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Rock Pool
Dec 11, 2007 | 5:26 PM PST
Tags: rock pool , seed bed

has been established. Will take Pix tomorrow. The Bird Bath is sitting in it's new place and seems to be level at this point in time.

I hate to say that I have enjoyed our weather, as there are so many people, including my daughter who is in the frozen trundra of Oklahoma without any power just now, and just bad weather all over the place. But here in SC we have broken all kinds of high temps for each day so far this week. It has helped me finish up some projects and I may get a few more things done before the cold returns.

They tell us this will be a dry winter but the powers that be did not tell us summer would continue. I believe Dec 22nd is the first day of winter. It would be nice if it felt a little like winter and Christmas. One year we had our family members together with some out of town. They had to leave early because it began to SNOW. If they came this year we might be able to take them swimming. Time will tell.

Was able to move all the plants out of my seed bed. Won't let that happen again. Planted fall seeds a year ago and then never got the plants moved. Now I don't know if those plants will survive from being moved just now.  The one project I want to finish is the screen to cover the seed bed to keep the squirrels from digging and re-arranging the seed. I would like to know what is coming up in which row. After all I have some fantastic seeds from some of you that I want to see come to fruition.

Do you know how blinkin' heavy 50 pounds of sand or pea gravel is?????  I about didn't get that sand into the wheelbarrow. Won't be lifting anything that heavy again. I will get some good lookin' muscular guy from somewhere (maybe Irby Street, Meska?) to do that heavy lifting. And I do have some huge tiles that must weigh closer to a hundred pounds that I want moved. I have hesitated to ask even my sons to do that. They were in my neighbors yard when they moved there and I asked him if I could have them (he didn't want them) and that senior fellow (which means older than myself) moved those big ole tiles even after I asked him not too. His wife told me later he felt like he really needed to rest after that. He shouldn't have done it, but a man is a man after all.

Going to see about having my ears pierced this week. I had them done years ago and all the costume jewlerly just irritated me so that I had to quit using them. Then it also left me with a little cyst in one ear lobe. So now I will have to see how they will re-pierce them and if I want to give it a try one more. I love earrings maybe more than shoes? well maybe not, but I do like them. Especially the dangle ones. Not too big but enough to be pretty. My husband wants to take me shopping for my Christmas tomorrow if he is up to it. He has taken a bit of a cold and I am doctoring him for that. Hope he will feel like going to the mall tomorrow.

All in all it has been a good two days. Taking a break from gardening tomorrow will be a good thing.

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One project down
Oct 8, 2007 | 1:29 PM PST
Tags: one down , iris , rock pool , little cat , Columbus Day

and another started today. Hauled another big load of mulch to the new bed at the back of our yard.  It will hold Iris and some different plants than the other beds. The re-blooming iris will go in there. One plant is re-blooming, a beautiful purple one. The others don't have signs of buds yet and it is late in the year. They may need digging so they will all go to the new bed.

Put weed/grass killer on the last spot to receive mulch, the load  that is patiently waiting in the back of the little work horse.  Don't know what I would do without that little truck. I think the recycle guys know us by name.

Found a great buy at Lowe's last week.  It is a little 'rock pool'. Looks like a rock pool for sure. The water will trickle down the rock base into a rock pool then over a small bed of loose rocks and be recycled.  It was $120 and on sale it was $39 dollars. Now if I couldn't pass it up, just think my surprise when I found this same rock pool at the Master Gardener booth at the Farmers Market this weekend. Seems our fearless leader found the same great buy.  I loved being able to see what it would look like after installation. He had brought plants from home and made it look fantastic. Some of my plants already have a designated place around this little beauty.

Do you remember the little cat that found its way into my yard, then on to a neighbors yard and then dissappeared? We knew someone on the other street had had a party and our hope was that someone there had taken him home.  That is exactly what happened. The party was in the home of another MG that I know and she told us a professor and his wife took the kitten home with them. It spent most of the party in the ladies lap. So we all had a laugh and I had an end to my story of the little kitten that wouldn't give up until he found just the right person to live with. The End!

Today is Columbus Day!!  To refresh your memory (and mine) I did a web search and found this site. Cut and Paste and remember the days of our beginnings.

http://wilstar.com/holiday
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