Joan Grows Flowers.

On May and June mornings, after the Big Dog (Cocoa) and the other Big Dawg (Dave) are back in the house and off to work respectively, I like to climb the fence into the garden of my next-door neighbor Joan--Queen of the garden shed and raised bed--and steal pictures of her flowers. Sometimes I steal more than just pictures. (Joking. I ask, then I steal.)

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