Lazy day To Ramble

I am loving the rain this morning. I mowed a fair amount of grass yesterday. I just used the push mower around the house. Lee will take care of the rest with the tractor once the yard dries back out. Man, it's coming down out there. My water buckets are full and ready to be mixed with some fertilizer and sloshed on our tomatoes, peppers and newly planted shrubbery. I have a few things that I've been nursing like the red bud and blue berry bushes that Ruby keeps eating. I swear that dog makes me crazy. She notices if I pay extra attention to something and the jealous little brat will tear it up. Last year we transplanted the red bud from the lower part of the yard, where we plan to put a garage to a spot right out front. It was just a stub with a couple of leaves because a late frost just about killed it earlier in the year. I put mulch around the base and watered it with Miracle-Gro to help it reestablish. Just when it started looking like it was going to be okay, she ate every single leaf off of it. I had told her she needed to come in, she said she didn't want to. I yelled at her, pointing my finger at her, as if to lay down the law, and she rolled over on her back and said just a few more minutes. I went inside, knowing that i would either have to carry her limp, fat, puppy ass in or I'd have to get her leash. I gave her a few more minutes, because sometimes that all she really needs, but when I returned, she was laying beside my little tree chewing the a leafless branch. That's just ornery. She can be so bad sometimes. You can understand my second guessing our decision to plant five azaleas around it this spring. After we did it, I thought about how "special" it might appear to her now. I've seen her take notice, but she's probably doesn't know where to start. We planted four more azaleas between the grouping and the arborvitaes, and five hydrangeas bushes under the trees behind it. Too much for her to process, I guess, and a pretty good strategy to use in the future. Looks like tomorrow should be pretty...and hot.

I'm planning on heading upstairs shortly to do some sewing. Perfect thing to do on a day like today. Either that or go back to bed. Lee's not home, so I'll sew.

I haven't heard from anybody much this week. Not even Momma. I don't make a habit of picking up the phone unless I have something to say, so it's been quiet. Momma and Lonnie have a new grandbaby, Allison is in Disney World, Robin has a stomache virus, and Lesley is a fool, who has her disapproving sisters blocked from Facebook, so we can't see her make an ass of herself on a daily basis. Oh, but she sends us messages as our Avon Representative.