Sunny day, blue skies, pretty good breeze. Things should dry out a lot today - plan on mowing tomorrow. The humidity should drop off this afternoon & be lower tomorrow.
I will definitely have to move my peppers to keep them from getting sunburned this afternoon. I might have enough agricultural cloth to make a shade.
I need to get those Lantana planted in our large pots. The dirt currently in them is just that: dirt. It packs hard & is from our old brush pile at the Old House. I want to refill all 3 pots with potting soil. I am hoping to recruit mom to help - she’s a workhorse & in my current ‘state’, I don’t think I can do the pots myself.
The lavender has taken off & grown a couple of inches. Once I can mow a path through the long grass/ticks to the metal beds, those can go in the ground & I think they will be very happy.
Do you still have the female pup who was being aggressive with Grover?
NWS is hanging with the northeasterly or easterly breezes for us for at least 7 days. VERY unusual. Our high is forecast at 84 deg (and very humid) today (yuck!), but rain chances re-enter tomorrow, and things gradually cool off a bit through the weekend. :-)
“Do you still have the female pup who was being aggressive with Grover?”
Yes, ‘Midnight’ has her own Doggy Condo and is on a chain, so that way if Grover goes near her and she’s being a jerk, he can just run away. She HAS settled down quite a bit. Beau has been working with her. She’s 6 months old, now. It’s not like a baby PUPPY on a chain in one of those ASPCA sad-puppy commercials! ;)
This weekend he will probably re-introduce them to one another and see how it goes. She’ll be on a leash and will more than likely have a ‘correction’ collar on her so he can stop her in her tracks if she’s still being a jerk.
He leaves for Canada for a Spring bear hunt on the 4th, and I will have to take care of all the dogs he leaves behind (he is taking 5 of the current 15) and if she’s not, ‘over it’ the owner’s Dad will take Midnight back to his farm for me.
The reason we have the pups run loose is that they learn about life. And one of our Beagles, or one of the older hunting dogs (with tracking collar!) will take them out and show them the ropes on tracking and basic hunting of smaller game like rabbits and raccoon. You learn to hunt by...hunting! We don’t live by any roads and one or the other of us can see on the Garmin where they are at any given time. Then they move up to bigger things. It makes a HUGE difference in their socialization and their working as a TEAM with others in the pack that they will eventually be integrated into.
Sounds complicated, but it is the most natural way to raise dogs that live to HUNT. I have had SO many compliments on how friendly and ‘social’ my pups are, from their new owners. And I sure want to KEEP that reputation!
I only took on these two because their owner is a good friend of Beau’s, and he is in the middle of selling his place up by our northern cabin, moving to the Fox Valley area, changing jobs, getting married, adopting two little girls and having another baby right now. Otherwise I would have said, ‘Sorry, Charlie,’ LOL!
I have never had any problems with aggression in ANY of the 29 pups I’ve raised from scratch. I most likely won’t take in ANY pups again from someone else that I haven’t helped birth myself! This was an exception - AND these two pups did not come from the same litter, and Midnight is older than Grover, but I’ve integrated pups before that have had age differences. *SHRUG* I guess it’s just one of those things you get to deal with when raising hunting dogs for fun and little profit. ;)
On ‘The Good News’ side, Emma Jolene only needs 1 more UKC Win to be a ‘Bench Champion.’ Friend Hallie will more than likely show Emma at an upcoming UKC-sponsored Bench Show between now and the end of the year. She’ll be a Nite Champion, a Bench Champion and then she can try for one more ‘championship’ for the whole trifecta (I think it’s a Field Trial Championship?) but I fear she won’t live long enough; she’s going on 10 years and that’s old for a working Walker Dog. Unfortunately, she’s also too old to breed at this point. She’d have some talented pups with the right Baby Doggy Daddy!
Beau can put us BOTH out to pasture at the same time. Emma Jolene and I will be just fine...sittin’ on that sack of dog chow, LOL!