Letting Grady outside for a few minutes at a time has become a habit. He loves it out there... but only for about 5-10 minutes. Then he's sitting at the door, ready to come back in.
His usual outdoor routine consists of sniffing around the perimeter of the fence and then pausing around the trash cans to check things out. I'm sure he can smell the (hate to say it) rats that sneak through our patio at night.
Since early spring when Brian and I put some plants in the back, Grady has been pausing at each pot and smelling the flowers. He really knows how to appreciate the simple things in life, huh? One of the plants is a day lilly which is pretty much like a grass - its leaves are long, thin, and abundant. Grady loves this particular plant. Every once in a while, he'll try to chew on the other plants in the back yard, but every time he goes outside he chews on the leaves of the day lilly. And every time he goes outside, I have to push him away from that plant.
One day, Grady was outside unsupervised and you can probably guess what he did. I know, I'm a terrible pet owner. Hours after letting him back inside, we were on the couch when Brian heard Grady in the kitchen gagging. We entered the kitchen to find a small pile of cat puke with an entire day lilly leaf still intact... This thing must have been about 10 inches long! I finally realized that perhaps I should put that pot on the table... duh.
All of his grass-eating got me to thinking... I've heard of "cat grass", but I'm not quite sure what it is. As far as I know, it's a little pot of grass that is kept indoors for cats to chew on. Wouldn't this encourage him to eat the plants outside, though? Maybe I should be nice and indulge him and his grass-eating tendencies.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Monster Plant
The Wave
Originally uploaded by Cindezio
Good news! Our plant has grown! It's completely out of control and has filled the entire pot.
Originally, we had 2 small azalea bushes in there with this little petunia, but our neighbor's football landed right on one of the bushes and snapped it off. Instead, I got liriope to take its place. Turns out, I didn't have to get anything because the petunia would have been plenty by itself! This type is called The Wave... maybe because it acts like a tsunami and overtakes everything in its path.
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