Far From Happy / Help

The day started out to be quite lovely. I went for a long walk and enjoyed the breeze and sunshine. Later after lunch and hubby off to work I worked in the yard digging up dandelions. Oh how those yellow flowers take over. I filled three walmart bags full. If they are outside the rock beds I don't bother with them but inside the rock bed I remove them then spray. I took another walk in the woods looking for some not so thick flat rocks to put around the pond. I was in luck I found four. I dug out the dirt & layed the rocks. I am on my way to having stepping stones around the pond. In between the rocks I plan to plant violas. I have them planted in a mini greenhouse. They are just starting to sprout. The boys arrived home from school & I took Lucas to the church to do the mowing. He now has two jobs. Yay! When I returned home I cleaned the kitchen. The tarts in the warmers needed changed. As I was removing the old wax I looked out the window and saw hubby's dog around the pond. I knocked on the window and said no. I thought he was going to get a drink. It was to late he jumped into my fish pond. I grabbed the camera and got this shot of him trying to get out. Well he could not get himself out. I had to go drag him out of the fish pond. I called my hubby at work and told him what his dog had just done. He laughed and said he would have to have a talk with him when he gets home. He told me I should have shown his dog his own swimming pool and told me he was probably hot. I was far from happy. In the three years since my hubby's oldest son dumped this dog here it has killed many shrubs dug holes in my flower beds and gotten into my first fish pond and ate my fish. I moved that pond and he did it again. He knocked the rocks around the fish pond into the pond and dug up all my flowers I planted around the pond. They were flowers I put alto of TLC into growing myself from seeds. Hubby would not believe his precious lab would do something like this. Well this time I have a picture. Again I am far from happy. This dog gets treated better than the kids and I and never dose no wrong. I have been working on this yard for fifteen years. I have carried rocks from near and far. I have planted every year. After the dog came hubby insisted I needed to remove rocks to make openings for his dog. There are now five openings. I need to find something to put around the outside of the rocks and the openings that will deter the dog from entering into this yard. Something my hubby can not see or smell. I had the dogs two story dog house moved from inside this yard two summers ago and added the gazebo. The dog thinks the gazebo is his personal home. He has scratched the floor of the gazebo. I want to scream. The dog has his own pool and lots of open ground to roam and dig holes. Yesterday hubby set up the dogs pool before he left for work. The ugly purple dinosaur pool is set up in the area I want to put a potting shed and garden boxes. Not a pretty view from the dining room windows. I know why the neighbor added an electric fence around his box garden. TO KEEP THE DOG OUT OF IT. No one wants to have their garden trampled and dug up let alone their veggies pee'd on. Hubby is now worried his dog will get shocked by it. Well an electric fence is not an option for me. For that matter no fence is an option for me. I put much of my time into making the homestead grounds beautiful only to have this monster tear it up and dig it up and kill what I have planted. Got any ideas? How can I keep this monster outside of the rock beds? HELP!


Blessings Til Next Time!
Lara