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Thanks for the, ‘Howard Report.’ We expect one every week, now! :)

My Walker Dogs and some of the Plott Hounds will be heading up to Bear Camp with Beau after the holiday weekend.

It will be nice to just have 5 or 6 dogs to care for, versus the 12-13 on the grounds, now. That’s a LOT less chit to shovel every day! :)

‘Someone’ said he is cutting back on dogs and throwing in with his buddy and they will ‘share’ hunting dogs as they bear hunt together all the time, anyway.

PLEASE! Make It So! :)

I hardly know what to do with myself in this puppy-less season, but it IS nice to have the Front Porch to myself, I will admit that! :)

Hot weekend here in Central Missouri. Scattered showers/thunderstorms. .25" rainfall at my place yesterday. We've got pop-up storms in the area again today - it's flatrocking outside now but I don't think it will last very long.

I'm mostly caught up with weeding in the new garden patch. I took the weed whacker to the space inside what will be the new hoop house if I ever get it finished. With the weeds knocked down I'm out of excuses for not working on it. lol

I turned the old compost heap and brought a dozen or so loader buckets full of the "new" stuff and added it to the pile in the garden yard on Saturday. Started spreading that in the bare spaces between veggie plants/rows. Put down a dozen or so wheelbarrow loads on Saturday and about the same number on Sunday. Covered maybe 20% of the space that needs it, so I've got a ways to go before that task is finished. I have plenty of material to finish, just gotta get out there and do it.

Tomato plants have mostly recovered from the indignities suffered during the deluge in June. I have lots of whopper-size green tomatoes so BLT time is just around the corner. Pepper plants are lush and loaded with fruit. Spaghetti squash have softball-size fruit and plenty of new blossoms. Cukes are just starting to set fruit so it won't be long until it's pick-every-day time.

After the bunny rabbits mowed my pole beans I let the weeds take that space. That gave the bean plants some cover and the plants that survived the vicious attack have regrown and are now almost waist high. I'm not expecting a bumper crop, but with the weeds pulled from around them I think they'll take off now. I think I'll get a few good pickings out of them before the end of the season.

Eggplants are kaput. They never took off after being transplanted. Probably too much sun out there. I pulled them up on Saturday.

I'm beginning to think that Howard's previous "caretakers" tortured him with the shock collar. Any time something near him beeps at a frequency close to what the collar makes he comes unglued - he cowers/whines/cries/runs if he can - he cowers if I so much as show him the collar. I can't imagine what kind of person treats a sweet animal with that sort of cruelty, but if there's any justice in the universe it will come back to them.