>Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 19:29:59 -0800 >From: owner-gardeners@globalgarden.com >To: owner-gardeners@globalgarden.com >Subject: BOUNCE gardeners@globalgarden.com: Admin request: /^subject:\s*help\b/i > >>From ealbrook@mail.lewiston.com Wed Jan 28 19:29:55 1998 >Received: from mail-gw.fsr.net (mail-gw.fsr.net [207.141.26.22]) > by webhosts.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA07636 > for <gardeners@globalgarden.com>; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 19:29:54 -0800 >Received: from default (pppc173.lewiston.com [209.37.93.173]) by mail-gw.fsr.net (8.8.7/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA05033 for <gardeners@globalgarden.com>; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 19:31:31 -0800 (PST) >Message-Id: <199801290331.TAA05033@mail-gw.fsr.net> >Comments: Authenticated sender is <ealbrook@mail.lewiston.com> >From: "Liz Albrook" <ealbrook@lewiston.com> >To: gardeners@globalgarden.com >Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 19:26:56 +0000 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT >Subject: Help! >Priority: normal >References: <3.0.3.16.19980128092245.19375438@mailhost> >In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980128110902.21139K-100000@hub.fern.com> >X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.54) > >I'm so desperate for flowers I almost bought one of those "Bulb Pots" >from the grocery store for 9 bucks. They contained 3 primroses in >garish colors, 3 solid yellow minidaffs and either 2 tulips or 1 >hyacinth carefully selected to clash as harshly as possible with the >3 primroses. They were obviously put togethor by someone who is >red-green color blind. > >In retrospect, they looked really nice -- which says a lot about how >tired of winter I've become. > >It was warm enough here to work outside but too danged wet to do >anything (unless I want adobe soil in the spring). So I settled for >cleaning the bedroom. Now that the dust is gone I can see all the >cat scratches on the furniture and can walk across the carpet without >sneezing or needing to take a shower. In the end, I know it will >have been a waste of time because it's just going to get dusty again. >My sisters will probably visit in the summer and I'll have to clean >it all over again. In my next marriage there is going to be a maid. > >I also found the hollyhock seed that I couldn't find last spring. >These were collected from a friend's garden that contained a gorgeous >selection of hollyhocks in various shades of red. I'll go ahead and >give them a shot but I'm curious -- does anyone have any idea what >storage at room temperature for a year will have done to them? My >friend is now in Argentina and his house was sold to people who were >so tasteless that they took out those hollyhocks and planted >*junipers* in their place. Horrors! > >Liz > > > > > >