{"id":8875,"date":"2011-05-14T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-13T18:32:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T22:32:24","slug":"prettiest-of-times-worst-of-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2011\/05\/prettiest-of-times-worst-of-times\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prettiest of times, the worst of times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/a1.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"cursor: move;\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nI just cannot seem to post anything while our sweet Margaret, our Irish Terrier remains in intensive care still in critical but stable condition. The third week of May is the most beautiful time of year here in New England, with spring at its very peak, but with my sweet &#8216;Muggles&#8217; in the hospital, and little hope for long-term recovery, it is now the saddest. This is surely the most difficult of times when one owns and loves dogs, as we do. With three Irish Terriers, even though we love them all, Margaret is clearly the special one, that one you just can&#8217;t help but love the most.<\/p>\n<p>Joe and I spend three hours now, each day, laying on the floor with her at the Tufts Vet School, awaiting any tiny sign of progress. What began as Pneumonia, had now worsened into Renal Failure, a protein loosing disease, a blood platelet issue, and she has not eaten for a week. Still, her medical team is still hopeful that we can keep her comfortable and active again, if she can hold the med&#8217;s and if we can get the pneumonia under control, and her appetite back. Until then, I will just share some photos I took this week.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Fergus wanders the garden, a little lost, looking for Margaret.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/a2.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Giant Calla Lilies and Geranium maderense bloom outside now, where their containers were moved.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/a3.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/a4.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Young cabbage, crisp with morning dew,in the salad bed with lettuce seedlings.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/a5.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Purple fringed tulips bloom in front of the greenhouse.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/a6.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">It looks intentional, but this was all a happy accident, purple, violets and lavender flowers somehow all ended up in the same bed, and&#8230;.it works!<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just cannot seem to post anything while our sweet Margaret, our Irish Terrier remains in intensive care still in critical but stable condition&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - 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