Our Buddy

Redbush's summer has been a busy one.  She and her hubby started out cleaning up her parents' estate land which took a piece out of July.  It seemed that July flew by.  Meeting  with sisters and brothers was great.  Redbush found that with estate business, including selling of land, moving machinery, etc., August came to fast, and by mid- August, she wondered where all the time had gone.  Redbush and family have had a tough end to the summer.  They had to put their little buddy Bonzerelli down on August 12th  due to him starting to experience  liver failure and some tumors. It was the toughest thing they have had to do, but, they knew that they couldn't put him through a lot of suffering and pain.   Their house is like an empty tunnel without him, and Bonzi who comes in on the mat is still not himself as he continues to still look for him at times.  At the same time Redbush's family has been handed a health problem that her family wasn't expecting.  But, the doctor says with treatments,  Mr. Redbush should be fine, so, that's good news.   Her sister's husband has been as of a few days ago, however, diagnosed with a very serious diagnosis, so, Redbush knows that the beginning of fall is going to be a tough one because she's not good with knowing how to handle these types of traumatic situations.  She has really been dragging her heels on blogging because all her time and emotions has been taken in knowing how to deal with these last two situations lately.   She hopes all of you have  had a much happier, and healthier summer.  She will try to have a much more cheerful blog the next time.   She will leave you with a photo of Bonzi and Bonzerelli.  

Blogland-Break

Redbush is heading to a reunion for a week, or two, so will be taking a break from blogland.  She hates missing out on all the hot topics, and the great blogs that she has been reading.  She hopes you all have a wonderful July, and she'll be back either at the end of July, or in August sometime. She's wishing you all a wonderful summer!  She will leave you with a photo from her wagon that she wishes to do a painting of in the near future.

Blue-Ribbon Bonzi!

Redbush entered Bonzi in a Rally Obedience competition on the weekend.  Their team won three blue ribbons.  One of the trials gave Bonzi a second out of 8 dogs.  Bonzi now has moved up to the next level, and has won a leg(one out of three) in the advanced level.  It made Redbush proud of how well Bonzi worked even though she was a nervous wreck and of course he could feel it.   She is taking him to a seminar this weekend, and is hoping the judge will have some suggestions for her on things that she is trying to work on with him as well as how to get Redbush to relax more for these trials!  She has posted a picture of him reluctantly holding his prizes.  She hopes you have a great weekend!

New Perennials

Redbush picked out some new perennials at her local nurseries to be planted in her flowerbeds.  After planting them, she couldn't tell what the names of some of the plants were.   She will share a few pictures of some that she thinks she knows the names of.  The first picture is "lamium" -supposedly a deer-proof plant, and the next pictures are "bitterroot."  Bitterroot is  apparently the official state flower of Montana, and it is illegal to did plants from the wild there.  She only found this out after she researched the plant.  It apparently goes dormant after flowering, and will totally disappear from the garden, so she will have to mark their spot so they don't get weeded out!   It is considered a collector's plant.  Redbush didn't plant these for any of the above reasons.  She only planted them because they are supposed to be shorter plants, are good ground covers and have nice blooms.  She hopes that she has luck with them coming up every year. Redbush and Bonzi are off to another obedience competition this weekend.  Wish them luck!  She won't be back until next week.  She hopes you have a great weekend!

Antiques Restored

Redbush had the community museum  view and rescue some of the antiques to be represented  in memory of her parents and grandparents.  The following buggy and democrat were built in the late 1800's.  She is posting before and after pictures of both items.   She hopes you enjoy the changes and are having a great Monday!

Good Advice!

 Redbush posted photos of her frozen tomato plants on her last blog.  Look what good advice from her blogger friends did for Redbush's frozen tomato plants! 

Precious Plants

As Redbush is a plant fanatic, she will share some photos of plants that she believes she has saved from frost damage, and some that don't look like they're going to make it.  As she said in a previous blog, she has been getting up at ungodly hours in the middle of the night to water them so the frost wouldn't damage them.  Most of her hundreds of plants seem to have survived, however some tomato plants, some dahlias and marigolds didn't do so well.  Do you think she should let those tomatoes grow, and that they may still do something, or should she just count them amongst the other dead plants? What's your opinion?