News (not so) good. Part 2

Ric, I was thinking I was going to start part 2, Thanks for the nudge.

Edited to add link to part 1 http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1077093/



This message was edited Apr 3, 2010 7:22 AM

What a lovely picture of you!!

I'm still laughing from the last thread!

We got rain yesterday! I decided to weed rather than put in the radish and turnips. Our grass got green almost immediatly! I can tell the weeded beds look better and wish I had stayed out another half hour. Oh well. My legs were tired of crouching. It will be chilly today and I need to work on the house. I'm trying to keep it clean since I worked so hard on it the other day. We did put the rain guage out, so I can't wait to see how much rain we got. I know it wasn't much.

My rhubarb jumped out of the ground and I can't wait to see what else popped!!

LadyG, I hope you are feeling good! ((Big hug!!))

I have never had a Gaillardia bloom this early. He's hunkered down!

Chantell! i was just thinking about you yesterday, I have been that way since I was a kid, thinking about some one I had not heard from in a while and then they show up. That also happens to me at work too.
How are you doing? Miss you on MA hope you post often. You were one of the first MA folks I came in contact with on the boards, I think it was when Dave first opened up the new forum.

Ric, did you get that tub fixed? I know you and Holly miss it. Ours had a slow leak in it that was getting larger. When it started I had the company out sold it to us look for the leak, they couldn't find it, even said it was due to evaporiation. I finally got pi**ed after topping the tub off 2 times a week. That I got this other company out, they had to drain it tip it up and found the leak in the very bottom in one of the filter pipes. After much $$ and 3 trips (manufracture sent wrong size part) it is fixed.

Did the eagle link work? It is a local newspaper link so I don't know how long it will be up.

It looks like it will be another great day so out into the garden I will go. My co-worker and her husband invited us to Easter Dinner at her home tomarrow, Her mom and dad will be there too. Her brother lives out of town so he and his family can't make it.
Well happy Easter to all.

Billy, Thanks, that was a picture taken at Disney the year I was diagnosed. It was a great time.
I have not looked at the weather predictions yet, I guess I really don't want to. LOL It is too nice to go back to cold.

There are so many things popping out of the ground and buds starting to set on shrubs that a hard cold snap might have ill effects. Keeping fingers crossed that that is not the case.

Love the Raspberry Splash, Ric brought me one home last month from the after show sale. He didn't even know how much I wanted one. When he picked up the other shrubs he saw this and grabbed it, too. I'm not sure where to plant it. I had just fallen in love with a picture I saw in a mag several years ago and was pleasantly surprised to find one at one of the Amish Farm Nurseries at a great price. It was just beautiful that summer I was sure it would love the shaded bed by the walkway and it seemed to be growing beautifully but it didn't come back the next year. So now I still think it would love that bed but I'm afraid to put another one there again.

Chris, beautiful pulminaria!

HollyAnn, looks like great minds think alike!! It's beautiful too!

Well, time for me to get up and get busy.

Have a great day all!!

Holly mine is Mrs. Moon. She has been growing for a long time in that spot, under the old Norway Spruce, it is a dry area, and she has been reseeding, not heavily just here and there. Look for the spotted leaves. Maybe yours will reseed too.

Sorry for the up-side down pic, I thought I corrected it before I posted. It makes me dizzy looking at it.

I always liked the one named Spilled Milk :o)

Happy Easter All!

Chris, Hope your doing OK. JR came yesterday and worked/played in the yard for a good part of the day. He was a little frustrated with me, with this cold I.m deaf as a post (not quite,LOL). He was OK repeating himself once, but by the 3rd time he was a little exasperated. My FIL is a little less understanding, by the time my MIL has raised her voice to the point he can hear her. He asks, "Why are you yelling at me?" If someone yells at me, I usually know why! LOL Ric

Ric, I'm doing ok. Been busy with gardening, seeds and work. The office will be closed while Doc is on vacation, so no work starting tomorrow till April 19th.
i go for my tests this Thursday, they will tell my Oncologist if the chemo is doing it's job. If things are ok I have another treatment the following Wednesday. I am getting around good, but the energy wears down sooner. I want to get some things done before treatment, as I know I'll be down for awhile after. I am picking and choosing what takes priority and what can wait till I'm feeling better again.
At least the weather is getting to where I'll be able to at least get out side to sit and mend, hate being stuck in the house all day.

I'm glad you've got a break in your work schedule... it'll give you some down time to recover without wondering each day whether or not you should try to go in. :-)

Good luck today Chris! ♥♥♥

I hope your tests Thursday go well, Chris.

I hope they go smoothly, everything starts at 9:00 am and the bone scan is a 3 hour wait between injection and test. They can do the liver scan in between and once the liver scan is done I can get something to eat and drink. They have a nice cafeteria there.
Then depending on the weather, and what time I get out of there, I plan on heading over to Bluestone Perennials, it is only 6 to 10 minutes away. I want to look over their Heucheras I need a few more in my Heuchera bed. I have a gift cert. to spend. I e-mailed BS to make sure they will be open for sales tomarrow and they replied the next day, they are open till 4 so I should be good.

Ric, that is so funny about FIL. I'll bet it was cute watching JR get frustrated too.

Chris you're working it all out the right way. You know what to expect, so it's easier for you and us to be positive! Praying for good results!!

Shall I ramble on? Yesterday was near perefect. We didn't get more rain, but have had 1 2/10'' over a few days. I weeded and mowed! It actually need mown! Just as I got done, the water guys came.

They test our water for farm chemicals. The flood of ''93'' brought a lot down from the north with the floodwater. Then, across the road, is an ag plant and they make fertilizer. They had to do a lot of cleaning up and soil containing, but did it.

For the last five years, the tests have shown less and less Atrazine and Alachor in the water. It's safe to drink. At least I finally believe them. We've been hauling water in 7 gallon jugs from our daughters farm for a few years now. They had their new well tested and it's good. It was nice to know we had water stored in case the power went out for 3 days like it did in "98."

Today it's chilly and we just had thunder. Now it's raining. I was out just before that to write down what I have blooming. I'm always disappointed in myself. I have very little to show. I'm not a fall bulb planter. I don't like the raw wet weather the bulbs seem to arrive in. I did have to dig all of them out of the rose bed when I put in a path, but they ended up lining the garden because I didn't have a place for them. I need all the plants to magically disappear and reappear when I find where I want to put them. (Can you tell I've been watching ''Bewitched'' reruns LOL!)

Anyway, I get another day to catch up here.

Big hugs and prayers for you LadyG!!!

My green grass

Drat, not enough notice to send you another gift certificate... ooh, we could do something by PP that would let me gift you with an extra heuchera... you've got Dmail! :-)

Got your d-mail Jill. You are so sweet. I"ll pick out one and call it Jill's heuchera.

Hospital called and now I have to be up there at 7:45 am. To drink my "creamcicle" for the CT scan. The bone is for 9:00, the 2 departments could not get their times together.

Well, I got my living room windows washed and my curtains washed, pressed and rehung. I have made a list of things I want to do before I'm down for the count again. This was the biggest, one the rest are small that I have been putting off.

This message was edited Apr 7, 2010 3:31 PM

Oh gosh I thought today was Thursday! LOL Well healing thoughts for tomorrow!!

LOL Ronnie, We all loose a day from time to time.

Billy, what a bummer with the water, 5 years hauling water would get real tiring. Glad it is ok now. I'd still be filtering it just to use for drinking.

Chris.........I'm months behind here........didn't know..........You're in my thoughts and prayers.


John

Hi Chris, I've been down it the barn working on my mowing tractor :-{ it needs a carb kit. I also knocked out a little project for Holly. Since it's a surprise you'll have to wait to see a pic of it! Since you live near Erie rather than New York, BE HAPPY! The light at the end of the tunnel is not New Jersey!!! Ric

LadyG, even tho you did the work, it will be nice to come home knowing it's all clean. I did curtains last week, but no windows yet. We've been getting rain, but I'm so tempted. The ousides are filthy!! It wasn't too bad hauling water. One gallon weighs eightIt was more tiresome transfering it to pitchers. And I have a ton of those now too! Well, if the level ever comes up again, I'm all set. Besides, I can use them when I do apple cider.

Ric, laughing!!

It's grocery day and we are almost out of milk! We went a day early last week, so we are getting hungry :o) I am eating out of the freezer, so when the spinach grows I can freeze a whole bunch of it! The asparagus is what we are waiting on the most. We got another inch of rain just yesterday. I really wish I had planted radish, etc! Oh well, in a few days I'll be able to run a hoe tip in and plant. Sitting here, I can see new fuzzy apple tre leaves. My iris grew overnight and the bluebells are opening!!

HUGS for today, Chris. I surely is HOTT here. ICK

Hi John, are you glad the winter is over? Sure was a long one. Next time your biking through town swing by. I will be outside anytime the weather is nice.

Ric, can't wait to see Holly's surprise. As a wife of a retired RR worker are you sure it's not the train???

Nice Bluebells, Billy, I have never grown them something to try next year. I might go grocery shopping tomorrow depending how I fell.
I have a few asparagus plants, as I'm the only one who eats them, I have been keeping and eye on 5 shoots, I was making my sesame chicken last night so I picked them as they would be getting past the good stage. It was so nice to have something out of the garden, also dressed up the plate with garden chives. : )

The tests are done so now I wait, won't find out till next Wednesday. The procedures went, without a hitch, just took all morning. I was here drink this , then wait, then we'll inject that, now wait. Good thing I like to read, and they had the Bonnie show on, so that was pretty good to watch.
I did get to Bluestone, bought more then I planned to but then I always do. I'll post pictures of my new plants later, I carried them to the basement when I got home. I need to rest.
I also took a few pictures to post in the Go Gardening I'll put a link here when I'm done.
It started to rain when I was at the hospital and the temp dropped, I took my rain jacket with a hood. It is suppost to be in the low 40º s tonight and possible snow showers. Jan, I'll take some of your heat, I'll put in for 20º worth.

You got it!!! However we are on the dive also. Tomorrow night is supposed to be pretty low. DH was hoping to sleep out in the tent with two of the grandkids. We have the 3 of them for an overnight. Tomorrow is their mommy's birthday, so I suggested we take the kiddies. Usually we just take them back to their house to sleep - it's just around the corner, but I wanted them to get used to sleeping here. We'll see.

LOL Chris you must have got the RR part from a story about my Grand Father, he was a retired RR blacksmith. Holly and I were both DOD. I too had a few spears of asparagus but forgot to cut them. I got pretty much the rest of the garden cleaned up and burned all the woody debris from the overgrown raspberries today. I may try to cultivate some by the woods instead of in the garden. I finally have everything to plant my potatoes and hope to do that yet this week. Hope your doing OK, this cold/pneumonia or what ever is kicking my butt bad. Ric

Went to sit for the Grand babies today, couldn't wait till I was better to catch some thing new. LOL

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I need to do things in the house so a bit of chilly weather will keep me indoors to do that. Hard to be inside when it is nice out,
Jan hope the weather is good for the sleep out, that sounds like fun, tell DH no spooky campfire stories. LOL

Moving the raspberries near the woods sounds like a good Idea. I inherited some unwanted raspberries in a load of "top soil" (never do that again) they are all over the yard and hard to get rid of. I have been letting a few grow along the wooded fence in the back yard behind the veggie garden. I keep them trimmed and have harvested berries from them. They keep the neighbors undisciplined children from climbing the fence and into my veggie garden. They can trim and pick what ever is on the opposite side of the fence but they never do. I don't think they even know what they are for that matter. The boyfriend did disciplined them and he seemed like a nice guy alway saying Hi and complimenting me on my flowers. But he is in jail now, guess he get abusive when he drinks. Haven't heard when he gets out so this summer should be interesting.

Oh brother, crazy neighbors. There are no guarantees about neighbors!
Good luck with your test results. It would probably kind of preoccupy me days ahead, wondering what I'll be told at the visit. Take it easy. Cafetaeria food is not always exciting but is probably the cleanest food you can buy, and can be pretty reasonably priced. (I decided to leave that spelling error; makes the cafe look more exotic, chuckle, greek or something!) And oddly, two of the hosp I go to most often have barely any alternative in the neighborhood, for a quick meal.
billyp--if you have any pals with big clumps of daffodils, you could suggest thye ned to thin them this year in May/ June when they start to lose leaves, Then just take their biggest leftovers and plant them right then. Works well!

Actually I am not really concerned about the tests, I guess I have been through so many of them that it is not worth the worry, I leave that to my Dr. to figure out what to do next depending on the results. I'm just happy to have them behind me. So I'll be skipping along lal-de-da till Wednesday.
LOL. Sally, I find that the hospital "Cafetaeria" food is not that bad. When I was single in Pittsburgh and worked at the hospital I ate many a meal there, cheap yes! And good if you got there early and the food did not sit in the steam table for hours.
We have lived in our house for 38 years and each time the house next door is sold the neighbors get worse. The couple before that would walk up to the local bar and get drunk on Saturday night and come home in a shouting fighting match. I sit outside listening and laughing my head off, it would only last a short while but it was better then watching TV on a hot summer night.

"So I'll be skipping along lal-de-da"

I hope you don't have to wonder why we love you so much!

Should I get a pigtail wig, a little basket. I already have Toto, or is that Tweedle De and Tweedle Dum.

only if you promise to also get sparkly red shoes!

With these feet are you kidding me! How about my red garden clogs.

Chris, You may not be in Kansas anymore but, I don't think you can pass off red clogs as "RUDY SLIPPERS" LOL Ric

This message was edited Apr 9, 2010 4:24 PM

Ok, that does it!! Where is the glue and red glitter!!

Didn't Judy Garland wear like an "E" width?

(Red garden clogs sound good to me, LOL)

For you trivia junkies........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_slippers

says size 5 & 6 nothing about width. I wear a size 7 so that leaves me out, Now I feel like we entered the land of Cinderella. LOL

I went out this morning to grocery shop, mornings for me is good to get big jobs out of the way before I loose steam. It was back into my winter coat, and it was snowing, but not sticking to the roads, just some in the grass.
I am just having a hard time getting warmed up, I made a cup of green tea, and went upstairs to get my fleece shawl, and noticed that Fred, must have pushed open a door upstairs that goes into a room that was added on over the mud room downstairs, it is very cold in that room so that is one reason why I could not get warm. Feeling warmer now.
I did go outside and pick some fresh daffs for my little blue vase on the kitchen sink in front of the window.

That sounds like a nice relaxed start to a day!
It was much chillier in the house here when I woke up. 61 felt OK with blankets on, but I turned the heat back on. Our added bedroom was the cold room here, putting wafts of cold air into the main house that stayed a balmy 62 LOL. Oldest DS left early to meet friends and drive to the beach. I don't think there will be much swimming or sunbathing going on with this cool air and cold water! But, Oh the days of freedom!