Coffee...and for Saturday, July 8,2006

Wow, lovely job on that edging, Ann! I love the frog.... and is that a 'Double Delight' rose?

Sarv, I didn't make any pie or jam with the raspberries. This is our first year of having a nice harvest of them (a dozen handfuls last year, and maybe a dozen berries in total the year before), and I have just been eating and eating them, right off the bush! Next year, I will have to make some jam so I can share them with my dad, who loves red and black raspberries as much as I do. When we went up to visit last weekend, my very darling husband went outside on a hot muggy morning and managed to scavenge a scant pint of berries to bring to his very appreciative FIL! Oh, and I'm with your DH on the ice cream -- go for it, get the double scoop in the waffle cone! LOL

I didn't actually put any sugar in my iced tea today, but the idea of unsweetened tea makes my DH shudder. I have to admit, I do love southern-style sweet tea! You really have to add the sugar while the tea is still hot, in order to get "enough" sugar to dissolve in it. That gives you an idea of just how sweet southerners like their tea!

Good grief, I can't leave you all for a few hours, without having to read a book when I get back.

There is no way that I can comment to all of you. Sounds like there has been a lot of work done today, with lots of good food, fruit (raspberries), dairy (ice cream) someone had sandwiches (wheat & protein) I had some veggies, fish, some good for you grits cheese ones at that. I think this group eats a very healthy balanced diet. Southern sweet tea. Is there any other kind? I use Luzianne family size tea bags, and as someone said, you have to add the sugar when it is hot, in order to get it to the sweetness you prefer. And sweeteners just won't do, it has to be sugar.

Well, let me tell you about the fish fry and concert. I didn't get that rest before having to get ready to go. Boo Hiss, one of DH's sisters stopped by, and poof, out the window that rest went. So went to church about 4:30, and started cooking. We fried the fish (we breaded it at home), the hush puppies, and we decided last minute to include "fried green tomatoes". Since it was pot luck from there, we had a good variety, green beans, baked beans, cheese grits, corn pudding, buttered corn, potato salad, cole slaw, squash in vinegarette, cucumbers, then the desserts were awesome. Cakes, pies, cobblers, banana pudding, and my favorite Chocolate Custard pie.

The concert was very good. One hour and a half of non stop southern gospel music. This is a quartet, mother, father, daughter, and then the bass, is a local fellow. The daughter has had formal voice, and her range is unbelievable from opera to whatever. She did a rendition of The Lord's Prayer that was truly NYC music hall quality. Several standing ovations during the performance. Since this was a sort of fund raiser for this little church it went well.

To Sarv who asked if all of my energy was authentic or produced by something illegal, I have never done anything (er, taken anything illegal in my life). Sorry the garden tour wasn't what you expected. Could you go back to that nursery and send me about 10 geraniums, aand some of those perennials?

McCool, wanted to tell you that the candles arrived today, and thanks for the gift that was included. I was amazed that you remembered what I admired in your store. Thanks a lot. Thanks for the offer of help, I am doing it one step at a time, Talked to DTS tonight, and she was telling me about the necklace, I told her I already saw it. She is enthused about it.

Viann, great pics, loved the edgings, and that frog was adorable.

M5, isn't it maddening to go along on a boring trip, and not even get the offer of a meal out, and sometimes not even a cold drink. Do they think that we just enjoy waiting on them, they sould realize that we expect something for the trip!! I would settle for a fast food hamburger, just not to have to get something together when we get home.

Okay, I am proposing a Bahama vacation for next spring, for the spouses of those who do not like to travel. We will start the sign up about December, that will give us something to look forward to for spring. My DH is not an enthusiastic traveler, but he knows, when I get going on my mind, I go, and he can either go with me or stay home and wait for my return. Let's see a show of hands of those interested. Good I see 2 or 3! LOL.

Will start the new thread shortly. Hold your breath. collectively until I tell you can breathe.

Sorry, can't hold it THAT long....LOL

It has been so long since I posted, you have probably forgotten all about me by now...I read everyday but I forgot to mark the new thread on June 26 and missed almost two weeks, didn't have time to go back and read them all, so now I have missed out on EVERYTHING.

This is how I spend my time now....

All I do is water, water, water, and water somemore. It is getting old. And no relief in sight.

I bought a lot of new plants from the co-ops and that kept me busy getting those in pots and trying to get them 'watered' of course.

I can never remember another time when we had a drought like this. Of Course, I have never been out in the garden like this either with all my new hosta, heuchera and all the others.

Last drought I can't remember what year, I was still workin' and didn't have time to play in the garden.

If you call water, water, water, playing. :(

We had to go to the vet yesterday with one dog and two kitties. Piper needed her annual things, So did Snowcone but Bit has a bad infection in her left ear. Now she has to have medicine in that ear twice a day. She hates it of course. She spent the day crying. She has never done that before. She also is not one to be picked up. But she kept coming over to me and cry cry cry. So I picked the baby up. She just relaxed into me and let me comfort her. I feel so bad for the baby. She's just my Little Bit. Thinks I can help her, and I do try.

Last Monday DD lost her 22 year old kitty Soloman. She is very upset and I am too. I always get attached to her kitties like my own. Just like the kitties on here or dogs, doesn't matter, seems like I was worried about a Hermit Crab Herm not too long ago. LOL


Then just as I got home from the vet my son called to tell me he asked his girl friend to marry him today in the Channel 2 news truck while they were having lunch. I had to laugh at that. Then when I went to get up and put my glasses back on (I was at the computer and I have to take them off to see) I broke the earpiece in two. The wire just snapped. Well being as they are wrap around kind of you can't just put on one side because it pushes the other lens into your eye. LOL

So Jim took me to the mall (cause I can't see to drive) and we went to the glasses place and they made a temporary fix using a paperclip and shrink wrap. I then called my eye doctor and the frames ARE under warranty, I am amazed at my luck on that one. They have ordered the new frame and then can just replace the lenses into the new frame. Hope my mend stays mended until then.

I have been doing the marker co-op for it seems like two months, that is over now so I am just ordering very way too much on all the other co-ops.

Surely there is more going on in my life than that, but I can't think of it right now. I am always tired and there is always something that needs to be watered when you have almost 400 hostas IN POTS and all the other things too. Oh well, needn't whine about it. I just want to keep these things alive so we can try again next year. Hope I don't have the virus, I keep reading threads and seeing what they say is X and look at mine and they REALLY don't look like THAT but maybe mine are just starting to get it. Or maybe (please) they don't have it, just malnutrition, sunburn or cut worms or slugs...the list is endless.

I really have been reading it all, I just don't say much anymore.

Ah well, better go read some more threads, I think it is almost 40 unread by now.

~~~~ to all, newbies too, I guess I am a newbie again too. ;-)

Susan
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This message was edited Jul 8, 2006 11:05 PM

kittymom, you are not a newby by any means, just an overworked, interested gardner. Sorry about the pet situation, never easy to have a sick pet, and they look to us to make them better.

The Eon coop was great. Had never tried them before, but they are sure the "berries". Have all my daylilies labeled now. I had a visitor the other day who remarked on my "efficiency" in labeling things. Little did she know, that if I don't label things, I don't even know what they are sometimes.!!

Welcome back.

Oh, sweet tea is easy. I do it the same way defoecat said and how correct you are about having to have REAL sugar, not the artificial stuff. We moved to Colorado for DH's job once and I had no IDEA until then that sweet tea wasn't an international concept!!!! Really, I thought everyone drank it. (Born and raised in 'Bama) HA, HA!! I introduced this beverage to everyone on our street in Colo. Springs, CO.

Here is the link for Sunday's thread...

http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/624492/

Susan
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