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11996. Ms. No - 11/8/2004 6:55:00 PM Jen,
The garden is good. Got my first two gardenia blooms and they smell wonderful. Oddly, there's been a lot of clover popping up in the garden. Now, there was nothing growing in this box before I went and broke up the cement passing for dirt and I certainly didn't plant any clover, but there's plenty of clover in the neighborhood.
I thought the stuff had to be blooming to send spores/seeds/whatever over to my little plot. Apparently not. So I was plucking clover this weekend. It's kind of cool because they come up in single shoots and when you go to pull them these long, long roots come out of the ground.
Had a major freak-out over a spider in the watering can and did the Chicken-on-a-Griddle Spastic Dance of Shame for my neighbors. That was a high point for the weekend, let me tell you. 11997. Jenerator - 11/8/2004 7:17:05 PM hahahahahaha!;-)
As for weeds, there are probably billions of dormant seeds in your ground. I actually had something pop up in one of our flower beds that was unidentifiable. I took it to a local gardening expert and he was stumped. It was like a thistle/fly eater on steriods. We dropped it off at the Arboretum, and no one has called us back. Yikes! Thankfully, that is the only one we've seen.
Everytime I look at my cyclamen, I think about ya. 11998. Ms. No - 11/8/2004 7:38:24 PM Oooh! What color are yours? I've got the pale pink ones.
Your plant makes me think of The Little Shop of Horrors. I'm sure you're right about the doormant seeds and if clover is the worst of it then I'll be quite happy. It's easy to pull and there wasn't any massive carpet of it so only took about five minutes to do the whole bed.
Judging by what I pulled out of the ground I'll be lucky if I don't get garlic and scissor plants with a nice border of peanuts and ivy. 11999. Jenerator - 11/8/2004 7:43:07 PM I was literally afraid to touch one of the leaves for fear that it would close up around me and eat my hand off. I used a shovel(!!) to dig it up - root and all.
I hate dandelion weeds because the roots burrow deep into the ground and must be dug up. If you pull them without getting all of the roots, another one will sprout up. Oh and their roots snap off mid-pull.
My cyclamens are bright red. 12000. ElliottRW - 11/8/2004 8:02:49 PM I have never, ever, had a millenial post. 12001. Jenerator - 11/8/2004 8:07:22 PM Yay! 12002. Ms. No - 11/8/2004 8:07:27 PM Oh how cool!!!!
Congratulations!
I can't believe I didn't even notice where we were or you can bet your bippy I would've raced you for it.
Nicely done! 12003. ElliottRW - 11/8/2004 9:38:16 PM I'm so happy. 12004. arkymalarky - 11/9/2004 1:16:51 AM Congrats Elliott! Must be the new thread.
WRT pulling plants, nutgrass is the worst. 12005. alistairConnor - 11/9/2004 1:29:05 AM  Mago, this is the girl I thought of when I saw the picture in Message # 11977 ... Eléanor. Picture dates from Sunday.
Beautiful red eyes. Just like her mother.
12006. Magoseph - 11/9/2004 1:32:48 AM Gorgeous face, beautiful eyes, what a darling child, Ali! Thank you for posting this picture. 12007. judithathome - 11/9/2004 2:18:18 AM Gorgeous...absolutely gorgeous. 12008. Absensia - 11/9/2004 3:23:25 AM Yes, beautiful child! 12009. Jenerator - 11/9/2004 4:14:22 AM She's too cute.
Okay. Now I have to have a girl! 12010. tonedef - 11/9/2004 4:42:41 AM PsychProf, Hey back at ya. 12011. Magoseph - 11/9/2004 3:15:27 PM Hello, what's new with you?
The new coffee shop is trendy enough, but it does not have the same local flavor as the other two have--folks such as businessmen, old codgers, retired couples, teen-agers, housewives, etc. Therefore, I went back to the favorite one where gossip is pungent and rampant. I certainly was surprised to find out that one of our neighbors threw her husband out and moved in her woman lover.
I was rather shocked since the neighbor is old upper crust around here and snobbish to most. I wondered how she found the courage to flaunt her private life as she does now. I remember once she told me how much she admired me for seeking a new life in another country. She said that she never had the guts to move away from here. Well, she did it in a way, good for her.
Finally, Flexy is not quite fine yet for the operation—his blood pressure is still too high. It must be the cookies he sneaked in, as if I didn't know that. 12012. Magoseph - 11/9/2004 11:11:34 PM From Mind's Eye revisited:
12013. judithathome - 11/9/2004 11:18:21 PM Oh, I'd love to be sitting there against the fence on a cold day, bundled up in a sewater and feeling a crisp breeze off the water and being toasted just slightly by the sun...I love winter sunlight.
I have been running all over town today on my "day off", when I'm supposed to be doing nothing...except washing 5 loads of clothes. But I was supposed to be able to stay home all day and do that. Ah well, dinner is being prepared for me so there's that.... 12014. Magoseph - 11/10/2004 11:40:40 AM Hello, Mac. You know, Rev.Jackson's speech is even difficult to understand for Flexy--he has to listen carefully and translate for me.
How is your day shaping up? 12015. Macnas - 11/10/2004 11:47:50 AM So far ok Mago, the email server is down so that is at least one source of annoyance gone for a while.
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