Your mad gardening skills totally harshes my mellow. I must close my eyes until I reach tranquility. Mmmm, I am a pebble, my thoughts are floating, floating, higher… Why am I visualizing a sparkly green dragonfly? I must maintain focus amid the chaos! Waterfalls! Why couldn’t there be a waterfall here instead, with a reflecting pond. And koi. Now I need tea and healing crystals. Think I’ll write a haiku…
That’s a new kind of enlightenment, Mandy
Somebody pull out the old Bush cd’s and put “Everything Zen” on repeat.
Poor pup, looks like he needs a meditation space.
*just giggling, that’s all I “got”
*
It looks like he is gloating over knocking over a gnome! What a busy little garden they have…and an absolutely adorable pup!
That there’s a recumbent gnome.
yup…
That’s no pup… that’s a Chihuahua!
wafting spring breezes
dreams of peacful waterfalls
ekk, gnome intruders.
Goodness me!
I ain’t got no more.
There’s no place like gnome, there’s no place like gnome.
Alternate: Gnome, gnome on the range…
I will from now on picture Oakley with ruby slippers and a cowboy hat
…Where the flamingos and dragonflies play!
Gnome-ing in the gloaming, on the bonnie banks of Clyde
This looks just like my baby! His name is Chico!
This also looks like our beautiful long-haired chihuahua, Cassidy Dixie Pixie Dogzilla. Her first birthday is coming up on March 22. She’s a real smart and sweet girl. Our first puppy together.
Is this a border collie mix? Looks just like my older sister’s doggie Fast Freddy, back in the day…We used to have races and Fast Freddy always won!
for peace, i pee on gnomes.
for balance the birds and bugs
pee on me.
i know this is off wrt syllables and stuff,
but zen is to accept, already…
We need a “like” button.
Yes. Definitely a “like” button.
I’ve got a belly button. Will that work?
Three gnomes of fortune
Two plastic pink flamingoes
One blissed out puppeh
…And a partridge in a pear tree
Perfect!
“What this place needs is a gazing ball.”
for the win….
NOOOOOOOO! The world might implode under the weight of the kitch!
Hahaha!
Flamingoes of pink
A green drangonfly floating
Gnomes bring peace and love
This makes me mis Haiku Friday….
That dog will never roam alone.
What a great photograph! (And I’m not just saying that because I have thing for gnomes and, OK, pink flamingos.)
Here is my warm happy place, aka The Island of Kittens (fur reals!).
Gnooooooooooohhhhhhhhmmmmmmmm.
LOL!
ओं मणिपद्मे हूं
I assume that the “mad” in “mad gardening skills” modifies “gardening,” rather than “skills.”
Actually it modifies both or rather is an adjective.. meaning Great or awesome or spectacular.
Sits down and waits for one of teh language specialists to show up and explain better than me.
Or is it an adverb because gardening skills is a verb not a noun.
Oh no! Not English class! My least favorite subject ever!!! Where are the math geeks when you need them?
In this case, “gardening” is actually functioning as an adjective because it’s modifying the word “skills.”
I think…
you are right. 2 adjectives, on e noun, technically..
Actually, “gardening” becomes a gerund, which is a verb being used as an adjective, to modify “skills.” (Oops. Grammar geek is showing up srsly right here.)
I would say that mad is modifying skills. Gardening is a gerund, and they can act like nouns (subjects, objects, etc.) or verb-like things, and in a pinch, make a tasty stew.
Gerund stew is my favourite.
all my fellow accountants (and other number-y people) please join me in one big communal eye roll… On 3…. ONE!….. TWO!…… THREE!!!!
but hey. I love y’all bookworms anyways. You wrote all those books i’m addicted to!
/raises hand/ another accountant here that loves reading too!
um er after reading other answers, actually that makes sense, “gardening” modifies “skills” and “mad” modifies “gardening”. It could have been basic gardening skills, but NO, “mad”! gardening skills. “Mad skills” on the other hand leaves us wondering, what kind of skills?
Gardening skills, duh!!!
Although I don’t see why gardening skills would harsh somebody’s mellow…
This little one better be careful around those guys. I wonder if he prepared himself by reading “How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack: Defend Yourself When the Lawn Warriors Strike (And They Will)” by Chuck Sambuchino. Those creepy things are just waiting to ambush us and take over the world!!!
Just install some of these Gnome Be Gones or Flamingo-Aways:
http://www.sugarpost.com/gnome-be-gones/
Bwahahaha!! I love those!
I love that the one that was formerly called “Tiger” is now called “Cheetah”!
Love that. I’m not sure whether my favorite is the business card holder or the Vishnu.
When I open my eyes, I will be surrounded by tasteful shrubbery.
lol!
I’m in love with this picture for so many reasons <3
Pup pants over gnomes.
Visions of pink flaming goes, comes.
Yes, green dragons fly.
Gnohhhhme, oh me pad me nommmmmmmm
(…and then they got the orders to blow up the world….)
Wargames…..
Love the hovertext
what kind of pup is that, he looks Sooo much like a fox!
trinlayk, I don’t know, but it looks a lot like my dog who is a pomeranian/papillon mix! Mine looks like a fox too
Thank you! I was going to ask this too!
This pupper’s name is Sonic, but I don’t know what breed it is.
I bet he/she’s a super pup !
Sonic the Hedgedog!
(sorry)
Sonic was a rescued dog from the pound, they thought he is a mix of Pomeranian and chihuahua
YaY for rescutes!
That dog could be a twin of my Jojo, I stared at it for a long time thinking my ex (who I share pups with) might have submitted it. Jojo is a long haired chihuahua, no mix.
Given the political news I’ve just been reading, I NEEDED this. I shall commune with happy puppah instead of stroking out in sheer fury.
don’t plotz. none of the troublemakes are worth it…
CHANT A MANTRA!
CHANT A MANTRA!
CHANT A MANTRA!
OI!!!
SERENITY NOW!
YEAH!!!1!!
Should we tell him haiku is 5-7-5?
I think it’s more marching cadence. He’s in the Army now, ya know.
Oh you’re right! The Army needs a Haiku Unit!
teho!!!
mwah, kiss kiss, lick…….
Each time I look at this picture, I love it a little more.
Methinks puppeh hath quaffed yon absinthe!
This is such a fantastic photo. So many things about it make me smile.
It also reminds me of the “Garden Gnome Liberation” activists who have a silly website. http://www.freethegnomes.com/
I was compelled to introduce the site to my sister when I visited and found a veritable explosion of gnomes in her garden. I tried so hard to stop the madness, but to no avail. :ROLL:
Ooops! I tried to insert an eyeroll up there. Sheesh!
*boop*
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0foMKAxCww&w=480&h=390%5D
Bahahahahahahaha!!!! Awesome video! “vicious pest” :~D
love this vid. love that wonderful sorta geeky handsome professorial guy giving straight faced lecture. love the gruesome idea of destroying baby gnomes with their hats just poking up.
i wonder if this guy likes the word gerund? one of my faves?
i am terrifyed of gnomes. just one step up from trolls…
This little guy looks pretty blissed out for someone with a giant dragonfly on a stake stuck in his skull! Ees maybe like garden acupuncture?
Was just enjoying this comment stream (as per usual) and slowly easing into the day when this image of ‘garden acupuncture’ made me lol out loud… Don’t know why but just tickled me funnybones… Thanks for the chortle!
It’s only 9 am here and already this day is horrid. So I thought, “maybe C.O. can tip the scales…” And look what I found! So perfect.
Cover Photo for the March issue of Better Gnomes and Garden…
WIN!!!!
Oooh, I will make it the gnome photo of the week!
Perhaps it’s not a busy garden and it was staged. No matter, it brightened my day. I’m a sarcastic person, but I thought the words with it were funny, in a cute way and in themselves making fun of “woo-woo” people
Never noticed before that a long-hair Chihuahua looks similar to a sparser-coated Pomeranian? Am I on crack or does anyone else get that vibe? Enjoy the garden, baby.
This pooch looks very much like my 1/2 chihuahua 1/2 doxie Toby!
I think doggins is sayin’ something like “eeeeuuuuuww! do I smell gnome-fart?”
Sparkly green dragonflies will not be denied.
Awwww – looks just like my friend’s pup, Bailey:
http://weefi.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/the-im-sorry-face/
Adorable. Love the pink flamingos.