Volume 13 , Issue 30

Duchess of Weaselskin

Thank goodness NW Okie left these short-nosed Duchess and Sadie Pugs back in the cool Colorado Rockies while she headed East towards the prairies of Kansas and Oklahoma. We hear that a few drops of moisture makes the air heavy and too muggy to breathe.

How dry is it in Oklahoma? It is so dry that the small ponds are in deadly need of a drastic refill ASAP! It is so dry that the delicate grasses in the pastures have turned golden and crunch under each step you take. Even lawns, yards in town show signs of how dry it is. Some churches have signs up that read, "Pray for Rain!" Will that really help? What about the good old Indian rain dances of the past?

Anyway, NW Okie left us pugs here in Colorado rockies to watch her tomatoes and other vegetables she has growing in her greenhouse. One of the "Early Girl" tomatoes turned red while she was gone and someone accidentally ate it. Was it an accident? Was it a small tomato with a big flavor? Will we ever know?

Then there is the ground squirrel (or whatever) that stripped clear all the parsley leaves off the plants and left only the steams. A bystander told this Duchess Pug, "Something ate every leaf off of the parsley plant without breaking the stalks or pulling up the roots. A very clean job of nibbling, if I do say so myself."

The same thing happened last year, also! Instead of hanging the parsley plant on a plant hook, we placed it on a garden stump, in an area that known squirrels were known to wander. I guess those squirrels should have the freshes breathe, huh?

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