Daily Musings - page 17

Okay Victor that is just the coolest thing!!!! OMG I have loved both those guys my whole life and even had a crush on Tavolta! """sigh"""

I like Williams, as a stand-up comic and a dramatic actor. His comedic roles are horrible. I cannot stand Travolta!! I call him 'Revolta'.

yeah but that is only cause you are jealous because your wife probably LOVES him like a lot of women LOL

I've heard him called that before, Victor. lol.

Anybody got volunteers in strange places?
The back corner of my driveway.
Andy P

So much to comment on that I can't remember most of it. Someone had gorgeous photos of a sunset.
Cool father-son Mets experience! Why do you hate Barbarino??

Seandor, I don't know if I can straighten this out but I don't think men are inferior. I am one and so are 2 of my children. I like men. In general, I think women are more emotionally healthy (evolved) in that they allow themselves to express more of their emotions.

However, I'm glad Victor is in touch with his Roxanne and I'm hoping to be in touch with my Angelina.

No my wife doesn't like him either. I think he's all ego - not much talent. Not to mention how weird he is.

I try to touch Roxanne as often as possible.

I loved him in Pulp Fiction.

ummmm . . . is Roxanne a person or part of you anatomy, Victor (she asked innocently . . . )

We are inextricably bound.

LOL

Did I mention I'm into that??

Okay . . . I admit I am slow . . . into Roxanne?

Being bound. Hee hee.

You go Victor! LOL!!

Victor, how could you not get a few laughs from Mrs Doubtfire??

Yes venu - that one was not too bad. Hey Harper - haven't seen you for a while. Welcome back.

OK, now I'm really one of the guys. I don't know what kind of flower this is; it was the middle of June in Rhineback NY, so it couldn't have been a dahlia, but maybe it was a cactus-flowered something else.

Hi Roxanne!

xxx, Carrie

ok, maybe it IS upside down, but I don't see where that makes a difference.

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Wow - does look like a Dahlia.

But on June 17th? Mine are just getting buds. (I never feed them and they're in half shade.)

x, C

Carrie, that looks like a big Dahlia. People often pot them up for an early start then plant them when the weather permits. My short Redskins bloom in 6 or 7 weeks. The tall ones take a few weeks longer.
Here is one of my favorite ones, from seed last year blooming now.
Andy P

Beautiful, Andy! BTW I cheated and bought a hibiscus for $10 at the Farmer's Market this week...

er, I have my dahlias in pots and they've been outside since the houseplants... but as I said, I am a very bad mother.

X, C

Remember, "whaddya want, good grammar or good taste?"

Pixie, I don't know the name of the metallic bug, but one just like him stung the heck out of me when I was digging in his "reserved soil area" in my garden. I didn't see him until it was too late and yikes...that really hurt! My mother used to say "Pretty is as pretty does", but I still think he is a pretty one. ...and after all, it was my fault for intruding into his space....I guess? I've seen several of these colorful guys in my garden recently....especially on my green beans.

Awwww... thanks for the welcome back Victor. I'm here, I just can't keep up with y'all.

Michaela, I agree with Andy. That's a dahlia. You can start them early indoors. Rhinebeck is pretty, isn't it?

Donnie, ow!

Yes, it is a dahlia. Carrie - I start my tubers in April. As soon as I can, I pot them up and place them on the black driveway where they get lots of radiant warms. In May they are planted in the garden and by mid-June we have our first flowers.

The dahlias are fed with miracle grow every 2-3 weeks and bloom until frost.

This winter I am going to start some inside from seeds - just for fun. These will not flower until late in the summer - but then I will be able to dig up the tubers and save them :-)

Darn it. That workshop was June 17! My initial objection to Dahlias, beside the part about digging them up, blah blah blah, is that summer is halfway over before they start blooming. Then ALL BY MYSELF I came up with the idea of having them stay in pots. I just neglected the sun and the fertilizer parts. Michaela, do you want to come over and teach me how to dig up the tubers and wrap them up and everything and then as a reward you can take them away from me? I don't deserve them, and I only like the flowers, the rest of the thing is as weedy a plant as I've ever seen!

x, Carrie

carrie - dahlias are great flowers and they make great flower arrangments. You just need to find the right spot for them. I have mine in an 18 inch strip between a six foot high fence and the blacktop driveway - they get lots of heat - and we use the fence as a giant stake for the plants.

Trust me, you will seldom get a plant that will so willingly produce sooooooo many flowers for so long a season.

Yeah - I will try to come in the fall and help you get the tubers - and then you can plant them again next spring.

Yeah, right. I'll stick with the annual type. If you'll just take these off my hands...

xx, Carrie

Alright Andy - I was laughing because I was so close to the Red Ad.

Whoa Nelly, Al's butterfly picture is closer up than mine. Al, do you have a telephoto macro lens?

xx, Carrie

No - I was within 4" of it.LOL

Al - really nice shot of the butterfly and coneflower!

Carrie - I feel your pain with the dahlias. They give me a back ache and make me tired just thinking about the Big Dig! But Seander is right.........they are some gorgeous flowers!! I think I'm just too lazy to grow them. If I have to put that much work into it, I at least want to get a meal out of them! Bad attitude....I know! I'll just keep on plucking out the 10,000 gallant soldiers that are TORTURING ME!!!!!....probably just desserts for the dahlia laziness.

I agree - I have only grown them as annuals and I prefer the short ones that don't need staking. I'm not into 'needy' plants. Not enough time in the day.

What work? Dahlias are mindless . . . so in the fall, you cut them off, and store the tubers . . . how is this a hardship? Then in the spring you put them in pots on the driveway - then you get flowers from June to October.

This strikes me as very, very little work for a HUGE payoff.

On the other hand, growing them as annuals strikes me as a ton of work for limited results.

Yes - if that was the only Fall garden chore! I have way more than that to do.

And you water them, and you feed them, and they look like crap while you're waiting for them to grow.... I'm with Victor 99% on this one.

xx, Carrie

That don't look that bad, way better than spiderwort or yarrow, daylilies ;)

I took a pic of my favorite dahlia leaves, this is Firepot - but it is slow(even for me).

Yarrow foliage is nice - very 'ferny'.

I guess you're under the assumption, Al, that I can tell the Dahlia leaves apart from the weeds growing in the Dahlia pots! No such luck. I like daylily and spiderwort foliage - I like MONOCOT foliage. (Vocabulary word of the week.)

xx, Carrie

Once again, I agree with Victor - it was bound to happen sooner or later, but twice in one thread?

x, C

I'm starting to freak.