Dog Attack Next Door

The old man tells me he was attacked by a pitbull last night, and went to the hospital for 22 stitches. I didn't hear anything, but I must have been out walking my dogs.

On Saturday, we had an encounter with three pitbulls from the next block, and I used my pepper spray on them at the first sign of aggression. I warned both the neighbor kids and the old man about them, at the time.

The old man says he made a police report, and I'm going to be on high alert now.

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On second thought, I'm skeptical of the story. I wonder if Julio hurt himself somehow, and then embellished it into a dog attack.

Agricultural Update

We're having moderately warm weather, perfect for the garden. I'm picking about 5 pounds of tomatoes every 3 days. I really am happy with determinate tomatoes, they're NOT ripening all at once, but in an orderly, manageable way. I'll have tomatoes ripening for months, with the two plantings, not to mention the one brandywine plant in the south bed.

I'm canning tomatoes, and will can some snap beans as well. The pole beans are coming up, and all the new squash in the south bed is growing like crazy. I'm doing the best I can to keep up with everything.

Birds have pecked a few tomatoes and I'm seeing magpies feeding on the almonds. I'm glad that some have survived the west nile virus, and I'm not begrudging them food.

The avocado tree is putting out some new leaves. I wish I had shaded it properly a few months ago, because I have finally solved the leaf drop issue, but then I let it get badly sun-burned. One step forward and one step back.