My husband and I share our home with our six "kids". Gardening with these kids can be interesting and challenging. To keep them out of the flower beds in the backyard, we put up a little wire fence around each bed. However they like to help "mommy" garden, so they either squeeze through the fence or move around the outside so they are able to keep me company while I work.
This is Penfold. His hobbies include sleeping and eating. Penfold and Madeline (who you'll meet next) are brother and sister. They rode in the backseat of the car from San Diego to Tennessee when we moved here. They were such troopers on the trip. They are the oldest of our kids.
This is Madeline, AKA "The Princess". She has some hip problems but still rules the roost. She must be involved in everything.
Here's our boy Lucky. Lucky was the Junior Mascot for Precious Friends Puppy Rescue in 2006. Lucky believes he is in charge of security.
This is Rascal, AKA Cuddles, sitting on the ramp we built for our kids who are getting older. Rascal pictures himself as a great hunter because he caught a couple of moles last year.
Here's our baby Charlie. He's appeared in an earlier post so you've met him before. Now he thinks he's an internet star. Charlie loves to play tug with his Daddy (my husband) and his brothers and sisters.
Here's our other girl, Bella. She enjoys digging for moles and squeezing through the little wire fence I put around the flower beds so she can help me garden.Believe me when I say this girl can fly on those little short legs!
One day my husband and I were doing some tractor work in the backyard. Bella and Charlie decided we weren't doing it right and decided to show us how it's done. They actually got up there all on their own! We thought this was so cute we had to run in and get the camera!
Well, now you've met our kids. I don't know how I'd get anything done in my garden without all this help!
Happy Gardening!
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Awwww too cute! They are great helpers too!
ReplyDeleteYes Tina...I don't know how I'd get so much done without their help!
DeleteWhen my son was younger and wanted to help my dad, my dad would say,"If you want to help, don't help." I sometimes feel that way when the babies, Chance and Portia, want to help me in the flowers. :-)
ReplyDeleteHow true! It's not easy to kneel down and weed when my "kids" are trying to climb on my lap to give me kisses!
ReplyDeleteAAAAAAAAAAA Penfold!!!! His eyes) OMG))
ReplyDeleteYou have a wonderful family, each cute in their own way. And what dog does have the hobby of eating and sleeping? Mine were masters.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! They all definitely have their own special personalities.
DeleteLuck you to have so much help in the garden! I think the in the last pic that someone is trying to make a commercial for John Deere. Ha, which by the way are built here in my little town in Georgia! Love those fur babies and the gardens in which they play...
ReplyDeleteYes Skeeter...I have SOOO much help from these kids - like when I'm kneeling down to weed and they start trying to climb on my lap. I love them so much and they are good company in the garden. That would be a good commercial. It was so funny watching them, especially Bella climbing up in that seat. We couldn't help wondering why she would want to climb up there.
DeleteVery nice to meet the doggy branch of the family. I have 4, myself. Mine are all master diggers but never dig where I actually want a hole!
ReplyDeleteHi Mara...You must be an animal lover like me! I have two diggers, but I think they're only digging to find the moles. Too bad we can't figure out a way to have them dig the holes for our new plants!
ReplyDeleteThat is quite the crew. All with different personalities I see. Too cute.
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