Re: Humor Emergency

**y*@sfo.com**

At 8:41 PM -0500 4/16/07, Betty Mackey wrote:
>Sleet, snow, high winds, power outages, large trees cracked in half, small
>trees and bushes uprooted and blown over, flooding in low-lying areas --
>we've had all that and more in the last 36 hours.....ideas?

Maybe this is dark humor...you don't really know a plant until you've 
killed it a few times.

or: The good news is that what looks like disaster is an opportunity 
to rethink the garden design or finally get rid of that X or finally 
have a place to plant Y -- or visit the nursery and buy a bunch of 
plants and actually have somewhere to plant them, for a change, 
without having to agonize about what to take out.

or: Haven't you always wanted a water garden? A small pool? THis 
weather gives you an opportunity to see what your garden would look 
like with a water feature, albeit one you didn't plan.

or: if you've ever had to hire an arborist to take a tree down, you 
know it costs a lot to get a crew into the tree. Just think about how 
much money this storm has saved you in arborist's fees. All you need 
is someone with a chainsaw to convert it to next year's fuel supply.

Tanya Kucak
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