Patriotic Picnic Sparklers

"Mother Does Not Want A Dog"

Mother doesn't want a dog.

Mother says they smell,

And never sit when you say sit,

Or even when you yell.

And if you come home late at night

When there is ice and snow,

You have to go back out because

The dumb dog has to go.

Mother doesn't want a dog.

Mother says they shed,

And always let the strangers in

And bark at friends instead,

And do disgraceful things on rugs,

And track mud on the floor,

And flop upon your bed at night

And snore their doggy snores.

Mother doesn't want a dog.

She's making a mistake.

Because more than a dog, I think,

She will not want this snake.

TODAY'S SEEDS OF WISDOM

• JUST BLOOMED TODAY 
• TWEET TREATS
• DID YOU KNOW...?
• GARDEN UPDATE
• FAUNA
• GARDEN GIGGLE
• GARDEN GOODIES ~#0037 SHARE OUR GARDEN RECIPE PATRIOTIC PICNIC SPARKLERS
• WHAT IN THE WORLD? OVER THE FENCE
• FEEDBACK

JUST BLOOMED TODAY

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TWEET TREATS

( the quirky, funniest and most interesting tweets from Twitter that we came across.)

I kicked a squirrel and I liked it      @kristy_doyle

DID YOU KNOW...?
that tearing a piece (leave it in the foil) of JuicyFruit gum and putting it in a gopher hole, then covering the hole up will speed the death of a gopher?

GARDEN UPDATE
 3 pm and 87F in the afternoon. So sorry with those of you who receive the blog by e-mail as I have no control over FeedBurner. I really rely on you to tell me when you don't receive it...thank you to the ones who alerted me this morning! Just remember to visit the blog online at http://shareourgarden.blogspot.com and don't forget to bookmark!if you don't receive it in your e-mail.


Picked a whole bunch of apricots yesterday and am letting them sit in the sun to ripen a bit more. The birds are starting to get to them.
GARDEN GIGGLE

• I have kleptomania but when it gets bad, I take something for it
• Follow your dreams, except that one where you are naked in church
• My short-term memory is not as sharp as it used to be, and frankly, neither is my short-term memory.
• A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory
• I may be schizophrenic, but at least I have each other.
• Corduroy pillows are making headlines!
• I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.

FAUNA

Owl always love you

GARDEN GOODIES ~#0037 PATRIOTIC PICNIC SPARKLERS

With the fourth right around the corner (for our international readers, I am referring to the fourth of July, our independence day), it's time for picnic planning!

This is a wonderful dish to bring and promises to be a big hit!

You Will Need:

watermelon

strawberries

brownies, cut into squares

purple seedless grapes

white large marshmellows

red raspberries

a star cookie cutter

bamboo skewers

Instructions:

Cut your watermelon in such a way that you have flat squares where you can use the cookie cutter and cut out stars.

Take your bamboo skewers and thread a watermelon star on first, then 2 purple grapes, then a raspberry, then a brownie square, then a strawberry, then 2 grapes, a marshmellow and top it off with a watermelon star.

(Editor's Note: Be careful with little ones as bamboo skewers have sharp ends!)
 
WHAT IN THE WORLD? OVER THE GARDEN FENCE
On today in American history, people in gardens everywhere were talking about:
1870 The first oceanside boardwalk was opened in Atlantic City
1892 Pearl S. Buck's birthday
1917 WWI first America troops arrive in France
1938 Federal minimum wage laws guarantee workers 40 cents an hour
1947 The tennis shoe is introduced
1956 US Congress approves the Federal Highway Act to construct some 41,000 miles of interstate highways
1975 Sonny and Cher's divorce becomes final
2012 Tropical storm Debby soaks Florida's coast


 

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