Pink DMs: Quick Growth

Pink DMs

Life in Barbados with sheep, cows, chickens and dogs. As far removed from the Civil Service and building sites as you can get.

Saturday, September 30, 2006

Quick Growth




Hello Friends,
You may or may not notice that the blog is looking slightly different than it has for a long time... we now have the sidebar back at the side as opposed to having the sidebar below the blog. It took a while and a lot of help from people on a Help Forum but in the end it is back now.
The pictures you are looking at are an update of the pictures we first posted in Bloodhound in a Sheep Pen (click on Quick Growth title above to see that post). We hadn't noticed how quickly the trees had grown until we checked back on that blog. We're not so much concerned with the dog; as you can see, it is still behind the fence and living a dog's life under the pigpen but the pawpaw trees growing in front of the fence. We had originally planted about six trees from the vast amount of black seeds you get in a pawpaw; there are now four thriving trees - one of which has pawpaws growing on it. Here's a picture of Tony with his hand on a lower fruit for perspective; we should be eating them in the next few days as the lower fruit are nearly ripe!
As far as PigPen Penny goes, she's still firmly ensconced under the pigpen, still gets free food, still comes out regularly to poop and stretch her legs and drink water with the black belly sheep and still gets chased back under the pigpen every time our other dogs see her. Personally, Michele thinks she should stop getting free food but, looking at it from the dog's point of view, there are sheep, chickens, turkeys and yard fowl (they're new! More on them in a new blog!) all getting fed for doing absolutely nothing! And when you factor in the birds, mice and occasional rats, well, why should the dog work for its supper, eh?