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RamblingNana's August 2007 Entries
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Aug 28, 2007 | 12:20 AM PST
I have to share my happy news!
Grandchild #4 has arrived - healthy and on time.
I got the call that Mommy was in labour about 3:30 AM on August 20th. I'd had my suitcase packed for a week. I was ready to fly out to their place (about a half hour away) at a moment's notice. I drove like the Indy 500 - heart pounding the whole way! I was going to be staying with them for a week and holding down the fort. Boy was I READY!
When I arrived at their home a neighbour was sitting in the living room. My son and his wife had had to leave in a hurry. Well, what no one realized was that Mom was in hard labour when my son called me, and he was thinking they had another 20 hours to go before she would produce a child - like the last one. WRONG!!! They barely made it to the hospital and the baby arrived. My son was sooooooo lucky he didn't have to deliver it in the van!
What a grand time I had! I got to spend hours gardening to my heart's content. The two year old and I were joined at the hip as we raked underbrush and pulled weeds and went on wonderful nature walks together. Mama came home from the hospital that afternoon - much to my amazement. I was horrified of course. I was in for 5 days with both of mine! Boy, how things have changed huh? Oh well, she was probably looked after better by me in her own home than the hospital. I really enjoyed looking after the family and being part of such a special time in their lives.
What a darling wee baby he is. 7lbs 9 oz. I've put some photos on my photo site if you love looking at baby pictures like I do. Here he is - just born.
Aug 10, 2007 | 9:02 PM PST
Well, I'm getting smart now. I'm not even ON the forum whilst typing this entry into my blog. I'm in Notepad. I'll copy it and THEN go on the forum and paste it into my blog. That'll sure fool 'em huh? Hee hee.
Today I got up early and went out to my son's 20 acres to look after my darling 2 yr. old grandson while his very pregnant mama went for her check up. Baby #2 is due on the 17th. I'm sooooo excited. I love babies!
When my little grandson went down for his nap I dragged out my son's rusty tools and started weeding one of his horrible beds. What a job! Oh my aching back! Thank God for Advil that's all I can say! I always over do it. I always have and I likely always will. You'd think I'd have it figured out by now. Nope. I'm a slow learner. I seem to have one speed: Full ahead!
The pain felt sooo good! I love getting out in the dirt and really going at it. I was hacking away with the new weeding tool I'd bought for my daughter in law. The one I realize now she will NEVER use (my son teases her relentlessly, saying she's never pulled a weed in her life!). I think I bought the wrong birthday present for her. The tool (the Garden Bandit) works okay, but it's tough to weed when the soil is rock hard and full of clay. By the end of the afternoon I had it looking fairly presentable. They are going to put that black stuff down and dump rocks all over it so that they don't have to weed. There are a lot of trees over this bed of hostas. They all lose their leaves in the Winter ... so they didn't want to put bark mulch down. I think they think they will be able to use the leaf blower to tidy up. Sheesh ... they have so much to do out there - it's like a bottomless pit. I hardly know where to start. They seem to have "started" all over the place and it's become a rather unwwieldly garden. Oh well. They are young and having fun ... and it gives me an outlet for my urge to dig in the dirt!
Here's my little sidekick. I'm hoping to create a love of gardens right from the start. So far - so good!
Aug 8, 2007 | 11:50 AM PST
Tags: tomato , green tomatoes , shut down , Mother's Day , baskets
Once again - I'm roaming the website, enjoying the various posts, adding a couple of my own and BOOM! It shut me down AGAIN! Gotta fix that folks! It's really annoying. I shouldn't have to write everything in Notepad and then copy and paste it into this website. You need to extend your active time frame.
Enough complaining ... I'd better type faster or I wont finish in time!
My single, precious tomato plant is actually producing young!!! I am so pleased. I thought I had just ended up with a lovely green bush. I followed someone's instructions about tickling the flowers ... and it seems to have resulted in offspring. Hmmm? Who woulda thunk it? Anyhoo, I've now got all these tiny, wee green tomatoes. I'm hoping we will get some extended sunshine so that they will have a chance to ripen and make it to my salad bowl.
I am very pleased that my three hanging baskets are looking healthy again. After I had to pull out those gorgeous white petunias it was looking like the surface of the moon on the top of the baskets. I added three pink Impatiens to each basket and they are coming along nicely.
I hadn't thought out my planting pattern very well this year. I didn't put as many plants into my baskets as I will next year. I am very pleased with the general look - dainty - but I want more of the same next year. I've written up my plant list already - so there wont be any confusion at plant buying time. I'll add a photo of my baskets as they are today on my photo section and you can see what I mean. I think they are lovely and delicate looking. Once the Impatiens on the top flesh out, they will look very sweet.
That basket my son gave me for Mother's Day has started to flourish. I'm so pleased. I had my doubts that I had rescued it once it landed all over the cement floor! It was really pathetic for a long time. Perseverance huh? I just love the bright green of the potato vine. I am thinking of adding it to my hanging baskets next year. Hope it wont look too heavy with the rest of the design.
