Re: Gosh I miss you guys

Melody - sorry about your health issues dear - please keep us posted and
this will go on my list.  Also a new job for Marty.  Sorry about the job,
but it sounds like a good place to be gone from.  His boss is on a one way
ride to ruin and I wouldn't want to be anywhere around that when the bottom
drops out.  What a mess.  Hang in there darlin'.



On 9/6/06, Melody <mhobertm@excite.com> wrote:
>
> Bonnie: Thanks for the encouraging words. What we ended up doing with
> the gardens is to begin the process of enlarging them...by stripping
> sod. I can't salvage what I want until I have a place to move them, so
> we've created a number of "holding beds"...best I could think of in the
> short term until I can get to do more extensive work out there. I'm
> hoping for some time to free up here once the annual church picnic is
> out of the way and now that I've got my year's religion education
> curriculum done...
>
>
> It has been a really depressing couple of weeks here...my husband lost
> his job when his boss fired him in a drug induced temper tantrum (his
> boss has developed a crack cocaine habit so it didn't look like the
> business would be around much longer anyway as he's funneling all of the
> money into his habit) and I've had some health issues (bad mammogram and
> bad PAP smear in the same week)...things I have no control over so we're
> just getting through. 2nd mammogram done today seems okay; we'll recheck
> again in 6 months. Looks like I have the joy of an endometrial biopsy in
> my near future...lovely. Aah...enough complaining...got too much other
> stuff to get done to worry about stuff I can't control.
>
>
> Anyway...thanks for the advice about the brown paper sacks.  I'm
> definitely going to do that.  Got to get back to work here...
>
>
> Melody
> Hills, IA  zone 5
>
> Work for the Lord:  the pay isn't much but the retirement is out of this
> world!
>
> --- On Fri 09/01, Bonnie & Bill Morgan < wmorgan972@ameritech.net > wrote:
> From: Bonnie & Bill Morgan [mailto: wmorgan972@ameritech.net]
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 08:42:11 -0400
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Gosh I miss you guys
>
> Melody, we miss you too, but I understand your needs and priorities.
> You<br>cannot do it ALL. <br><br>Congratulations on your upcoming
> graduation! What an accomplishment with<br>all you already have on your
> plate!!! And yes, we all need one-on=one time<br>with our kids. My
> youngest is 30 and I still want some time alone with each<br>girl every
> now and then and so does DH. Of course, at their ages, it's
> much<br>harder to get that time with Rayna working full time and going
> to school<br>full time and Tzeitel working full time and taking care of
> 4 children and a<br>spouse. <br><br>As for your garden question, last
> year with trying to get mother situated in<br>the nursing home, I wanted
> to get the butterfly garden (which was already a<br>weedy mess) cleaned
> out. It didn't happen because of many circumstances.<br>This spring the
> whole bed was totally out of control. There is no way to<br>really
> rescue it now other than dig it out, salvage what I can and
> start<br>over, I'm
>
> afraid. If you can get the weeds out this fall, lay brown
> paper<br>grocery bags over the soil (leaving holes where plants are
> growing of<br>course) and cover it with a layer of mulch, you won't have
> that much work<br>next spring. It worked with another garden area that I
> was able to get to<br>last fall. It has been relatively easy to manage
> this year while the<br>butterfly garden is just depressing. Even the
> butterflies seem to like the<br>North side driveway border garden
> better.<br><br>Blessings,<br>Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)<br><br>
> <br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net
> [o*@hort.net] On Behalf<br>Of Melody <br>Sent:
> Friday, September 01, 2006 7:03 AM<br>To:
> gardenchat@hort.net<br>Subject: [CHAT] Gosh I miss you guys<br><br>Dang
> but I wish I had more time...to spend here with you guys. I really
> miss<br>all of you and your advice, your support, your friendships.
> Can't believe<br>how fast my time is going by. Next week I
>
> graduate from my first<br>2 years in the lay ministry program and the
> following week I start the next<br>portion of training...the Parish Life
> Administrator certification.<br>My kids started back to school two weeks
> ago. Meghan is now in high school,<br>9th grade. Mark is in junior high,
> 7th grade. And Morgan is now in 5th<br>grade...since Mark and Meg ride
> the school bus now to and from school,<br>Morgan gets to have Dad to
> herself for an hour in the mornings and Mom to<br>herself for an hour in
> the afternoons...something she hasn't had since<br>before she started
> kindergarten! She is over the moon! So am I to tell the<br>truth...I
> like having some time with at least one of my kids
> alone...<br><br><br>okay, so I do really have a question for you
> all...my gardens are such a<br>mess...weeds everywhere and totally
> overgrown...do I just give up and let it<br>finish out it's year without
> trying to straighten it around or do I try and<br>eek out some time to
> do some serious
>
> serious work...we're talking several<br>days of it...what are the risks
> vs. benefits of doing one over the other?<br>Help!!! It's gotten to the
> point that even just walking through the gardens<br>brings me little
> enjoyment because I just haven't been able to take care of<br>them this
> year like I should have...it's pathetic...<br><br><br>Melody<br>Hills,
> IA zone 5<br><br>Work for the Lord: the pay isn't much but the
> retirement is out of
>
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