Daily Musings - page 19

victor - foolish ones, not courageous ones, foolish ones!

xxx, Carrie

Wet Canna leaf

Oh Andy, so lovely!

xx, Carrie

Great shot Andy! (So good to see you posting again!)

Celeste - the Maine SandCastle might not be the biggest afterall . . .

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Yank, im crossing my fingers as they are indeed violating the guidelines. We shall see if they do actually have permission to do so from Guinness. I don't see how it can be OK for them to stray(from the rules) but no one else?

My question is how do you get the little spires and stuff to stay in place without glue or compost or something? And you notice there's no picture of the SC one...

xxx, Carrie

Magic!

I was told, so not sure how true...that he (Ed Jarett) used wood on the outside as he built a layer. He then removed the wood piece's slowly when the wall above was built and stablized.

Cooool. !

A lot of wild turkey sightings around here again. Last spring we had a few bunches traveling through then after that a gooble here a gooble there out in the woods, I assume there was some dating going on at this time. Then all summer nothing. Now fall is upon us and they are coming out of the woods again. A big bunch of seven at the feeder the last couple of days and today one lone straggler. Do you think they know Nov. is just around the corner?

If they knew that, ngam, then they wouldn't come out of hiding!

Ngam, your turkeys 'gooble'? Ours always 'gobble'! LOL

x, C

LOL Carrie, me bad. Spelling booboo. They can make a lot of noise calling for a lovely lady to come visit. :)

LOL ngam, gooble, gooble.

x, C

Everything looks so good today after my two-hour watering job. Like Kassia's garden, they all sat up and said 'thank you'!

Well no "goobles" today, no rain just hose dragging. I must admit the plants do seem to appreciate all the effort. It would not hurt my feelings if old mother nature would lend a hand in the water dept. SOON! :)

That means I'll have to bring the indoor furniture in. Or would mean, if it would only rain.

xx, Carrie

I just got the email that my garlic is shipping. What I want to know is why the bleep I thought I should order what turned out to be $50 of garlic sets? I don't even have a place for them to be planted!

You can send me some!! I live a garlic life.

Wow, Cat, that's a lot of garlic!!!

Tell me about it. Is it any wonder that I have SDH instead of a well-groomed garden?

On the bright side......no vampires either.

Andy - those are some terrific pics.........!

Somehow this thread keeps dropping out for me and I forget to "manually" check it........

The "gooble " was back again the last couple of days at the feeder. She was on top of the log pile but I couldn't get a pic darn it. This is a 10' plus pile of logs waiting to get split and she thought it made a fine perch I guess. This is a pic of her through the garage window after climbing down to the ground again.

Turkeys are such fun to watch - and eat.
I've eaten wild turky before and it just wasn't the same as a good old Butterball. I guess I have become spoiled by 'progress'.

Only one more thing to move in the garden now. Some iris to move not sure where I'm going to put them yet. Got the two big colonies of lilies moved to where most of the others are growing. I have been putting them in the same area so I can monitor them better for the evil red lily beetles. I hate those red devils. Moved 'Boogie Woogie' and 'Casa Blanca'. Next spring moving a pink rose in front of them and adding Green Envy echinacea. Then I will move the 'Black Jack' sedum in front of them.

ahhh . . . but did you move them to my garden? And if not, why not??????

Ngam - I was visualizing your renovated garden as you described what's going where........sounds just lovely. I hope you will post some pics next spring when it is thriving!

Oh thanks DB. I sure will. It looks good in my head, but then they always do LOL, now to get it to look like that in reality. I was looking at the Black Jack sedum now that it is in bloom and the effect that the flowers have is a more purple/pink color compared to the Purple Emperor sedum. I have them both together now and they are crowding each other so one has to move. I needed something to contrast with the 'Green Envy' echinacea I want to get and thought that would work well.Then there is the dark foliage that should work well with a lavender that is already in that area.

Sounds like a plan!!

Hey ... you from Quiet Corner (LOL) ... I came home with a 'raisin'!! Sorry.

The garlic came today. 20 heads of organic garlic in 10 different "flavors". Anyone know how far apart to plant garlic cloves?

What are the 'flavors', I fear... chocolate, strawberry...vanilla...

Elephant, Samarkand (Persian Star), Shvelisi (Chesnok Red), German Extra Hardy, Chrysalis Purple, Chet's Italian Red, Bogatyr, Music, Broadleaf Czech, Inchelium Red. Opps, there is only 19 bulbs - the Elephant Garlic is just a single bulb - not two like the others. What about planting them in with my tulips and lillies - it is full sun.

Make sure it's good drainage.

I think that the drainage is OK the lillies and tulips multiply there for the most part. I might (fingers crossed) get the dirt mountain back in shape enough to plant them there - that would be perfect drainage.

Great names! Garlic with tulips and lilies might deter the deer.

Found a hawk feather out at bird feeder this am. About a foot long black and white horizontal stripe. Looks like he caught a branch looking for breakfast. Did not see any telltale signs (big pile of fluffy feathers) that any of the usual snacks, mourning dove most often, had met their demise. He may still be hungry after all that.

I can always tell when the hawk is around...it's deathly silent, not one peep.