Re: Re: Lots of questions...need help re lilies & peonies especially...

Pam,
We had an old lady down the street from us when I was growing up on the
south side of Chicago.  Hers was the oldest house in the neighborhood -
probably the only house years ago, then sold the rest off to be developed.
We called her the goat lady because she used to walk her goats down the
alley.  Later I found out her name was Sweetie - really - said so on her
doorbell.  She had these marvelous huge old cherry trees and it was a
neighborhood get-together once a year for all the men to bring their ladders
and shake the limbs and the kids would fill the grocery bags with cheeries -
a bag for Sweetie and a bag for your own family.  Naturally, I always seemed
to get called home for my bath in the middle of cherry collecting.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <gardenqueen@academicplanet.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] Lots of questions...need help re lilies & peonies
especially...


> I would have gobbled the cherries. We had a lady in my neighborhood
> growing up who had marvelous cherry trees, but she was an ornery old
> cuss and kept a double barreled shotgun full of rock salt handy to shoot
> anyone she saw in her trees. Don't remember her actual name, we called
> her Annie Oakley - LOL.
>
>
> Pam Evans
> Kemp, TX
> zone 8A
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Cersgarden@aol.com
> Sent: 4/8/2004 9:43:42 AM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Lots of questions...need help re lilies & peonies
especially...
>
> > In a message dated 4/8/04 3:59:12 AM, mhobertm@excite.com writes:
> >
> > << I know my grandmother, thrifty woman
> > that she was...sigh, I really miss her sometimes and really wish she
> > could have seen my gardens. >>
> >
> > Melody, my mothers father was a truck farmer in Missouri.  He lost one
of his
> > hands and part of the arm in a hunting accident but could work that hoe
with
> > one hand.  I would visit them during the summer to help him.  He would
not let
> > me pick strawberries because I would eat to many so instead I had to
pick
> > cherries.  My mother frequently says 'I wish my dad could see your
garden'.
> >     Ceres
> >
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