Pacific Northwest Gardening: Apropos of Nothing v.9, 1 by

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MHF, I am totally with you on those tiny umbrellas. Why do I bother to plant early spring bulbs like crocus? And I know this is not the $ wasters thread, but about every other year I see tulip leaves coming up somewhere in the garden and wonder 'what the heck are those?' only to realize that , yet again, I planted hybrid tulips that were glorious last year, and will never look good again. Last year I had these lovely red and white tulips (which would have been nice with red socks). This year I have boring leaves and need to go jerk them out of the ground. And I had been so pleased that they didn't get spoiled by the rain last year!

Okay, so SK, I have to admit that I barely remember Christi Yamaguchi (figure skating?), Bruce Jensen (I thought it was Jenner?), and have no idea who Linsay Vonn is without doing 'the google'. And now I also hate to admit this and will probably incur multiple levels of wrath, but I have absolutely no idea who Nicole Bobek, Bode Miller, or the disgraced, unsportsmanlike character would be. This is the only woe I have regarding the lack of TV coverage of the olympics. We did, however, watch the America's Cup. At least my DH did. And we still cannot figure out how they got 33 knots speed out of only 8 knots of wind. Must be magic. If I had TV, I would have watched Hockey. I do still remember when we beat the Russians in Olympic hockey. That was legendary and I lived in New Jersey at the time. That was also legendary.
But I probably would not want to be any of these people because they must have had to eat, breathe and sleep whatever sport they have competed in and just the thought of that makes me want to shorten my life considerably.

These large swings in day/night temp make me very nervous. This is how plants die. Bad weather.. Bad! Please make a decision about whether it's going to be cold or warm! My mexican orange wants to know!