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I just had to show you what the smoke bush is now doing...this is not the greatest photo but I was doing a couple things at once and did not download them till just now.

Yesterday I had one iris bloom almost all the way open and today I have half a dozen of these that are open plus dark purple ones, as well as the peach.
I think this barn scene just looks so inviting...I just had to share.

Barn being propped up

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Yesterday, I had planned to go for a drive....but after Clover died I debated going. I thought it was supposed to rain today, so I went ahead and left. Only to be back home in an hour or less. I did take pictures of three barns including this one. If you will enlarge it, notice what looks like a 2" x 4" board propping it up at the far end. Coming from the other direction I really noticed the leaning more, but could not get a good shot of it. The roof is in bad shape also...I hope they do something to save it. I just hate to lose the old barns.

Sad...

I hate to have to tell this...I almost did not tell about it at the beginning simply because I was afraid this would be the outcome. But Clover died this morning while I was holding him. He had not ate much yesterday....and this morn when I got up to feed him, he was so cold, even though I still had the heating pad in his cage. I held him trying to snuggle him and get him warm but he died while I was cuddling him to me. I could feel the congestion in his chest.

I had the thought where I wondered if he caught what I had, but I know when Roger first brought him to me, I did not think he would live cause he coughed a time or two and I felt it in his little chest. I was really beginning to think he just might make it, but I never felt sure. He was just so tiny. And just a couple days ago, so alive. It was hard to get him to be still long enough to eat.

The day has sure seemed empty without him....