Re: clay pots/Dillon Seed Co

Muhammad Ali?  He was the greatest.  Floats like a butterfly and stings like
a bee.

David Franzman
A Touch of the Tropics
www.atouchofthetropics.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] clay pots/Dillon Seed Co


> Okay, I'm convinced. Tomorrow I will start my quest for a discarded
> bathtub. And I will visit one [two, if necessary] of our concrete
> statuary merchants to find a virgin Mary that fits inside the bath tub.
> And I will create an Italian shrine somewhere here at the plantation.
>
> Meantime, please remember that Ms. Fatma is Muslim ["not a terrorist,"
> I tell people at work while not making eye contact, but occasionally a
> Holy Terror] so we may end up with a second bathtub [somehow I don't
> think Muslims do this, but I'll ask first--would be really, really
> funny if they did; I mean REALLY, REALLY FUNNY] with a statue of
> Ali--if the concrete statuary merchants have such [probably not,
> because they are mostly Italians, cranking out Marys and like most
> Italians and/or Americans, have no idea who Ali was].
>
> On Friday, June 4, 2004, at 04:43 PM, Kitty wrote:
>
> >> a bathtub
> >> half-buried horizontally in front of a house with the Virgin Mary in
> >> the
> >> enclosure!  Having grown up in Chicago, I'd never seen anything like
> >> it!
> >> Mardi
> >
> > Mardi !!!!!  I grew up in Chicago and believe me Chicago has plenty of
> > Our
> > Lady of the Bathtub shrines!  You must have just been in the wrong
> > neighborhoods!
> >
> > Kitty
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <mlrasmus@rockwellcollins.com>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 1:18 PM
> > Subject: [CHAT] clay pots/Dillon Seed Co
> >
> >
> >>> it's right up there with my desire to get an old,
> >> footed cast iron bath tub & making a water feature/water garden out
> >> of it.
> >>
> >> Eva, in some small towns in Iowa it is not unusual to see a bathtub
> >> half-buried horizontally in front of a house with the Virgin Mary in
> >> the
> >> enclosure!  Having grown up in Chicago, I'd never seen anything like
> >> it!
> >> Mardi
> >>
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