A Man and his Dog

A Man and his Dog Here is your dad in his boat--how far do you think he's going to get, rowing through the forest? Actually, he's trying to get Orvis accustomed to the boat so he can take him out on the water. I think he has a long way to go . . . Orvis bounced in and out and around, and it was all we could do to get him to stay still enough for a quick picture. It will be a hopeless project to get him into the canoe. While I had the camera out, I took a picture of our house as it is right now--no snow. The little flower bed in the yard was my July project--it was there, but needed weeding and re-planting. It has some perennials in it, and I'm hoping that in a year or two it will look full and pretty and it will show up better in pictures. We'll see . . . We lost a lot of the original planting after the first winter--the deer got in and ate our roses and two lilacs. Also, a sapsucker devastated one mountain ash tree and severely damaged the one that remains (center of this photo). So! We're trying to put in things that are easy-care and don't attract deer or sapsuckers. When we're here, Orvis keeps most of the wildlife out of our yard, but some early-morning grazers (deer) got the geraniums that were in those clay pots atop the rocks on the right side of the flower bed.