Pinky's Morning Rounds

I wrote a my blog called Fabulous and over 50.

I was doing some pretty heavy duty bitching about being over fifty and how much it really sucked.

But I would like to take this time to acknowledge that there is a flip side to getting older and it it is not always a bad thing. This is because I am finding that there are many simple pleasures that come from the small stuff life has to offer. I could never really appreciate these things up until this time of my life.

This being in in stark contrast to the the intense excitement and constant stimulation which was required when I was younger (like just a couple of years ago.)

For example, up until this past year, I never had a plant that lived longer then a few months. I have recently come to discover, plants and flowers will grow and multiply if you give them water along with tender loving care!

Since this revelation, I have slowly come to appreciate the beauty of growing my own small garden.

This beautiful garden also gives Pinky(my faithful companion) immense pleasure. This is because he considers this natural habitat of flowers to be his own exclusive master bathroom.

Each and every morning, Pinky loves to stroll through my very pretty garden to take his morning constitution.

Pinky likes to help me out with just about everything I do, and the gardening is no exception.

Like clock work the little scamp will add a contribution to my very pretty garden. As a token of his appreciation for the beauty of it all, he will each and every day, like religion, take his morning dump. This of course is always smack dab in the center of the flowers, steaming in the cool morning air, made fresh for the new day....

My first set of pictures that were taken July 17th will show that; (As usual, Pinky will guide the tour)

My Sweet Peas never bloomed, so I had to rip them out, they appeared to look like really ugly weeds. I got about three flowers out of the whole mess.,

My Dahlias are a new strain of dwarf flowers unknown to me. For some reason the flowers them selfs never got any bigger than a quarter.

My successes are the 6' Sunflowers as well as the thirty miniature Rose bushes that I have planted over the last 6 months.