General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and...Part 39...! :-D, 0 by meezersfive

meezersfive wrote:
Just checking in....made breakfast for DH because he brought me a bouquet of mums from the garden....

Maria, time for an ark? I can't believe the east coast is getting such a long downpour. That must include some of the rain we didn't get here all summer! I'm not looking forward to long gray days in November, what a shame to have such cloudy dark skies this early.

Bulbs. Thanks for the reminder, this would be a good day to get those bargain bags I bought last month in the ground. Since we had to dig to clear access to one of the septic tanks, I can put lot of them in there, no weeds to pull....all freshly turned soil. This is sounding too easy..........must be a fly in the ointment somewhere.

mg, loved the wire clipping story!!! Really gets their attention when you take drastic measures! I have one grand that is adhd, and believe me when I say I don't want to even be around him when he's not taking his meds. He is destruction on wheels, and drags his little brother along on his misadventures.

Thanks for the bearnaise recipe Darius. Would be good when I'm feeding more than just the two of us, otherwise we'd gobble it all up in one sitting. Did I mention I got my new 14 c. cuisinart? Woohoo! Already shredded a pound of cheddar just for fun. That stuff in the supermarket that's already shredded has some kind of additive in it to keep it from clumping. Ugh. I'll take the clumps!!

Hey, just make PB balls and pitch them into the dog's area from a safe distance! And if you get arrested, we'll come bail you out...

My DH has already told me he wouldn't bail me out...lol. When we sold our old house, while we were building this one I brought quite a few plants along, but the builder managed to bury or run over all of them. I've told this story before, so if you already have seen it, skip on ahead.

We moved in December, so there was no hope of digging up anything at that point. The following spring, I drove by the old place and was shocked to see that the new owner had mown down all the perennials in the front garden bed. I couldn't believe anyone would take out perennials that require little or no care. The more I thought about it the more irritated I got. By the following week, I had made up my mind I was going to go back and try to rescue what ever was left in the back yard, where I had masses of hosta, lilies, beautiful antique white iris, carpet of roses, etc. Soooooooo,

very early,one morning, before dawn even thought about cracking, I donned my black sweats, black baseball hat, black tennies, grabbed a shovel and a couple of big buckets and drove over to the old house. Parked on a side street, skulked through a couple of back yards, prepared to digup whatever I could and vamoose before the sun came up. A crushing disappointment awaited me....everything was GONE! Mowed down or Roundupped into oblivion. Even more surprising was a neighbor outside raking doggie poo off his patio at 4:30 in the morning. He didn't see me. When I got home DH said if I had gotten caught, he would have left me sitting in the slammer. Hummph. Like they would have missed plants they wanted to kill ....I know it was their property, I know I sold the plants with the house, but isn't there some kind of guardianship for plants you've nurtured?? This is what it looked like before the blitz.