Re: [gardeners] The End Is Near
Cheryl & Erich Schaefer (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Tue, 14 Oct 1997 19:10:18 -0400
Jaime, you need a neighborhood like mine with the nearest house 3/10 of a
mile away. Shame on you, girl.:-) Around here they know you're alive when
the UPS truck backs into the driveway and dead when your cat shows up
regularly at their house for dinner. I could walk around stark naked and
never get noticed except when the UPS man backs up. And he'd tell the whole
village. The only reason I don't risk it has to do more with where the bees
would surely bite. Cheryl
>Liz Albrook wrote:
>
>> I sure hope your Momma raised you right, i.e. afraid to go outside
>> without your undies on. :-)
>
>She did indeed raise me right. Unfortunately, I never was very
>good at minding her. :\ I do believe I mentioned to Margaret
>that these could also be called moonflowers. <VBG>
>
>What I did discover after this episode is that _all_ my
>neighbors watch my garden in the morning. I nearly always go
>out very early in a longish t-shirt, I nearly never can remember
>I've got nothing else on and I never ever can resist deadheading
>or pulling weeds. (I adore that snicking sound when you
>pull the whole weed.) Since my knees are lousy, I have no
>choice but to bend from the waist.
>
>I had no idea I was providing daily entertainment for the
>neighbors. Now I know why Rachel mentioned that I'd lost so
>much weight a couple of months ago. I didn't think she'd seen
>me since she returned from Florida. Heh.
>
>Jaime, who is red-faced & grinning but will most likely forget
>all about this embarassment by the time that first warm spring
>morning comes around again.
Cheryl Schaefer, Schaefer Yarns
Beautiful hand painted fibers
schaefer@epix.net
Zone 5 in the fabulous Finger Lakes of NY