Re: Good weekend/new job

Great news Andrea. So pleased to hear it!

On 11/7/05, Theresa <tchessie1@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Yeah! Congrats Andrea.
>
> Theresa
>
> Andrea Hodges wrote:
>
> >OK, I wasn't finished replying to your message.....don't know what I did
> >but I sent it by accident. As I was saying, it sounds like a great
> >weekend. I have a great day.
> >
> >
> >I started my new job today at Buckley's Prairie Landscaping. I had a
> >ball. I'm so tired. Unfortunately, I didn't get to play with the plants
> >too much as we are starting to put out the Christmas decorations, but
> >that's OK. It was still a lot of fun. Nice, easy going people, lots to
> >be done, so there won't be a dull moment. Huge nursery.
> >
> >I think I made the right decision.
> >A
> >Now in Zone 5
> >
> >Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSR <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> wrote:
> >I'm glad no one from here was hurt by the tornado. Scary!
> >I had such a good weekend. Nothing special happened. But for the last
> month
> >I haven't been able to do much on the weekends - I had back problems, and
> >then when that cleared up I got a horrible cold and couldn't do a lot.
> But
> >this weekend I felt great. I finished getting everything tender into the
> >greenhouse.
> >Sure had a lot more work to do this year; because I neglected to tend it
> >much over the summer things grew really wild. I already mentioned the 7'
> >tall abutilon (now much smaller); as I pulled stuff out into the lawn I
> had
> >to hack off about 4 feet of branches off the geraniums too. The bulbine
> >frutescens that Kitty gave me kind of exploded, it's still contained in
> its
> >pot but there was so much of it I broke off a bunch of sections to try
> and
> >root. I went to move the big spider plant (ummm...chlorophytum comosum)
> and
> >discovered it had gotten so massive it broke the ceramic pot it was in -
> 18"
> >wide and the same deep, about, and there was no soil left, only roots.
> And
> >darn it, the pot was a pretty one I bought in Mexico - of course you
> >couldn't SEE the pot anymore, oh well. I just took some babies and tossed
> >the whole thing; in a year I'll have another one just as big. I brought
> in
> >the succulents and took a bunch of cuttings to root in a few days. Oh, it
> >was good just puttering around.
> >We have not had frost yet. Amazingly enough I still have zucchini,
> usually
> >by the end of September they are pooped out. When I brought in a few for
> >grilling on the BBQ my husband just groaned. The peppers are still out
> >there, I picked almost 10 pounds of red and green ones which I'll have to
> do
> >something with tonight. And the tomatoes are finally producing. They were
> >not happy all year but NOW have decided to explode with fruit. I'm almost
> >done with preserving though and I am not real fond of most recipes using
> >green tomatoes, too bad.
> >Our new dog Trixie is settling in. I've never owned a dog this young
> (she's
> >7 months), what a kick she is. She likes to drink out of the garden hose
> so
> >the whole time I was in the greenhouse she was right there, sticking her
> >head in whatever plant I was trying to water. She isn't reliably
> housebroken
> >yet so last night was the first she spent in our bedroom, suitably
> confined
> >of course. She was pretty excited to be there with us and sleep was
> elusive.
> >Then a group of coyotes started yipping very close, so we got up to check
> on
> >our sheep a couple times which made her even more excited. But all was
> well
> >and last night everyone slept just fine.
> >My dry garden is still in bloom. I took some pictures but didn't get them
> up
> >on the web, I'll have to do that tonight too. Everything else in the
> >ornamental garden, except one hybrid tea rose, is winding down for the
> >winter, but the salvias and zauschneria, even some penstemon, are still
> >blooming. I don't remember this from last year so it might be that the
> rain
> >we got in October has fooled them.
> >Yep, it was a good weekend.
> >
> >Cyndi
> >
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> >Andrea H
> >Petersburg, IL
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