Field of Flowers

Here is a picture of my Hooman refers to as "a mess of pretty". She loves the Sweet Pea and Lilies just growing free out there in the field. There is a creek, one of the 2 we have, down there and the Hoomans decided that they are going to selectively harvest the area to keep the flowers, get rid of the weeds and plant things like Corkscrew Willow, Red Twig Dogwood & Paw Paw Trees! My Hooman owned a flower shop once. I think she's trying to create her own wild flower shop!

Bramble Berries

We have an abundance of berries that I get to eat! My neighbor called them Bramble Berries. So I looked that up. It turns out that Bramble Berries include blackberries, raspberries and logan berries. Finally, I am starting to discover some edibles!

Ginormous Spider Tree

 

This is our Spider Tree. It's HUGE like a monster sized Oak Tree and it has these funny Spider-like growths on it. My Hooman has no idea what it is but told me to ask my friends. Do any of you know what kind of tree this is?

Mimosa Tree

This is a Mimosa Tree. We have them on our land. Apparently it is from China but has been here in the states since 1745. I think it is a pretty tree. I bet now my Hooman will be searching for Margarita Trees and Daiquiri Trees. We already have strawberries growing......next I suppose will be the limes.

Sweet Pea

This is Sweet Pea. It grows all over our land. My Hooman is in love with it. Thanks to her genius wino friend wine loving friend in the big state, now she knows what it is! I like it too, although I am only allowed to smell it not eat it. Sounds familiar huh?

Cyclops Fishing Spider

This is not just a Fishing Spider. It's a Cyclops Fishing Spider, seriously...click on it & see. It is a pretty big spider as you can tell by the 1inch garden hose next to it. Cyclops lives in our well and comes out every night to stare at me. Gross. Did you know that they can walk on water to catch their prey?

I think my Hooman picked this house on purpose. Think about it. It was owned by Freddie Mac from Nightmare on Elm Street. There is a Potato box Vampire Coffin in the basement and now a Fishing Cyclops Spider lives in my well.

Lightning Bugs not Ginger Bugs

I have been calling this bug a Ginger Bug for days now because of its red head. Come to find out it is a lightning bug. Who knew?

I have them all over the yard. So many in fact that every night looks like the Sydney New Years Eve fireworks celebration! Ok, maybe not as cool as Australian Fireworks displays, but very cool. I will say it is very hard to photograph them. Here are a couple with my Elusive Bunny!

Sea Shell

So the other day when I was in the basement I found this sea shell. Surely it's positive proof that my house must have been at the bottom of the sea 14.6 billion years ago.

My Friend the Fly

This is my friend, the fly. We had a long conversation today while my Hooman was drinking her coffee. My Hooman got mad at this little fly because he wouldn't leave her water alone. She has this thing about water having to be filtered. He wasn't trying to be a pest, he simply needed to stop and rest. He was a well traveled fly and like me, quite the adventurer.

Slate Walkway

This is the slate walkway to my front door. It is original to the house from 1942. My Hooman is in love with it. She sat today for an hour sketching out different landscape designs for it. She could design around a statue of me. I would make a great focal point.

Vampire Lair in the Basement

Being the adventurer that I am, I thought I would explore the unknown that is the basement. Until I found the Vampire Lair. I'm not really a fan of any creature who wants to bite me. My Hooman told me not to be afraid because it was only a potato box. I'm not afraid. But seriously, who needs a 6ft long potato box? I know a Vampire Coffin when I see one. I watched from the safety of the stairs. I bravely watched it for a moment but couldn't see any sparkling, so it must not be a teenage-heart-throb-vampire. Means it must be a scary vampire and that explains the stake on top! Exploration complete.....Little Dog has no further reason to go into the basement.

Yep.......definitely an alien.

Aliens or False Parasol Mushrooms

It rained today. I was wandering around in my yard when I stumbled upon these. I was so excited that my Hooman decided to grow roasted marshmallows for me to eat! As I got closer I realized that these aren't marshmallows. I was about to run back to the house to save my Hooman from the alien buried in the yard up to it's antennae when my Hooman told me to stay away from the mushrooms. She says they are called Chlorophyllum molybdites and they are poisonous so I cannot eat them. I still think it's an alien so I am going to watch the yard very carefully to make sure it doesn't steal my toys.

 

It's Looking At Me!

Yesterday I showed you that the Hoomans pulled out the radiators. They put them on the back deck. Now they are looking at me! How am I supposed to do "dog stuff" when I am under surveillance?

Radiator, no radiator

As you already know, we bought one of Freddie Mac's houses. I think Freddie owns a lot of houses. It has had radiators coming up out of the floors.

 

 

Notice the paint chips on the floor? My Hooman said something about scraping the ceiling because someone painted latex paint over oil based paint. Now I don't understand all of that, but I do know that my Hooman is only 5'3 & 3/4" (she always adds the 3/4 so it must be important) and the ceilings are 11' tall. This should be fun to watch.

 

Oh, back to my story. Apparently the Hoomans do not like radiators anymore because one of the Hoomans crawled under the house and used a reciprocating saw with a hacksaw blade to cut the pipes. So now it looks like this.

 

 

We found some flowery wallpaper back there. we also found some pictures and coins, pennies mainly. Oh yeah, we also found some N'SYNC lip balm with a picture of Justin Timberlake on it. Don't eat it, it's gross. Lesson learned.