Dogs and gardening

We've loved (and fussed at) our gardening assistant.  He was pesky (he liked to eat young kale and collard leaves), but he was good about not stepping into my raised vegetable beds (mostly).

He loved to supervise the squirrels.  Ha!

But he kept us company as we did all sorts of fun (to us) things in the garden - planting, transplanting, weeding, mulching, etc.

But we had to let him go yesterday after a short, but difficult illness.

He was a great dog.

Mocha on his 10th birthday, June 2010