We love gardening! And it is a challenge here in this zone 2 part of the world. We can grow many zone 3 perennials, but they often don’t thrive and reproduce like they do in places further south. Our soil is very sandy so there aren’t drainage problems, on the other hand the nutrients are nonexistent or unavailable. So making compost in our backyard is good for the local landfill and our garden. We also happily go fetch horse manure once a year as well. The big thing you will notice is that though we have a very short season, we also have major sunlight hours. As our cousin Martha would say … it’s a good thing!

We are litter mates born in October 2003. Our vet says we are very healthy and the folks don’t have any complaints of vet bills so we must be keeping pretty healthy. We get the best food … something expensive called Eukanuba, and of course anything dropped that we can Hoover up before it is removed from the floor. When they are getting ready to eat, we come to investigate and accept any veggies offered. The white crunchy stuff is especially good, though anything cold and green ain’t too bad either.

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We don’t much like baths, or nail clipping … actually the coat clipping isn’t a big load of fun either. The treats at the end are worth sitting still for though so we are pretty good about it all.

Our crate is just only big enough. It is a great place to get a treat at and hang out until the folks get home. Other places to hang out are our beds, the folks bed, and of course the ‘outside’. We especially like going for walks (well, they walk, we run). Digging holes someplace in our yard is good. We haven’t quite figured out why the folks don’t let us just hang out in the garden, but we think it has something to do with digging.

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