Yes that is the two of us close to where I got you stuck. I was horrified. But alas, not a single shot of you on the floor at BSH. Sorry folks. It was a sight for sure! Patti
Happy birthday Carrie
OK, here's a story. (and Patti, I'm very glad you didn't have your camera that day!)
DH grew up on LI NY and knows NYC like the back of his hand, pretty much. So one day he takes his new wife (me) and her two obnoxious brats (DDs #1 and #2) to see the sights. I was in the electric wheelchair -- an earlier one that didn't get stuck in mud as much!
So we're going to take the Staten Island ferry, which has a big lip at the edge that you don't expect, maybe a bump where the ferry part fits into the dock part I guess. Anyway I'm rolling along and when we hit that bump the wheels stop rolling and my body keeps moving forward. (I guess that's why I never understood physics.) So I shoot out of the WC onto the deck at 15-20 mph. About 20 people come running to try to help and start grabbing me to see if I'm OK. (If I actually had broken something, that would have made it worse, but I was fine.) My 8 year old daughter puts her hand up to stop everybody and says (announces) "It's OK, it's just my mom, she does this all the time! THAT was memorable! I was fine, btw, but a little achey.
LOL Our children have such respect for us! That's purple haze alright.
Martha
That's what the tag said! Yes, that was the one time I might have liked some help.
Another time, when I was a single mom, I used a cranky van and occasionally DID need the kindness of strangers. I think I only had one child at this point, which would have made the vocal young lady 2 or 3. So we're coming down in the wheelchair lift just fine outside the grocery store, everything is working, and she announces to the parking lot in her loudest voice to nobody in particular EXCUSE ME SIR MY MOTHER NEEDS HELP. I didn't. Now, of course, she's almost 19 and I embarrass her.
I meant how are you Patti & Carrie and I will now add Martha?
I am fine, but I can't answer for the others. How are you, David?
I am fine too, but I should be outside working on my "Slacker" Bed, so named because of a Dave47 post years ago. I was hand digging a new unnamed bed very, very slowly and being a complete 'Slacker" about getting it done. I moaned about the sorry mess I was making in a post and dear (our) Dave, suggested I rent a rototiller. Being stubborn, I finally finished it sans rototiller, but have now rented one for other jobs every spring since. Thank you Dave47.
Our Slacker Bed is finally looking better and I bought some lavender yesterday to add to the edge of it, so that need planting today. But as always, I am sitting inside slacking off. Patti
I hardly consider anyone with gardens like yours to be a slacker, Patti!
I do slack off sometimes just to do nothing for a while. I can veg with the best of you, I promise, but then guilt about my laying about sets in and I go into high gear. Manic, is the correct term. Patti
I can definitely see you as manic!
Carrie, I am doing some down time right now. I have my feet up. I have to gear up soon for dinner guests to entertain our house guests tonight. DH is down stairs whipping up something sinfully gooey with dark chocolate. I am in charge of appetizers, green beans and the table setting. I cleaned up earlier, so I don't have to get Manic yet about tonight. I just need to wake up or take a nap and wake up rested. I think I just talked myself into moving from my chair to the bed. Patti
LOL ... sounds good!
Sounds very good!
I'm glad you are both doing well and that your slacker bed is a slacker no more.
I have had tough time keeping up this year between being busy and the rain so all my gardens are slacker gardens.
I have a need to weed (but my heart is not in it)
Dave47, I just use my fingers. Patti
Nyuck nyuck!
I am bushed and off to bed shortly. I have my annual garden club plant sale tomorrow. I will be up at the crack of dawn to go and set up. We are part of the Historical Society's Strawberry Festival. They sell strawberry shortcakes and I sell plants. I have red monarda, hosta, coreopsis, geranium, columbine, campanula and others gracing the table tomorrow. I spent the afternoon shopping for father's day and picking up donated plants from my club members. I will be fine tomorrow as I get tense before the event. Once it gets going and I sell some plants, I will be fine. I also had to buy new popsicle sticks for plant markers cause I can't find the baggie full of them I know I still have here somewhere. These were the last of a box of 1000 I got when my daughter (now 21) was a junior girl scout. I did not buy one thousand more, however, just 150. If I find the others, maybe I will construct a Zakim bridge model out of them! (the big dig bridge to all of you not from here)
Good night all.
Martha
Hope the sale went well, Martha.
Me too. And to our perpetual B-day Gal, Carrie, and anyone else off to Boojum's round up today, have a fine and dry day. Envious. I will go up next week if I can as we are heading up to Vt via Tanglewood for a few day. Patti
hope the sale GOES well, Martha!
Patti, I'm so jealous that you are going to Tanglewood, but I am going to Kathy's, so there!
We are just going on this trip to Prairie Home Companion which is an annual ritual for us. But we have tickets for some later events. You are so going to love Boojum's I think you will be able to zoom around parts of the garden which is stunning. Plus Boojum is a gem of a human being and Plants Women. I always learn so much on every visit to her garden. Patti
Patti, I'm so jealous that you are going to Tanglewood, but I am going to Kathy's, so there!
P.S. Cartoon for Pren from me.
Carrie, I will show it to him. How appropriate. Your Hero! No doubt he is off to the WC to save another fallen Princess. Patti
Hahaha. Lord of the loo!
The sale went well. We sold most everything and the few leftovers, I can't believe people didn't buy my fringed bleeding hearts!, will go up to the butterfly garden. I thought the BH's were among the best of the offerings. unusual. But, the marketplace is funny. you never know what's going to go fast. We made a little over 200 bucks after a 50 dollar donation to the Historical Society. Not a bad day as the rain held off and it wasn't too hot as it has been in previous years. I had fun!
Martha
Oh, fun! It sure would have been easier getting there than boojum's!
And you could have bought a great strawberry shortcake, if you had any money left after my plant sale! I love it because we have unusual stuff and people come up and say: "Well, I have some of this at home." and I get to say " Oh, no you don't, not yet!" I sold out the miniature Hosta venusta and Hosta 'Gold Drop' and the two odd pots of H. undulata that I had. People didn't take to H. " Allen P. McConnell' or H. 'Green Elf' quite as much. they bought all my campanula, most of my columbine and all the sunflower plants I had. All the Iris went, too including Iris pseudacorus, which I was just waiting for somebody with a pond to come by and need. It was just one big clump and I got my buyer last one of the day.
Martha
Sounds like a great sale, Martha! But I got great stuff at the RU, except it's too wet too plant it now.
Great story about the rescue of the fair damsel in distress by Patti's Prince of Porcelain. LOL! Too good! Thanks for sharing! And Cousin Nut, I love your six step program for hiding the 'edging evidence'. Wonderful! Very creative!
Cute cartoon, Carrie!
Rain, rain, rain, rain! Will it ever stop? I can't wait to work in the gardens again.
Karen
Well the daylily I got at kassia's roundup which could be Little Grapette and could be stella d'oro has put out a bud, finally, at last. I have this feeling that if it were stella, it would have long since bloomed. I am hoping for grape. this rain has been good for the great transplanting my son and I have been doing. but enough is enough for one week.
Martha
I have a daylily that is supposedly Stella, and it looks like Stella. But it never reblooms for me. Go figure!
Little Grapette is a nice one.
Karen
They were supposed to start putting a new roof on my house on Monday, "weather permitting".... if the weather doesn't start permitting, it will be irrelevant whether we have a roof or not, so much will be rain-damaged on the interior that we can't see.
So Carrie, So if they don't get the new roof on soon, you can become a regular contributor to the forum on fungi and lichens. Me lik'em lichens. How big an umbrella do you have? I will hope for some sunshine for us all, but you especially. No rain here today, just cool and gloomy. Patti
Same here, so where are the roofers? Is there a forum on carpenter ants and mold? The competition said they fixed rooves through snow and rain and sleet and hail, but Mom (AKA homeowner) liked these guys better.
Here's hoping the roofers will get there soon!
Karen
Yes, absolutely! Thanks for your dry wishes, Karen, lol!
Anytime, Carrie!
Um, they say they're coming Mon and Tuesday, but it's r-a-i-n-i-n-g again! O NO!
Oh, no, is right! I'm so sick of the rain. I was just out mowing my lawn, and along comes a thundershower. I had to come in. It was a quick shower, but now everything's wet and the mosquitoes are out. The sun is back out, though. Well, I have to take a shower around 7 anyhow, as I have to go do an overnight shift tonight. Almost wish I wasn't, but it's extra money in my pocket, which I can certainly use.
Karen
our grass will be hip deep soon. No flower on the mystery daylily bud yet, but If we get some sun this summer I may find out.
Martha