Please, oh please, oh please!

Below is a picture of an optimistic soul hoping the chicken I am dicing will miraculously land in his dish. We were really good about only giving him people food in his dish and not often. So now when there is something he wants or smells, rather than the occasional starring he usually goes and lays by his bowl. Such a hopeful boy.

ps. He got a few pieces mixed in his food because he is so darn cute!

The things we do for our Dahlias...

I am super motivated this year to grow a garden full of beautiful Dahlia's. Last year something was eating them, and I think our soil was much too rocky. They looked like I had taken the weed-whacker to them. So this year I raised the flower bed and added a soil/manure mixture. I got a bit too excited and planted them this last Sunday (they were rooting in the bag..ahh) just in time for a frost warning. Yeah me! My maternal instinct kicked in and I could not stand for them to freeze. So what do you get when you have an old sheet and a newspaper? Answer: See below!

This bed is against our garage, which I must add does not lean anymore, thanks to my amazing husband. It is going to get new clothes this summer (i.e. siding and paint).
I wanted to show the "before" of my first ever garden. Everything is planted, now we are just encouraging everything to grow, grow, grow!!!