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Fly safely BJ, see you tomorrow!
Talk to yall soon. I'm still washing Larry's drawers.

Jaye, you must have bouquets on every table and surface in your house!

wow, your page 15 just stopped displaying, didn't come up at all. Been so busy with dmails, didn't notice anything wrong. missed all of page 16 -

did I miss anything?

everyone all right from Faye? we had flash flooding here.

will have to bow out of next swap - IRS is back and kicking, got a ton of trades, two orders to ship, and it's iris planting season. irisloverdee has given me some great tips for next spring markets to make some $$!! But I didn't even dig any new beds - and with what all's left over from my digging and swapping and selling , there's still a ton to replant. Got emails from Paul Black and Joe Ghio - they're sending me a few great parent iris. Can't WAIT to see what they send. Christmas X5.....It's time to plant out these seeds, soon. work work work!

my auntie Orene had a recipe for yeast rolls that called for scalded milk - that like your milk rolls?

Y'all know, since I quit my job, I've never worked so hard in my whole life!!

Sure will : )

I use cold milk for a slow rise just because thats how I was taught... auntie Orene's sound yummy too!
Ok I need to get to get back to work TTYL!!

Jaye, tell me your secrets for gingers. I've had a wonderful one, from Plant Delights Nursery, some three years. It always comes back, but never grows more than a foot tall - supposed to be around six foot. It's edible, but I want the pretty smelling flowers! And I'm too scared to harvest it because of lack of growth. It's got about all the sun it's going to get in my yard, about 5.5 hours a day. I'm growing it in the same type soil as the iris get.

Are there any special tips?

Bon, Laura (Zhinu) has been worrying about you.
So far the pages come up when I pulled them up. Marion has flown to Canada for personal affairs, and BJ and Deb are about ready to head towards 'bama. That big jammy party at Sis.
Cindy (Purpbtfly) discovered it's just a cyst..thank God, and Stacey is still farting away!
Hope the bad guys leave you alone soon.
Looks like another door is fully opening for you!! Gonna pray that you get all the help needed for your iris industry.
Share some moments with us when you find the time, Bon.
Don't worry about joining the swaps. Your sanity is important.

Bon, I'll send you some white butterfly gingers (Hedychium Coronarium). Your zone will need longer exposure to the warm weather. My gingers don't start blooming till late August. Those with micro climates around here, bloom earlier.

Stace had best be planting irises and NOT farting around!

So glad to hear everyone made it through Faye, and it was just a cyst! TTL.

I'm going to go check out that market tomorrow, pick up a melon and try that recipe for watermelon rind pickles. While I'm at it, I might just make some stickles, too.

Stickles??

Canna Jhivago.

Canna Autumn Gold

Kim, I’ll take some carrot cake too. I love carrot cake; it and cheese cake are the only two cakes I’m really fond of.

Bon, I know what you mean... it's these "non-jobs" that take so much effort.

Marion, we miss you sistah and know you're in His Hands.
Stacey, once you're through reading this in the morning, do what Bon said...NO FARTING around.. get to planting your irises :P
Good night my sistahs!

Yes we do Marion!!! Laura I love plain NY style cheese cake yummy :P

Sometimes when a brug is just opening, it will be white, but later turn pink, or what ever color the plant is supposed to be. Is that what's happening to your brug?
Good nite all.
Linda Kay

Good morning!
Happy Saturday... it must be me catching that flight to Sis!! Yep, waking up too early today.
LK, this is Serendipity's 3rd flush. The first two flushes produce straight light pink to the deep rose as they mature.
This third flush here had given me 2 creamy white blooms with very light watermelon pink around the edges. The parents of Serendipity is B. suaveolens (pink{pod parent}) and Ecuador Pink (wild form {pollen}), so there's absolutely no way a white would crop up right? Especially when 3 years of test is required before any crosses can be registered, to ensure the bloom color remain the same.
Well, this must simply be one of those inexplicable quirks, could be the soil factor or mayhaps Ecuador Rose's (another wild form with light pink color) gene shows up? Or it couldn't go to the final color it's supposed to? But again, all Serendipity's blooms as they slowly start to unfurl, a light pink..
Not going to wreck myself wondering ..I'm not a hybridizer... just enjoying what God displays!

tee hee hee-Farting around!!LOL I am waiting for the rest of my tags to get here to plant all my iris-I did do my forst successful split of my existing ones the other day to prepare for the new ones-I was very proud of myself:)

You all are too much and yes I enjoyed everything this am!! I am STILL waiting for more pics of peoples houses-even 1 pic of a living room-come on folks-you saw my house in all it's messy glory!!LOL

Bon-you may be working harder than ever, but a loabor of love is a reward all in itself!! And glad you found us!!

Well good day BFN!
Can't show the interior as all rooms are like a crazy quilt right now--since Kel decided to rip the flooring. Whenever that's done, shopping for new furniture..then mayhaps a paint job on the walls.
No telling when I'll ever see a normal interior..
But y'all don't need the decor to decide on anyone's gift for me. I take anything and just call me another eccentric. As for the outside, just no rabbits please! Have enough live ones that I throw alfalfa pellets so they'd leave the bulbs.
The mall calls today. Time to stock up on new books and mags.
See y'all later!

OK, taking a breather, been outside since 9am - grass to cut, garden to weed, watering and shortly I'll settle in for the aft. with the name/mileage tags of DG friends for the friendship garden..
So will see what's on my computer here that you can open, the 2 I posted earlier, well they wouldn't open...
so here goes, tell me when to stop so I don't bore the heck out of you all..

Part of my kitchen

Tea room to the left of kichen

Another corner of my living room

Good Morning ladies! Ain't life sweet! As my wonderfully southern Baptist Nana would have said to greet the Lord every sunrise,"Morning, Glory!"

Stacey, on the irises, heel them over into loose dirt somewhere and keep them moist until you get ready to set them somewhere permanent. But, Lady, you need to skadoodle, they need to be in the ground 30 days before average first frost, and you are really pushing it, I'm betting. I sent your order out long before everyone else's for that reason.

In my hard clay, i hit the HD for a $1.40 bag of topsoil, string it out in a row atop the clay, about 6"-8" tall, and put new irises nose to heel in there until I'm ready, then string a soaker hose along the row. They are all happy with new roots and new leaves by the time their bed is ready. One trick is to heel them in alpha order - makes it easier to find the one you want.

Guess what? The flashy market will be worth it. Not much space. But the products are mostly organic and superior, and higher priced. Picked up some cedar shaving nylons bagged sachets for my closets - these are the size of an ironing ham. And found the biggest most lush lavender and a great cooking sage plant. I went back later for the duck eggs and the melon -sold out, a great sign.

Best of all, across the square there's a pool store with great pool toys at end of season sale. Found a solar powered dolphin floating light I could not resist.

And out front she has four railroad tie style planters full of irises. One iris was in bloom, light soft primrose yellow, monsterously huge blossom, but all the clumps are very densely crowded and the bloom stalks are so wedged, they are being forced up and curling around for light. so I went back in to inquire, and she came outside and we worked out a deal. She'd had the planters built 10 years ago and a farmer had filled them with pure black gold 0 richest black dirt I've ever seen around here. She knows the irises need dividing, but has no clue how. I'm going to take my tools over next week, and show her how, and I'm going to get paid to do the work and get some of the irises! The one with the 8" blooms would be worth it - I'd work for free, but she said she'd pay, so great!

Dining room off kitchen

betty, somehow I just knew you'd live in a house that is an artist's dream.....

I may have studied art history in college, and one art class was required in junior high, but I just barely passed both!!!



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where you'll find me playing most of the time, part of my craft room

My stained glass set -up

Another part of living room

Side area off rec. room in basement, wanted a fireplace so one weekend and a sheet of MDF wood later (pail of dap) and I made me a fireplace...lol..now this fall will add the insert..

Betty, thanks so much for sharing. I loved the wall in your tea room. I bet you painted that yourself? Linda Kay

3 more pictures and that should give you an idea of the inside...

my bedroom..just taken...

edited to read..

Sometime I get a little out of hand..here is another area in the bedroom that I simply wanted a shelf, before the end of the weekend and another sheet of MDF and a roll of tile design wallpaper I ended up with a fireplace ... I was able to obtain a nice rod iron grate that holds about 24 candles, when I need something calming I light them..lol

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Back bedroom

Not much here, simple washroom....

3rd bedroom I have company in it at the moment, but will post later if I can't find a photo in my files...

Remaining unphotographed, maybe later tonight is a paint room/laundry room and a woodworking shop...but I do consider 2 other rooms...

My secret garden...

Back deck...which I feel is every bit of a room as inside..a place to eat and sit and enjoy the view of the backyard...

Side of cafe deck..

Almost done,
front entrance

Another place to sit, relax and enjoy...

Join me for a cup of coffee? pancakes? porridge? etc.etc.

Collect what my children call (pretend food) lol..
Made about 12 pieces last Thanksgiving, most had a finger put through the crust...all testing to see if they were real

Thank you for visiting my home...would say that most who visit enjoy seeing all the painted furniture...headboards/fireplaces/painted floors etc.

Come by anytime, friends are always welcome!!

Oh Betty, your place looks like it has the biggest WELCOME sign attached! So lovely, and it shows it is truely made with TLC!
Linda Kay

Betty thanks for sharing your home with us, it is beautiful!