Re: [gardeners] Saturday in the garden of love
George Shirley (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 21 Jul 2003 07:22:20 -0500
Finger food, it was very hot out there at 4 pm, even under the pavilion
roof. Sliced up veggies with dip, fried chicken, small deli type
sandwiches, jelly bellies (hey there were kids there), non-alcoholic
punch and wedding cake.
We didn't do all the work, the youngsters did most of it, Miz Anne and I
arranged the flowers we brought, I helped move the picnic tables to make
an aisle, and then we went to middle grandson's apartment to rest awhile
before the wedding. There were a lot of surrogate grandkids at the
wedding in addition to our real ones. Daughter's ex remarried and had
another child and Bailey thinks she's my grandkid too since her
half-siblings (all grown) go pick her up occasionally and keep her for
the weekend. The little ones seems to like grey haired old men with
glasses and a kindly face. <VBG>
George
pennyx1@juno.com wrote:
> George, the wedding sounds terrific! All that work done in just one
> day?
> Y'all must be younger than I had realized ...
>
> What kind of food did they serve? Considering the weather, perhaps
> iced cold watermelon slices would have been enuf ...
>
> I didn't realize that cukes would prosper in that heat.
>
> As I slipped around to the far side of our house today to change an
> in-ground water valve setting, I found that the entire raspberry patch
> had grown sky high, and ALL the berries had dried on the canes! There
> had not been even 27 seconds in the past few weeks for me to have
> checked up on them, much as I love 'em. Pity ...
>
> Explaining the above, last year we split two rather large foundation
> watering zones in half by running in a pair of valves to each which
> effectively cut off the water supply to one side or the other by
> appropriate opening and closing of the pair.... this summer I just
> could NOT find the valves - even tho I thought I jolly well recalled
> where they had been placed, so Jimmie suggested that I use the
> long handled 4-tined fork to skim the surfaces in order to snag
> the soaker hose. It worked! Today was the first time I was
> changing the direction of the front valves, and Dumb Dora did
> the 1st one, but forgot the 2nd ...nothing got distributed at all.
> It's incredible how much work is crying out to me in the garden --
> all I can say to myself is remember what Ranchmama said: walk
> by your favorite plants and tell them you'll be back next year...
>
> Penny, NY
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