Canadian Gardening: What's happening in your neck of the woods..with friends!, 1 by fancyvan

fancyvan wrote:
Well I wrote a long post several hours ago, previewed it and guess what - forgot to send it!

Yesterday was a nice day here but not much gardening as I was working the afternoon at LH. One tour of 11 people! Plus some musicians were rehearsing for a chamber concert last evening so when I finished my tour I got to sit and listen. Piano and string quartet and also a Baritone with piano accomp.

New foster in last evening. He is a 4 year old CHW sheltie. Owner( whom I have known for some years) loved dearly but she has a lot of dogs including a couple of really small ones. One of the small ones has been periodically nasty to the sheltie and I guess last week he had enough and went after him and did some serious damage, lots of stitches! So she feels she could not keep him since she was having to crate him when other dogs loose and out in yard by himself.
He is pretty bewildered of course- adopted when he was 1 year old from a breeder who is known not to socialise her dogs well and the dog has come a long way. He seems very soft and quiet. However about 3am this morning he started barking so finally I came down and let him out of crate and sat on sofa with him in my lap for a bit, then took him out to pee and back in his crate and I back to bed. About 5am he started again so this time I took a pillow and went down , let him out and lay on the sofa and back to sleep with him on the floor beside me.
When I let him out later this morning he was running all over the yard and I had a hard time to get hold of him. I always keep a short leash on new fosters just for that reason! One minute he is following me close and wants petting the next if I stand up or move towards him he bolts. It will take a while! I also put up sections of x-pens a few feet away from the gates so if somebody opens the gate the dogs cannot get out.
He will be neutered on Wed. Next week he will go to another foster home - I did not want to foster but thought he should be moved out of the home soon and the other foster family not available until Tuesday next.
Supposed to rain here all week but so far a nice day to work outside.
I have a Shubert Chokecherry which suckers badly ( would never have had put in if I had known) and this morning I finally got in and clipped most of them down.Now I need to rake out the wood chips and really clip and dig out the roots of the suckers. I have to do this every year!
Also remembered to check all my lilies for Lily beetle which has made its appearance here a couple of years ago ( slowly moving from down east!) and can decimate the lilies in short order. None in my yard yet.
Heres Limi!