"haha - I like it!"

"They were. And the cherry (or "currant") tomato plant was too healthy -- it over-topped all three tripods and the plants below them. This year, I've sprouted seeds from some of those plants, and plan to grow them on their own trellis, so when they go totally wild, they won't deprive every other plant in the city of sunlight.

Whee!"

"They look healthy."

"I asked a pet expert if I should be worried about the cat becoming obsessed with nursing or with the dog in general, and she agreed it might be a good idea to discourage very much of this -- gently, through distraction. She said not to make a big deal of it, and certainly not to yell or anything like that -- because that would just "frighten the kitten and confuse the bitch." Hee."