Do you want to take a trip to the garden centre?

This is a bit of a different post tonight and I'm not sure if anyone will find it interesting or not. I had to go to the garden centre today so I had the idea of taking Tom's cam from his collar and putting it in the car so you could all come along for the ride with me. I'm afraid the lighting is a bit poor, especially in the first video but I couldn't see what was being filmed so didn't realise until later. Anyway it's not to bad at times.

On the way to the garden centre.

The journey home.

Do you want to take a trip to the garden centre?

This is a bit of a different post tonight and I'm not sure if anyone will find it interesting or not. I had to go to the garden centre today so I had the idea of taking Tom's cam from his collar and putting it in the car so you could all come along for the ride with me. I'm afraid the lighting is a bit poor, especially in the first video but I couldn't see what was being filmed so didn't realise until later. Anyway it's not to bad at times.

On the way to the garden centre.

The journey home.

Dead heading roses.

One of my jobs this afternoon was to do some dead heading in the rose garden in the hope that we will get more blooms later.

-- Sent from my Palm Pre

Some things for the dowage house.

I have just been picking some produce for the dowager house. This picking amounted to some cherries, radish, lettuce and sweet pea. There were more sweet pea but they don't like me to take in red and white flowers in the same bunch so I just took the red, I will have to find something else to do with the other colours.

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First picking of Tayberries.

This morning I've made the first picking of Tayberries 2.221 kgs which I will shortly be taking to the hall.

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Leash Free.

Today has been the warmest day of the year so far with a temperature of 30C. I think it is unlikely to get any higher than that this year.

The good thing about the temps being that high is that weeds curl up and die the minute you hoe them off so that's what I've been doing most of today. Also there is lots of soft fruit picking to be done at the moment, I made a second picking of the Raspberries this morning, I've now harvested 8 kgs with the picking I made last week.

During the past week I have been getting Tess used to walking off the leash. She already has the hang of walking on the leash and is very good mostly walking with a slack leash unless there is something interesting taking her attention. So for that reason I have to choose where to let her lose at the moment because although she usually comes to me when I call her I'm not totally confident that I would get her full attention if the choice was between me or a squirrel. Anyway tonight I let her off on what we call the narrow walk where she is pretty well confined except for a few gaps in the hedge. The funny thing was that everytime we pass one of the gaps and she is on the leash she trys to go through them but tonight when she was off the leash she paid no interest in them at all so I'm not sure what that's about. Anyway all went well and I think she enjoyed the freedom and of course Tommy was a great help as usual because she mostly followed him as you can see in the short video I took on the way back.

Leash Free.

Today has been the warmest day of the year so far with a temperature of 30C. I think it is unlikely to get any higher than that this year.

The good thing about the temps being that high is that weeds curl up and die the minute you hoe them off so that's what I've been doing most of today. Also there is lots of soft fruit picking to be done at the moment, I made a second picking of the Raspberries this morning, I've now harvested 8 kgs with the picking I made last week.

During the past week I have been getting Tess used to walking off the leash. She already has the hang of walking on the leash and is very good mostly walking with a slack leash unless there is something interesting taking her attention. So for that reason I have to choose where to let her lose at the moment because although she usually comes to me when I call her I'm not totally confident that I would get her full attention if the choice was between me or a squirrel. Anyway tonight I let her off on what we call the narrow walk where she is pretty well confined except for a few gaps in the hedge. The funny thing was that everytime we pass one of the gaps and she is on the leash she trys to go through them but tonight when she was off the leash she paid no interest in them at all so I'm not sure what that's about. Anyway all went well and I think she enjoyed the freedom and of course Tommy was a great help as usual because she mostly followed him as you can see in the short video I took on the way back.

The barrels.

Some of you probably remember me painting four half barrels a while back. Well here they now are planted up with Geraniums and ready to go out in to the courtyard.

-- Sent from my Palm Pre

Roll out the barrels.

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Tomcam version 2.1.

I've recently been working on version 2 of 'Tomcam' the video below was actually made with version 2.1 and is just a bit of a fun video we took whilst I was trying a new collar attachment. In the video you will see me playing around with Tess. You will probably notice that when I am trying to get her to lie down Tommy is the one doing the lying down. I have to laugh sometimes because when I am trying to get her to do things I turn round to find Tommy already did it, it's sort of like he is showing her what to do behind my back. Oh yes, in the video you will hear me telling her first to sit and then lie down which might sound a bit confusing but the reason is that at the moment we have to go through the sitting position to get to lying down with maybe a paw shake thrown in for good meassure. She does do the lie down quite well most of the time although it isn't so obvious in the video, what is more obvious is that she will sit and stay very well now. Anyway I will let you watch the video which is a bit rough in places but it was just a bit of fun with the dogs really.