NH Homesteader's journal

[frustratedearthmother]

Oh wow....sounds like some of my days, lol! Glad you got 'em back in and glad your dog was helpful!

 

[NH Homesteader]

For a hog dog, she showed incredible restraint by not putting her mouth on them. I was proud! She's almost 3 and is actually finally almost at the point where she's calm enough to be enjoyable lol!

 

[Wannabefree]

Let's hope she stays calm enough to be enjoyable lol I had one that stayed hyper and borderline obnoxious to the point of wondering if re homing him was the best choice till he was almost 4. He learned to open my back door when we weren't home, locked or not. I STILL don't know how he did it, but he'd be sitting in the doorway smiling when we got home and came in the front. Pit Bull Terrier...too smart for his own good.

 

[NH Homesteader]

Wow! That's crazy. We have to crate her when we're not home because she has serious separation anxiety and will eat the house. She's a Spanish Alano. I'm not convinced she is very bright. My chow mix outsmarts her by a LOT! She is very sweet though, just lacking impulse control.

 

[Wannabefree]

Chowchows are my next favorite dog breed because they are so intelligent, so she may not be dim, just really outmatched.

 

[NH Homesteader]

That is probably true. My chow mix is also part Australian shepherd so yeah, he's smart. He's also part golden retriever but I can't give him intelligence points for that, lol.

 

[NH Homesteader]

Phew just finished cleaning the brooder boxes, scrubbing the primary bathroom, helping DD clean up toys, sweeping the kitchen and living room, two loads of laundry folded... Dinner is in the oven and I've pulled out the seeds I need to start this week... DD dumped two entire seed packets in the process but thank goodness it was bush beans and dill, easy to sort!

Waiting for DH to get home for dinner. I hope it's soon or I'm eating without him!

 

[tortoise]

DD dumped two entire seed packets in the process but thank goodness it was bush beans and dill, easy to sort!

Laughing! Because DS2 was dumping out my bags of onion sets! Then he was trying to peel them and refused to give them back. I'm expecting to find stray onions growing in my garden.

 

[NH Homesteader]

Lol! The summer she was 2 we had issues with her pulling random things up (beets and carrots mostly). We had a not so productive garden that year! She's much better this year!

 

[baymule]

Ya'll keep your little ones in the garden with you. One of my earliest memories is toddling barefooted behind my Daddy in his garden. I did everything he did and it stuck with me over the years. At times, I couldn't have a garden, but I gardened whenever I could. My husband will ask me "How do you know that?" I just shrug and tell him, "because I just do." So take your children to the garden. Make sure they get to pick vegetables. Let them help plant the seed, water and nurture the plants. Plant them their own garden of a few tomatoes and squash plants. Cook "their" vegetables and praise them for their efforts. Yes, raise your babies with you in the garden.