FishinBC's Blog

Worrying about Briar Rose
Jul 27, 2007 | 8:07 AM PST
Tags: Patio , Dogs , Daylily , Fall Veggies

Not really a lot to report.  Just the dog days of summer and the regular chores.  Hubby cut the grass last night and we added all the clippings to the compost pile.  I added more browns to even out the mixture.  Picked eight ripe yellow and red tomatoes, some peppers, two cukes and one zucchini last night.  We will have them with dinner this evening. 

The new raised bed will finally be complete this weekend and will start prepping for a fall crop.  I am looking at broccoli, cauliflower, beets, and peas and want to get some garlic in to winter over. 

I have another daylily that has bloomed this one is called “Fall Embers”.  It’s very pretty and I will try to post a photo if the bloom hasn’t faded by the time I get home. 

We got a new patio table and six chairs last night at Wally World.  They are marking stuff down now.  Nothing fancy just stained pine, but we needed a bigger table and more chairs.  Never have an enough room for everyone on the small one we have had since we got married.  I gave the table a coat of Australian timber oil to protect it and will do the chairs tonight when we get home.  The table looked nice this morning when I checked it to see if it had dried.  We will christen it tomorrow with a BBQ on the deck with friends.

Missy Blue Eye, Briar Rose has me a little worried.  We think she had a seizure last night.  She has been on Phenobarbital four years after having cluster seizures a month after we adopted her.  We have been seizure free until last night.  Called the vet and she said one breakthrough seizure is not a big deal but if she has another we need to go in and have her phenol levels checked.  This was a small one no thrashing, just clacked her teeth together and it only lasted seconds.  But you could tell that electricity was firing off in her brain and she was hot an acting drunk for a bit afterwards.  Always keep vanilla ice cream in the house just in case, it speeds recovery and helps cool them down.  She enjoyed her treat though.