General Discussion & Chat: Best/Worse and What did I learn today? Friends pt.39, 1 by Bettypauze

Bettypauze wrote:
A special welcome to our group Amethystsm..friendlier, kinder, more loving group you'll not find anywhere..glad you are joining us..you'll be welcomed by all...

Hello there friendly gabbers, nice to see you planning yet more gardens..Shar and Amethyst, you'll have me convinced into starting one as well...

Painters just left and all but one finished their projects so next week they want to start floormats..yuk, one wants a mat that it 60" long by 38 inches wide, it's cut to look like a zebra pelt (I just teach, I don't pick the projects..lol) and then one has chosen a lab in a boat on water..imagine..hate to think what the others are going to choose...

Had to go out and take a picture of my pond..looks pretty pitiful, hopefully on Sunday I'll get to empty it and clean it and put the pump in..but I'm impressed, I bought solar lights for it and how I forgot to take them out at the end of the season I'll never know but there they were under all that ice and today the last of the ice on the pond left and voila, tonight they are shinning..can you believe it????

Gita, got to take photo's of my lovelies...guess when you (ahum/ahum- .....across the border) they are more special and they are growing to beat the dickens...I'm being a good mother, watching them daily, making sure they are watered, you all know how I am with indoor plants..lol...I've had some pretty sickly specimens to show you..lol..tomorrow night I'll take a photo for you...

Shar, when I was at Canadian Tire the other day I picked a package of seeds for miniature flowers and they were black..I'll check this weekend and if I can find them I'll send them off to you..

Laura, I'm not giving up on the 2 blouses..remember, it took about 3 months for you to get the stained glass things I sent you..seems you get things easier when they are sent from USA so maybe the trick is to post it to someone in the USA and have them mail it for me..went looking for receipts and I'm sure but will go back in my posts found the receipts..Shar's outfit went out the same day and I think it was Feb.23 so if I find they are the receipts I'll drop them into post office on Friday and have them trace it...so don't give up..might just be on some slow boat to China first..lol

Judy (and I know you will soon follow Liz) if you are picking up pots for this project DO NOT tell DH it's another one of Betty's projects..they'll be telling you to stop hanging out with me...lol is cute though and simple to do...

Tonight 4 of the girls that came are newbies and saw now that snow is gone, all the garden art..i.e. rhubbarb leave walkways, stained glass blue heron and it's 'can we do that, can we do that'..lordy I don't have enough energy left to teach them everything I know..lol..but I'll try..one girl finished 2 of the daisy muskoka chairs..she was on cloud nine..

Shar sounds as though you are up on gardening this week..know you've had weather in the 70's and I'm pleased to say it was in the mid 60's here today..

Dawn, I called the doctor's office this morning to see what the results were and it's his day off, so, will try again in the morning...couldn't resist the breakfast though as I hadn't eaten anything before leaving for the city and I was so very hungry and choices there are limited..

Ruby so nice of you to offer seeds..a few of the ones you mentioned were in Gita's gift pack...next year I promise, I'll be organized and have little packets ready to ship out myself..

I'd love to show you all my seeds that I got last year but I'd be in big trouble...I've a big box about 3' x 4' and they are all thrown together and I'm not going to seperate them...I'll prepare a bed, throw them all in and if any grow, then I'll simply transplant them to a proper bed...

Girls I've come up with a wonderful idea for my garden..you know I said I was making a friendship garden in honor of you all well I've decided I know what I want to do..

First of all I'm getting a 4 x 4 cemented in, I'm going to router out signs and paint all your names on them with to mileage to each of your homes and the direction in which you live..that's step 1 - step 2 is I have molds for hexagon stepping stones and plenty of glass, so I'm going to ask you all for your favorite flower and color and will attempt to make a stepping stone..when all done I'll place them in a checkerboard fashion placed going to your flower bed..that's my mission over the next month or so..deadline..let's say June 1st.