Lilies: I'm a newbie & I need help with Asiatic and Oriental Lilies!, 1 by DonnaMack

DonnaMack wrote:
A good analogy. And yes, VERY hard not to develop a dislike. I didn't mind her snide remarks about my "cute little house" but when she showed me around hers (kept insisting) I got the real picture. Their house was so big she had "a bunny room". Are you ready for this? It was a full room dedicated to stuffed toy bunny rabbits, from miniature to human sized - dozens of them.

And then there was the "Alice in Wonderland Tea Room". A full room, with a complete dining table, chairs, china, silver and linen, and in the chairs were the characters from Alice in Wonderland.

Then there was the 300 piece earring collection I "had" to see.

One thing I didn't get. She and her husband shared the master bedroom. In my "cute little house" my husband and I had separate bathrooms and a guest bath. Weird.

The stuff in the yard was just one more acquisition.

But don't worry about pets. She had two yappy snappy Yorkies that barked their brains out and that she walked at least six times a day because, clearly, it gave her the ability to walk around my house several times a day and look into my yard. She got really enthusiastic about it when, blessed by a gift from my mother's estate, we were able to put in hardscaping with 20 feet of wall seating, retaining walls, and a trellis, on which I put a huge red rose (hint! hint!). A marvelous young man, all of 26! who became like a son to me, who was working in the business but wanted to set out on his own, got his first commission from me and put tons of love into his first project, quoting me a price perhaps 60% of what I would have paid. I was so lucky.

But wow, she wore out a circle around my lot while it was being built!

It's s shame I can probably never build anything like that again. Better yet, since he went over time, he gave me a huge Endless Summer hydrangea.