Southold Historical Society Garden Tour: July 9, 2005

Congrats!!! Yippie!!

Congratulations, Arlene and Jack. I'm thrilled for you.

We entered the hospital room after I "composed" myself to find Kathleen lying in bed and to her side was Tony, holding the baby. For some reason I expected the baby would be in the nursery. I burst into tears.

What a sweetie. He has a full head of dark hair and sideburns!

Thanks Rose, Carmen, Mitch and dear sweet Zuzu, for sharing our joy!

Pictures to follow this evening.

CONGRATS!!!! I know you are all excited! Our best for you and yours!! ~ Suzi :)

Our Charlie!

God Bless! He is a precious little angel. So perfect and beautiful. Treasure him.

Thank you: he is treasured!!!!!!!!

Wonderful news. Congratulations!

It's a dream come true for all of us. Thank you dawnsharon!

Hello Arlene,
Just came back to Dave's after months without checking, and found the picture of Charlie. He's absolutely beautiful! Congratulations to your whole family.
Best regards,
Kay

P.S. Mom and Me are each about 5" high and looking good.
K

Thanks Kneff! Here's Charlie at five days old. I'd have more recent photos but he's always sleeping - a "good thing".

Our "Mom" and "Me" are probably around 7 or 8" and "Dad" is quite happy next to them.

pirl,
Congrats on your new grandson "Charlie" what a beautiful baby boy. Hope you get lots of snuggling time!

I spent this rainy morning looking at your gardens and I sitting here smiling from ear to ear. Your gardens are absolutely gorgeous! Your house is number 1 on my list whenever I get the chance to visit NY!

Michelle

Thank you for your lovely note and the compliments on Charlie and the gardens. We'll get some snuggling time later today: it's never enough.

Please do visit us if you get to Long Island. We really enjoyed the A. J. MacArthur Memorial Gardens in Georgetown, PEI and meeting Frank Stevens/"Dickie", the volunteer gardener in charge. We sent him seeds from our daylily crosses and his friend, John Martell, planted them and some are now part of the garden. We were up again last September/October and met "Dickie" again. What a knowledgeable plantsman!

Arlene

Arlene,
The gardens in Georgetown are beautiful! They are on my list to visit again this year. Long Island is now on my short list of places I must visit soon. lol Maybe when the kiddies get a little older.

Michelle

Michelle,

It would be a very long drive with little kiddies!

One of our neighbors moved to Nova Scotia and another has a summer house on PEI. To my way of thinking it's just like Ireland but I can read the street signs much more easily on PEI!!!

Arlene

Arlene,
LOL! Yes our street signs (for the most part) are pretty easy to read. My husband's family are hoping to plan a family trip to Ireland in the next couple of years.(His family is Irish -Murphy) My grandmother was so excited when I married my husband as she was glad to have some Irish back in the family.

Even though the kiddies are older now I don't think I would want to be cooped up in a car with the 4 of them for too long. I think a trip to Long Island will be planned when it can just be my hubby and me. Your gardens are so fantastic now I cannot imagine what they would be like in 5 years or so. So for right now I will watch for all of your wonderful pictures.
Thanks again
Michelle

Loved going through your garden tour again. Lovely. Can you share photos of your veggie garden? I really like your fence.

I'll go looking right now!

Found some. If you want more just let me know.

Oh I love it! On garden tours, if there is a veggie garden I almost always head over there first. Did you and your husband build the fence? I would love to see more photos if you have them handy. :)

Just two days ago a wonderful man, who takes care of our giant Colorado Spruce along the back property line, put up all new rails for us in the vegetable garden. He's in the green tee shirt and my DH, Jack, is in red. The scarecrow is still in last year's dress of hot pink, due to be changed whenever I get to the thrift shop to look for a new outfit.

Arlene,

That looks SOOO great. How do you keep your lawn so full and green!!!! It looks like a golf course!!!!


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Jack is excellent with following the Scott's lawn program and it does look good even thought, at the time the photo was taken, it hadn't been mowed since his mower was in the repair shop. It was returned the day after the above photo was taken and now it's nice and neat. He also spent more time putting down crabgrass killer. Our neighbor's don't do it so we have to unless we want a lawn of crabgrass - which we don't.

Here's a photo, taken yesterday, showing the Bradford Pear in all it's glory. This is the porch/master bedroom side of the house.

Beautiful!!!!

I too know ALL about having to treat my lawn extra because neighbors won't. They think weeds are flowers. LOL. Seriously their little girl picks the weeds and says, "Look a flower!"

Wow Pirl...When I grow up...(maybe never)heehee....
I want my gardens to look just like yours...they are awesome...and the color combo's are wonderful...
How long did it take to get them that way?
I'd bet you've been at it for quite some time...:-)

It must be great to have a DH that knows a flower from a weed..lol..
I don't have a DH but if I did I'd love to have a DH like yours...One who enjoys the fruits of the garden and the labor...

Your hunt is the coolest idea...oh boy do I wish I could have come for the garden tour...I'm book marking this link to give me ideas...of what to plant with what and where...Your piece of heaven..is truely heaven on earth...I love all of it...You have a Grand Garden...!!!!!!!

Congatulations for being chosen to to be included in the tour...I'd bet your garden is #1...:-)

Thanks so very much for suggesting a take a look at the link...:o)
I'm thilled you did...lol..and your daylilies...they are everywhere...I just love it,love it...I can hardly wait until my tiny plants get the size of yours...
My gardens will never be as organized as your garden is...but I'm sure going to try....heehee
I'm going to be a Pirl's garden copy cat...lol...It's just Fantastic!!!!!!!

My initial guess is that you liked it! So glad you took the tour.

Jack and I first met 25 years ago, on July 6th, 1981, when I went to work for a joint venture corporation with his bank. Our very first conversation was about tomatoes and impatiens. Today we were talking about (bet you guessed it) tomatoes and impatiens!

We only started the gardens a year after we moved here, in 1992. The Obelisk garden was a result of Jack's finding that area awkward to mow so he marked it out with lime and we made a garden of it: he made the obelisk for me as a gift.

It's been a lot of fun and what some might call "work" (and once in a while, hauling the compost it does feel like work) but the results are so worth it. Every window in the house has a view of a different garden and even in the snows of winter it's lovely to look at, with the promise of spring around the corner.

Here we are, on July 6th, with our dream grandchild, Charlie.

Thanks for your rave reviews! Every word is appreciated.

Hi Pirl, your gardens are absolutely fantastic, and I wish I lived near you, I would visit!!!
Congratulations on your grandchild, he is adorable. Nothing like being a grandparent, I have two granddaughters one age 4 and one 7, and a grandson 4. They are wonderful and loving and I just love for them to visit. Enjoy his precious love as an infant, they grow up so fast!!!
Your garden is a dream, one I wish for mine. But everyone is different and I constantly change mine. Thanks for the tour on here and the pictures an comments, loved it all!!!
Have a wonderful day!!!
Ruby

Thank you, Ruby! We do enjoy the grandchildren and are very proud of them.

We also enjoy our gardens and often feel so blessed that we feel we're dreaming and the real owner will come along and kick us out!

Oh my goodness, pirl! Wow! Wow!

And what's this? You and Jack in matching clothes with Charlie? hmmmm....lol

Wow! Just posting all these photos is a huge undertaking!

I know, 4Paws, and it struck me so funny! I was already six minutes late and had no choice. What a laugh. At least he wasn't in light blue and he has a lot in that color to match his eyes.

It was great fun doing the thread. Thanks for visiting.

Matching outfits, huh? Can hand-rubbing be far behind?

hehehe...I wondered who would be the devil's advocate (not that I wasn't trying to put a bug in her ear....lol.

Zuzu is "definately" an instigator! Hee hee (did I get that right, Zu?)

EEEEWWWW! I'm shuddering. I'm still amazed, Pril, at the number of people who can't spell that word, but feel the need to use it in every paragraph.

Zulu

Oh, Zulu, I know just what you mean.

" Some people never learn" - E. T. H. W. T. F. B. B. W. Fortensky

Pril

Oh dear...codes over my head.

Such fun. I remember when I used to always mis-type your user ID Pirl as Pril as well. =)

My gosh Charlie is growing fast, hard to believe how fast 4 months goes when it comes to newborns!

Call me Pril. People call Zuzu Zulu!

At least someone calls you!

Don't tell anybody but I like your gardens best of all...... cool inviting....well groomed.. beautiful choices....just absolutely wonderful... now if you will just
"Jeannie" it on down to me... and do you another one...... shirleyt

You are so sweet! Thank you for the lovely compliments. I wish "cool" prevailed today but it will be back soon enough. Do another one? Okay - just not today with a heat index of 100. Thanks, Shirleyt.