Still Laughing For Joy #7

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If you are planning to “save” any of the undead from an afterlife of garden drudgery this Halloween, please be certain about identification. Persons guilty of no greater crime than being avid gardeners have been misidentified as ghouls in the past. It is easy for an enthusiastic collector of vintage roses to forget that digging in a graveyard can be misconstrued by non-gardeners. (Note to rescuers of old roses: It is highly advised that you inform a cemetery grounds keeper of any rose rescue activities that involve digging in advance to avoid misunderstandings.) Just saying. If the individual in question has a pocket full of rose hips, ask before you shoot. :-) Kay

Enter the DABG------ and tread reverently--

It is the birthplace of the elusive chocolate basil--You folks are getting way too close!

The little building beneath the windmill, just south of the culinary herb garden, was Squatch's secret lab where CB was created. He calls it "Redneck Area 51"--And--here is a secret -- CB can only survive if it is watered exclusively from the sacred water from the trough beneath the windmill.

Also take heed!---- those Zombies were real human gardeners 'till they got too close to his CB patch.

There's an 'ol Dodge, with three wheels, somewhere around there.

Look up "Helen Sue" at the greenhouse and ask her about chocolate basil--Her veggie garden was next to Squatch's and was (is) one of the 8 wonders of the world.

Love your forum but will not butt in again with the history of C.B. on here.

Regards,

Squatch's adopted dad.





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Those in the north should be safe from ghost, ghouls and probably trick-o-treaters. I've heard they avoid snow. Kay is working her way through Christmas carol tunes trying to write a Halloween carol for you, Carrie. Snow in October! Welcome home. :-)
Barge in anytime, Vort. I'm outnumbered. Think I'll go barge in on the Herb forum and find out if Nadine's suspicions are correct. (Jim)

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Vort, You are always welcome here. we'll make you an honorary member or ornry member whichever you want.

Vort, I think you are as disabled as any of us, at least mentally, so you know you belong.

katie

LOL--Thanks
katie---THAT IS AN INSULT!!!! even if it is true. :)

No more to you than to myself and the rest of us. kb

As in, "I resemble that remark" ? Dats me, too. LOL

aup

There is nothing wrong with me…with me…with me…with me….with me… :-)
My father was more the age of my friend’s grandfathers and he was a Type I diabetic so I’ve been hangin’ with elderly and physically challenged people all my life. It is a situation I feel perfectly comfortable in. In fact, talking to many T.A.P.’s (Kay-speak for Temporarily Able-bodied Persons) sometimes feels like I’m talking to a very intelligent kid. My intellectual equal. Or superior, but emotionally naïve. They seem sort of innocent. I feel like I need to protect them from the harsher realities of life. Like they are living in a protective bubble you don’t want to burst. Time wears away that protective bubble and no young physically challenged person is going to have a good life unless they first face the harsh realities of their situation. Growing up continually exposed to life’s harsher realities, but also continually seeing people deal effectively and with humor, I guess I never felt any need to form a protective shell. From the vast wisdom of my 24 years, I say it is just life. No one gets out of here alive and intact so you squeeze it for all the honest and real joy you can get. You learn to actually LOOK for the good things in life. lol. Like the people on the “Today, I am thankful for…” thread Debra started on the General Discussion forum.
I was SO close, Vort! I toured the Veggie Garden.

Well said Nadine.



When you were at the veggie garden you were between the lab where Squatch created CB and the herb garden where it grew before we moved it to Texas. Did you catch the lingering smell of chocolate?

Off topic, but the Halloween article that had its origins right here on this very thread appears today. Happy Halloween, or All Hallow's Eve, or eve of All Saints' Day or whatever, but here's the article for your perusal.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/3369/#discuss

Neat article carrie

Carrie, it is Candy Corn Day, if you ask my dearly beloved. I'm almost afraid to grow a plant named after candy corn...
I like those, Debra. What are they? :-)
The Great Oz has to do some serious work with this guy. It seems only logical that a scarecrow made out of tin will need both a heart AND a brain.

Profusion Zinnias. The landlord's landscape company put them out in Spring and most fried fast. But obviously reseeded first. :-) I like them, too.

I smell chocolate!

Oh my gosh folks---what a small world---You are looking at the nursery were CB was raised as a mere babe.
The windmill in the background stands beside the lab where Squatch created the little monster that would for evermore haunt the dreams of Dave's CB searchers.
I think we moved just in time--"ya'll" are getting way too close on the trail.

We're going to have to transform Kay into a Zombie---She's too persistent.

Vort! You leave Kay alone or you will have the granny goons come visit you.LOL

Thanks, Vort! I have been writing all afternoon and haven't even looked up. This two articles a month thing is going to take some doing.

It's okay, Vickie. I have often been compared to a garden zombie, especially when I go out to work in the garden first thing in the morning before I have my coffee. I'm looking forward to seeing all the entries in next year's scarecrow building contest. k*

Well if there are really zombies, I hope I meet one like Kay!

Writing under a deadline must be tough, Carrie. Are you still working with your DH’s computer? I hoped to have the Amargia website up and running today. But, Kay says there is no way she can keep a website current and active until she finishes the hardscaping. She says aside from all the writing itself there is the research and fact-checking on what she THINKS she knows. Nadine has a job now proofreading the work of would-be novelist in addition to her normal data entry. The last thing she wants to do with her time off is spend more time at the computer. She has no medical insurance so making enough money to pay for medical test is more important than anything else at the moment. She is still being plagued by chronic fatigue. That can be symptomatic of so many different things; it comes down to an elimination process. I'm just the maintenance man, tech staff and comic relief around here. I wouldn’t attempt the writing jobs alone. The reason I never went beyond Tech Sergeant was the higher the rank, the more paperwork there is. :-(
I got a good laugh today. Kay has a couple of army cots outside where she takes her noon break once S.A.D. symptoms start to creep in. A daily dose of sunlight is said to help keep the winter blahs away. Today I thought I would join her to see if sunlight would really help my psoriasis as I have heard. I discovered the second army cot was already occupied. Kay was sunning herself in one and Fenny-dog was doing likewise in the other. lol. There are times I wonder if that is really a dog or some alien life form sent to observe us. :-) (Jim)

Nadine has no health insurance? But that's not good, in fact it's very bad. Does she have any options? Does she qualify for Medicaid in Alabama? Health Insurance is what made the decision for us about moving to NC. Now DH is entertaining dreams that JB will open a station in D/FW and that he'll be the general manager.

I got my computer back but it has no software on it. It can do Firefox but not save a picture! I need to remedy the situation soon - I can't get anything done like this. Hopefully writing on a deadline will make me more efficient. Instead of writing a 2,500 word article and then cutting it down to 1200 words, I'll write 525 word ones, I hope.

OH Carrie, It'd be so much fun to have you in Dallas. HOWEVER!!! You and Debra cannot get together without ME. I know Jim and family are going to move to an Arkansas mountaintop anytime now.
I'm looking forward to reading somemore of your writings.

Nadi falls between the cracks when it comes to medical insurance. My doctor is retiring because he doesn't like what is on the horizon. Soon it may be cash-up-front for good medical care.
Debra, I’ll have to add the Green Amber Gardens hat to my collection. I like the new tag line you chose.
There was no sunning today for Fenny or I. It was 65° at noon with a biting north wind. Fenny hates cold as much as I do. This morning she picked up her dog bowl, carried her breakfast to her bed and ate while under her blankets. I either need a heavier dog bowl or Fenny needs to learn to eat neater.
You need to warn Squatch, Vort. If Big&Hairy doesn’t get that library book back in time, Nadi is going to report him to “The Librarian.” In 4.4 of this article note that “the librarian” can travel through L-space to our dimension so Nadi’s threats should be taken seriously. k*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Librarian_%28Discworld%29#Librarian


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kud, I told him and he just shrugged and said "that's my cousin".

Thank you, Kay. Hoped you would like it. Always knew something was a bit off. Lisa (1lisac who posted the original prayer request for Josh Cullins's family) finally pinpointed the discordancy for me in using 'one little tree...' with sunflowers and daylilies. With you supplying the site name and her goosing me on the tag line, we have a true group effort going. I am so happy to have been able to ship the family his daylily for receipt on the one year anniversary of his body's arrival back in the United States. And grateful for their support of not just Green Amber Gardens, but also the cafepress store. Been having a lot of fun creating bumper stickers. 'Fraid by time I'm done, there'll be more of those than everything else put together. LOL We have two veterans (one served in Desert Storm) at my office and I'm also having fun, with their input, making 'MEN' t-shirt designs for them. No frilly frou-frou pink, Jim!!

Look how intensely colored this Salvia is today. I do love Fall in Texas. :-)

Wow, I love that blue, it's so intense, as you say. My front door is that color. ^_^

Oh, yours looks better than mine. Mine was in the bed the wasp took over this summer and it didn't get the care it should have. Maybe next year.
MK just traded for 4 new agastache varieties. Do agastache bloom into the fall? ~N~

OK I'm ignorant whats an agastache?
Spring in Texas is the most memorable for me. Love those Bluebonnets.
Carrie, I want a red door.
Heard a gun go off shortly after dark. Decided we have poachers. That has got to end!Maybe I'm just being paranoid. Never a dull moment in these thar hills!

It's the drinking some hunters do that scares me. Alcohol and guns. BAD combination. Fenny isn't liking it, but she isn't allowed to run in the woods until hunting season is over. Sorry, I guess I should have said MK traded for some new kinds of hyssop. ~N~

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Nadine, this one is...

Tutti Frutti Agastache

Nadene, You were in the right. I just need to learn latin names. LOL
Beautiful color on that flower.

Mmmm I love those but it is really too damp here to have really good luck with them. Agastache and most salvias are better treated as annuals; they are so fussy about their semi-arid requirements. Like just work 11/2-2 inches of pea gravel into your garden and then make a little hill anywhere you want to plant one so that water never pools! That's for agastaches, at least. Salvias, just add a few zones onto what it says on the label, ie if the label says hardy to z. 6 expect it's hardy to z. 7, we're in z. 6 so we need one that's hardy to z. 5 or z. 4. We've fallen for the pretty colored agastaches a few times from High Country Gardens but it was a summer we were eating outside a lot. So we just had it in a pot in the table we were eating at so we could admire it--with all senses--but then by the time we got it in the ground it was too late for it to grow enough roots (despite all my advice about planting perennials in the fall) and it froze. That was a wet, icy winter which is the opposite of the kind they like. (Cold and dry.) I like the orange and orange-and-pink ones!

How neat to have a door that shade of blue. My front door is copper, but I want to replace it in spring. Nothing against Kay’s color choice, I just want a wider door. I’m a big guy so my w/c is wider than most. Isn’t there a perfume called Red Door?
I’m looking forward to sitting on the front porch and watching my hummers enjoy the new hyssops. Kay got the rowdy kinds that have to be corralled. The wild Texas variety, Orange hummingbird mint, Sunset and a thread-leaf type. (Jim)


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There was a song in the 50,s called "What goes on behind
the green door?"
I used to have orange and apple mints but they died out.
Our hummers have left for greener pastures. PROBABLY to Alabama.LOL

well traveled, then?

lol.