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elf1 > The other thing about having crazed agility-style dogs in one's yard is that one can't just plant flowers and things just anywhere, or they will die, brutally and suddenly. So everything goes into pots. This year I am being bold and attempting to grow strawberries and tomatoes in my strawberry pot, which used to have a fuchsia in it, go figure. And I hope that I will eat them before the dogs find them. (And note the rainbow-colored dog tiedown on the table in the background.)

elf1 > I have many many flowers that I want to plant in many many pots. Just looking at this reminds me that I have many many dogs and that I cannot have a normal flower bed like--normal. So much to do, so little time!

elf1 > So I plant flowers in pots all over the yard. But if I try to take a photo, I see the little markers that I put on the screen door to prevent dogs from attempting to run through it at 33 miles per hour on an emergency squirrel mission.

elf1 > But a clever photographer will zoom in to get the dog-evidence out of the photo.

elf1 > Or zoom in even further to really enjoy the absence of screen doorage entirely.

elf1 > But I digress. Lawn. Sod. Dogs. See sod rolls. See dogs lie. (They're not really dishonest. Trust me.)

elf1 > Here is the clever photographer's attempt to get a vista of more flower pots plus all those rolls of sod with no dogs. But no--voila le dogwalk in le background.

elf1 > So--back to the soil. In fact the clay soil has many many useful nutrients that go beyond what the bizarre dogs absorb when they bizarrely snack on some. It just needs organic matter added to release the nutrioids from their cruel imprisonment.

elf1 > Fortunately I manufacture compost right here in my very yard. Although the dogs would like to think so, they are not in fact my primary decomposers; friendly bacteria and worms and such do all the work on all those leaves and grasses that I toss with a light water dressing for their eating pleasure.

The other thing about having crazed agility-style dogs in one's yard is that one can't just plant flowers and things just anywhere, or they will die, brutally and suddenly. So everything goes into pots. This year I am being bold and attempting to grow strawberries and tomatoes in my strawberry pot, which used to have a fuchsia in it, go figure. And I hope that I will eat them before the dogs find them. (And note the rainbow-colored dog tiedown on the table in the background.)

> The other thing about having crazed agility-style dogs in one's yard is that one can't just plant flowers and things just anywhere, or they will die, brutally and suddenly. So everything goes into pots. This year I am being bold and attempting to grow strawberries and tomatoes in my strawberry pot, which used to have a fuchsia in it, go figure. And I hope that I will eat them before the dogs find them. (And note the rainbow-colored dog tiedown on the table in the background.)

The other thing about having crazed agility-style dogs in one's yard is that one can't just plant flowers and things just anywhere, or they will die, brutally and suddenly. So everything goes into pots. This year I am being bold and attempting to grow strawberries and tomatoes in my strawberry pot, which used to have a fuchsia in it, go figure. And I hope that I will eat them before the dogs find them. (And note the rainbow-colored dog tiedown on the table in the background.)

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