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Family of raccoons

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I was just sitting in my living room and I saw the sensor light in our driveway go on. It does this from time to time and occasionally when I check I’ll see an animal but often I can’t find whatever triggered the light.

Not this time! I looked out the side window just in time to see a bushy tail pass by, so I moved to the kitchen at the back of the house and as they triggered the light in the back I was able to see two big raccoons followed by three smaller coons. The small raccoons weren’t babies, perhaps they were young adults in their first year. I’m sure it was a family though.

Luckily they were just passing through. They had walked down the driveway, and straight through the backyard. I don’t see them very often in the winter time, so it’s possible that this was one of my last sightings this year.






Have you used your garden for a wedding?

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Have you ever used your garden or used flowers from your garden for someones wedding? This past summer I did – well used some of my flowers in arrangements for my husbands cousins wedding.

I wish I had some photos of the arrangements. All I have is video of the event and you can see the arrangements, right beside the most adorable candle wedding favors. I used a combination of my pink and pale yellow roses and it turned out very well.

I grow over 60 different types of roses so it was easy enough to gather enough flowers for the arrangements. We did five for them and they adored them. Perhaps next summer I’ll get to use my garden or flowers from my garden again for a special event.

If you ever have promised your garden or it’s flowers for something like a wedding how did it turn out? Were your flowers blooming when you needed them to be?

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