Slump Down In Your Chair & Tell Me All About It.....

Sequee,

I thought I was the only Hudson Valley girl here. I have just been drooling over all of these zone 7+ gardens. Will let you know about the leftovers. I also have hundreds of hosta, which I am always trying to find homes for, but very few people want plain old green and white "Brooklyn" hosta these days. They look something like Patriot. My mom brought a few from Brooklyn when we moved upstate when I was child about 34 years ago. . . . and they say rabbits multiply (LOL)!

Cheers,
Colleen

I know what you mean - between the Hosta, the Lily of the Valley and the Yucca - Whoa, Nellie! Every Spring I dig up the Yucky, and every Fall - iiiiit's baaaack! LOL!

If you are in Zone 5, you are not the Campbell Hall I know - thats a solid 6!

LOL at Judy! That was too much!

Now Colleen, if you let Old Man Winter murder that strawberry lemonade I WILL be driving up in our child protective services convertible and hauling you off to the Big House! :) Now if you want to let her overwinter in Texas, well, maybe we could have joint custody?

Overwintering in Texas . . . hmmm. We do have an office in Dallas I could arrange to visit. I wonder if I would have to buy it an extra seat on the plane. Sequee, though all the data says I am in zone 6, sadly, experience indicates that I am in some sort of wierd zone 5 like microclimate.

I believe Slim Jim Tucker is back and that just puts the icing on my cake, if you know what I mean.

http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/463875/

Too bad I didn't think to let the child services people have this one, it's gonna need some protection .....

GROSS Judy! As a member of the plant child service department, I am going to say that SJT is not covered in our line of work. :)

The dang thing is about 4 feet long.. black as coal, yellow belly and about 3/4 as big around as a coke can!!! Boy Howdy, jumping over that thing will getcha blood to flowing!!!

yeeeeaaaah, don't know about "jumping over" that thing Judy... I would be taking the looooong way around him. :)

This stupid thing is impossible he lays in the paths, or at the "step off" to the porch where you can't see him until you're about to step on him.

Last year I thought for sure the Sheriff's Dept was burning a field of pot somewhere nearby and I was breathing too deeply .... cause this snake story couldn't be "for real".

Uh oh Judy- contact high!

I have never laughed so hard. You guys are a trip. Now I can tell my husband that me wanting to be outside and working is NORMAL!

Hes the abnormal one, yep. Television? Whats that? Radio? Ooooo I can listen to it while I work outside?

Hes definately the abnormal one. 3" binder full of plant descriptions of whats in my yard? Who me?

I've always just thrown whatever, where ever and hoped the "stray dogs that came to stay" and I wouldn't fight too hard over them, but now people are actually expecting me to know the names of my plants and the location!!

... well it was over there, but Dumpy scratched him out a bed and it ended up over on that side, come to think about it seems Fluffy was laying in that spot last week......

.... if I had a 3" ring binder, one of them would probably decide it liked the taste of the plastic sheeting in which the pages were encased.

anyone know where i can get a garden nekkid t-shirt?? hmmm, thinking i should just borrow judys goggles and call that my outfit, lol.
how many of us have been in the yard and had somebody show up? guess we must look like aliens with mud on our faces, black knees, smellin like a 3 day old pair of gym socks......i think its normal, lol.
or the times we have to run to HD because we have to have another bag of mulch? .....in boxer shorts? Oh yes my local hd knows me VERY well, lol. Dirty face , and boxer shorts, lol Thank God that wasnt my "tshirt only" day : )

Now I have to post a picture of me in what she is calling goggles. It is actually a OptiVISOR, Optical Glass Binocular Magnifer lol lol If she just wore these do you think people would notice .... ............. the goggles. lol lol

As another member of PCS (plant child service). Under code: SJT4 of the hand book Snakes are not covered.
And with you harboring a fugitive like that you are coming closer to having us show up with shovels and there is no protesting the loss of all your children.

Get out the hoe or consider yourself warned.

LOL Judy, that sounds familar. I will go outside and swear I put something out, only to find out "Blue" or Yeller got a hold of it and ran off with it (my brother in laws dogs)

YOU PEOPLE ARE SICK!










YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

Hap

What a thread...I don't know when I have laughed so hard..........wait a minute, yes I do.

This morning when my DH was getting ready to hold the stick with a paper on so I could photograph my Prize Coleus....the tip, THE EIGHT FOOT FOUR PART, the part that makes the plant 8'4", the prize part of the plant,,,,well you know where I going..........it got in his way...........





SO HE BROKE IT OFF.................I thought I was going to have the Big One right then and there, but I started laughing too hard........I just said.
"Well, it used to be 8'4". He never got it...poor baby.....

Any resemblense to the 2 Stooges, (Iknow there's 3, but only 2 in my house) was purely coincidental..(When are we getting Spell-Check???)

It has made me laugh all morning. I tried to tell my DD, posypeddler, about it and she said that she could not understand me......I was laughing too much..

Oh, when I saw him reach up and snap it I froze. and probably for about the only time, well, maybe second, time in my life I was speachless. LOL

Life is so much fun. As my cousin used to say, "Life is fun is you don't weaken, and More fun it you do." Ah, that girl was after my own heart.

Lovies to all

Hap

With that posting you qualify for our new DG uniform... just a hint, lime green, hot pink, stop sign and floppy hat
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I had a visit from Slim Jim Tucker this morning so I'm about over the edge. I was watering the plants with the hose and up he comes, slithering. I guess he got himself a good drink of water from the hose I left laying on the ground. Heart racing, and legs just gettin' it, was out of there, never stop to turn off the hose. I need to find a person who wants a pet snake to come get this thing.
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I didn't have the heart to chop his head off.. he just laid out there and let DH take all sorts of pictures, but when he heard the noise the camera made when turned off, he hid in the Lilies. I'm NOT pulling the weeds out of any flower beds any time soon.

Just call me Lucy, as in Lucille Ball

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i think he likes you your scent? do they smell ? must.. he came back he is love struck... might try talking to him or calling him see if comes to you..or take away like 5 miles... take care..

Story of my life having some gross,love sick male following me around.

Is this not yucky!!!

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And with you harboring a fugitive like that you are coming closer to having us show up with shovels and there is no protesting the loss of all your children.

Get out the hoe or consider yourself warned.

"Story of my life having some gross,love sick male following me around."


Once DH takes him atleast 20 miles away. We are coming with the shovels.
ROFLM(LGSS)BO (lime green stop sign)

Judyc..is that really the one? Yikes... I'm not afaid of snakes but that one thar goes into another catagory..

Hap

I bet he is 4-5 feet long and around, he's 3/4 the size of a coke can.

Yesterday DH was in the small "big city" and asked that he get moth balls as I've heard it will keep snakes away and I know they will keep dogs out of the flower beds (only problems is you have to put down fresh ones after a rain). Would you believe he came back 'designer moth balls', Martha Stewart and paid way too much for them. lol lol I took them back today while I was out looking for flower pots and got 10 boxes of the cheap ones to spread around everywhere. I've only seen him coil up once and that was when DH was trying to capture him with a rake and shovel. Today I just left him alone cause I knew I was going to get the moth balls. ISN'T THIS CRAZY!!! If I didn't need it before, I'm going to need professional help after this is over. lol lol

While out I also went to all the national chain department stores looking for lime green floppy hats but couldn't find any. Dog Gone!! Anybody got a pink Caddie??? We'll have to get us one of those Pink Flamingos to hang from the rear view mirror. Take off the trunk door and make some real comfy seats maybe enough room for a planter back there also.



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Ok, since I don't wear lime green hats, and hot pink underwear, and I'm not enough of a morning person to get caught in my tshirt outside, does this mean I'm NOT in need of treatment?

I suppose, since I'm willingly doing a coop, that is a strike against me, though. We need Judith. She really is a psychologist! AND a DGer. She would understand! She'd probably treat us while digging in the garden, AND take plants for payment.

But...

Do we really want to be cured? I really enjoy this level of insanity.

One of the things were taught early on in Plant A-holics is that the correct thing to say is "Ok, since I don't wear lime green hats, and hot pink underwear, and I'm not enough of a morning person to get caught in my tshirt outside.....YET!!!!
I swear i was sane before brugs, mustve inhaled too many of them, then it went to daylilys, then bananas now coleus.
Grab a chair and get comfy. There are way more of us than the ones that are coming forward.

Anyone "doing" a co-op, needs to start wearing a lime green hat, to ward off evil spirits. lol lol You definitely qualify!!!

Well I did a co-op too so I guess I have yet another strike! I am glad my undies have become a common thread here... so today they are white with big red lip prints on them (like the "kiss" prints ya know). Anyway, I was outside after work, still dressed from work of course, but my skirt was a little bit "flowy" today. You guessed it, a bit of a breeze was kicking around and the back of my skirt blew up all the way as I was bent over messing with my Endless Summer hydrangea. Yes, my husband was around to witness it. I hate when that happens! Nothing like this occurs when he's gone and I'm out there!!! So of course he had to tell me that the expression "you really showed your butt (but use the 'a' word instead)" is supposed to be figurative and it means you made a fool of yourself. Well I did that figuratively AND literally! He's clever, I'll give him that. See, I CAN'T mess up and just go out in a t-shirt. I manage to show my drawers when I'm fully clothed! LOL!

Judy, as for snake deterrent… you say mothballs, I say shotgun… oh well, potato patahto I guess. :)

I was afraid you guys were going to say that.

Uh, Judy? I would tell DH there is room for only one male to follow you around, and it's his choice who goes, him or the snake!

He would probably hand me the hoe. I'll admit late last fall when he came in the house and was curled up under the spot light DH was using to dry a test stain & poly treatment for some wood, I got my hoe out, but DH rescued him. Being in my house was just too much.

lol lol

WOW. in the house....that's going too far. Fear put aside, that hoe would have come out!! How did he get in? WHY was he rescued? But wait, is he poisonous? If he's not, I guess I would have done the same. But the thoughts of him sharing my warm bed puts another spin on his longevity.. LOL

Hap

I don't like doors they are always getting in my way cause 9 times out of 10 I'm carrying a plant or something and I only have 2 hands. So when we build this house no screen or storm doors. Although we live in the woods our environment is pretty balanced and as a rule we don't have flying insects, therefore on nice days I leave one or more doors open.... easy access for Slim Jim Tucker, he just slithered in. The house www.puppygal.com/house.html

I'm gonna do a Moth Ball raining down dance today!!! A couple of country folks told me to make sure he was out from under the porch when I put them down because they won't cross the moth balls.... I'll leave him a way out!!! I'm going to put them flower beds, etc.

Where's a lime green hat when you need it....

So does that mean you are ready to go with the hot pink undies and lime green pants? Make sure to put a rip in the butt of the pants if they don't have one already- you know, so the panties show! :)

Judy, your story about Slim has had me in stitches along with the undies, etc. I had to share it with "the girls" at lunch. (I've been slowly converting them to the sick cult we call gardening). The story (about Slim not the undies) would make an adorable illustrated childrens book. I would certainly buy it! I just loved the part about the dogs from an earlier thread. I have a big "scary" black chow chow who could care less about other criters in the garden. He is really unsure what to think of the "wild" flock of guinea hens that roam our area. Useless, but I love him.

BTW, kudos on the Tee-shirt and nude gardening ideas. Very ecologically sound -- less laundry to wash, so less chemicals getting into the ground water. See . . . we are not crazy, just more evolved and creative than other people. Of course non-evolved, non-creative people cannot recognize these truly special qualities. I feel very sorry for them.

Uh, Judy? We need the name and phone of your nearest neighbor? You, in a tshirt, pink undies, lime green hat, dancing around with a hoe in one hand, throwing mothballs with the other? We're gonna make a fortune off the pictures. People won't be excited over Bigfoot sightings anymore, it'll be Judy sightings!

irishbelle - we got an online children/adult story about Peanut, a tiny English Bulldog. He's so funny and a couple of teachers use his stories in their remedial reading classes so we established a website for them www.peanutbulldog.com

.... but I never thought about doing one of Slim Jim Tucker... it would be adorable but then to get more ideas I would have to let him 'hang with the gang'!!! lol lol lol

Awww, C'mon, Slim Jim aint hurtin noone, lol. Besides think of all the varmin that hes taking care of for you.
LET SLIM JIM LIVE!!!!

MSJen, your package will be sent tomorrow. Please open immediately and feed two mice.

Judy

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you nut, lol

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! What a perfect answer! You crack me up!

GO JUDY!!