Flowers and More

Greetings and welcome to The Daily Bone. I'm your faithful doggie reporter Chester L. W. Spaniel. I have a few stories to report today.

Last week we showed you pictures of ghostwriter's irises in the garden. Almost all of them bloomed by then, except for her absolute favorite one that's named Hello Darkness. It's so dark purple it's almost black! 

The peonies are also starting to bloom this week. 

Here's a surprise picture. A dragonfly decided to perch on an iris bud. 

We have a clemetis vine that comes up every year, and climbs up the fence. It has gigantic, amazing purple flowers! 

My next story is from the nursing home where our Oma  lives.

In the courtyard a mother mallard decided to make a nest, and is now raising eleven ducklings! Wow! Ghostwriter couldn't get all eleven into one picture. One or two were always hiding somewhere. The nursing home staff got them a little swimming pool and some bowls of food. 

I wonder how all those ducklings are going to get out of the courtyard that has buildings all around it? Maybe they'll have to wait until they grow up and are able to fly out.

Aunty Linda is bringing Oma to my house to visit me today. I can't wait to see them! They're going to stay here for two days. On Saturday everyone else is coming for a visit too.

Ghostwriter is planning on cooking lots of delicious food. She was out shopping for groceries almost all day yesterday. Now the fridge is packed. I'll be sure to get samples! Yum! 

For my next story, here's a picture of the garden at the nursing home where ghostwriter works.
Do you see what I see there? 

No, it's not the doggie statue. It's not the flowers or the nice white arch or picket fence. Look at the lower left corner of the picture. Do you see it now? It's a dastardly chipmunk! Ghostwriter says he's always out there whenever she looks! Wednesday evening she saw three of them scampering around and stealing birdie seeds from the feeders!

I think there's a chipmunk living near my yard too, and he hides in the wood pile. I can smell his stinky little footy prints! 

And finally, my last story is about my Florida associate Miss Charlee. She's entered in a doggie sleeping beauty contest called Pooped Pooches to win three days of free doggie day care at TLC Animal Hospital and Doggie Daycare.

Please go to this address below and scroll down until you see this picture and then click on "like."

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That's it for today. I'll be sure to give you a full report on the big family get-together, and the yum yum food we're going to get.