Prologue, part 2

The summer of 2006 saw a significant improvement to "my space", but it was just a step towards better things to come the following year. My humans enjoyed growing massive sunflowers (that was before "The Hoe" had joined the household.....), and there were even some potato plants in one corner.

Later that year, two rabbits named Snoopy and Penny began to live in my garden. They are just some of the 5 rabbits that I can now watch all day.

During the following winter, my humans decided to create a small pond and to hide the ugly brick wall of the garage behind me with trellis and climbing plants. They are very wise humans, and they knew that every garden needs a bench. Especially when there's a pond. So that's when they decided to adopt me. In March 2007 I arrived and was placed in "my space". Just look at me, all new and looking gorgeous:

Just one month later the plants around me had started to grow and make my space greener by the day:

And another month later, May 2007:

July 2007, and I felt like living in a jungle:

Anyway, you get the idea. I felt like I had arrived in a good place. The pond eventually got some fish the same year, and most of them are still living in there today. Only two got nicked by a heron. I tried my best to scare it off, but it just couldn't hear me hissing and shooing. It even had the nerve to hop all over me to get to the pond.

After a while the first frogs anf toads made their homes in the pond, and my humans adopted some newts from another human (they call her Mrs Sherlock Bond or something like that, she has visited my garden a few times...). There are damselflies and pondskaters, and the rest of the garden is full of wildlife, too. It never gets boring for me.