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South side dog park

 Dixie, Dan and I go for a long walk


We walked the full circuit around the path.  I got a coffee and two donuts this morning.  Breakfast of champs.

Anyway a good get away. And a happy dog.

Dixie dirt was a bit loose. I gave her some raspberries and blueberries 🫐 last night so today she was loose.

Dogs need fruit also, although the walk got her tired before I go to work.


So much is in the go right now.  I am absolutely swamped with good stress and bad stress. Dan was good company to chat 💬 with in our walk.


I think he wants us to move close to him.

I sort of want to also.


It will be close to work and other friends of Kim.

A good day 

I was asked to go visit a friend in hospital 🏥 but I don’t do hospitals.  Just my moto, and Kim goes there all the time.  So it’s a hard one for me.

Also I’m working this evening so I don’t think it’ll work right now.

An early start for the morning, and made some stressful phone calls.  I am told I’m doing all the right things.

Just stressed 😩 with doctors, pharmacies, houses, income, family, cleaning, one thing done is walking the dog.  But also watering the garden and flowers are a huge task.

I got to slow down, summer will last longer….


They are looking good, I think I got a vine petunia that I wished was in my flower tower or that I would of got all of them in my planters 🪴.


Maybe to many flowers but I’ve spent less this year in them than other years.  I also sold six of my planters so that took away half of them.  And one planter not being used. This year with a few other ones that broke over winter ❄️ 

And my peppers 🫑 are loving 🥰 there spot.

The garden just needs to be weeded. Sadly not on the itinerary til later tonight. It might be cooler then anyway.


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