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 17:32:21 -0500
LOL right you are Jim & Auralie!

On 8/28/10, james singer <inlandjim1@q.com> wrote:
>
> Great news. Quoting Philip Miller [from memory] "Water is a substance, the
> lack of which brings certain mortality to the garden."
>
>
>
> On Aug 28, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Pam Evans wrote:
>
> 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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> Willamette Valley
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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