Saturday, May 10, 2014

A Codie story

A couple of days ago this was my berry box.  On the left side of the picture are my cranberries, recently planted.  When I was prepping the bed to plant the cranberries I was adding peat moss to the sand that had been in there for a long time.  As I was mixing the peat into the sand i discovered an old bone that had probably been buried.  Usually it is Codie that buries stuff and we have seen Sadie watching her and later going and getting it.  I offered the bone to Sadie who was laying under the tree and she didn't seem too interested in it.  Later I gave it to Codie.

I didn't think anything more about that bone until I came out of the greenhouse today to find Codie standing in the cranberries gingerly pawing at the soil mixture in the cranberry bed.  I called to her to get out of the bed and when I got closer this is what I found:








She had holes dug all over the bed and the only thing that I could come up with is that she was looking for that bone that was long gone.  She appears to have carefully gone around the plants and none of them seem to have been damaged.  Tomorrow I will smooth the dirt mixture and if it looks like it will be an ongoing problem I will put the old blueberry fence around the box. That Codie.  She is such an important part of the farm.  It is hard to be angry with her. 

10 comments:

  1. I love how she went around the plants! Amazing. I get frustrated about stuff like this with my kids and animals, but then in retrospect, they are always the funniest stories! Lorri, I would love to share your blog. I am such a farm and country girl at heart, I just love reading your posts. I don't know how many people would come by to take a peek, but I would love to direct people here. I just wanted to ask first though, some people like to write under the radar! Let me know what you think!

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    1. I am fine with sharing my blog. Thank you, I appreciate that. I would love to have people read it. I love that you leave comments. I know that it takes some effort to develop a following and get some regular traffic coming to a blog and I should really put more of an effort into it. I was helping my sister who has graduation next weekend do some stuff in her yard and we got rained out so I have the rest of the evening to catch up on some blogging and blog reading.

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    3. I wrote a tiny post! I borrowed your blue truck pic, with credit back to you. Hope that's ok! Have a great day! :)

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    1. Thank you for visiting. We have two big dogs, a black one and a white one. Both are great dogs. Sadie is the white one. Codie is the black one. She looks like a bear. My daughter thinks that she is the perfect combination. She is half black lab and half great Pyrenees.

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  3. Hi I'm following you now from the recommendation of Kim on GFC! I look forward to making a new blog friend. You are lucky your dog didn't mess up your planting too much.
    Julie at Julie Lifestyle

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    1. Thanks for visiting and for following. I appreciate the comment. I too like making new blog friends. It has been fun getting to know Kim and I look forward to getting to know you too. Thanks again.

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  4. It sounds like you have a lot more work than just a hobby.
    What a beautiful site to live.

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    1. You might be right :) It has been evolving over the past few years and is getting busier. Thanks for visiting and leaving a comment. I appreciate it.

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