Re: RE: Cult-Dogs and cats and DALLAS!
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] RE: Cult-Dogs and cats and DALLAS!
- From: M* C* B*
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 07:34:07 -0500
Critters in MO, Just don't do what my father did one year. He put up a fence to keep the bunnies out, than when he found a nest already inside, he cut a hole so the mama could get in to feed them! Mary Cary.
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From: RYFigge@aol.com <RYFigge@aol.com>
To: iris-talk@egroups.com <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Date: Saturday, April 22, 2000 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] RE: Cult-Dogs and cats and DALLAS!
Hi, Dennis. I don't to whom you were sending your message about dogs and
cats. We have a strict dog-off-leash here in this area, but before that
there was a person who walked her French poodle by my house several times a
day and I had 2 huge pansy plots in those days (about 50 in each) and
he/she fancied one in particular and "watered" it so frequently that the
difference in pansy-health was very obvious. So one day I called out to her
to take her dog home for its "activities" and never "darken my " garden
again! She was a little startled --- and so was I when some years later she
became a member of our Iris Society! She never mentioned the aforementioned
incident and neither did I - and we became friends. Another time I was
planting bulbs etc (using bonemeal) and I looked behind me and found a dog
digging them up as fast as I was plantingI That was when I fenced in my
backyard - with a 5' Anchor Fence. However it does not keep out some cats
(mine is strictly a housecat) NOR squirrels, which are the bane of my
existence in that they dig up certain irises (they seem to have a preference
- one I have replanted 6 times -- and finally moved it.) and I have had a
fox once! also a deer! thankfully only once! and I must find that spot
where those not-Easter bunnies get in!
This was the last iris-talk email on myh monster before I left for the
Dallas meeting and our lord and master of e-talk John , very kindly cut mine
off because I both forgot and didn't know how - now I'm waiting to be put
back on! BUT with this one from Starlord, I have learned he's in Rosamond
and I knew he was in Calif - maybe some day he will inadvertently let drop
what zone he is in - and maybe his last name - I THINK he is a Dennis! I'm
the person who likes to project in my mind's eye what that garden's
problems/potentials are! and I find it very frustrating when people omit
their state and zone which helps in this picture, but of course doesn't give
the whole story. It was interesting, when I added his address to the
"address book" I just wrote "Dennis ?" and it now heads the list -- before
the A alphabet!!
There is no use replying until our lord and master John remembers to
re-instate me! I THINK I can write to I-talk, however, but not
sure. IF I can, I want to say the meeting in Dallas was wonderful as well
as the weather, believe it or not! Someone said, "No one would believe
that we were cold in Texas" But I found it delightfully cool, just my kind
of weather -- and it rained only at night - I'm sure that is because at the
last minute I grabbed my red slicker, which I didn't use until I landed
yesterday at the BWI airport here iin Baltimore! And the irises, for
the most part did very well! Different ones were better in some gardens
than others . Hooker's LAS VEGAS WEEKEND won the President's Cup and PENNY
LANE (Larry Lauer's) won the Franklin Cup - both well deserved. Rosalie
nr Baltimore, USA zone 7 ryfigge@aol.com
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