RE: Hibernation still in effect
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  • Subject: RE: Hibernation still in effect
  • From: &* <a*@hargray.com>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:49:34 -0400
Thanks Jim, good point. And well, RATS Auralie. Sounds like we all need a
break. I'm glad Chet is getting better. My Mama has always insisted that
hospitals make people sicker. I may have to give her points for that one. 
Andrea

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From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
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Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 11:02 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Hibernation still in effect

I'll follow Andrea's lead and try to make a summary of this crazy month.
The entire summer has been a garden disaster for me - a combination of
extreme heat and drought, too much other work, and not enough strength
to work out in the heat.  Something ate all my beans just as they began
to bloom.  My other vegetables have not done anything.  The soil in the
garden is hard as a rock from the drought - despite years of adding compost
and such good things.  My flower beds have also suffered from the drought.
Great patches of my epimedium have browned off.  Even some pachysandra
has turned brown, and that's usually drought-proof.  The pond is down do a
mudpuddle.  I have tried to keep the container-garden going by carrying
water, but even that has been a struggle.  Since we're on a well, I can't 
just
use a hose or sprinkler.
 
In addition to all that, I've had more work of all sorts than I've had in 
years.
The book industry must not be suffering as much as I read that it is, for 
I've
had back-to-back indexing jobs all summer.  That combined with flower
show preparations on both state and local levels, Horticulture School exams
to grade and record, and various other such, plus a computer crash earlier
in the summer has kept me tied up.
 
Then there was the visit from my youngest son and his family - 7 yr.old 
Connor,
and Cate who's almost 5.  They were here for three days and then insisted 
that
we go to the city with them for another three days.  We stayed at the 
Princeton
Club, saw a couple of Broadway shows, and a marvelous church service at 
St. Thomas Episcopal Church on 5th Avenue.  I had been anxious about Chet,
since he is getting so slow and tottery, but he seemed to enjoy it all very 
much.
 
Then last Sunday morning he collapsed in church as he was serving as 
lay-reader.
Luckily the priest saw him going and caught him as he fell, so he didn't 
hit his
head.  He came around quickly, but the EMS team took him to the hospital.  
There all sorts of tests showed nothing amiss, but the cardiology team 
insisted
on keeping him for observation.  To make a long story short, they decided 
his
blood-pressure medication was too strong, and had caused him to faint from 
low blood-pressure.  I brought him home on Tuesday looking pale and with 
cold
symptoms.  Wednesday he was so weak he could hardly stand.  I was ready to
take him back to the hospital, but of course he refused.  I did get him to 
the local
doctor who diagnosed pneumonia, that the doctor said he had clearly 
contracted
in the hospital.  He has been on strong antibiotics since, and seems better 
and
stronger today.  We will see the doctor again in a bit.
 
I guess that's not a very cheerful or garden-related message, but I wanted 
to 
account for my apparent lack of response to the rest of you.  Best wishes to
all who have had birthdays I missed.  Pam, I hope your house doesn't fall 
down.
Andrea, there will surely be another job.  
 
Auralie
 
In a message dated 8/26/2010 6:10:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
andreah@hargray.com writes:

Hi all-I'm just getting around to actually sitting at my computer in over a
week. Summer has been in full on mode here since mind-June. We almost broke
a record of over 45 days at 90 or above. Mostly ABOVE. The heat has finally
broken but the humidity is still in full swing. Last evening I finally went
outside when I got home from work, something I haven't done in weeks. The
aphids had attacked my Asclepius so I got out the hose. 

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