the big leaf ones, those are just coming up.
Oh the hot tub sounds like exactly what I need today. Gardening is killing my back. :) The pool isn't heated up all the way yet. Too cold for me anyway.
I know I was telling Addy our pool looked horrible this year when we went to open it. blech!
hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin
We pulled out all the plants that decided to grow in the gravel path leading to the bridge. It already looks so much better. I lost quite a few pachysandra- I think from the salt we put down so I would not fall again carrying Zoe.
We spoke to a Realtor yesterday. She feels if we can wait one more year yo sell the house, it would be better.
We still have quite a few trees without leaves and the Emerald Ash borer is hitting our are hard:mad: Do you have problems with that in your area?
Did you decide on a tick medicine? I was going to look into the Advantage Lori is using.
I lost a lot of pachysandra but it was because I had to kill it in order to get rid of a weed that was running rampant. I can't remember the name of it now....but the only way to get rid of it is RoundUp. It looks like I was successful, but now I need to replant pachysandra. I have no idea how the weed got here....I'd never seen it anywhere before.....but it's nasty, nasty, nasty.
I've not heard tales of the Emerald Ash borer. We are almost entirely pines here. There are some deciduous trees, but they are in the minority. Actually-there are about 6 outside the two windows I have right here to look out of. I like that. I love the changing colors.
Regarding tick medicine, I had just purchased a year's supply from the vet. They said nothing about the warning. If you bought one year's worth you got $50 back plus three free doses. From what I was able to read about it, so far I'm sticking with it. The only adverse affect I've noticed from it is that it will remove my nail polish from my nails if I touch the applied area before it has had a chance to dry thoroughly.:eek: Maybe that should scare me enough!! Bob puts it on now.
I did plant a bunch of new astilbe, reds and whites and I had to replace two paniculata hydrangea. Look those up. They are wonderful. They look a little like butterfly bushes but are hydrangeas. Gorgeous. I got Limelight....either lime green or white flowers.....depending on where you read about them. I'll let you know. A neighbor let me take a bunch of her daisies so I could expand my daisy bed into where the roses were. Now I just need to thin out and spread out my black eyed Susan's on the other side. I think for next year I'd like to plant some iris out front. I don't have anything for color like that out there. I do have a bunch of daylillies...they're just not blooming yet. And I do have 4 lantana coming along, but they're so tiny right now.
That's it for the Spengler gardening report!:D
Love,
Sus
Glad to hear the gardens are coming along ladies!! Eek that tick stuff sounds toxic if it takes off nail polish :eek::eek: