kato potato

for cybermule      heres a picture of some of our potato buckets - a bit bigger than your regular bucket but we did use regular buckets last year - these are Duke of York First Earlys. I think if there is room to earth up at least two or three times - they are fine.
Tried to add a kAt0 to the photo for perspective - 



Potato buckets without foliage have a bit part early on in this action filum  http://floot.demon.co.uk/lynn/kato%20abe%20potato.AVI

Canine Feminist Collective - Avian Division

We found this nest in a hanging basket left in our outhouse - Mr and Mrs Robin could be seen dutifully delivering McWorms all day long - they have since moved out to their second home in our holly tree. Reckon they are planning a second batch as Mr and Mrs Robin have been back a few times recently. Bird-dog of Wolves has only scared the poo out of one fledgling - but then it is only April.

Little Abe the Pensioner

Noticed how silver Abes snoot has gone - she looks very wise indeed

( Elderly Abe )

Vetwards

Java enjoyed her trip to the vets about her back trouble - Vet Ian could find very little wrong, walked her up some stairs, even took her for a long street walk to try and see if she did the tense gait. He could see there was some sort of discomfort but nothing too dramatic - probably just twisted herself playing Slippy Dog. So its just basket-rest and as she weighed in at a well-loved (but not over-loved -still a skinny stick dog) 25kg her Metacam has been increased. Java was well behaved in the waiting room, saying a polite "what you in for?" to her waiting room companions. 

Java did wonder why hippy didn't tell the vet about the terrible nightmare/hallucination she had on Saturday - for 90 seconds she was convinced she saw Evil Bitch That Abe - a side effect of the Metacam perhaps.

Little Abe and The Anal Probe

Sounds like the title of a Harry Potter book or something - Little Abe and the Anal Probe.  Abe has been scooting a lot recently - for those  of you without scooting dogs - she scoots on her bottom, with her back legs off the floor and pulling herself along. This makes her aggravated and sore - and makes us wince, especially when she does it on gravel. This usually means she has impacted anal glands and its off to the vets to have them manually emptied................flist of sensitive tummy nature may want to leave this story here

( Tails of the Tailend Continue )