Since my Mom and Dad first brought me home with them from Massachusetts two+ years ago, I've been living with my Mom in Pa. Of course, we DO spend a lot of time in NJ as well...but when it came down to 'home' for me that was always with Mom in PA. Well...now 'home' is going to be at my Dad's in NJ. Which means my blog posts may be even more sporadic then they already are, since Mom is my blog assistant.  Don't get the wrong idea, this isn't bad news! Just...different.  Even if I won't be posting, I'm going to do my best to make sure Dad sends Mom a text daily to make sure she's staying up to date with Blogville....so that on her day's off from work when she comes for visits she is all up to date with the going-ons! 

Now, Mom doesn't currently have a traditional garden. In our house in PA (a lot of the pictures we post of the nice big, green grassy yard are of my dad's parents house in NJ and not my and Mom's house in PA) there are too many critters who like to snack on plants for any such thing to be a success. So, Mom sticks to having plants on the deck of the house! As soon as you come to the top of the steps (about...oh...13 of them) you see our front door! Hello there and welcome to our deck! It's nothing super special...but Mom tries to dress it up with pretty things. Like the welcome flag, the two mini rose bushes and the hanging basket of superbells. She loves this basket...the orange and yellow flowers are so pretty! The mini roses she and her mom got from WalMart a month ago, and boy oh boy are they growing well! There are no flowers on them right now (it already flowered once a few weeks ago)...but since Mom was on top of things and plucked off all the dead ...