General Discussion & Chat: Best/Worse/What did I learn today? Part 13, 0 by tangiegirl

tangiegirl wrote:
ETA: *Liz, crossposted as I took so long to complete this post, due to length, certainly, but mostly to leaving it to drift around the house and yard, enjoying a lazy weekend morning.....will think on your dilemma...B...too bad about the sale, but lovely wrought iron set...love the pattern...it will look right at home at your place* End of edit


Good morning! How are all of my favorite DG friends today? I didn’t post last night because I didn’t want to fuss at Betty and knew if I started, I wouldn’t stop. SO very glad you don’t seem to have done yourself permanent damage, my dear. I do so worry over you when I know you have set yourself a goal that I (presumptuous of me, but what can I say?) think is too much for ANY one person to accomplish in a day. The sale sounds wonderful….hope you find exactly what you are looking for, even though, if you’re like me, you won’t know what that is until you see it. Loved the pics you posted of the yard and front porch entryway to your lovely, lovely home. I am deliberately skipping over the “Fall” part of these posts as I refuse to think that summer will be coming to a close soon. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…….I do not want to contemplate another winter yet….I am not ready, I will not acknowledge that this summer is not endless. Leave it to you to have a crafty cat. Is Riley the teacher or the pupil?

Trop…lift a glass for me….and I am SO looking forward to those blackmail worthy pics. Bats are good and interesting creatures, as long as they stay out of the house. Nice of him (her?) to arrive before the rest of the out of town guests….can you imagine that scene with a houseful of happy, well lubricated, partygoers?

WOOHOO, wonder! Way to go, babe! Knew you could do it.

Kim, isn’t that just like our Shar? Always doing for others, be it organizing a one-woman show for a young and deserving artist, or creating veggie signs for an equally deserving DG friend. Glad you are not still beating yourself up over your lost evening. We all have them…some of us more often than others. For instance, I have my share and Betty’s too, since she is not using them herself.

Carol, you are indeed making memories for your girls. When we first moved to Pennsylvania, we lived near a “pick your own” blueberry farm and many of DH’s family would gather at our house and then caravan over to pick our fill each summer. Then we would come home and spend the rest of the day in the kitchen making freezer jelly and many pies and cobblers. Many of those we gathered with are no longer here on earth, but they are in our hearts and our memories. Good times. Love the fishies…when I was younger and had more time and energy, I had an entire wall in the living room filled with Betta tanks on open shelves lit from beneath each shelf. As a group, they were more colorful than a kaleidoscope and the ever-changing shadows they cast were mesmerizing and often more interesting than whatever show was on the television screen, which sat between the wall of bettas and the fireplace. I don’t remember much of what was on TV in those years, but clearly hold the vibrant colors of the fishies accompanied by the cozy sound of the crackling fire in my mind’s eye, yet today.

Dawn, sounds like you had wonderful day. Well worth a little sniveling payback time. You must have sent that cool weather my way as it was 63 degrees here when I got up this morning. AC off for the first time this week and should not have to put it back on til tomorrow afternoon, when we are supposed to be back in the nineties.

Ah, Shar, would that I could send you some rain. I would do so in a heartbeat. My fall peas have already poked their little heads up out of the soil. Soon they will be climbing their fence. My biggest chore with them now will be trying to beat back the cuke vines and keep them from swallowing the peas and their fence in one gulp. Your broccoli looks good enough to eat.

Jeannine, your at home work days sound like mine! Aren’t they wonderful? I brought work home Thursday to be done on Friday, but never even took the zip drive out of my briefcase….oh well, it’ll get done before Monday, or not…. Enjoy your overnight play date…..Is it a boating kind of lake, swimming kind, or both?

Liz, so the ants have returned? Shoot. Wish I had a magic fix for you, but I don’t. The picture is a small portion of my driveway…just outside the fenced in part of the front yard. There was a bed there at one time. Mostly spring bulbs and sunflowers. Always intended to make long beds all along the drive (over half a mile long) but because we currently lease the fields to a farmer, who uses some large equipment to plant and harvest, it’s really not practical, so it is now just spring bulbs, mostly daffs, snowdrops and large swathes of grape hyacinths. Plus, hubby thinks he has enough stuff to mow around and rather enjoys the straight shot down the sides of the drive, not having to dodge plantings. Further down around the bend there are wildflowers, mostly Queen Anne’s lace, New England Asters, Milkweed, Daylilies (common orange Ditch Lilies) and a few small mimosa trees we’ve allowed to grow beyond seedling size. I do know the mimosas are invasive but they smell so sweet and this time of year, the ground beneath them is a fragrant pink carpet made up of hundreds of powder puff like blooms that have drifted down to where they will spend the remainder of their summer. It’s groundhog and bunny heaven out there and helps keep most of the critters out of my tended gardens.

The third hibiscus opened last night. I ended up with two of the dark rose color I posted earlier and the third “Southern Belle” turned out to be a palette of beautiful soft pinks and whites…..

Everyone, enjoy your Saturday….will check back in later…Laura, hope you are having a perfect day today and are enjoying your victories of the past week, and most of all, are able to leave the fretting over what challenges the next workweek will bring until Monday.


This message was edited Aug 11, 2007 11:24 AM