Re: Hibernation still in effect
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  • Subject: Re: Hibernation still in effect
  • From: &* S* <z*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:50:05 -0500
Auralie, I'm so glad Chet is on the mend. What a fright you must have had. And, Pam, your water problem is ridiculous! I'll agree this is one summer I don't want to repeat! My flower beds also look terrible. The flowers are tough as nails, but so are the morning glories that are all over everything! After an electric bill that rivaled the national debt I found that I was at the verge of needing a new compressor. The upside is that my problem was solved with just a good coil cleaning. I have about melted in the garden center this summer, and I think I have beaten all records for the amount of iced tea a person can drink in one day. You are so right, Pam, low 90s can feel down right cool! 
zem
zone 7
West TN
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Evans" <gardenqueen@gmail.com> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Hibernation still in effect



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-----
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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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