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Leanin' on the garden's fence--WE GOT A DOWNPOUR!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!
William Rose wrote:
In article , madgardener wrote: I haven't written lately despite the bad luck and personal problems and health issues.........soooooo, if you don't mind me leaning over the fence and chatting with the two of youse, I'd be honored. Shore, pull up a fence. No scars though, and no pictures of scars. Lord it is a hot one today. All the melons are up on their toes and lookin' like they're gonna make a break for it. And the "bird house" gourd will be over the top in the next couple of days (7'). Everything else is just sagging in the heat (4 PM: 95 F). I know it's not that hot but we haven't been tempered yet. Few more weeks and this will feel just fine. Think I'll take a shower and make a run for it to the store. Tabouli, left over chicken salad, lunch meats, cold fruit, and the last of the blueberries with raspberry sherbert for dinner tonight. I'd better put one of them cheap Australian chardonnays in to chill too. Geronimo, Let me formally introduce meself, there, William.....I'm an old regular around wreck.gardens. Been here in and out of the patches and weeds now for over eleven years. Came here as madgardener, showed my ignorance and rear end sometimes when I was REALLY green in the netiquette areas and signed off in terseness as "madwoman" until I learned candor and demeanor and manners and now am firmly in the archives as madgardener or "maddie" as I'm wont to sign sometimes. I am rabidly horticultural, with bouts of SPS or sticky pot syndrome and apparently a newer and lesser known affliction that I've had for YEARS now but was unsure as to the identity of....OCTS.....Obsessive Collecting Tendency Syndrome.....I ramble on at the jibs, waxing poetic and frothy mouthed about me faeries and fliers and pollinators and critters that abound here in Faerie Holler (Eastern Tennessee, near and in front of the Great Smoky Mountains). I've contributed and talked to all manner of gentle folk herebouts on this and the UK wrecked gardens newsgroup. I know the in's and outs of all but the more extensive trees and lawn grasses despite that I am considered a Master Gardener and Master Composter by UT's standards (University of Tennessee based outa Knoxville, Tennessee). I am more hands on learned, self taught and if you were to see me cut upon a bramble, I'd probably not bleed but pour out musical notes and potting soil.............been known to "be able to take a popsicle stick and grow a two by four" but able to kill a healthy and hail African violet with the merest glance....... No scars nor photo's of scars. I've just had another summer of hell and I deal with it as well as one can. My gardens go on with or without me. The blister beetles I mentioned in the previous response are munching as I write. I can't see to spray their blistery asses into writhing death throes, believe me I would.....I adore my mantis, toads, lizards, and wide assorted fliers, stingers and flutterers that abound with increasing numbers. Some less this year than last, others more so. Those white butterflies which are benefiting from the lack of the evil red wasps with the black wings, yellow jackets and even hornets. I can say that as of two hours ago, WE GOT A DOWNPOUR!!!!!!!!!!! WOO HOO!!! DESPERATELY in need of moisture. I actually have many DEEP PUDDLES in the driveway! The crickets are singing praises, the frogs and peepers are thrilled and the resident frogs in BBQ Frog Holler Pond/Trough are most likely enjoying the heavy humidity right now and basking in it on the blue clay slabs that I use for bridges and sunning rocks for them. Believe me, I danced for that rain and downpour. Poor Craven Smeagol the cowardly dawg of the canine trilogy herebouts was so taken off guard he didn't have time to throw coat or shiver his hair off and no need of drugs despite all the thunder-boomers that came with the intense storm. the rain was horizontal for 45 minutes blowing sideways....... My own heat of 97o today was tempered finally by the storms at 6 p.m. EST and it's now down to a cool 72o ahhhhhhhh, almost worth opening a window~ Right now I have parched phlox that were never cut back in the mid spring to ensure doubling and not being so dang tall....daylilies that are pleading for me to either lift them and put them where they can benefit from more sun or have mercy and off them. (I can't off them, I love all flowers, except the hateful Vinca major aka Periwinkle and it's only when it's busy making miles of sinewy vines like now that I despise it....it is intent on reclaiming every square inch of ground I worked years to clean out. I pulled a vine today and it snapped YARDS away and laughed at me...grrrrrr, maybe with the soaking tonight I can get out in the mornings cooler temperatures and the asparagus fork and lift some roots and dig out a few cubic meters of it and toss it into the pasture for the bovine to munch upon. There's a thought! g There are over 20 black Angus with a few brown calves thrown in for measure that have cleared the whole fence row next to my side yard and not one bit of Vinca is left! thanks for hollering back. Always an honor and pleasure to meet another garden fence neighbor. Happy knosching! maddie enjoying the HUMIDITY!! |
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