Easter Monday Fun

Monday was a gorgeous day! After a very busy work weekend it was very nice to have a couple of days to relax and even nicer that those days were perfect weather days. It has been nice enough that I have been able to sleep with my windows open and be very comfortable. So...back to Monday.CP and I hung out for a bit in the morning with him power washing his house and me taking care of the tomato and pepper plants.

Some pictures of the the plants...see the little jalapeno?

Beef Steak tomato growing nicely and getting bigger.

Cp power washing...

The tomatoes had some bugs on them so I cleaned off the leaves that had been infected, did a little weeding, and then later on treated for the bugs on the tomato and peppers plants. I got some cilantro to plant but did get to it on Monday hopefully I will get it planted soon. Then we will be able to make our own pico.

While we were busy working the pups were busy playing ...

After lunch we went for a nature walk over in the area we cleaned up a few weeks ago. I am happy to report that the area has remained clean. At the beginning of the walk my sweet pup decided to go off on her own and lost track of us so we went back to find her I was searching the area I seen her go wandering off in when CP tells me she was in the jeep! She had evidently realised that was the best place to wait for our return. After that she stuck close to us. We wondered around one trail till it ended at a stream. and then another one till we waded into the lake. We can call it a nature walk not only because we were out in nature but because we saw some nature. One was dead (armadillo) but it is STILL nature. The other, try as I might I couldn't get the pups to leave so I could get a picture of it but was definitely rather cool. It was a dung beetle rolling a dung ball. Before I could snap a picture the pups had scared it into hiding. :(

armadillo bleached white

three pups on the trail

My sweet pup actually got in the water of her own accord and swam out to where we had waded I was so excited! When we went to the beach last summer i had to carry her out and then she would swim right back to shore. Monday she got in the water swam out to us and then hung out swimming for a bit before swimming back to shore. YEAH!!!!

the death of a strawberry

Spring is here! You know how I know? The Astros are in Florida getting ready for the season, plants are on my porch hoping I pay enough attention to them to keep them alive to bear fruit, the sky is blue, and we keep going from 80 for highs to 34 for lows. Got to love spring in south east Texas!
So last Monday after the puppy party it was a gorgeous day so CP and I went and bought tomato and a couple of pepper plants to start his garden. A week later they are looking nice. The romas have blooms on them and the big Boy and beef tomatoes are growing nicely. The Compost we made during the summer and fall is black gold. Awesome stuff. We still need to get the marigolds in for insect protection, a few herbs he wants to grow and a few more pepper plants. He wanted to get the pepper plants even though it is still a tad early for them so we got two but will get a couple more most likely. That all said the plants look healthy and I think he will have a nice harvest.
I had bought a strawberry plant to put in my topsy turvy planter but it got eaten by Carrie today. I am watching and playing with CP's pups today as he has a long day at work and this way they don't have to be all alone. So anyway I left, with my balcony door open, to go do laundry when I came back they ( I really believe it was Carrie) had decided to eat it. I rescued it we shall see if it survives. I now close the balcony door when leaving them alone in the apartment.