Re: Good weekend/new job

Fantastic, Andrea!  They're lucky to have you.

Kitty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrea Hodges" <raider843@yahoo.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Good weekend/new job


> 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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