With building work going on, comes the need to store materials, mainly aggregate and sand, which they seem to have taken an uncontrollable liking to, especially the latter.
Every day, Handy Andy, my trusty helper, sweeps the sand into a neat pile and places an odd assortment of household items around to keep the dogs out! HA! will he never learn. Seven days in a row, he has gone through this same ritual and seven mornings in a row he has returned to find the sand strewn haplessly about the place and scattered down the drive (with a decent helping on the verandah where they come to shake themselves off, after the deed has been done!).
I will be pleased when this project is completed, not least so that I can cease to chastise these creatures in trying to stop them from doing something that they seem to take so much pleasure in. And whilst I am willing to forgive them their sand fetish, I am less pleased to report that the little dog has rampaged over the seedboxes chasing a lizard - just as the first signs of life had begun....oh well, it's back to the drawing board on pooch-proofing my planting.
You can't get annoyed with them because they look so blissfully happy don't they? (they need their own sand pit I think!). x
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DeleteI think you may be right Susan. They get totally giddy and out of control once they get in there that I have given up trying to make them come out! Perhaps Handy Andy will leave them a little pile in a corner somewhere... : ) x
DeleteI don't have dogs but my cat keeps eating seedlings. Of course I must have planted them just for her since they were on her patio. Right?
ReplyDeleteYour pups are gorgeous!
HAHAHA! Of course it must seem as though you have left them for her : )) Still it sounds better than what most cats would do if presented with a nice new box of sweet smelling earth! ; )
ReplyDeleteWell you've gotten some great photo ops of the dastardly duo in the sand, they are adorable but pets can be such pills.
ReplyDeleteI opened my little tented area to let some wind blow through and keep it from over heating, the cats then found their way in!
Oh dear - that's a shame. I hope that they didn't do too much damage! I read something yesterday that said that if the cat has done it's business on your seedlings then they are no longer fit for use. Hopefully, you managed to get them out before such an occurrence.
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