Best/Worse &What did I learnt today/Chat with Friends #47

Carol, where did you find Shar's thread with photo's..I usually check the regular thread of Carole and friends but don't see photo's listed...

Yes Starzz, I would like to know where to go and find Sharan's posts for trip also.

The person who comes to mind with being the celebrity is Howie Long or his son? I am with Betty, you have to tell us after the fact. Can't stand the suspense.

I hope that everyone will have a good day. I am headed out shortly to spend some time with granddaughter. Yippie!!!

Ruby

Do enjoy your day Ruby..can picture you sitting on the floor having tea with her or out in the garden telling her all about the flowers...

Forget who had doves but this morning I sat for the longest time, my topsy turvey pots on the very top pot had a 'dove' sitting ..do you think she could be laying eggs? I'd better take a look to know not to water it or disturb it..

Hi Girls,
I'm back in from taking a tour around and took many pics of my blooms.

The thread is this one
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/862918/#new
Betty you have already posted to it..so you must have it "watched".
Sharon just mentioned that she saw lots of wildlife..and took photos..but hasn't posted any yet.

Here is a bit of wildlife for you..I got this shot this morning.

This one was just sitting on a leaf

The Wisteria has really leafed out on the top of the Gazebo.

Roses are blooming on the window frame trellis
Explorer rose William Baffin

I got a few pictures this morning also.

Here;s another

My last one for now. Need to get back outside.

Lovely clump of Sweet William and gorgeous peonies Vicki.
I grew my Sweet William from seed last year..so this is the first time I have seen blooms..never had it before.
I should have planted it in a clump like yours..

Have fun playing in the garden.

Carol I started mine from seed also and let it go. It gets bigger every year. This is the third year for it. Can hardly wait for more blooms and the scent! To die for! A flower worth growing!

Since we kind of cross posted before your pictures are gorgeous. Can you imagine all of us living on a street and going from one to another!

Love your gardens..you really get good buck for your dollar when planting 'sweet williams' mine are opening like crazy..Carol, you'll get a zillion seeds from them, I scatter them in the fall and keep half for the spring..and they do grow to quite a size..

Now look at the windows, almost hidden from plants..how beautiful they are..

Vicki love your peonies..sure hope on my trek to Judy's they find some hours that we can steal away and have coffee with you..I think Judy has us booked 24/7 lol

Forgot something, Carol I misread your post thought you said you were looking at photo's of her trip re wildlife..sorry..better read slower and pay attention..lol

Just after I pressed send Carol, newscaster was on showing the hail from yesterday and all the damage..said there was a lot in Whitby as well, did you have any damage...the sky is as dark as can be..would imagine another storm is rolling through..

Good morning all. Just a quick check in to wish you all a wonderful day

Thanks for the tips about the Sweet William, ladies..

It is so cold that I put the heat on on..and now it is pouring rain.

I saw that newscast showing the hail too...but it didn't reach out here yesterday ...in fact we only had a little sprinkle of rain yesterday.

David Austin rose Gertrude Jekyll blooming today..it has a very strong fragrance..

How beautiful Carol, do you snip them for the house? I put in a few roses shrubs and see that perhaps I may have a rose or two..the wild rose which took up about 4' has 3 roses..would you think I should dig them up and re-locate after they bloom or should I wait till spring?

Carol, not raining here, but heavy sky just looming over the building..are calling for rain so would imagine it will be before we leave this aft..

Just went to Cora's for lunch..found it expensive for what we got so won't make it a weekly stop..

I know some of you have noticed your lack of water pressure, well its alright now everybody, I've finished watering every plant I could find in my yard.......Showers and dishwashing for everyone........:)

Paul from Alabama

Hello everyone. Have a lot of reading to do, unfortunately speed reading is not my forte' and memory retention is appalling!
ISP wasn't co-operative for the past 3 days, I was thrown back into the land of the ibans! (Wait, Ibans in Sarawak do have internet, now)
Liz, I will certainly hang that mat and it's too beautiful to be treaded upon. Wonderful job Betty..and Liz, she's in glee all the while when she's given your name as her swap buddy. Lovely work there Betty.
Jeanine, I pray your mum gets better.
Wow Judy, that's a regal eagle.
Laura, please post a pic of the materials you have gathered.
Oh boy, Gita, I too have to look up on Latvia's history.
My father's father was displaced by the Japanese during WW2, and went missing for 5 years. He returned precisely a day after his wife remarry. Can't describe the ramifications of such cruel separations.
Carol, Japanese beetles ravaged most of my hybrids. Following Cathy's advice, this year, I planted a couple bourbons.
Keep posting lovely pics of your gardens. My gardening style is Plop N Gro!
One day it will come together like Paul's.
Will post the treasures that Shar sent, when she returns.

What did I learn today? That frogs have hair..but that's from a swap thread! Lol!

Love all of you and Betty, you can forgive your post office now!
Blessings Galore,
Jaye

This message was edited Jun 17, 2008 3:58 PM

Jaye, I been outside this morning doing some watering real early but mostly with a wide mouth jar plunking in Japanese beetles into soapy water, its very therapeutic for me and I'm sure the beetles like it too.....:)

Paul from Alabama

Almost time to leave, wouldn't you know, the storm is about over us..oh well, we'll brave it..

Jaye, not going to forgive post office because it was damaged, my other gift to Liz completely smashed and my trash 2 treasure chandelier candle hold arrived in bad state as well..so, I'm going to continue with my 2 envelop swaps how much damage can they do to that (shouldn't have said that, lordy I hate to think...) and then I'm giving up swapping..pouting little child that I am, but truly my 'swap' partners must be disappointed to say the least, and I heartbroken..oh well..life goes on..lol..

Sorry you were having computer problems but your back to the land of the living, don't you just hate it when you don't have access...

Paul, we on Georgian Bay, Ontario are all in awe of where our water is going, our lake is at least 4 to 6' in some areas down, creating mega problems, no one has the answer and now I have...it's Paul from Alabama..yep..he's to blame for it all...

Sorry to hear about your grandfather being displaced..omg to come back and find your wife had remarried...did they continue with a friendship..it would be hard to do so wouldn't it and yet she thought he had died...I remember watching a movie and then purchasing a book..it was based on displacement .. kept my attention the entire time...

So bored at work this morning that I brought in several maple leafs that I had cured last year and painted on them...now that's what I called bored..would have finished them all but didn't have the right colors..just something to pass my day...

I'm being so very bad, not Christian like at all..ooops time to leave..will have to tell you about it when I get home...

Oh my!!! Paul, it's Mssr. Kelvin that has the honors of plunking the beetles in soapy water...accompanied by strange solo arias!
Darn all that hard work Betty. I would be in tears by now. The hours....sacrifices...you put into them, I am sure did not slip your recepients' minds.
Perhaps you could create something with textiles or cloth fiber. Sure don't want you to completely drop out of swaps.
Betty, could you believe that Grandad and his ex lived next door to each other. It's one of those giant compound houses that's divided into two. Grandad, his new wife and kids lived in one, while grandma and new hubby (an Indonesian refugee) lived in another. It was a very uncomfortable arrangement for Dad, cause he never gave up on his father. All the while he had faith that his father's still alive (interred in a lost jail in Indonesia..what an irony) but great grandma ruled the roost at that time, and kids then can't decide for themselves, even though you have kids of your own.
Casualties of war. Growing up in Singapore, I see lots of kids with Japanese features though not their fault. They were pretty much treated as outcasts. But not Mum. Kind mum would explain to us how horrid the Japanese conquerors were, raping and pillaging and how she and her sister escaped that fate by being hidden in a vast clay drum when Jap soldiers made their rounds looking for relief.
Oh dear, I've rattled on.
Yayyyy it's raining!! Gonna go outside and dance in it!!!!

Jaye, that's some story, I've seen some programs on that area at that time and some of the refugee camps, displaced persons, prisoners......I have an cousin, must be nearly 85 or more I guess, he was in that area during the war and hid out and then slipped out....Hadn't really thought about it till I read your story, I'll for sure ask him about itnext time I talk to him....

Paul from Alabama

There were pockets of local resistance against the Japs, but I think Phillippines suffered the most, cause the Filipinos/Filipinas were open about their dislike for the Japanese. Grandparents would tell us of heads jutting from spikes and that inevitable scrounging for food. They'd cook barks, roots..anything to give a little substance to boiled water.
When the British echelons fled Singapore, and left the regiments to defend the coastline (Japan attacked Singapore via Malaysia's causeway/backdoor) my mother's father did the most intelligent thing for the family. He and his brothers went to the Sahibs' bungalows and stole all their silver!! They hid them till the war was over.
That was survival.
And still, we never learn from history, do we?
Jaye of America, now. ^_^

So much history amongst us all, nice to hear the stories that have been passed through generations...OMG living next door to each other, must have been difficult on the children..my heart goes out to them..guess they could have been killed for what they did for survival, but would have died of starvation..we don't realize how lucky we are, truly blessed not to have seen any of the despair..it's too bad that when our elders were alive we didn't (should say I didn't) take enough interest to ask the questions and put them in a journal..do remember some but not so sure the kids of today would be that interested...must talk to the grandchildren about some of the stories when they visit...

Now for why I haven't been very Christian these past 2 days..just before Christmas Paul hired a gentleman, guess he's in his early 50's but sooo moody, more so when Paul in not around, think he must find women beneath him..likeable man though .. I always joke and talk nicely to him but he doesn't do well in the mornings, but is on a high after lunch..so in the a.m. you have to walk softly, you ask him something and he's just plain 'grumpy' well Friday he wouldn't even talk to us, I'd go in and ask him what he had planned for the weekend, and he'd face the window and grunt, not really replying...at 1 he left the office and didn't even say goodbye...so Monday morning I came in, he said, morning, I didn't answer, didn't talk to him all day, really not ignoring him just no reason to have contact with him except IF I was trying to make light conversation, so that went on all day yesterday and today..not pussy footing around anymore..when you go to work your personal problems should stay at home, you are being paid to do a job, and courtesy and kindness is part of it so I just go about my business..that's just my opinion of how one should act...but then I'm from the old school..and you must know me by now, I'm a gabby sort of person so it's probably hurting me more than him..lol..Suzanne said we should say 'good morning' tomorrow just to show him how stupid it is when he doesn't want to talk or be nice and then he's on a high..bit of his own medicine...guess I'll be more Christian and I'll talk tomorrow...

Been out in the garden..so excited, first time I've had an actual rosebush flower - Laura..this ones for you..

Some of my sweet william, noticed some of all colors tonight, just opening so garden will be colorful by the weekend..

another pretty area...

More sweet william starting to open..you can see the little flowerettes Carol that will be filled with seed, more visable when not fully open..

Now this is the plant that I'm not sure what it is..it stands about 5', almost all foliage and flower isn't that spectacular so will have to dig it up and plant it where I need a backdrop for color..

Say Betty, it would most probably please him more if you don't greet him at all.... now..why must you do that??
Make him more miserable...greet him every morning!!
Oops..now that's very uncharitable of me.
Gonna hit the sack. Another long day ahead.
Rainbow Dreams, sweet Betty.

LOL and here I thought you were going to say I was nasty and I'd better get a better attitude..rest well yourself..

Better go see what I can scrounge to eat..should eat as soon as I arrive home but of course I have to go walk in the gardens and post on DG...get's to be a habit..especially the DG..gives me someone to gab with (seeing I have no one at the office..aren't I terrible)..

Moving us over ...
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/864745/