Blue's First and Second Days.

5-6-23 VERMONT: The trip back to VT with Blue was mostly uneventful. She was a little car sick, probably nervous about leaving her home for her whole life so far. The meeting with the pack of three went pretty well, but she did run away twice. She came back the first time, and came to the car the second time. She ate and drank nothing the first day.

The second day was better, she ate some breakfast and then all her dinner. She drank water. She was OK with the others on several walks around the yard. She is much less anxious today than yesterday. Judy thinks she will be a good therapy dog.

I did a bunch of stuff today, I finished the pruning and hauled the branches away, I skimmed the pond and treated the two ponds, I put the lattice back up that was removed to get the heat pumps in place, it was damaged and will need to be replaced, we did a dump run this morning. 

Tomorrow it’s back to NJ, another new place for Blue.

New blooms: pachysandra, trillium.

Here she is--the nervous Miss Blue.

Blanca relaxed now, was even more anxious than Blue on the her first few days.

We woke up to this sky in Bangor as the rainy weather system was breaking up.

Later that morning, I saw a raptor on a dead tree from the hotel room window. It's an osprey.

Trillium, the leaves, sepals and flowers are all in sets of three, all equilateral triangles.

Star magnolias finally opened.

Two of the four painted turtles I saw today, all sunning on the banks of the big pond.