Re: Good weekend/new job

Amen to that!

On 11/8/05, Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing Center <
4042N15@nationalhearing.com> wrote:
>
> 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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Kemp TX
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