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3284. arkymalarky - 10/16/2005 7:21:33 PM Very cool! Love the irridescence!
I saved a squirrel yesterday. Mojo is the quickest dog I've ever seen to be so big. Bob and I were in the living room and suddenly Bob said "Did you see that?!" I didn't, since I was facing away from the yard, and I turned around to see Mojo all the way on the other side of our (big) yard with something in her mouth that had a very bushy, twitching tail. She wouldn't let Gus near her.
I thought the squirrel was surely dead, but it looked like it was moving a little, so I went across the yard and made Mojo put it down. It was on its side, but there wasn't much blood, and I couldn't see much in the way of injuries. I went to stand over it and its eyes were open like it might be dead, but it was breathing very fast.
As I leaned over to get a better look (holding Mojo at bay the whole time) the little thing leapt up and ran a little ways. I hollered at Bob to come out and help, and he held Mojo while I approached the squirrel. It ran a little more, and in spurts I got it to run across the road and into the woods. Bob said he saw the incident, and the squirrel had made a tactical error in trying to cut back to a pecan tree on the far side of the yard rather than running forward until it got into the woods. 3285. wonkers2 - 10/17/2005 12:56:55 AM You interfered with the working out of a Darwinian survival of the fittest scenario. The squirrel obviously didn't deserve to survive any more than the residents of New Orleans' 9th ward in the opinion of Bush Republicans. 3286. arkymalarky - 10/17/2005 1:20:13 AM I'm meddlesome that way. 3287. arkymalarky - 10/17/2005 1:45:17 AM That reminds me. Bob interfered with survival of the fittest the other day by picking up three hitchhikers who were headed down to Louisiana to help their kids who'd been in the flood. It was two women and a man and they rode in the back of his truck (the front was packed) to his work exit and he gave them all he had--about $2 in chump change, some string cheese, a half a can of nuts and some gum. 3288. wonkers2 - 10/17/2005 3:25:51 AM Good for him! 3289. thoughtful - 10/17/2005 4:12:51 PM oh i read too quickly ... at first glance i thought it said
...and a gun!
3290. judithathome - 10/17/2005 5:57:02 PM Denny looks great, thoughtful! 3291. thoughtful - 10/17/2005 6:08:43 PM thanks! 3292. ronski - 10/18/2005 7:20:30 PM thoughtful,
Congratulations to Denny. He looks mahvelous!
We had a total of 19 and 1/2 inches of rain last week.
But in winter there is never enough moisture available to make ten or twenty feet of snow in the Northeast in one week. I consider that sad, actually. 3293. PelleNilsson - 10/18/2005 8:06:47 PM Denny is thriving but the colchicum has fallen on hard times.
Decay Pic No.1
 3294. thoughtful - 10/18/2005 8:37:39 PM thanks, ronski and pelle.
the colchicum is starting to look a little sad.
That's not the plant that they make saffron from is it? 3295. PelleNilsson - 10/18/2005 8:57:17 PM No, saffron is of the crocus family, but there is a certain similarity:
The Swedish name for colchicum 'tidlösa' is strange and incomprehensible. 'tid' means 'time' and 'lösa' means 'less' in the sense of 'rootless' ('rotlösa'). So the name would imply 'timeless', but as the pic shows it is anything but. 3296. ronski - 10/18/2005 11:16:41 PM Saffron crocus is Crocus sativus, one of the fall-blooming ones, and there are other fall bloomers as well.
Re: the colchicum, I like "timeless." I wonder what aspect of the plant it was meant to capture. Probably not the windowsill use of it. Maybe because it is fairly hardy?
Pelle,
Will you be able to plant it in a garden after it is finished blooming? 3297. ronski - 10/18/2005 11:25:03 PM thoughtful,
I see Denny is a phalaenopsis-type dendrobium. You probably don't need this since you are taking such excellent care of him yourself, but here is a link to their culture requirements, etc.
Denny's Relatives
3298. PelleNilsson - 10/19/2005 8:08:57 AM No, we have no place to plant it. 3299. alistairconnor - 10/19/2005 10:00:56 AM Take it to the cottage by the lake? 3300. PelleNilsson - 10/19/2005 12:05:02 PM I don't think the soil is good enough there. 3301. thoughtful - 10/19/2005 4:59:07 PM Thanks ronski.
I just fertilize all my indoor plants with a 6-6-6 on a monthly basis and water weekly or somewhat less frequently. Denny is in a west window and seems to be happy there. I've learned to keep the stem on him as it has in the past thrown new blossoms.
He's a fairly young plant...I've had him only about 3 years and I think his blooms will get more spectacular as he ages. Or at least that's my hope. 3302. marjoribanks - 10/20/2005 6:02:46 AM Thoughtful,
Did you read this article on Rachel Ray?
You (and I) have been commenting about her here for years, and after reading that article, I now recognize the reasons both of our subconscious reactions to her chatty, smiley, garrulous, persona on TV. I'll spell out my theories.
1) You recognize her and warm to her instantly because she's a fellow upstate New Yorker, she's kind of a local grown-up girl scout for you, that 30 minute show could be with your young neighbour.
2) I recognize her, and roll my eyes, instantly, because she is exactly the same age as me and thus like one of my yap-yap-yap classmates in high school (I realize now that she powerfully reminds me of an ex-girlfriend, accent and all).
Whaddya think? 3303. marjoribanks - 10/20/2005 6:06:58 AM Also, have any of you flower people read Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy, by Eric Hansen?
Doesn't deserve the excellent reviews it got, but quite an interesting story of orchid obsession, skullduggery and subterfuge.
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