Time flies

For a long time I thought we bought the trailer house and had it put in  the  pasture in 2011. I don't know how I came to that conclusion.  This morning Cliff asked me how old the shingles on our  mobile home are; I told him we moved out here in 2011 and had the roofers put on the shingles in the same year.  And also, I told him, that's  the year Mama Kitty came to us.  Her story is HERE, by the way.

Oh, how wrong I was; Mama Kitty didn't decide she and her kittens would move to our barn until 2011.  The year we actually moved out here was three years earlier, in 2008.   If I didn't have a blog, I wouldn't know when anything happened!  Oh, and we did not have our roof fixed the same year we moved, either.  That was a year later.  I found that out in this entry.  

Speaking of my lost memory, I was working in a flower bed next to the back of the house last week and saw what I first thought was a weed, until I realized it had some small, dark red flowers on it.  Examining it a little closer, I studied the leaves;  I was pretty sure it was a chrysanthemum!  I know I had to have bought that plant and put it there, because this was a pasture until we got the trailer house, and mums don't grow wild.  But I have no recollection of buying it; in the end I let everything in that spot sort of go to weeds, except for some irises, and the grandson used the weedeater on the rest each time he mowed our yard.  I dug up the mum before our latest rain and put it in another spot that I had cleared of weeds and debri.  The little plant seemed not to mind.

This morning I walked outside with Cliff to show him the mum and take a picture to show my readers.  Alas, some of its beauty was stolen when the grandson's 500-pound dogs, Bonnie and Klouse, came running out to greet us.  Klouse stuck his size 10 right hind leg on my little flower before I could get a picture.  I'm sure the plant will be fine, but it doesn't look so cute now.  

And now you know why we put a fence around my garden

Poor little Chrysanthemum

I was thinning around the peonies when Blue saw the dogs coming and hid