NIGHT OWLS ONLY - OPEN: 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. (2nd Call)

Honey, you know I am not with child, given my philosophy about the world, zombie apocalypse and end of days.

Patience, Gwasshoppah. Surprise will come.

I posted pics of current blooms on my thread in the native plants forum. I love all my crazy fall blooming asters. They are out of control,but they are Oh so cheerful. :)

I suppose you and I will have to square off and do some trading for spring. I started some rue last year but lost them in summer. Glad you managed to keep one. One is all it takes so I am usually thrilled with a lone survivor. I will be updating my have and want lists according to the harvest. The yard is pretty well stocked, but there is Always room for one or two new varieties.

Edited to say that I spoke my mind freely today on a thread that I follow although I am always several pages behind given my usual harried state. it's a lovely bunch of people, quite a few night owls, but I will not sit idly by when my truths or beliefs, values, or ethics are challenged.

I was inclined to speak my mind because I felt some unfair and untrue things were being cast about in derision of a dear friend of mine. I may have drawn some ire for that, I don't know. I hope I did not offend anyone in particular. My intention was simply to speak out on behalf of my friend whose generosity and kindness know no bounds.

ora basta!!! As Rosie might say.

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Well , I'm Exhausted ...

Gojiberry, wolfberry ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfberry

In just under the wire. Been sleeping like a baby all night(s) long.

Ya'll have a good day.

Well I'm glad someone is sleeping well , goofballs like me think were still partying all night or all weekend , Only even back then I always slept on Friday night Saturday morning ,.

Well maybe they will take my body to the Coning re-fit laboratory , re -mychondrial DNA remake my body and give me a new mind . ?
I don't want to sing Someday never comes , only hope of tomorrow , to see , to be , whatever may come .
Sign this
Fr,, Fr,, Froggy

Yeah I know it ain't that interesting ,
Here, have a Bud
No one can have only one ?

well I had a whole lot to say and when I tried to upload a pic from here and looked at it first everything went away.. glad you have some pretty blooms, Ju, and I hope yournose is better Manda, and glad u got your VW back, here are some pics from my back yard the other day I won't look at them before I upload cuz it makes everything go wacky now..

well wait the 4th one is from last year how did that happen?

Yeah, I've had the same thing happen to me Debra. Lots of hiccups since the "upgrade."

Lovely flowers, are you both still having blooms? I am going to have to figure out where all the plants from outside are going to go. Is that a plumeria? And a white French marigold? Very unusual!

I've been meaning to post Ju, but I am just so busy at 3a.m. it just completely slips my mind. Glad I got to check in this morning. My BF and I went and restocked the fish tank yesterday with tiny fish. We are both happy with them. We used to love just hanging out in the dim light in the evening watching the tiny schooling fish. All the bigger brighter flashier fish are not allowed here. It will be so much easier to maintain and hopefully no trauma/drama. It was a little overwhelming, like having to pick out a new puppy a day or two after your good old dog died, but if you leave the tank empty the water quality deteriorates. We buried the Oscar fish among my roses 'cause I heard they like fish emulsion. ;)

Hope you have a great day! It's going to be a busy one. See you tomorrow.

Crikey!

I am soooo tired of looking at this machine.

I have been revising a proposal so I can present it to an organic chemist tomorrow. -sigh-

As if I knew anything, he will see right thru me. :/

With a little luck he will note the big purple shopping bags under my eyes and feel sorry enough for me to agree to serve on my graduate committee.

Just wanted to say hello! And also a reminder that it's October. Ack.

Who's up?

Itty bitty historic maps that go with my project.

Hint: they are all pictures of the same thing.

1. 1940 aerial image
2. 1920 County map
3. 1920 USGS survey

City of Durham, NC

Enjoy!

I''m still pacing about , good morning , ^_^
Project sounds interesting , sounds like working harder having "fun"? (we) you) are



Last pic's from today ; same as a few days ago

I love the clump of Zinnias with the aster behind it. :)

I didn't get to plant my giant pink 'Enchantress' zinnias this spring, and I really miss them.

Last year I only had half a dozen zinnia left of 500 after the drought , What your seeing are leftovers that were really difficult to germinate this year ..
My multi- color heirlooms my hybrids (i made) I lost them all .
Wild aster is a variation of three four kinds , that ones a 6ft calico (near as I can tell )
Dahlia was(is) Perennial remnant from two winters ago

I'm up. I've been bagging up seeds for a couple of seed swaps. My husband finally booked our hotels for a trip up the coast later this month so I thought I'd get a start on it.
Love all the flower pics. I've finally got a fence up so I can do more "deer food" flowers. That means plants that aren't poisonous, LOL. Of course I still have to put them in wire cages or they will be sucked underground for some gophers dinner. I love most of the wildlife out here in the country.

what do deer like to eat? I have no clue.. I have wild grape, elderberrys, and all kinds of honeysuckles I am cutting back soon. welp I promnised my self to bed by 2 so I am late, hafta take a pill I guess. I am all wired from trying to get things set up for the plants outside to come in.
this was in and out Oct 11th 2012

I did not work today and napped most of the afternoon resulting in what am i going to do from 11 pm to 4. Check on the nite owls! A lot of activity a nd lots of pretty blooms! You folks have been busy. Our current weather is splendor but turning on Thursday with possible snow Saturday. We know it won't last but it still is a nasty four-letter word.

Tomorrow I need to have my hindquarter outside cleaning hibiscus plants for indoors. Without a frost I don't want to clean flowerbeds yet. Hard for me to pull and/or cut plants when they are still pretty.

G'nite all .

I bet I re-arranged 30 times thru the Fall and Winter. Gonna be fun this year, I am doing hydroponics. Off to bed, Goodnight!

Even if you have all gone to sleep.. Pretty Flowers !!! Luv the red mum and Hibiscus , All are really pretty !!!^_^

Awake. But why? :)

Well to keep me company , why else ?

I awake, fell asleep in the recliner., Been home from a bad hip thing, so napped alot.

Hello Amanda & Ju,

I'm awake. Another conversation elsewhere has me musing about silence and sound - am old enough to remember summer days before power tools - when Yeats' phrase "bee loud glade" could be taken for granted.

My favorite off-topic writer was writing on the GW Antique Rose forum about rhubarb and the talk turned to fruit trees and blossom time in May and bees and someone chimed in with Yeats' poem - http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/rosesant/msg0317240313081.html?36 - See daisyincrete at Mar 18, 13 at 9:59 . Hope you enjoy this poem and Campanula's writing as much as I do.

Debra, to make a bad pun, I can now join you with this bad hip business...joined at the hip...ducking

Good morning , sunrise in two hours ..
Enjoyed the poem , poetry is good and relaxing ..
Hey C_ville congrats on the Blue Ribbon !!!^_^




Poison berries , oh goody ...

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Just tuned in to this channel. Thanks, ju. What kind of berries are they?

just wanted to say hi (even though it is before the hour) too tried from the move of unpacking to be up much later than now.

Will sign back in a few weeks at the right hour.

take care everyone.

Jan

Good morning everybody. :)

Thanks for those heady thoughts, Blue! Got my brains churning about poetry and my beloved books. Wanted to share one in particular from my collection.

When I was in the Master Gardener program I spent a lot of time in the office after I left my day job. I enjoyed answering the "info line" and some old folks used to call just to chat everyday. Funny - they would call and ask for Amanda, and when I wasn't there staff would actually take messages for me.

We received book donations regularly most of which were added to the stacks in the office tidily arranged by topic with homemade labels someone made to identify the category - not Dewey Decimal, but thoughtful.

This little book came in one day while I was there, and I had to have it. I thought it needed to be treasured and not labeled somehow and put on the shelf in the Ag Extension offices. I don't know if it was "right," but I feel strongly that it was right for me. :D

The cover is handmade of a cotton cloth design with peacocks and lion and deer and birds and flowers. It has its own bookmark sewn in.

Published in 1924 "Gardening by Myself" by Anna B. Warner it is a charming garden almanac written in the first person and arranged by month with observations of the garden, growth, tasks, what is blooming, and her prose. It is so quaint and lovely. There is an inscription and the handwriting looks eerily like my mother's. hahhhahhahaha.

I never tire of reading it, and I dutifully turn to the appropriate month when I pick it up to see what was going on in her garden in comparison to mine.

It's been a long day so I will try to get a few Zzzzzs if I can. That is if the dumb dog will stop with his booming barking. >: /

Enjoy your morning!

A.

Hi Jan! Was wondering how things were progressing. I hope you're settled in soon. I know too well how exhausting moving can be. Take good care.

Just a couple more pics of the book, then I'm off to bed myself. If only for a little while. ;)

Amanda as always you do some interesting info articles , us , the gardens , and so on


C_ville Those are Nightshade Bittersweet (Solanum Dulcemera ) The True Deadly Nightshade or True Deadly American Bittersweet vine ...

Too many mind-boggling coincidences lately - one I can talk about is your book, Amanda. A few years ago, DH and I were driving down a road to a trail, and we passed something very rare - a small front yard had been turned into a cottage garden from road to house - just stuffed with cottagey things like rose campion and iris...lately, dominated by pennisetum grasses...perhaps deer have found it. Anyhoo, eventually, after passing by for a couple of years, the gardener was outside among her treasures, and we stopped the car, got out and said hello. We have stayed in touch, and exchanged seeds and plants occasionally. But she lent me a treasured book that I need to return - guess what it is?

The U of Virginia maintains a digital library of out-of-print/out-of-copyright/open domain books - scads of gardening classics. And there are other similar sources. Here's a thread on this subject I wrote some time back; it's 6:00 am so will investigate the links (which may not all work) later and return - http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/796872/

Now that is a good thread and a good read, bluespiral. Very nice.

Well - opened up a can of worms! :)

Blue - that's a nice coincidence. Glad to remind you that your book is overdue. hee hee...

I enjoyed your thread too - about the link - I have been collecting digital book resources for my master's project which has a historical component to it. You probably know that most books that are out of copyright are available free online (like this little garden book) so that helps with my research a lot. If you want to swap online book lists maybe we can put together a nice little resource page.

Evelyn. You're so cute. Thanks for the link. You're right - it's not the same as holding the book, but the warmth in her writing shines thru. I'm so glad you like it. It really is a treasure.

"Oh, me" (I learned this from Uncle Bob who lived way down east on the coast of NC). We are going to get some rain overnight, or so I'm told anyway. I've been collecting seed all day, and I just remembered my globe thistle (Echinops ritro) seed heads are so dry they are falling apart on the plants. I went out in the dark with a flashlight. Never can tell what I will run into out there.

So I said HEY! While I'm out here, how about cutting the feverfew seeds? And with the flashlight did so only three stems when I saw a smallish bumble bee quivering upside down on a stem in my plastic pitcher. I righted the stems and he started buzzing around in there. He settled on the rim of the pitcher and went 'round until he found the seed heads leaning on the edge and settled back in for the night. I held my breath the whole time. I am such a weirdo. :D

Played with spiders today (oooooh! found a brown recluse in a bag of sand I wanted to mix into some potting soil!)(creepy!). Did a bunch of this and that plant related stuff. It was a beautiful day, and I got a lot done. I guess tomorrow I'll be back to the grind. What grind? It's going to start grinding around here. School work. Somebody's got to do it.

I am sleeping so well lately too! So I start this post as I'm winding down and finishing my chores for the night. Sometimes I burn it at both ends. I'm glad for a reprieve.

Check you later.

I don't care if you are asleep , or if I have food in my bowl ,
I know it is 4.30 am . come turn on the light and watch me eat , or I am not going to let you sleep . meow , meow ,
They wonder why people," put the cat out before you go to sleep"


Good morning , whoever ...

Ju I don't know how you stand it, but I have cats too. My bedroom was a revolving door and couldn't imagine why I wasn't sleeping at all. Now the cats are locked OUT. Except now and then there's a senior who is old and sick and just needs a break. I've mentioned those seniors before. Usually ends with me sleeping on the couch for three weeks at a time. Ack.

Got the turtle to rehab today. I feel SO relieved to have him gone, just because i know enough to know I don't know enough to help. We had some driving rain and gusts of wind, but there wasn't much of any kind of damage. My Mexican Sunflower needed staking, that's all.

Was so very busy today! Oh. Am looking forward to speaking with my pillow. I'm starting this early so i can just hit "send" at midnight. hee hee.

I also got some long overdue trades out in the mail today. Do I owe anybody any seeds? Please send me a dmail if I have overlooked my part of a trade. Thanks.

Going to finish up the Zoo Chores and hit the hay. My mother, having married my father, a man from the south with all the characteristic charm and manners of speech, ensured that we pronounced our words the proper way - the king's English if you will. I remember saying "hay is for horses" for most of my young life. Of course now after moving to NC in 1998 I know why. People here say "Hey" instead of "Hello.".

Tomato Toe-mato. Either way. Same red fruit. Or is it still a vegetable?

Sleep is talking now. Good morning everybody. Hope all's well.

Looks like a male eastern box turtle ,
Still drying seeds doing gardening in between storms and cold , planted some winter radishes and onions , seeing a few garlic plants ,
Did not get a lot done for greens , was playing to much with the flowers. eh , it happens .
I use to be a half way decent gardener when it came to "easy" vegetables'
Times change .. so did the soils and the weather ...

Hi everyone. I have cat envy. My husband is not a cat fan. He thinks they are dangerous with the potential to spring and demolish with a bite and claws that won't let go.....AND THE BEASTS WILL SUCK THE BREATH FROM YOU WHEN THEY SIT ON YOUR CHEST WHILE YOU SLEEP. So what can I do -- I wish he were as passionate about me!! HA!

It is great to catch up - a break for me. My big brother had cardiac bypass surgery 14 days ago and he had a lung rupture and is critically ill. He came thru the surgery with flying colors and then something happened... Doctors ( many specialties ) cannot say what happened - they have looked from the back of the throat all the way down to the stomach for the air leak. He has tubes draining air from his chest cavity and they are cutting the surface skin to relieve the pressure in his eye lids, male parts, and everywhere between. A small guy is currently the size of The Hulk. Our family needs positive energy - so send it in buckets please!

At home here in NC have started to put the garden to bed anticipating winter and perhaps a return to Florida to help out. I got to do the garden when I can and the time is now. Netted the stream/waterfalls to catch the earliest leaves, and with the rain and wind we had yesterday - just in time. (Whew - those oak leaves are there to stay once they hit the water - no rotting ever - not for a hundred years....I should have skin that tough!) cut back shrubs in anticipation of giveaways so the shock is less. I am paring down and mulching more. Got the gutters blown too. Scraped the mud bees (? Hornets ? Wasps) off the eaves...those long tunnels are so architectural....looks like a xylophone stuck to the house. Did I spell that correctly??

Well, I think I can sleep - either that or count the fan revolutions. May be a while til I return so 🎼carry on...carry on....🎶🎤. I do love Freddy Mercury! Ju - thanks again for the gift of music.





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Count fan revolutions!!! That's BRILLIANT! Sorry to post at the wrong time but I don't usually have the computer with me at the right time. Pretty soon I'll learn how to use the Droid and then I'll be plugged in all night.

Greetings, Earthlings.

Lead me to your taker.


It was an INCREDIBLY long day. More fishtank troubles (5 of the NEW fish died today)(sad, but I think I have it under control)), am house/dog sitting for a friend for a week, bunch of running, chores, dinner and THEN I went to the gym at 9:30 pm.

I need you all to egg me on so I will pass my firefighter test/certification in December!!! An old lady like me should have something to prove. Or at least some pride/ego thing remnants of the washed up Varsity athlete. Back.

If I pass I will be able to participate in controlled burns on Nature Conservancy lands this winter. If I don't pass . . .... hmm. Trying to remember a test I didn't pass. :D

Help!!!

Going to start brewing the 7:00 o'clock pm cup/pot of coffee again. It's a necessity. Got to git 'er done.

Sleep will help. I'll leave you with this article on prescribed burns in Yosemite:

http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-rim-fire-giant-sequoias-20130923,0,7271147.story

amanda, today i am genuinely awake during proscribed hours. i don't know you guys. i'm just awake.
;

I'm not , I'm only here between naps ,
Does anyone ever really know anyone?


and; Hi ya , the same ,, lol