The Dirt on Gardening Kitty Style
If it’s Monday, you know it’s Mondays With Merlin. This is your host Merlin and I have a beef. It’s my 17th spring and I think I’m entitled to walk in the garden every day. The humans indulge me most days, but just because I don’t see well, they try to block the entrance to the porch so I can’t wander. It’s for my safety they say. Last year they had the nerve to put up a baby gate. Ha, I showed them and slipped through a narrow crack. This year they got real creative and put up a canvas screen that slides open.
Damn it, it works. Just as well, Layla is up to her elbows in dirt, gardening. 
Odin is her gardening assistant but it looks way too hard work for me. I’d rather watch. Do you garden? Do you like the smell of dirt?
12 Comments
Abby
Momma never allows us out.
She likes to putter outside and we watch her.
purrs
>^,,^<
♥Abby♥Boo♥Ping♥Jinx♥Grace♥
Kathy Thompson
Dirt is the bestest thing ever!!!!!Its good for rolling and digging and pooing and playing! The smell of dirt and fresh mown grass and spring rain and sunshine ………..ahhhhhhhhhhh the pure joy!!!!Luvs Skeeter and Izzy >^,,^< ~~~~~ our little dirt cloud!
CATachresis
I love gardening … well I love watching somebody else gardening if truth be told! It’s so relaxing lol Good ol’ Merlin xx
Marilia
We love dirt too!!!!!!!!
Brian
That dirt looks like fun! I may have to order me some!!!
Katnip Lounge
I ADORE dirt! I rollrollroll in it and color my furs. Mommy screams with excitement when she see me, and I scream during the subsequent bath.
~The Baby
Cheysuli
Dirt is really good. Humans should eat more of it because that’s where good bacteria come from. OR maybe they should just roll around in it and bathe themselves like a cat. Man… now even I want to go out. I wish it would get nice outside so I can wander around the backyard!
boomermuse
Chey,it’s still cold there? It won’t be long now.
@Katnip Lounge, we roll until we change color and then roll in the grass and lick and polish. Layla threaten to bathe us and then like magic we’re clean. None of us have ever had a bath.
@Brian,it’s messy but good. Maybe a pot of alfalfa grass for you?
@Marilia, excellent!
Bernadette
I love gardening with felines! I’m looking for another feline gardener in training and can’t wait to find out who it is.
Pam Kimmell
Ohhhh! Merlin, I love dirt and dirt loves me. Unfortunately we have RED dirt here in Virginia with all that clay stuff and my paws get red (which Mom doesn’t like much on our light carpeting) so I have to endure a paw-wash when I come in from outside. I help Mom in the garden a little bit when she lets me!
Sammy
Kathryn
Yes, we all love gardening here. Only one of us actually gardens. And that is moi. The two boys I don’t even let try. But I know they love it.
Gorgeous photos. The smell of dirt is awesome.
boomermuse
Isn’t it just awesome at this time of the year?
@Pam, red dirt and Sammy kind of match,LOL about I love dirt and dirt loves me!
@Bernadette, I’m sure you’ll have no problem finding a gardening assistant.