Re: Hot and dark

It hasn't rained here for over two weeks and not much before
that...everything is drying up.  After my quilting guild met today, I
planned to run some errands.  It was so hot, I stopped after two...it was
just too much to go from an airconditioned store to a car that had 1000 or
more inside...made me sick even with water so I just went home.


> [Original Message]
> From: Zemuly Sanders <zemuly@comcast.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 8/16/2007 6:51:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Hot and dark
>
> That doesn't sound hideous at all.  In fact I was thinking the same thing 
> this afternoon.  It is so hot and dry it hurts to breathe.  I don't
remember 
> when we had the last rain, and the real temp has been over 100 for days. 
> Everything in my yard is stressed to the max, even the Lespedeza
thunbergii, 
> and I don't know how I can keep everything watered.  This is getting 
> depressing!
> zem
> zone 7
> West TN
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jesse Bell" <silverhawk@flash.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 4:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Hot and dark
>
>
> > Ya know what? I am SERIOUSLY considering having my neighbor, who has a
> > bobcat, come over and just level all my gardens and start over. They are
> > beyond my fixing right now and I just hate looking at them. I know that
> > sounds hideous to a gardener, but after this spring's rain, they are so
> > overgrown and horrible looking.
> >
> >
> >
> > james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net> wrote:
> >  And I was beginning to think I was all alone... We've still got those
> > damn viburnum taking up space and distorting the fence... maybe next
> > year, maybe not...
> >
> >
> > On Aug 16, 2007, at 5:17 PM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:
> >
> >> I'm so sorry. :-) I will remind myself things can always be worse.
> >> I was alarmed because this morning he started talking about the dry
> >> garden. I said, I don't understand, I was just looking at it the other
> >> day and there's a few weeds but it isn't bad. And he says, It's
> >> starting
> >> to look overgrown. Those are NATIVE plants, I say, we don't trim them
> >> into little squares or balls or whatever you're thinking so just DON'T
> >> TOUCH it. And he mumbles under his breath okay, okay but you know, I
> >> worry. It was one thing when I did all the work but when he gets
> >> involved...I think his ideal must be a square lawn with a tree in the
> >> middle and a couple of bushes under the windows. Who knew, after all
> >> these years.
> >> And the WORST part is, we occasionally get weedy trees and such popping
> >> up, and he always wants to keep them! The pampas grass that was in
> >> front
> >> of a bedroom window, obviously a seedling from across the street, took
> >> me 12 years to convince him that shouldn't be there and finally we cut
> >> it out and he says "Oh. That does look better.". The black locust
> >> seedling in front of the office window. Too big, I say, I'm gonna yank
> >> it, and he howls in protest because one day it will have nice flowers.
> >> Well, I left it, and it does have nice flowers, it's about 10 feet tall
> >> and knocking down the little retaining wall. "Oh." he says. "I guess
> >> you
> >> need to take that out". And the pine tree seedlings. And, and, well you
> >> get the idea.
> >>
> >>
> >> Cyndi
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> >> Behalf Of Cathy Carpenter
> >> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 11:51 AM
> >> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Hot and dark
> >>
> >> Pruning shears? My DH uses a chain saw!
> >>
> >> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
> >>
> >> On Aug 16, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm sitting here in the dark - well, not entirely, I have a pretty big
> >>
> >>> window - because southern California is supposed to be in this big
> >>> power emergency due to the heat, and we've been asked to turn off
> >>> everything we can. So we've turned off all the lights on this floor
> >>> since there's just enough natural light to work with. We couldn't
> >>> POSSIBLY turn off the computers you know, and it would be defeating
> >>> the purpose to send us home - everyone would go turn on their air
> >>> conditioning. We're working in dimness (no cracks about government
> >>> workers please :-) and no doubt they'll turn off the A/C too.
> >>> It's just weird. It's going to be over 100 today, it was hot
> >>> yesterday, but it's a bit overcast and we are also blanketed in smoke
> >>> from the Zaca fire, 100 miles to the west. I can't smell it but I can
> >>> feel it when I breathe, I don't want to take in a deep breath and I'm
> >>> getting some sinus headache. It's really hazy, visibility is less
> >>> than a mile, and brownish. The sunrise this morning was this blood-red
> >>
> >>> disc, very eerie looking.
> >>> My sister called yesterday with more bad news. Their ancient labrador
> >>> died. I think maybe my late brother-in-law called her to come, you
> >>> know?
> >>> Well, more sadness, but my sister wasn't too upset - Missy was really
> >>> old and they'd been thinking she was on borrowed time for the last
> >>> year.
> >>> She tells me, you know things come in threes, you should be careful. I
> >>
> >>> had to laugh. Years back the two of us went through a period where
> >>> relatives dropped like flies, we lost about 5 of them in one year
> >>> including our mother, and we dealt with it by making a lot of death
> >>> jokes. It's all coming back to me now...but that's okay.
> >>> Yesterday I turned in my preserved foods entries for the fair. Imagine
> >>
> >>> my indignation when the woman in front of me also entered
> >>> peach-raspberry jam. What nerve! Ah well, just have to wait and see
> >>> how I do. I sure didn't have as many entries this year. I am thinking
> >>
> >>> I might be able to stay out of the kitchen this weekend and work on
> >>> the garden instead. My husband is saying he wants to work on the dry
> >>> garden, I have to be out there to stop him from pruning things. When I
> >>
> >>> think what he did to my poor mahonias in the tea
> >>> garden...non-gardeners should not be allowed to use pruning shears.
> >>>
> >>> Cyndi
> >>>
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> > Island Jim
> > Southwest Florida
> > 27.1 N, 82.4 W
> > Hardiness Zone 10
> > Heat Zone 10
> > Sunset Zone 25
> > Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> > Maximum 100 F [38 C]
> >
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> > Jesse R. Bell
> >
> > "All that we are is a result of what we have thought."  -  Buddha
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