Re: Fw: Ode to the Catalogs

I'm jealous.....
A


> [Original Message]
> From: Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 2/22/2005 9:32:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Fw: Ode to the Catalogs
>
> Oh, Marge!  That is terrific - and so timely.  I just spent the last 4
days
> coordinating wish lists into catalog orders for our display gardens. I've
> finshed writing everything up and I will hand in the stack of orders for
30
> companies to the tune of about $3500.00 tomorrow morning.  Believe me,
there
> was a lot of juggling and rewriting involved to find the best way to buy
> everything.  I'm going to put a copy of your poem on the top of the stack.
>
> Kitty
> neIN, Z5
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:27 PM
> Subject: [CHAT] Fw: Ode to the Catalogs
>
>
> > Hi Gang, found this deep in my overloaded inbox from someone on
> > Trillium list - thought 'How True, How True'...thought some of
> > you-all might agree:-)
> >
> > Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> > mtalt@hort.net
> > Editor:  Gardening in Shade
> > Shadyside Garden Designs
> >
> > ===================
> >
> >         "Ordering from the Catalogs"
> > My caution goes numb when the catalogs come,
> > No way will it end for the good.
> > Cold winter without, but the spring pages shout,
> > "You better buy more than you should."
> >
> > Some flowers, some seed:  I just check what I need.
> > The total?  Five hundred and ten!
> > A terrible blow, so back I must go.
> > The list must be pruned some and then...
> >
> > It's still way too high.  I almost can cry.
> > The visions of glory are fading,
> > Cross out and erase.  A perennial case
> > of not enough cash.  How degrading.
> >
> > The list now is brief after pain and much grief.
> > The numbers, though, still wreck my budget.
> > Much more must be cut.  I economize, but
> > The truth...well, I'm going to fudge it.
> >
> > For I cannot say no to the flowers that glow
> > On the page and then after, the garden.
> > So what if I blunder?  The balance goes under.
> > I'll look to the bank for a pardon.
> >
> > All shame be to them if their view is so grim
> > That money they count more than beauty.
> > As for me, I must grow every flower I know,
> > For that, I believe, is my duty.
> >
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