Ussies In The Grass

We had a fairly quiet week for a change!

We had some nice weather, warm and sunny, and we had rain, too. So much that the grass is growing way too fast! Petcretary says she can sit down and see it growing, BOL! She mowed it twice in the past 10 days.

And yes the grass is nice and soft too! Good for laying in, or rollin on...

Petcretary keeps on with weed removal, specifically the non native invasive ones, and the vines that want to climb up the trees. (Virginia creeper, invasive non-native bittersweet, bindweed, and even poison ivy, garlic mustard, pokeweed, bittercress, cleavers, and all the weeds that make 'stickons' that cling to the dog's furs...) She also removes a lot of tree seedlings, such as cherry (Not the yummy sweet ones, these make tiny rather bitter ones...), and cottonwood, which when mature make a huge mess very late spring, and they are easily blown over or lose limbs. So she lets the oak and sugar maples stay. Walnuts, well we already have plenty of those, so those come out too.  You are welcome to come by and dig any out that you want to grow for yourselves, BOL! Dandelions are allowed to stay, as are many others...

She found these gems back there in a meadow like area of our woodsy back third of the yard.

Purple violets

White violets

Solomon's Seal; soon tere will be little white flowers hanging from it, then in the late summer, there will be dark blue berries hanging there.

Jack in the pulpit; in the fall the 'pulpit' will be a large spike with red berries.

She wishes there were trilliums back there...but none ever have been seen...There used to be a little stand of large grape hyacinths, but when all the trees came down, in the storms of May 2025, we think they were destroyed. Maybe they might come back...We also have lots and lots of Canada Mayflower., the are just beginning to show up, eventually the ones that bloom will have a stalk of white flowers followed by red berries later in the early fall.

OK, here are our Ussies:

Dalton was being silly, trying to get Benji to romp

Hi, Petcretary...nothing going on here...BOL!

We forgot about this day...so here is an older image of the three of us...

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