dicot - Thanks for the compliment of my blog! I am always adding more photos. socks12345 - I don't worry about cats. When the chickens were little my own cat would have loved to have gotten closer, but the chickens were always carefully protected until they were about 12 weeks old. Once the chickens were big, cats weren't an issue and they will go after a cat if given the chance. However, I have to be cautious about preventing problems with many other animals like hawks, raccoons, rats, and neighbor's dogs visiting the yard, and more. clematisintegrifolia - Your pots are beautiful! I can tell you are a good gardener! I kill potted plants due to neglectful watering practices. I had an apartment before we lived here without even a balcony, then a duplex with a small patio and couple of boarder to plant in. Now that I have an actual yard, I dream of even more space to garden. I wish I had an acre now because I have run out of room. Chickens will destroy a pretty garden if you give them the opportunity. Mine have the free run of the orchard area, lawn, shrubs, and a couple of beds. I keep them locked out of the vegetable garden until a growing season is over usually, except for a the occasional supervised visit for pest control because they like to eat the same foods we do.

I think you've got your memories mixed up, as the discount section of Norcal Pottery was in Hayward, not in Richmond next to Annie's Annuals. If memory serves, the pottery outlet next to Annie's is called Pottery Land, and both Norcal and Pottery Land still exist as wholesale outlets to the trade. The seconds area at Norcal did used to have some very good deals,you might try looking at the seconds/damaged pots at AW Pottery as an alternative, but never as large a selection as Norcal's seconds used to have.

Hi Terrance nice to meet ya and thanks for the reply! Yes I must get outside in scratch that dirt. Where I live now, in Aberdeen, we gravelled the whole backyard due to having multiple horses in the house. LOL..my great danes make a terrible miss on grass so it was the only way. And mud? As in garden? Would be destroyed unless I built a fence around it. We are planning to buy a house soon, so hope to change all that. I can not wait to get into roses outdoors and perenials, grow my own veggies. Lily's too! I hope he builds me a greenhouse, as I am a die hard fan of tropicals. Plumeria and hibiscus are my fave's. Been growing them indoors for a year under lights, and lots of blooms. I also enjoy propagating and starting from seed indoors. Fun stuff! I guess when you grow up as a small town girl, you stick to your roots..hahahaha..too funny! Krista - sorry I left Sharon's name in the original post, so she knew I ressurrected it.

if you are realy worried about transplanting in the heat but it Must be moved, you can pot the things up as tenderly and carefully and quickly as you can, then put them in a sort of holding area till the cooler weather comes, or till the plants recover from being moved. I would set them in dappled shade, or morning sun,. in saucers, or grouped in shallow tubs, I have those black plastic cement mixing trays on hand for this type of thing, or even a very shallow kiddy pool will work, or you can knock together a sort of tray by making a square of 2x4's lined with plastic, then you can give the stuff a good drink easily for a few days, Not setting in water, but easy to water all at once. this will buy you some time to think what to do next.