Apropos of Nothing v.18

OMG that herb garden is gorgeous!

How big is it, Pony? I have small patches of grass that the riding mower can't get to, but I have very little storage.

Pony, I would love to give your push mower a new home. There are a few areas that I have that are really hard for me to manuever my heavy "Don modified" mower around, and a light push mower would be a joy. We could pick it up in the beast, but not until sometime after roundup..... let me know.....

Deb, your garden is beautiful, just cleaned up or not. BTW... I know all about the random tools that a person will soon be looking for..... lost my 3 pound sledge hammer one year and didn't find it until the following year when the crocosmia that I had been trying to pound a stake in to corrall gave it up!

Ooops... I posted at the same time Gwen did. I am not in dire need, so Gwen, if it would work better for you, you have dibs.

I too love the swirl, click-click-click, and sound of accerlation of this symphonic tool. The motion of grass happily leaping into the air knowing that it soon will be a new creation in my compost pile. I wonder as I push it, if the leaves of grass anticipate being a tree, or a flower perchance a weed to fly across the planet each year as a new creation?
BH very nice place to sit and enjoy the garden, but with all of that perfection I doubt that you ever sit down. Well done.

Thanks, and actually Gary and I do sit on my purple bench almost every evening with a beverage of choice. Lovely habit.

Julie, you go ahead, the mower is yours!

How many of you remember this from the 60's?

How many kinds of sweet flowers grow
In an English country garden?
We'll tell you now of some that we know
Those we miss you'll surely pardon
Daffodils, heart's ease and flox
Meadowsweet and lady smocks
Gentian, lupine and tall hollihocks
Roses, foxgloves, snowdrops, blue forget-me-nots
In an English country garden

How many insects come here and go
In an English country garden?
We'll tell you now of some that we know
Those we miss you'll surely pardon
Fireflies, moths, gnats and bees
Spiders climbing in the trees
Butterflies drift in the gentle breeze
There are snakes, ants that sting
And other creeping things
In an English country garden

How many songbirds fly to and fro
In an English country garden?
We'll tell you now of some that we know
Those we miss you'll surely pardon
Bobolink, cuckoo and quail
Tanager and cardinal
Bluebird, lark, thrush and nightingale
There is joy in the spring
When the birds begin to sing
In an English country garden

How many kinds of sweet flowers grow
In an English country garden?
We'll tell you now of some that we know
Those we miss you'll surely pardon
Daffodils, heart's ease and flox
Meadowsweet and lady smocks
Gentain, lupine and tall hollihocks
Roses, foxgloves, snowdrops, blue forget-me-nots
In an English country garden

Well, you two decide who gets the mower- whoever shows up to take it gets it. heh. As far as how big it is- well, it's definitely smaller than a power mower, but big enough to be hogging precious space in my little shed. I think the blades are 14" wide? And then there's the wheels on either side, so it does take up a good bit of room.

I love the sound these make too- but it just doesn't work on our uneven ground. Of course, we won't need a mower at all, eventually- Tracy has finally jumped on board with my "No more grass" dream. *joy*

Lovely Kathy. No I don't remember. Was it a song?

I get to fly on 9/11/10. I hope I will think good thoughts as I join my Alaskans on my journey to paradise. (Note small p)

Stunning photo. Safe travels Sofer.

Pony....... Lucky girl...DH is coming around for you! My new gardens are my subtle start of the attack on my huge lawn. Please no one tell my secret to Don at roundup! I will talk to Gwen next weekend bout the mower, and go from there.

Kathy, Cool song or poem!

Sofer, I am with Judy....safe travels to you!

Steve, I will try hard to wish you to stay safe!

I just love clouds back lit by sun.
I call this one the 'grim reaper'

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Be safe, friend Steve. We're not done with you yet. :)

I always think of this song as people trade plants. Jimmie Rodgers sang it in the 60's, but others have done it since then. Warning, once you get it in your head it's likely to stay there for awhile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mMqJ7g279M

This is a great piece from the BBC in 1986. It's beautiful GSD dogs - very funny and worth the watch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f309fSTWYo4

I'm not sure what is odder the dogs or the publican! Too embarassing - we are very simple folk. Sheesh.

Laurie - my posting was definitely not meant to be an assault on anyone. This was years ago - in 1986. I marveled at the fact that his dogs were so healthy and happy and that he was indulging them. If that's simple, then I am simple, as well. In fact, these are the times in which going back to a simpler life is be grounding for us all.

Look for me on youtube when I get my GSD and teach him a silly trick . . . :-) Silkens just aren't that motivated to do anything . . .

I thought the video was a riot. I want to drink in that pub.

Sofer your grim reaper looks like a dragon to me. Beautiful sky pics. Have a safe journey.

NOOOOO, Katie, please - it was just an acknowledgement of what a saturday night holds for all of us in Burwash! Honestly - that would bring them in for miles around! And what was the count on the seltzer bottles a week? The cost! My word! I hope his tax man was sympathetic - "yes, definately a business expense...."

That video was too funny. I do hope he doesn't use the same nozzles for his customers as the ones the dogs were gnawing on... aaack! LOL

Does anyone know if tiles can be sand set?

We are moving the Tea House off the patio to its new location. We built frame and will backfill it with gravel and sand. But we don't really want to use gray cement stepping stone blocks for the floor, and he doesn't want to put down a subfloor and backerboard. Since the room is not heated, the material needs to be freeze proof and can be sand set. Any ideas?
We don't want to spend a ton of money on it, and the majority of the area will be covered with an indoor/outdoor rug.

Lynn - I don't know about tiles - unless you are talking about those big thick paving slabs, but both of my greenhouses are sand set brick, but they do have the footings of the greenhouse to make a frame in which they are set. We dug out all of the top soil first (in this garden I never let any top soil go to waste), put down hard core, levelled and compacted that, put down gravel, levelled and compacted that, put down sand, levelled and compacted that and then brick ontop. The back greenhouse has been down for almost 12 years now with no problem. Great drainage, and keeps the humidity good in all but the hottest weather (no red spider mites). The hard standing area around the greenhouses is also sand set - we used railway sleepers as the frame to hold them in place.

Uuuugh. Surgery check-in time is 6:30 AM tomorrow. :p

We'll be thinking of you tomorrow! Have a speedy recovery.

Thank you, Lynn! :)

It'll be over before you know it, and I predict that you'll have a speedy recovery!

I'll be thinking about you, Pony.

Thanks Kathy. :) I hope I heal quick too- my fall planting bulbs will be here soon! hehe.

It's a good thing you have that new little scooter chair - the leaning over really killed my neighbor after her shoulder surgery. The gravitational pull and the blood movement made it tough for her to do anything at first. Having that little scooter chair might be just the thing.

Pony, My thoughts will be with you as well. Good luck with that early check in time.... remember to bring a book! Wishing you a very speedy recovery!

Thanks, Julie! I never go anywhere without a book... LOL any chance I get to read a few pages, I'll take! ;)

That's kinda what I was thinking, Kathy- I'm not totally sure it will work with my beds, but I'm sure going to try it. If it doesn't work out for me, I'll offer it back up to folks here.

Just remember Pony, the surgery is the best part! Good luck to you!

Thanks, Linda. :)

All the best, Pony. Take a coloured pencils and paper so you can draw out your next bed and plantings.

Hahaha! Thanks Laurie- but I couldn't draw my way out of a paper bag. ;)

stick plant drawings?

Just got back into town Pony, and am thinking of you right now, probably sitting somewhere worrying. I'm sure all will be just fine for you and wish you a very speedy recovery!

Love, love, love, the idea of stick plant drawings . . .

The drugs may allow your brain to open, and you will be able to draw anything! Thinking of you and wishing a speedy recovery.