Noh20 visit

Don't you all think it is pretty neat that Noh20 will visit us this day some time to be decided when she calls. Kinda neat you meet some one on DG who lives thousands of miles away to find out they have contacts in your back yard.

What a shame though she will see my yard when it looks so awfull well I can't change that it is winter so we will just have a nice visit. Ernie

huh?

Yes that is neat. You will have a nice visit and can consider it a "before" with the "after" to come another time when your place looks completely different. Where's she from?

Ernie that's great. It's always fun to meet somebody from DG.

Karri20x huh?

Mary I know but wow this place looks awful the wind storms have blown branches all over, and the destroyed hoop house sits there In all it's glory along with empty buckets and the likes from my many projects that I left. oh well I guess the way it is is the way it is and your right even a blind person wont miss being able to see late spring and summer will sport a different look. She is from Ohio and did say she is probably coming back next summer.

Mystic yes its gonna be a great day Lindas charm will save me from my shyness and we will have a nice visit.

Ernie, ya worrying too much dear. DG folk look inside to the real beauty of things....you're gonna wonder where all the time went. Have fun!!

"eyes"

Eyes hope so Ernie

Karrie, NoH2O is a member here. ;)

You wanna talk about pressure! Calalily came to my house in the middle of a drought, soon after the TN RU. She arrived in time to see dried up devastation! LOL

I hope you two have fun! Shyness huh? Sure!

Bad sometimes I can create illusions lol

Ummm, I think you better work a little harder on this one. hahahaha

Bad ummmm must be a mothers thing couldnt fool my mother then or now she is still pretty sharp for 88.

Virginia,Betty, Ernie,Lana, Melanie, April. It was tough being the different one wow those girls picked on me all the time. Made me careful those girls were sneaky. Ernie

LOL Now I am starting to understand a whole bunch of stuff! ;)

She lives practically in our back yard, just a half hour away...And you're meeting her first! How's that for irony, Ernie? We'll get together with her before this nasty winter's over, I'd wager.

Hey, zilchwater, how about an afternoon at Franklin Park Conservatory?

Bad so the secret is out now the world knows why I am the master of the house living with all those girls taught me a few things oops can we take this up later I am supposed to be cleaning the driveway and here comes Linda I'M outta here LOL

Gardenwife a whole half hour away shame on you both ha ha I drive fifty miles one hour on a good day to work. Ernie

Well the visit took place and the pleasure was immense the time flew and was way to short but had to be that way because her ex is still recovering from surgery.

I think she will be coming back in the summer so she can see a kept yard rather than this one Try this for your selves where you don't live so far from each other its fun Ernie

I just found this delightful thread. Ernie, you certainly had no reason to be concerned. I would take your yard over mine anyday!

This is what I saw when we pulled into the drive: rhodies as tall as the house. Huge, and lots of them. They must be stunning in bloom. Then Linda, Ernie's wife, met us at the door. She is warm and friendly, great sense of humor (does Ernie get that from her or vice versa?) and is a quilter as well as a gardener. She showed us at least a dozen quilts she had made and they were all beautiful. I tried to talk her into joining DG but she said if she did that she wouldn't have time to quilt! (Pretty smart woman).

Then she took us out to the gh to meet Ernie. On the way we were enthusiastically greeted by two beautiful golden retrievers who were very well trained, and two gorgeous and friendly long-haired cats. In the greenhouse was Ernie himself, surrounded by dozens of huge pots of geraniums. He also had a great set-up for seed starting and in fact, his onion seedlings were already up and doing great.

Ernie showed us the quail he rescued (so sweet!) and then took us out to see his yard/garden. All two acres of it. With gigantic flower and vegetable beds. And incredible soil. I can't even begin to imagine what it looks like in high summer. Must be something out of a dream. He already had some crocus up - the first I have seen this year.

In the kitchen was a large basket filled with new seeds from catalog orders. He also had cabinet with multiple drawers all filled with seeds. I am telling you, this man is organized. Of course I wasn't allowed to leave without some seeds, he probably would have given me hundreds if I had let him.

Doug and I both enjoyed our 2 1/2 hour visit with Ernie and Linda. They are warm, interesting, talented people and how they find the time to do all that they do plus work full time is beyond me. And as if all this wasn't enough, the view of Mt. Baker there is a knockout. I will try to find a picture of it on Google.

So to anyone heading to the far northwest part of the continental USA, I highly recommend a visit to Eweed. I myself am looking forward to seeing their garden this summer; it will be a mind-blower I am sure.

This is what Ernie sees from his backyard - can you imagine waking up to this? http://www.snowder.com/earth/usa/Washington/graphics_washington/Mt_Baker.jpg

I have been trying to talk him into posting pictures of his yard - I sure hope he does.

Gardenwife, the Franklin Park Conservatory sounds great! It will be strange being back in Ohio after all this time in Washington. I must say I timed my trip just right - the weather in Ohio turned nasty right after I left. LOL

GORGEOUS! What a visit you must have had! Just beautiful!!!!

It just goes to show that gardeners not only see what is but what can be. Now we just need pictures!

Mary dont believe every thing you hear the house was borrowed from the neighbors. I live in an old school bus across the road it is covered with a blue tarp with yellow and red flowers spray painted on the sides.

The rhodies were borrowed from a local park she didn't look close in the green house the flowers are silk. I got old seed packs and filled them with rice.Lol

No just a joke most of what she said was true especially of Linda and of Lindas quilts. The part about me being organized wow is she wrong there. I am so disorganized I am outta control lol.

About the pictures I just don't have the smarts to do the digital thing but maybe I can get Ernie Junior to do some this summer ok thanks for asking.Ernie

I hope so. Do you have a digital camera? They are so neat and you can take pictures much more economically, well, not counting the cost of the camera of course.

Jr has two digitals so thats not a problem he lives 20 miles away but is here lots so he can do it all I have to do is remember.

Ernie the guy with Pentax Superprogram and multiple lenses that hasnt taken it out of the bag since he began building and flying Radio controled airplanes. Now I dont fly them I yarden.

(ernie! So you're the one that bought my old school bus! Always wondered where that thing ended up!)

Shoe Yep with crooked smoke stack . Engine froze up now I pull it with a team comprised of one horse one cow one goat one sheep headeded by a goose .Ernie

A great way for that bus to end up! Love it!

(Is there a pvc pipe inside it with a funnel on the upper end, the lower end protruding thru the wall to the outside? That was for "midnite walks" so we didn't have to go outside at nite.)

Aaaaaaargh! Bet there was a spot beneath that bus where nothing would grow!

Shoe yes and it was a mighty small one at that marked emergency use only are you still with me lol.

Gw organic grass killer. Be sure to read the sign on outter bus side saying beware shoes outfall area lol Ernie

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A bit worse than greywater, I'd wager to say!

LOL

Heheheh....I hear ya ernie! Tsk tsk tsk! Ain't nuttin sacred no mo'?

I knew we shoulda collected that stuff in barrels. Probably coulda sold it!

So, is that why the grass is gone around our big pine tree in the front yard? Hmm, I find DH standing there looking at the top of the tree often...:)

Misty nothing like el natural down on the farm. Ernie


Shoe to late now the bus is mine pepper seed is drying will mail monday

kathy, must be something in that pine tree dropping stuff on the ground, eh? :>)

Thanks Ernie. I preshate it!