That is a cute story! I'm sorry you had an accident. :( I can totally relate. I lost all of last year to an accident! Now I have a garden that is an absolute mess of weeds and overgrowth! I am glad, however, to have recovered! :)

On the plus side, you can stay in the house when the thunderstorms do come and not feel guilty that it is raining and you can't do all the "needs to be done" work. And you don't have kids to entertain on a rainy day. I have 5 shelties who turn into Thing 1,2,3,4, and 5 on rain days! And they can't color! Oh how I long to stay cuddled up with a good book on a rainy morning and listen to the rain!

As for the apples, the birds can have a feast before fall. Or maybe one of your neighbours can use them or freeze them for you. My mom used to stew up all the apples from our crab apple tree. I can still taste those yummy stewed crab apples in my garden dream.

And dogs are a different thing. I have green patches all over my lawn in the summer and yellow ones in the spring! And the boys pee all over anything that is on their level! In my dream garden, someone else would train my dogs not to pee on EVERYTHING!

All in all, you have a very beautiful dream garden with which to enjoy. Some of us don't even have that. I am grateful I have both. :) Thanks for sharing your dream. Now if I could only imagine Jack Sparrow walking through the front door at the end of the day......LOL

One more dream: That the sun would shine gently through all the leaves, so I could grow something beside mostly shade plants.
Maybe while I am at it, I would have a soil additive that makes all plants adaptable to all zones. YIPPEE! gramma jan

Lol. Gramma Jan
I would like to have twinkly lights draped all over the garden, with no need for wires or electricity, have Whichford pottery magically sprout and all I'd have to do is pick a container when it's the size I'd like and fill it.
And gardenias and jasmines would grow with not the slightest blink at snow.

Great garden dreams, and a hilarious ending, Adrienne!

Hee, we're showing our age...Honalee favours Johnny Depp over Orlando Bloom and NO ONE asked what happens in "Rear Window".

So here's another fantasy. Grass grows as thick and lush on my lawn as it does in my perennial bed. In fact, it prefers to!

Adrienne ~ Johnny Depp is my daughters idol! I'd be robbing the cradle a bit! I've never seen Pirates but my daughter named her kitty Sparrow on my suggestion. Don't remember seeing Rear Window. Should I?

Another part of my fantasy garden is that it waters itself so I have more time for Johnny! :)

The other Jack Sparrow

No weeds, no voles, and no crows. Just song birds, humming birds and butterflies. No drought, no powdery mildew, and no Japanese beetles. Just gentle morning showers, lush growth, and bloom. No black spot, no rust, and no thrips. Just shinny green leaves, strong stems, and high bud counts. Oh yes, and 50% off all online plants all the time.That should do it.

Brad Pitt would be my yard slave...since that ain't gonna happen, I wish my mulch would look as fresh at the end of the summer as it does in the spring.

The deer would still play in my garden, but not eat my roses and petunias :)

My garden would look like a thomas kincaide (spelling?) painting without any worry about snakes. Dead flowers would have viable seeds the next day. It would be 85 deg. every day with cute cotton ball clouds that look like puppies and kitties each afternoon. The anoles would let me pick them up and there would be just a few ripe figs every day. Hummingbirds and butterflies would perch on my finger while I sit on a beautiful wicker chair in my beautiful gazebo, singing and whistling like Snow White. Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom sit on either side, sipping lemonade, admiring it all. Aye, captain!

Am I the only one, who thinks Orlando Bloom looks better as an elf? :)

Do you think it may just be the ears? Leonard Nimoy too is definitely more appealing as Mr Spock...

HAHAHAHAH! He does make the perfect elf, but my husband laughs at how his main job in the first movie is to gaze intensely beyond the horizon with a great shot of his eyes/ hair :)

and I watch Antonio Banderas water and clean my sun room where I relax after the dialysis treatment...sun room has tropical plants lovely Hoyas streps,AVs and Episcias and many many unusual rare plants...the sun room also has a japanese water fountain ... did I mention AB? Sun feels good after the cold kidney center and of course love of my life big black cat pissing everywhere..now that is bliss...

Cracking- He was a great shot with the bow and arrow...and seemed to know when danger was coming, which was usually when he 'stared at the horizon with great shot of his eyes/hair'. I have to admit, he does have nice eyes and looked really good, with the blond hair. That poster would have been on my wall, if I had been 13 when the movie premiered! :)

Adrienne- LOL!

Greenzzz- Antonio Banderas is a good choice, too!

Hope you are feeling better Adrienne.

A fantasy garden sounds really good right now and I dream:
- of a garden of Eden without the weedin.
- of rain when needed and only at night.
- that as I peruse the gardening catalogues during the winter my chosen seeds winter-sow themselves, then plant themselves when ready as I sit on my covered veranda on a chaise and sip mint tea.
- that my camera automatically takes beautiful pics of my garden that never need cropping or retaking.
- of deer meandering through my garden and never, ever nibbling anything. Ditto the marmots.

And those cordless twinkly lights would be magical. ;-D