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don,t cut back until spring, but go ahead and remove dead wood.if it all comes from the ground its on its own roots thats good will make it stronger.

Thanks Nettie. Are you getting any rain?

Thanks nettie - I'll let my Mom know! Hopefully I'll have fabulous pics of it to post next year! If it gets to looking better, I'll have to see if I can root some cuttings of it. The blackspot is only in a couple of areas. She never sprays it so hopefully once it's pruned it will be better;o)

loca if it is a rugosa they start easy from seed. they make rose hips in the fall you might ask your mom if it makes hips in yhe fall if it does the seed is in the hips i have an older one hansa she is beautiful wonderful smell she is big double bloom and very healthy that color you have there is the same as hansa she is a real beauty.

Thanks nettie! I'll have her check for hips!

loca if it is a rugosa it will not look very tidy they get big i only take out the dead wood its gona grow how it grows i don,t think you can train it you could take out some crazy crains but they might grow right back thats just how they are.they have bad hair days all the time.just lrt thrn go they will be whatever they will bee.

mekos no rain the chicken farmer will be here this next week his mom is in the hospital her blood sugar has gone over 500 they have it down to300 but have to get it lower gona have to change the way she eats. life is not over at 50 but things go bad over night. i told her when that bite on her foot didn,t heal it might be smothing else, bless her heart she works so hard tries to do to much. she didn,t yell at me for doing all the watering ive don the past 3 days gota do strawberrys or just let them go. then ill be fenished they say we may get rain this week. hope they are wright. love nettie

i enlarged that first picture and you can see the fuzzy stems and the 2 one the leafs the veininbg is not like a normal rose its a rugosa just look at it you can see what im talking about. love and hugs to all nettie.

We're bracing for another 90 degree heat wave this week, a fine end to a very warm summer. Garden is growing beautifully though, I have a virtual wall of tomatoes out there. Already made two big batches of spag. sauce that we keep frozen in cool-whip containers. Lots of fresh garlic, basil, and oregano to go with it. The kitchen will be stunk up with it for weeks. I love all this pasta stuff cooked fresh, but it should last us a while out of the freezer.

Al

Al all that sauce sounds great. Wish I had planted more tomatoe plants this year, but I was afraid I wouldn't be able to tend them so only planted 2. Sigh.
Here is Blossom and her Moma this week. Both doing great!
Hugs everyone and good night.

i posted this once buy ill do it onr more time we need rain the grass is gone but isa a fire hazard burned about half the valley one old home place no one hurt that we have herd of just a little rain would help. i thought we wrer going to get some but all we got was a light show. thats not good,little chicken farmers older sister was on top of his house keeping the roof wet down. so bad here have burn ban going on here.don.t know how the fire started. the one over here they think was from a cigarette started by the road.it didn.t burn very much until they got it put out. nettie

Nice pic mekos. Hope you get some rain nettie. Excuse my typos - I'm on the kid's laptop. I think I have a corrupted hard drive on my 'puter - not good. Going to bed now;o)

mekos two pretty blue eyed ladies thet do favor alot. love nettie

Thank you Nettie, I sure do love em.;0)
We get sprinkles off and on and it is soaking in and really helping the dry ground and plants turn green again. More coming froma huricane coming up the eastern coast so we'll see how that does. Hope you get some rain soon.
I had this big baby blooming yesterday. Take care Nettie and hopefully rain will come soon.

dau got to come home today blood sugar much better hope i7 keeps getting better every dsy.

We hope so too Nettie. HUGS, hope you get rain too. Looks like a huricane headed in towards the Eastern coast. Might trigger some rain out of it for everyone.
Good night all.

hi all we got rain tooday ya good rain nettie

Congratulations Nettie!!!! YIPPIE!!!! RAIN ;0)

getting slow misty rsin now that is good for plants and putting a stop to the smoldering dead wood thats great this area was so dry.ok enough about fire im to old to be out with a wet towsack puyying out a fire if i had to im sure id try and do my best. but sure don,t won,t to. hope you all get rain all you need to see you through to fall. love nettie

we are going yo get a break in the tenp i can work in the yard some thats going to be goodjust to be outside id go crazy if i had to stay inside all the time.missy had to bring parker over after school so he could have a cup of gpaws pudding. that was after he fed his girls he said they like the rain he is so funny sometimes.he thinks gpaws food is special . hope you all nave a good night and good day tomorrow love and hugs nettie. oh have toy herd from enid hope she is ok.

Enid had a friend who almost died from some medication and she has been taking care of her and right now she is off on a small vacation for a few days. She should be back next week. But she is fine, Nettie. Just worried about her friend.

Well, we had frost last night! Guess I'll probably done with the morning glories now, boohoo!! Sure hope we have an "indian summer" as I just am not wanting or ready for winter yet. But, I can always put out the fall fertilizer now on the lawn, lol!

Hope you got your tomatoes in Sandi! Sounds colder than here! We're getting hurricane warnings for "Earl" but we're quite a ways inland to matter much. Still the coastal people aren't taking chances and moving back inland. Might hit Saturday or Sunday.

Al

Actually, Al, we didn't get the frost warnings yesterday that they usually give us, but I thought it might so I went out last night about 11 and covered everything good to protect them, lol! And they are forecasting weather in the upper 70's for the weekend. So we will see how everything fared! It's still chilly out, so haven't gone out and uncovered things yet.

Two weeks ago we traveled the last of our summer short trips to Newport, Rhode Island. Got to visit a couple of the many mansions of the former rich and famous there. This is the "Breakers Mansion" off Bellvue Ave on the coastline previously owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt. He was a shipping and transportation tycoon mostly into the NY Central Railroad. His "summer" home in RI was built in the 1890's. Had 70 rooms on 4 floors on 11 oceanfront acres, maintained by 40 house and grounds servants. The interior was just stunning. We took a fabulous 2 hour tour just to get through the place, hard to beleive the lifestyle they had. The children's playhouse was bigger than my cape cod house.

Al

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Amazing Al! But I can't believe we don't all have 40 servants! What are we doing wrong, LOL! That summer house is bigger than our state capitol building, from the looks of it! S'pose we could turn their old dog house into a greenhouse? That would be more the size I could use, lol!

If you're really into mansions check this out about "Breakers", amazing!

http://www.galenfrysinger.com/newport_breakers.htm
http://www.scalamandre.com/tour/breaker/breaker.htm

Al

Sorry about your cold weather Sandi - still well over 100 here...

Wow Al - that's a huge house for sure. Can you imagine the heating/cooling bills for a house that size?!?!

Awwww, they got nothing on me, I have a summer cottage too! I think most people call it a tent!

Surprizingly, the place was quite cool and airy (off the coast) when we were there in the heat of summer. We were told that it was used as a summer home only, minimum maintenance during the winter months by a smaller staff. Some sections were heated, though not all, and some people lived there all year round to keep the place maintained.

Al

I hear ya, Sandi. My tent get's pretty airy, too.

Al

So close and yet so far. Gram's family were Van's too, only instead of Vanderbilts, they are Vanderlindens. LOL!

Oops, I almost forgot, they had a garden there, too. This dahlia obviously belonged to one of the Vanderbilt daughters, I don't remember which one. She probably didn't have to get her hands dirty to have it planted. LOL

Al

It's beautiful! But no fun if you can't get dirty! They have no idea what they were missing! I wouldn't enjoy it anywhere near as much with someone else doing all the work, ya know?

skell im so sorry you got frost. just thinking about it makes me sad its to soon love and hugs nettie

Thanks Nettie! I agree, just too soon, and I'm definately not ready for it! I really love fall, and all the leaves changing, but it can wait for October, lol.

i don,t think i could live like that. but i could try i guess lots of room for parkers chickens and the goat he is going to have. oh my the neighbors wouldn,t like crirers.im sure. not gona live like that anyway. love nettie. no wore fried potatos or corn bread. id starve to death.

LOL! I make fried taters and cornbread all the time! And cornbread muffins too! You'd just have to live on a few acres so you could have all the critters. But don't know if you'd like all the snow and cold and the short growing seasons!

i ment i couldn,t live luike a rich person i need to do my own thing. couldn,t have people cooking and cleaning for me i can,t find anything in this house now someone else doing the laundry and pitting clothes away id go crazy. nettie

I imagine they ate their share of corn bread, too. They had about 5 cooks in the kitchen to feed everybody! Love pones and muffins myself, but have to limit what I eat because of the sugar and carbs. They sure are tasty out of the oven with butter though.

Al