Here kitty, Kitty, KITTY!
Water well and transplant in the evening so they have the night time to recover. Try not to disturb the roots. Offer a little shade if you can for a few days. Should do nicely.
Pickles...sweet sour, bread and butter, Kosher dill, slab dill, regular dill, sweet gerkins, Senfgurken (made with the older yellow ones), chowchow, vinegar cold pickle.....the freeze some for the birds in winter...just cut lengthwise for winter or chop and freeze in a qt bag with water for early spring and hot summer treats.
Our two dogs are 13 and 9. Gracie has a huge in operable benign tumor on her neck and now another on her abdomen. She still is a bouncy Australian shepard and we are facing a grime future. Red, the Catahoula/lab is now recovering from a coyote attack when protecting a cow with a newborn calf. Had him in a wheelchair for a while, but now he is getting around nicely without it.
Picked 178 banana pepper yesterday (hubby counted them) and made 22 pints of salad peppers..finished at 10 pm.
Put some juvies outside in pens and something got one of the Cochin cockerels..got inside the pen, must have flushed one out under the screen, tried to pull it thru the 2x4 wire fence and since it couldn't just ate the baby in the pen. I didn't have the camera set. Thinking this is a skunk by the way the carcass looked.
Going to spend today with my younger sister....leaving shortly. Her scar tissue in her brain is acting up again after surgery in 2005...really depressed... balance is really off and she is using a walking stick even in her small garden. Taking her produce she cant grow in her tiny backyard. She can't drive now, so I'm taking her to lunch and to do a little shopping. Still running tests.
Life can suck when you get over 65, but you just keep plugging along and make the best of it. A garden keeps you healthy and rejuvenates your spirit each spring....will garden til I die
I meant chow-chow. Yes, a spicy savory southern pickle/pepper/onion plus whatever relish. Good on red beans, and mostly anything else. I'll be watching for your transplant updates. 
Sorry to hear about your sister. My younger brother passed just over a year ago from brain cancer. He fought harder and longer than I could have myself. He was only 54. His son hadn't graduated from high school yet, his daughter in her sophomore year on a full college softball scholarship. His wife has Wilson's disease and is fully disabled. I guess he felt he needed to get more done before he could rest. It was all I could do to hold it together and support him in his battle. He loved fishing and we had the best talks of our lives together while holding poles. Then I'd go home to my garden and cry, get myself together. Gardening heals me and centers me. I understand. 
It'll be great when it's done. I'm putting a 6-7 ft pole in the center to hold the bird netting up from the 4ft tall sides. I should be able to get in there to do what I need to. I hope to add a more rigid and permanent way to cover it by next summer. Thinking maybe bending some aluminum conduit/tubing to shape supports for added height and span for a shade cover and net for raptor protection. WIP.
