txrose's Blog
txrose's Blog
Mar 17, 2008 | 4:19 PM PST
Did everyone wear green? I saw a guy with a shamrock painted between his eyes and a short lady with a tall furry green hat on today...that's all guess there aren't too many people round these parts run with it. I sure don't understand that because there is a lot of Irish in this neck of the woods.
It reached a high of 84 degrees today.
I went and purchased a wheelbarrel found out its called a wheelbarrow...dang Texas slang. So now I had to look it up to see the spelling of it . Also got a caddy for the 100ft waterhose I've been lugging from one point to the next. If you wonder how I made it this far without a wheelbarrow I used a old shower curtain to rake up leaves on and lug to the leaf pile. That is how it is when you have a small car and a even smaller money vault. I did however learn you should not no matter how in need you are haul a wheelbarrow in the back seat of your small car. I figured ...well, it hauled an 8ft fence post and a huge tv and some other things like the wheelbarrow "huge" things! but you shouldn't over do it cause it ripped my door a little bit. And as with the fencepost I had to have a window down so as not to break the window and still get the monster home.
Then when I got the "wheelbarrel" home I set about to use it until the rain came. I read on freeplants. com that you could use newspaper as a weed barrior. I did it different than he suggests but I had tested it before and it worked so I did it my way. I laid down 6 sheets of newspaper securing it with garden staples and then took some good loam from the backyard and after wetting the paper I put the good loam over that and it looks really good and since I have done a practice run of it last year I know it will work. Oh, I removed the staples after the soil was in place.
When I am out in my front yard I always feel like I am on stage, I have to try real hard not to look around I just know the neighbors are all wondering what I am up to. Their yards are nicely kept up. This one has not been for several years now.
When I finish it will look wonderful and then I'll look up so funny I know but I am so new to gardening and I am sure I look quite silly sometimes. Like that short little lady with the green furry hat on!
Hope you all enjoyed your day today and I am hoping that grannylee is feeling much better now.
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Mar 17, 2008 | 5:18 PM PST
I didn't start out with any thing green such as clothing, but I did scramble eggs with spinach this morning for breakfast and my wife asked me,"what's that green on your teeth".I'm so sorry for writing that. But here is a joke I put on leafette's blog, An Irishman who had a little too much to drink is driving home from the city one night and, of course, his car is weaving violently all over the road. A cop pulls him over. "So," says the cop to the driver, where have ya been?" "Why, I've been to the pub of course," slurs the drunk. "Well," says the cop, "it looks like you've had quite a few to drink this evening." "I did all right," the drunk says with a smile. "Did you know," says the cop, standing straight and folding his arms across his chest, "that a few intersections back, your wife fell out of your car?" "Oh, thank heavens," sighs the drunk. "For a minute there, I thought I'd gone deaf!" You have a great St Paddy's day, your friend, Bill Mitchell |
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Mar 17, 2008 | 5:31 PM PST
I have used newspaper for weed suppression before too...it works great and very friendly to the wallet...great idea! |
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Mar 17, 2008 | 6:47 PM PST
I didn't wear any green today...so far no pinching either, lol. I bet you will be glad you went to all the trouble to get your wheelbarrow home. I know what you mean about feeling like people are looking at you. When I gardened with my Mom when I was young, we would get 'whistles' from the traffic going by. Always when we were bent over it seemed like!!! Bill, you are hysterically funny as always, I nearly fell off my chair!!! Last edited by AngelsGarden on March 17th at 7:00 PM. |
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Mar 17, 2008 | 6:54 PM PST
Hey, Rose, I used to think it was "wheelbarrel," too! Guess it's that Indiana slang (lived there from age 5 to 18)I don't remember how old I was when I found out, but I know I was an adult, probably well into adulthood! hehe |
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Mar 17, 2008 | 7:36 PM PST
Looks like we all end up having a great St Paddy day thanks for the joke Bill. I think maybe we think wheelbarrel because our old folks heard it that way to and pasted it on like that..can we get by with that..? soaphouse "for real!" its like everytime you bend over you feel like everyone is looking or someone calls out to you..its like you are one of those plywood cutouts in your own yard! LOL Last edited by txrose on March 17th at 7:40 PM. |
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Mar 17, 2008 | 9:48 PM PST
Keep on digging, txrose. It will all be worth it. As usual, Bill M is always here to cheer us all up. Reading all these comments really put a smile on my face today. Thanks to all of you. What a nice bunch of people. Let's go garden till sunset. LOL. |
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Mar 18, 2008 | 10:41 AM PST
I always use newspaper, if I am to lazy to dig up sod. I lay a bunch down and then put my compost on it , and start planting, In a couple of seasons if you want you can turn it all over , the sod will be gone... worms will be in abundance and you have awesome soil to work with. Happy Planting kerryh, Good joke Bill Oh and that pepper worked. That goofy squirrel sneezzed all the way to the top of the pear tree LOL> |
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Mar 18, 2008 | 3:07 PM PST
I've been saving my newspaper to use as a weed barrier too, glad to hear it works. |
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