>Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 16:30:32 -0500 >To: gardeners@globalgarden.com >From: Janni <linncrk@midmo.net> >Subject: Re: [gardeners] OT sorta: Mother's Day > >Happy Mothers' Day to everyone!! Went to brunch this morning and to Dairy >Queen this afternoon to eat evil dessert!! LOL Now I get to go out and >plant some Jewel Box Celosia in my garden. BTW I bought a HUGE hanging >plant called Million Bells. Beautiful plant. > >Janni > >At 02:36 PM 5/11/03 -0500, you wrote: >>Kids couldn't make it over from Houston today so I fixed Miz Anne a nice >>Texas style mid-day meal, called "dinner" in Texas and something else >>other places. >> >>We had genuwine Texas style chicken fried steak with cream gravy, mashed >>potatoes, and blackeyed peas plus some homemade dinner rolls that rose >>and baked beautifully. For afters we had homemade peach cobbler with the >>peaches from our Floragold peach tree, the first ever crop we got off of >>it. Not enough to even freeze some fruit but enough for a cobbler. Now >>we gonna take a nap as we can't move very much. Even the dog got steak, >>taters, and peas so she's happy too. >> >>The boysenberries are getting ripe, about 2 dozen a day at the moment. >>The pickings are going in the freezer to either make a humongous cobbler >>for Memorial Day or to make jelly with later on. I'm watering the >>persimmon tree almost daily as it has been more than a month since it >>rained here. Hopefully it won't drop its fruit and we'll get a bumper >>crop of Fuyu persimmons to put up and eat fresh. The elderberries are >>flowering and there is a wee bit of fruit on the blueberries. The red >>raspberries are covered with immature fruit and we might get some of it >>if we can beat the cardinals to it. >> >>Life is good. >> >>George