Re: Hibernation still in effect + water update
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  • Subject: Re: Hibernation still in effect + water update
  • From: P* E* <g*@gmail.com>
  • Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:25:44 -0500
we have water again - yay!

On 8/27/10, Pam Evans <gardenqueen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Wow - glad Chet's on the mend.  I can unfortunately relate about the
> garden.  Mine looks like french fried right about now.  Ridiculous.  My kid
> brother has his gall bladder out Monday, but he's fine and didn't seem to
> pick up any nasty bug the 24 hours he was in the hospital thank goodness.
> still no water here, they said maybe by tomorrow - pfffft.  I stopped at
> Elaine's on the way home today to get a shower and wash my hair -
> ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
>
>
> On 8/27/10, andreah <andreah@hargray.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
>> Behalf
>> Of Aplfgcnys@aol.com
>> 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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>
> --
> Pam Evans
> Kemp TX
> zone 8A
>



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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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