Yesterday my eye caught a glimpse of wood in my front flower bed where I shouldn't have been able to see any. Upon closer examination, I saw that one of my little Japanese maples had been beheaded, leaving a small stump and a few shoots - no doubt by a certain careening canine. I was so mad that I had to put Jackson in the laundry room while I cooled down; there wasn't any point in punishing him when I didn't catch him in the act, but it would have been easy to vent my anger.
First thing this morning I let Jackson outside as usual. When I headed out to do chores a bit later he met me with one of Brian's balls in his mouth. (Brian knows the rule: if he leaves something outside, he can't blame Jackson for any damage incurred.) We romped together a bit, and I realized how much this dog has wedged himself into my heart, in spite of how aggravating he can still be (and as mad as I was about my irreplaceable maple!). He's soft and beautiful and smart and affectionate, and SOMEday he'll probably stop being quite so rambunctious - right? (RIGHT???)P.S. The first zucchini is history, sliced on top of a pizza. Yum! Look for some of our favorite zucchini recipes soon.
That's it for now at . . .
4 comments:
Ah, Ma! Maybe the pruning will make it grow back even better. :-)
He sure is getting to be a beauty. Boone actually prunes small trees with his teeth. I went out one afternoon and found my redbud tree with every limb 'cut back' to about four inches. I couldn't think what had done it, since I have a fenced yard... then there was Boone, innocently standing but a few steps away, twigs around his paws. (by the way, the redbud flourished this Spring).
Tammy
Oh yeah, he'll mellow out....when he's about 10. :) I don't even want to think about the plants/trees my pack has destroyed. Though I do have a little laceleaf maple that they "pruned" back to a stump and amazingly after planting it where they can't get to it, it HAS recovered. Doesn't have quite as nice of shape..... Tammy
Hey, the maple is outside!
In all your *spare* time, you could put him in agility and harness all that joy of living energy that he has :)
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