Re: Happy B-Day Pam!!!
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  • Subject: Re: Happy B-Day Pam!!!
  • From: P* E* <g*@gmail.com>
  • Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 18:11:14 -0400
thanks Jim & Auralie.  sure wish you could send us some rain, we'd sure take it!

On 5/16/11, Aplfgcnys@aol.com <Aplfgcnys@aol.com> wrote:
> Hope you've had more rain since, Pam.  How I wish I could send you some
> from here. We had one nice sunny day last week. The rest of the time
> has been deeply overcast if not raining.  It's been raining off and on
> since Saturday and shows no sign of letting up.  Predictions are for
> this to go on all week.  It's not cold - just chilly - 50s and low 60s -
> but that's notthe sort of weather I want to take these achy old bones
> out in.  I have put my hanging pots of cherry tomatoes in the
> breezeway, and set out a few annuals between showers.  Still
> too much to do.  Oh well, if it doesn't get done, it won't get done.'
>
> My back so-called lawn is a total flower-bed right now.  The purple
> ajuga has invaded the lower part and is a thick blanket of flowers.
> The upper part is thicker with white violets than I have ever seen it.
> It will have to be mowed sooner or later, but I hate to do it until after
> the flowers have bloomed.  We don't try to grow grass - the annual
> grass that self-sows does pretty well.  We don't fertilize or treat
> with any chemicals because it all just runs down into the pond,
> which is higher than usual - over half the lower lawn this spring.
> This is the wettest spring in years.  Wish I could share it with Pam.
>
> In a message dated 5/12/2011 5:15:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> gardenqueen@gmail.com writes:
>
> thanks y'all!   we actually got real RAIN yesterday, a most excellent
> present.
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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