Pirle

Great pictures, Pirl! Love that Sing The Blues.

Nice garden Joy. A gardener and a great cook, too. Wow.

Arlene, you do have a beautiful yard. I so enjoyed our luncheon there last year! I wish I had more full sun areas. Her Vegetable garden is amazing. Both she and her husband put such love into their yard!

Arlene so nice of you to introduce me.I loved the picture ..myhair is grey now and I look like an old lady.Now that I can't do my own gardening I'm growing orchid.Here is the latest one that followed me home.JOY Opps I got the wrong picture.Thats my first waterlily this summer

Hope this will be an orchid

hopefully I find the window full of my JOY

Very nice, Joy!

Joy, your spirit will never let you be "old". Enjoy those orchids - they're beautiful.

Thanks Polly, Anita and Emily! Harry was resting in the newly planted impatiens from his hard job of supervising.

If I get up at 5 AM and get out by 6 AM I might finish the weeding tomorrow and then can go on to mulching and deadheading. It's all worth it when we look around at so many plants in bloom.

Your flowers a great. what is the pink at the top?

Victorgardner writes: "That turnbuckle diet was all the rage . . ."

We can't bust heads like we used to but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe...so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time.

Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumble bees on 'em. 'Gimme five bees for a quarter', you'd say. Now where were we? Oh, yeah. The important thing was . . .that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones . . .

Sorry...couldn't resist.....

Arlene...is that a copper tomato trellis in Post #5206687?

Pirl your DL's are gorgeous! I just love your yard! If I were able to go to any garden here I think one of them would have to be yours! So peaceful looking! BTW I love that pic of Jack and the dog! Too cute!

Great to "see you" Pirl, you too, Al!

Yup I agree - they are a cute couple eh?

Joy - that's yarrow. Jack grew a packet of mixed colors back in '94 and now we have them in all the gardens - sometimes too many of them.

David - and just where did that come from?
All of the vegetable garden has copper trellises of one style or another - for tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, and peas. The peas are so wonderful! Jack made all the trellises. The tomato half of the garden is covered with bird mesh to keep the rotten dive-bombing crows out and Jack even made a copper door (covered with mesh) for easier access. It's to the right in this photo and has bricks at the bottom to keep the mesh in place. The garden hadn't been fully weeded and neither had the bricks so pardon the look of it.

Thanks, Dawn and flowerjen! It is peaceful when the mowing, edging and blowing brigades aren't around at the neighbor's homes.

Harry is ALWAYS nearby! He loves the shade of the Japanese maple!

Pirl--I can't wait for my JI's to bloom. I thank you, and Pollk for pointing me in the direction of Ensata again! 3 of them bit the dust, but 7 are still growing like gangbusters. The "gift" one that they sent, it's a purple/white splash, is growing the best out of them all!
Your gardens look AWESOME! I'll get there one day!

*Waving at AL*--Just so you know Al, you and Arlene were my inspiration for the Dahlia craze that bit me in the keester (sp?)

Hey all.

I like the Grandpa Simpson rant D P

bigcityal...nice to know I'm not the only intellectual on this forum. . .

I'm a regular Alfred Einstein.

I ain't no intilekteral, but I know Granpa Simpson when I hear him. Hi Al!

Arlene, your flowers are beautiful!!!! Please say Hi to Jack and give Harry a rub behind the ears for me.

Or the other way around..?

Aw, look at that Harry!

Nice to see your here Pirl!

Thanks for all the sweet comments, everyone. I've never seen the Simpsons. Does that make me a bad person?

I've never seen the Simpsons either. We can be bad together!

I've never seen the Simpsons either.

Is that legal?

They're not the ones with Cousin It, are they? Or was it Uncle It?

No, that was the Addams Family. The Simpsons have Bart.

Not bad in my book. I've seen the Simpsons and did not like the show. My husband loves it, but his name is Homer, so go figure.

(The father is named Homer, for those who haven't seen it.)

I'm too old to watch cartoons--gave it up with Looney tunes.

I'm still a fan of Howdy Doody and the peanut gallery!

Enjoyed the pics of your garden Pirl! Eleanor

Thank you, Eleanor. More to come later in the day.

Nice to see you out and about Arlene!

I have heard of Howdy Doody but I don't know who he is....LOL

Ask the oldest person you know, Dawn, and maybe they'll remember!

Thanks, Louise. I've been playing hermit today and staying inside and out of the humidity.

Good golly Howdy Doody is old then LOL

I remember him from the 40's.

I remember him from a rerun of an episode from 'Happy Days.' I had the Howdy Doody doll, it had a pull string in the back and said a few phrases, "It's Howdy Doody time..." Stuff like that :-)

I know who Howdy Doody is. Does anybody remember Freddy Freihofer?