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3274. ronski - 10/11/2005 12:54:23 PM A cool, misty day yesterday. A great day to tend to the strawberry barrels, moving shoots into the spots where there are no plants, where they will root. I'm going to try wintering the barrels in the garage this year, since last year most of the plants died, even though it was not a particularly cold winter. 3275. alistairconnor - 10/11/2005 12:59:14 PM ahh yes - I should see what I can salvage in the strawberry patch (former sandpit)
The garden is all to hell, I haven't spent any time keeping it tidy this year. I am however salvaging the winter terrace, which is in the walled garden, and had become very scruffy and overgrown. 3276. PelleNilsson - 10/12/2005 4:13:36 PM Progress Pic No.3
Is this the apogee? The remaining buds don't look very vigorous.
In the meantime, an autumn view from the living room.
 3277. Macnas - 10/12/2005 5:43:17 PM Pelle, guess what god-awful example of confectionery I sampled recently?
I'll give you a clue, salt and liquorice..
3278. PelleNilsson - 10/12/2005 5:47:47 PM Iguess it was what we would call 'salmiak'. If so, I rather like it, but I haven't tasted it for years. 3279. Macnas - 10/12/2005 5:54:02 PM That's the one, what is it with Swedes and salt? 3280. PelleNilsson - 10/12/2005 6:20:05 PM You didn't sample ordinary salt but ammonium chloride. Happier now? 3281. Macnas - 10/12/2005 6:24:44 PM Over the moon. 3282. thoughtful - 10/14/2005 4:10:01 PM Well we've had roughly 12" of rain over the last several days. If it were snow it'd be 10 feet high. Yikes! 3283. thoughtful - 10/16/2005 4:26:32 PM I think I got to close causing the blur, but regardless, you can see how lovely denny is with his 5 blooms in full regalia.
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
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