Re: airhead -Reply
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: airhead -Reply
- From: j* l* <j*@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 07:02:53 -0700 (PDT)
Now I know why I don't want to live in Idaho. It does not sound like
the garden spot of America. Thanks for your humerous anecdotes. I
hear the skiing is great though!
jeanne in Ohio
---"Diana L. Politika" <diana@olympus.net> wrote:
>
> Everybody has to start somewhere, and we've all done thstunts just as
> silly to evolve to where we are now.
> Twenty years ago, I lived in Southern Idaho for 2.5 years, and after
> viewing miles of sagebrush from the windows, I whined to my
grandmother
> to bring plants with her when she came to visit from Washington (my
home
> state). How stupid of me to not know that the gorgeous greenery of
> acid, cool, temperate Washington wouldn't grow in the alkaline gravel
> that I lived in.
> And how stupid of me to not notice the family floppy-eared goat (our
> source of entertainment, since rural Idaho offers none) dutifully
> following me, eating everything as I planted it in the hot sun.
> And how silly of me to not think ahead when I turned that sprinkler on
> the 'garden' because it was 82 degrees. I went off to my graveyard
> shift job, and upon returning at 6:30 am, everything was encased in
inch
> thick ice, as wild temperature flucuations are the norm in that area.
> Gawd, I'm glad to be home.
> And by the way....I never got a damn thing to grow in Idaho.
> Probably a major reason I look down my nose at the area.
>
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