Fern Garden

Good news. Alice is better after a very long night of panting and crying. The keeper kept dribbling water into her mouth. By morning she was able to jump up onto and off the keeper's bed. And she slept next to the keeper who was a litle tired after the long night. The keeper called the vet and told him and they were concerned. But she is able to walk now and is butting into everything. So I guess she will live. Honestly, I am happy that she will be around, even though she can be such a pest. They said that next time she will get the shots in a different place, though.

The keeper came home from the office a little early to check on Alice and we got to go outside. She said she saw an eagle dive into the lake and go fishing on the drive home. Have you ever smelled the inside of an iris? It is perfume! We have a few blossoming in the bed alonside of the driveway. The keeper says it reminds her of her childhood when she used to stop and smell all the irises growing in the back yard every morning because their scent was magical. She also spent time yesterday ripping out the ivy along the back fence. And she found a treasure--- someone dumped a whole pile of broken aggregate concrete pieces in the parking lot across the street, so for the last two eves she has been dragging them across the street to our back yard and is making a new garden enclosure out of the place that was all wild and wrapped in that ivy. She says her back is a little sore. It looks pretty good, but the raccoons are going to be surprised. The keeper is planting lots of ferns and shade plants, and mixing in a little miniature forest of colored bottles and rebar with the green things. We think it is peaceful. Tonight we are all watching Praying With Lior. It's about Lior, who has Down's Syndrome and is preparing for his bar mitzvah. We think it is very touching.