This picture shows nothing remotely what you all are talking about, but it's some of my haul today. We just got back from a Mennonite farmer and brought a fresh chicken (7 lb beauty), 7 lb of lard!, a huge cabbage, 10 lb of Yukon Gold potatoes, 5 lb of carrots. I was on a quest for pig fat ever since Cheryl posted about making lard. I called a local farmer and he could sell me the fat, or the lard itself, which the Mennonite ladies buy for their pastry. Hmmmph, no brainer, I bought the lard! The veggies are in bins which he just picked out for us. I wish I needed onions, but I don't, there were 10 lb bags of the most beautiful, large onions. I hate buying bags of onions and they're small. Tons of garlic, too. I just bought what I had room for in the frig, the lard I'll be putting in margarine/sour cream containers for the freezer.

Thanks Prairie-Rose! No matter which way I turned the rock, it was still a heart. A very nice find on a cold day at the beach a couple of days ago (-7C with a windchill of -18C). I suppose I should have brought the rock home with me but I left it at the beach.

gazania_gw, I had that same situation in one of my hanging basket plants in the atrium last summer. I was terrified to water my plant and drown the babies so my plant ended up in very bad shape by the time they flew the coop lol. I put a little bird house out there now but they have not tried it out. It was such fun though having them in the atrium where we could watch them daily. I would put bird seed and water out for them. Tiny little birds, I guess they were finches.

Oh I am so sorry, my deepest sympathy. I lost my precious Great Dane to lymphoma. Yes you did the right thing. Even though it's so very hard. Remember the good times.