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Re: Stan's strip (flower and veggie)

How do you know they are weeds?could you in a state of confusion have got
it confused.Or maybe Robbie went out and oversowed it.These are things to
ponder.Remember this is a Strange world we live in!Also where do they take
you No I mean where did you go for your holiday?
Phillippa
bpgraham@ihug.co.nz
-----Original Message-----
From: ROSS E STANFORD <pattie@juno.com>
To: veggie-list@eskimo.com <veggie-list@eskimo.com>
Date: Monday, August 17, 1998 9:09 AM
Subject: Stan's strip (flower and veggie)


>
>I'mmmmmmmm Baaaaaaaaaaaaak.
>I am feeling much better now.
>     They took, I mean, I went away for a while.  That happens
>every so often.  That's why I try to make my
>garden self sufficient.
>
>So, last spring, I'm sitting here and I says to myself, "Self", (that's
>what I call myself when we talk), I says "Self", and Self says
>to me, "Shhhhhh, not so loud, Meathead, the govment might
>still be listening in on your braces."  Meathead.  That's what
>Self calls me when we talk in private. So I whispers to Self,
>I says "Self, what say we take Robbie (that's the name of
>our rototiller) out back and cut a strip about 80 feet long
>and plant some purty flowers?  I love purty flowers.  We
>don't have to tell those veggie people anything about planting
>no flowers."  So, Self says, "OK, but we gots to do it on
>the cheap.  Got any ideas, Meathead?"
>     "Sure, I gots lots of ideas.  Got one about that Melrose Place
>girl, if you want to here about it."
>     "NO, Meathead, I mean any ideas about where we gets
>cheap flower seeds."
>     "Oh, .......ah.......well......no."
>     "Ok, here's the plan.  We goes to Home De Pot and we buys
>twenty of them there flower seed packets that are dated
>for 1997.  They're only a nickel a packet.  That would mean
>we could get a gazillion seeds for a dollar.  You got a dollar,
>Meathead?"
>     "No, but I once had a shinney new penny that I put in my shoe to
>make it a penny loafer.  Kept getting a blister on my heal and always
>walked in a circle after that."
>     "Yeah, been there, done that.  Anyway, we can go to the mall
>and fish out a hunnered pennies out of the fountain.  Maybe Robbie
>will have that strip rototilled by the time we get back."
>     Well, we got the seeds, and got back to the yard, and of
>course, Robbie hadn't done anything yet.  But that's good ole
>Robbie.  You gotta love him anyway.
>     We rototilled, (and sang a few songs as well) (Robbie has
>a great baritone voice) and then scattered the seeds and
>raked them in and laid down a soaker hose on top and hooked
>it to the garden soaker hose system.
>
>     Well, its August now and not a single flower has emerged.
>Not one!  Weeds, yes.  Flowers, no!.  (Self thinks it was something
>in the water at the fountain that tainted the pennies).  I have no
>ideas, (other than that one about that blonde on MP.)  Robbie
>is still singing and lusting after The Little Engine That Could.
>     Any ideas out there?  I mean ideas about the failed flower
>experiment!
>     Ops, I forgot, I wasn't going to mention anything about
>this to you veggie people.  Please disregard.
>
>Stan              the cheap and lazy gardener
>Zone - Twilight
>State - Confusion
>Favorite vegetable - my son
>
>P.S.  There was one tomato seed mixed in with all of those
>         flower seeds, so this post IS veggie related.
>
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