That Close-up Turned Out a Little Closer Than I Expected
After years of fighting the deer over garden rights, I gave up a couple of years ago and had the garden planted with a deer mix. I get ground cover. The deer get undisputed grazing. We're both happy.
I've been especially happy the last few days as the plot has blossomed into a sea of tiny little flowers.
Tiny little flowers that are, in my knees' opinion, way too close to the ground.
It's been a wet spring so the garden has yet to completely dry out, and it is still just this side of mud. It's also still somewhat furrowed from the last time it was plowed, and very hard to walk across, especially as soft as it is.
My knees won't let me kneel without protest, so I was stooping down to get close-ups when suddenly my foot turned over and I ended up eye-to-eye with the flowers. Fortunately, the ground is soft enough that the fall didn't hurt much, and just dry enough that I didn't get muddy.
Once I managed to get into a sitting position, I figured as long as I was down there, I might as well take pictures.
Guiness the Cat, by the way, bemoaning the demise of his beloved jonquils, did not volunteer to come help me get up when I was done.
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Comments
Kasman wrote on March 28, 2015, 8:23 PM
Careful! Us 'golden oldies' can't afford to take too many chances. Shame on Guiness for not helping you.
OldRoadsOnceTraveled wrote on March 28, 2015, 9:05 PM
This is Guiness the Cat. My job is to look cute, not play nursemaid. Besides, she was supposed to be taking pictures of ME.
OldRoadsOnceTraveled wrote on March 28, 2015, 9:05 PM
I needed to be close up anyway.
1wolfgirl569 wrote on March 28, 2015, 10:34 PM
So glad you did not get hurt. My last fall did not turn out so good and was not in such a pretty area
j2jworkz wrote on March 28, 2015, 11:09 PM
Way to multi task, glad it was a soft landing.
allen0187 wrote on March 28, 2015, 11:37 PM
Those are lovely photos! It captured the beauty of the flowers and the garden. So is Guiness always like that, back turned from the camera when she isn't in the mood?
Hollyhocks100 wrote on March 29, 2015, 5:18 AM
Oh dear, glad you weren´t hurt and managed to get upright again. Getting older really sucks at times doesn´t it'
WordChazer wrote on March 29, 2015, 5:29 AM
That's just typical of cats. Anyway, if it's yellow flowers he's after, those look suspiciously sun coloured in those close up photos you took and would set his Nibs' black fur off a treat, I think. Glad to hear you weren't hurt in this fall. Take it easy when admiring those flowers now.
LindaCPearson wrote on March 29, 2015, 7:59 PM
Good pictures but a hard way to get them! I have similar knees and don't think Mildred the Cat would be much help to me either if I found myself in a similar position. We're both glad you didn't get hurt.
OldRoadsOnceTraveled wrote on March 30, 2015, 11:07 AM
I did have a nice soft place to land and a good view once I got there.
OldRoadsOnceTraveled wrote on March 30, 2015, 11:16 AM
Me, too!
OldRoadsOnceTraveled wrote on March 30, 2015, 11:18 AM
I have zillions more pictures of Guiness' back than his front. Whenever I try to get in front of him, he starts walking toward me and blows the shot.
OldRoadsOnceTraveled wrote on March 30, 2015, 11:22 AM
This is Guiness the Cat. She has taken me out and dumped me in the middle of the garden before. I wasn't impressed and headed back to the yard.
OldRoadsOnceTraveled wrote on March 30, 2015, 11:25 AM
Dear Mildred the Cat's Mom,
1That sort of thing is in neither our job description or the by-laws of the Professional Cat Bloggers Association.
Sincerely, Guiness the Cat
OldRoadsOnceTraveled wrote on March 30, 2015, 11:27 AM
My foot had already threatened to turn over me several times earlier. I'm glad I wasn't on the pavement.
LindaCPearson wrote on March 30, 2015, 1:26 PM
Dearest Punkin Guiness - this is Mildred's mom. I prefer to think of it as a height/weight thing- I'm taller and heavier than Mildred so she couldn't help me get back up. It's a mom thing.
WordChazer wrote on March 30, 2015, 5:25 PM
Geez Guiness. Your class is showing. That's loaded language: 'dumped'.?! By your fur and whiskers, do you know what 'dumped' really means? If you need a reminder, there are many rescue cats who would be able to oblige with a vivid description, I'm sure. Now, put that smug and spoiled expression away, if you please.
OldRoadsOnceTraveled wrote on March 31, 2015, 12:09 PM
This is Guiness the Cat. That's thinking logically. But it's still manual labor, and we cats don't do manual labor. That's for the dogs.
1BarbRad wrote on March 31, 2015, 3:45 PM
So Guiness the Cat is a fair weather friend? Or maybe he just didn't know how he'd be able to get you up. I'm also missing my daffodils, but my sages are beginning to bloom.
OldRoadsOnceTraveled wrote on April 1, 2015, 4:17 PM
Dear Barb,
Manual labor is not in my job description. Manual labor is for the dogs. It's also not in the bylaws of the Professional Cat Bloggers Association. (I know because I wrote them.)
Sincerely, Guiness the Cat
paigea wrote on April 4, 2015, 10:59 AM
I love the idea of seeding our yard with a deer mix and never mowing or fusssing with it.
OldRoadsOnceTraveled wrote on April 5, 2015, 11:39 PM
It still needs mowing at least once a year. It gets pretty overgrown out there. I usually have it bush hogged in the fall, but I may try to cut it myself at least once this summer. It will have to be 100 times dryer than it is now, though, or I'll have to hire someone to pull my lawnmower out of China.