Guy's blog about life with pets in northern mich. for Saturday, May 5, 2007

Ivy is a curious mixture of generosity and hubris, evil intent and shortsightedness. She also buys a toy, without prompting, for her brother D.J. when she takes her own money, shopping. This largess entitles her to play with, anytime she want to, her gift toy, but this is an enormous leap forward for her. The other day my favorite candy bar was paid for, (by the unknown source of money) at Ivy’s urging, “For Grampa, because he likes that kind.” When Marilyn presented it to me and replayed the... Sign in to see full entry.

It’s a bright sunny Saturday morning. I have plans to accomplish a great deal of gardening drudgework today. One half will contain tomato plants, peppers and onions and the other half is for strawberry plants. Now I have figure which half will be which. There is some kind of plant virus that lives in the soil that is slow death to tomato plants. It might be tobacco mosaic, I don’t know, but I guess that the virus dictates that tomatoes will go on the north side of the garden and the strawberries... Sign in to see full entry.