Today Tom had to go into school to work in the lab for a little while, so after breakfast Dad, Mom and me decided to head over to Old Time Pottery. I have wanted to go there since we moved here and they saw it in one of their visitor's guides so we thought, why not! Mom actually found a lot of stuff. She got some seat cushions and pillows for her outside patio furniture. She also got a cute picture to hang in her sun porch and Dad got a little frog statue of a boy and girl frog sittin' together, how cute!!!
After Old Time Pottery we decided to go get some traditional Southern BBQ. Since Tom doesn't like BBQ we thought it would be a perfect opportunity to go out to lucnch without him since he wouldn't be missing out on anything anyway. Tom got done with school early and called during lunch... He was going home to cut the grass and clean up the yard. Thanks Tom!
After lunch we decided to go to Lowes and Wal Mart to pick up some flowers to plant around the house. I am not the best person to pick out flowers so I thought since I have the best person here visiting me I should get her to help me. Mom picked out some really pretty ones, so hopefully I will be able to keep them alive!!! Some day I plan on being as good at her and Dad in the garden!
When we got home it was pretty hot outside and poor little Riley was just miserable. We had put it off long enough, it was time for the shave!!!! She does a good job of standing still and just letting me do it, but by the end she gets a little sick of it and ready to get out of there. This was when we just started... you should have seen all the hair that we ended up with when she was done. We could have made a puppy hair sweater!!!
After Old Time Pottery we decided to go get some traditional Southern BBQ. Since Tom doesn't like BBQ we thought it would be a perfect opportunity to go out to lucnch without him since he wouldn't be missing out on anything anyway. Tom got done with school early and called during lunch... He was going home to cut the grass and clean up the yard. Thanks Tom!
After lunch we decided to go to Lowes and Wal Mart to pick up some flowers to plant around the house. I am not the best person to pick out flowers so I thought since I have the best person here visiting me I should get her to help me. Mom picked out some really pretty ones, so hopefully I will be able to keep them alive!!! Some day I plan on being as good at her and Dad in the garden!
When we got home it was pretty hot outside and poor little Riley was just miserable. We had put it off long enough, it was time for the shave!!!! She does a good job of standing still and just letting me do it, but by the end she gets a little sick of it and ready to get out of there. This was when we just started... you should have seen all the hair that we ended up with when she was done. We could have made a puppy hair sweater!!!
She was a much happier, cooler dog when she was done. She was especially happy that her Grandpa took her down in the back yard to try to teach her tricks with the treats. We are working on the down and bang, your dead move. It seems that no dog will ever be as good at it as the Sally dog that I grew up with! (side bar) Sally was also one of the best dogs ever... she had a little routine: she did "army dog" where she crawled on her belly, then we told her "the enemies are coming, retreat, retreat!!!" and she started doing her army dog backward, then we pointed our finger at her like a gun and shouted "bang" and she rolled over into dead dog!! I mean, how cool is that! Too bad we never thought to get that on video tape. I think we would have won $10,000 on AFV!
After the doggy shave we thought, hey since we're already dirty and the backyard is starting to get some shade, why not plant my herb garden. I got that old wooden tool box free at a garage sale and have wanted to turn it into an herb garden ever since. Mom and Dad do such a good job planting stuff, they volunteered to put it together with me. I actually did help though even though I am not in the picture!! :)
It turned out better than I even imagined it would. I can't wait to cook with it. We now have fresh basil, oregano, rosemary and celantro. YUMMY!!!
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