Re: Crazy season
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  • Subject: Re: Crazy season
  • From: &* <k*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 18:59:55 -0500
Paint?
one area is about 100 sqft. A patch out front is about 12 sq ft. Then various bits here and there that don't bother me, but I may as well get them while I'm at it.
It's done now with most important stuff (like my tomatoes!) covered with sheets and tablecloths. I stayed close to the ground and waited whenever the wind gusted. I'd guess that if I did any damage with windrift, it'll be minimal.
It rained all day Saturday and it's expected to rain tomorrow, Tuesday. I hope by spraying Sunday I got a good window for the application. 


Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Evans" <gardenqueen@gmail.com> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Crazy season



good show Auralie!  whacky timing on the power outage huh?

On 6/7/10, Aplfgcnys@aol.com <Aplfgcnys@aol.com> wrote:


Just another round in this yoyo season.  After a very hot and humid three
days for our flower show - reaching upper 90s on Saturday and heading that 
way Sunday, a storm system blew through, and today we are in the mid 60s.

Our show was to close at 3:00 PM - we have to close it then because we
must be knocked down and out of the house by 4:00.  A crowd was standing
gathered - why do people always come in just at closing time? - and I was
watching the clock to announce closing in about two minutes, when the
lights
went out! My first thought was that another person was warning that it was 
closing time, but then I realized the lights were out all over the house
except
for the emergency exit lights. This created no real problem, as there are 
lots of windows and French doors, so we proceeded to take the show apart.
Then someone remembered that the gates to the park were electronically
operated, and we might be shut in.  Well, that problem was somehow solved
by the park staff andwe managed to get everything cleared away by
3:55.Whew!

I can't resist a bit of boasting.  My little club is down to 9 active
members, but we put on a lovely Standard Flower Show, including 103
horticulture
entries, of which 51 were blue ribbon winners. Of course some entries were 
from
non-members, both horticulture and design, but still...
Auralie


In a message dated 6/2/2010 11:14:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
sundrops@earthlink.net writes:

>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI"
>> <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 3:24 PM
>> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Crazy season
>>
>>
>>>I wonder if the whole year will be unsettled? Hopefully you will get
>>> some rain. I think we are finally going into summer here. It is in
> the
>>> 80s now, we had some overcast that is mostly gone, and still windier
>>> than usual. Everyone is complaining about the wind.
>>> We spent Memorial Day weekend doing our volunteer stint in the
>> mountains
>>> with the horses. It is still cold enough at 7500' feet to have snow
>> here
>>> and there; we spent almost a whole day with axes, shovels and saws
>>> clearing snow, ice and avalanche debris off a 6 foot section of trail
>> so
>>> the horses could get through. We couldn't do anything about the
>>> multi-ton boulder but there's still room to pass. I am so grateful to
>>> the trail crews that spent the last three weekends on the other
>> hundred
>>> yards of trail, the damage was truly awe-inspiring. Glad I wasn't
>> there
>>> when the avalanche happened!
>>> In my vegetable garden I think I picked the last of the peas last
>> night,
>>> I don't see any flowers left. I'm still picking lettuce and spinach
>> but
>>> it will be quite some time before we have anything else, even the
>>> zucchini plants are still fairly small. But all is growing nicely
> just
>>> need to keep the gophers away. The coreopsis and gaillardia burst
> into
>>> bloom while we were away, very cheerful to see. My Chrysler Imperial
>>> rose has finally decided to live, it is growing well and blooming
>>> heavily at the moment. Almost all the wildflowers are gone to seed
>>> although I have a few nice displays in the dry garden.
>>> Our local u-pick cherry orchards claim they will be opening in two
>>> weeks. I'm eager to make preserves this year; I didn't put up a
> single
>>> jar of anything last year and I really missed it. I may start with
>> rose
>>> jelly this coming weekend if I still have enough roses.
>>>
>>> Cyndi
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
>>> Behalf Of Aplfgcnys@aol.com
>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 11:25 AM
>>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>>> Subject: [CHAT] Crazy season
>>>
>>> What a weird season we've been having.  Three separate spells
>>> of 90 degree heat, starting in April, the first two followed by
>> frosts,
>>> and the latest by a cooler spell.  Despite a lot of cloudy and
>>> overcast days, we haven't had nearly enough rain.  It's very dry
>>> here, and this afternoon is just another example of the craziness.
>>> Within the past hour we have had a heavy thunder storm with pelting
>>> rain for perhaps ten minutes.  Now the sun is shining brightly again
>>> and the sky is blue.
>>> Everything has bloomed out of its usual pattern.  I have a flowershow
>>> coming up this weekend, and had counted on having peonies both as
>>> horticulture exhibits, and as material for a mass arrangement I have
>>> signed up for.  Well, my peonies began to bloom nearly three weeks
>>> ago, and are just about past.  Today's brief rainstorm probably took
>>> the last of them.  Don't know what we'll have for the flower show -
>> all
>>> my members are having the same complaint.
>>> Many things have been more than usually floriferous.  In my garden I
>>> enjoy several wild plants that most people call weeds.  I have had
>> great
>>> displays of Dame's Rocket, and masses of the native Columbine
>>> (Aquilegia canadensis).  Just now the milkweeds are making a handsome
>>> border beside the big boulder.  Most people consider them weeds, but
> I
>>> love them.
>>> One observation - though almost everything else has bloomed
>> splendidly,
>>> if
>>> out of it's usual pattern, the native dogwood, Cornus florida,
> bloomed
>>> very
>>> poorly.  Not just mine, but throughout the woods, and others are also
>>> complaining.  However,  coming along a couple of weeks later, the
>> Kousa
>>> dogwoods are as splendid as I can ever remember.  Does that mean our
>>> climate has become more like Korea?
>>> Hope everyone had a healthy and happy Memorial Day weekend.
>>> Auralie

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Kemp TX
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