More photos from commentor Watergirl (see last Sunday’s post for backstory).
My own never-very-kempt garden has suffered badly this year, not least because I’ve been so distracted by politics. Trickster meteorological gods willing, I’m planning to start rectifying that neglect later today — at least to the point of breaking down the tomato ladders and moving the planters out of the way of this winter’s projected snowpiles…
What’s going on in your garden(s) this week?
CarolDuhart2
No garden here (I live in an apartment), but I plan to catch up with a week’s ironing, cook, and work off my energies with one of my blogs today.
raven
Nice WG. It actually looks like we’ll get the first rain since August. It won’t really do anything but we’ll take it. We’re packing for 2 weeks at the beach can’t wait!
PsiFighter37
In New Orleans for a bachelor party…one of the guys apparently broke his nose (and nothing else) after falling quite ill on Bourbon Street…makes my second straight night of a 5 AM+ time of going to sleep. We got super-lucky because the guy who was with him was in as bad a shape as someone who isn’t passed out drunk can be.
I have followed the news this weekend very little, but my only takeaway is that Trump said he wouldn’t compromise because ‘he won’. I still can’t believe that hideous orange turd-bomb will be president in 2 months.
raven
@PsiFighter37: Are you familiar with the term “respite”?
Baud
@raven:
Re-spite: Give them a taste of their own medicine.
Nice dog, WG.
JPL
@Baud: lol
rikyrah
Morning,Everyone????
JPL
@rikyrah: Yes it is.
Gindy51
Hard freeze here in my micro climate in SE IN, everything is dead or ready for a nice nap over winter.
JPL
The pictures are beautiful and thank you WG for brightening this gloomy day.
@raven: It’s unlikely that it will rain here. The next chance is next Saturday.
debbie
Beautiful, WaterGirl! What a wonderful retreat from the real world!
OzarkHillbilly
Very nice Watergirl, very nice.
We’ve got a hard freeze happening right now, finally. That will kill everything that hadn’t yet given up the ghost. Picked the last of my peppers yesterday, gave most of them away.
Didn’t get shot last night at the deer camp (just in case you were wondering) as only 1 hardcore RWNJ showed up while I was there. I got a little bit of shit as I must be ‘distraught’ over the results of the election. I said no, that I was celebrating Trumpmas, and passed out gifts to all. They all laughed when they saw the Vase1ine, all but the RWNJ. He said he didn’t need it, he wasn’t going to get fucked because he voted for Trump. I asked him if he actually thought that would immunize him from the royal rogering the country was about to get. I forget his reply but I handed him another jar and said that he was going to need 2. Then he said something about his guns and I asked him how he liked them: Baked or fried? He went into the cabin then.
This is the guy who, when Misery first implemented concealed carry, got his pic on the front page of the STL Post Disgrace as first in line to get his. When I saw it I almost screamed, “NOOOOOOOOO…..” He is the very last person on Earth you would want carrying a gun in public. The stupidities he has partaken of are almost legend. He is not wound to tight and his hatreds ooze from every pore of his body. When you think “Trump voter” his is the face that comes to mind.
Currants
Going to try to get in my garlic and shallots. Like AL I’m behind at everything, and the garden needs clean up. I pulled out some tomato ladders in late Aug/early Sept because so many died (drought), but the rest and the bean trellises need to come down. Also need to wrap wire fencing around any trees I want to keep. Beavers keep “pruning” the birch clumps at the pond’s edge. I love working outside on a Sunday especially–it’s quieter, enough to listen AND watch for the other birdlife, migratory and local, as well as the great blue herons (one of whom is preening on the other bank right now).
satby
Greetings from New Delhi! Whhich is in the grips of a smog alert that’s lasted for days. And the government demonitized larger denominations of currency to flush money out of the black market, which has led to a run on ATMs and banks, and I can’t get cash until tomorrow. But my card works fine, I just haven’t anything to tip with. And everybody is in the same boat.
The situation at my house with the dogs seems a bit more stable, thanks to my friend who is acting on my behalf. The troublesome dog has been boarded, the other is getting medical treatment.
Watergirl’s beautiful garden is a Zen oasis compared to the clamor outside, but I am happy to finally be here as long as I know the critters are all right.
Mikefromarlington
Here in Ireland, the leaves are all falling.
I’ve been thinking. What’s the chances Congressinal Republicans tank Trumps presidency and try and get Pence in charge? I could see them starting to leak stories to the press from FBI or intelligence briefings to get him indicted on anything to take him down. He’s got few friends in congress and they would be oh so saddened they were forced to vote on articles of impeachment I’d imagine .
I wouldn’t put it past those slimy maggots.
Currants
And watergirl, the fuchsias especially are gorgeous. Do you overwinter them inside? My mother used to do that (also with geraniums–they had an entire room; oh, my, how I hated the smell in the geranium room).
satby
@Mikefromarlington: I’ve seen that theory floated and I wouldn’t put it past them either.
Baud
@satby: Excellent!
Baud
@satby: People are tying to predict the unpredictable.
Iowa Old Lady
This isn’t gardening news but it’s good news and so counts as a respite. A friend of mine runs Tren Ecuador, a tourist train running between Quito and the coast. The World Responsible Tourism Awards were given this week and Tren Ecuador won a gold medal. My friend is tickled pink and I’m so pleased for her.
satby
@Baud: And let me just mention how much perspective you get when we get outside the States too.
BTW, America totally missed the boat on bidets.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: Enjoy.
Baud
@satby: Agree. Travel is enlightening.
Your first time abroad?
debbie
@satby:
I guess you’re in a different kind of clamor. At least it’s warmer!
OzarkHillbilly
@Iowa Old Lady: Congrats to her.
Immanentize
@satby: I agree on travel and my wife totally agrees re: bidets But with the technology of today, one can just install a Japanese style toilet/bidet from Toto!
JPL
@Mikefromarlington: If they impeached Trump, forty percent of his supporters would be in an uproar. Trump already mentioned on Sixty Minutes, that if MSM writes a bad story about him, he will use Social Media for revenge.
Immanentize
@Mikefromarlington: Isnt it amazing that as awful horrible Trump is, we can imagine something worse may be just around the corner.
JPL
@Iowa Old Lady: That is quite an achievement and your friend should be thrilled.
debbie
@JPL:
I can’t decide if I want to watch that interview tonight. I’m already so angry.
Schlemazel
@Mikefromarlington:
It is entirely possible but there is going to have to be a PR campaign against the cheeto turd first. The GOP is going to have to find the right line of attack & build it just like the smiley crap they do when running for office. The GOP cannot afford to piss off the Trumpster fire mob.
Nice to see flowers, Thanks Watergirl. We got our first hard frost Friday night / Saturday Morning so it really is over.
Baud
@debbie: I think it’ll be a long time for me before I’m back to normal.
Baud
@Schlemazel:
I think they’ll pressure Trump on the religious stuff to see how far he’ll go. Contrary to popular opinion, his real base of voters are white evangelicals.
Immanentize
@Baud: I will be back to normal when the country is again normal (by which I mean at least stable and not vicious).
debbie
If you figure a way back, please share. I’m still stomping around my apartment, yelling at invisible versions of my family members in language my father would have slapped me across the room for using.
greennotGreen
@Iowa Old Lady: I’ve been to Ecuador three times, and I love it! The area around the western slopes of the Andes in the southern part of the country has some of the most amazing, almost other worldly scenery (I’d say on Earth, but I haven’t seen so very much of Earth.) And what is about their cooks that they can make the most amazing soups out of seemingly nothing? We arrived once at our eco-lodge a day ahead of our provisions, yet the cook managed to create a soup that I promise you would get her top billing at a fancy New York restaurant. I miss Ecuador.
Poopyman
Wow, so much for the respite.
First frost of the year here in balmy Southern MD. Dew, frozen or not, is about the only moisture the plants around here have been getting for about a month. I don’t think I’ve mowed since September – maybe early October. I figure I’ll go out today and run the tractor around the yard in a shrinking spiral to corral (and chop) all the leaves. Then off to the compost pile.
greennotGreen
Reminder: Respite.
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie:
Sarcasm. It beats killing people.
CarolDuhart2
I talked to my niece, and apparently several people think they should and will have gardens out the wazoo by next spring. People will need gardens to live on. What do you think?
Schlemazel
@Baud:
You may be right, if the mega church ministers give up on him it could create a crack to exploit.
I noticed something interesting in the last week, not sure what it means. I look at political cartoons every day on the site for the AAEC (here). It is a mixed bag but before the election there were always one or two really ugly, nasty pro-Trump ones. Since the election I have not seen one. The closest they have come is a cartoon about the Clintons hoping this means no more email leaks. I think the wingnuts really are frightened by what they have done. Now that it is too late it does not seem so clever any more
Poopyman
@CarolDuhart2: Probably not. But –
– It’s an excellent stress reliever
– Can’t get food any fresher
– Teaches you A LOT, and not just about gardening
– And if the shit does hit the fan, you don’t have to start from scratch in, say, August
JPL
@debbie: I just saw a snippet on CBSN yesterday, and that was enough for me.
MazeDancer
Scrolling, thought first picture was a lovely flower painting, saw her name in bold, and thought, oh, Watergirl is an artist. Then, actually reading, find that, yes, she is. But of a different kind.
What a beautiful story of renewal. Love that giant tree slab. The new garden is gorgeous. Thanks for the respite just as we need it.
WereBear
@Mikefromarlington: The Fundies were told to vote for Trump because “god” would remove him from office (cough-republicans!-cough) and they would get their Grand Inquisitor, Mike Pence.
In other “Christian” news, Pope Francis tells the homeless to forgive the Christians who refuse to help them.
A commenter in the last thread asked about the book, The Family. Yes, read it. And weep.
Currants
@satby: LOL you’re not kidding. That’s on my dream-bathroom list.
WereBear
I agree. They are have long relied on others to keep them from their worst impulses, which they know better than anyone and strive to keep hidden. Now, Trump’s Id is going to rampage all over the countryside like those giant bug movies from the ’50’s.
matryoshka
@CarolDuhart2: Hi Carol. Haven’t I seen you at Nancy’s blog?
Currants
@debbie: I am inclined to write and say I won’t be visiting because I prefer not to spend time with racist, misogynist, homophobic lying bigots, but have decided to wait until it’s a little less raw. If we could have some kind of agreement that we don’t talk politics it might be more tolerable, but that never works.
bemused
@WereBear:
Yup. Fundies are one issue voters…abortion. Everything else can collapse around and on them but right to life!
MomSense
Beautiful photos of your garden,Watergirl.
OzarkHillbilly
Dave Chappelle last night.
matryoshka
@bemused: Yes. I work with doctors who note that miscarriages are called “spontaneous abortions” and fear the mouthbreathers, unable to make fine distinctions, will come for them for taking care of women.
bemused
@Currants:
Not talking politics has been the status quo for many liberals with Republican fam and friends which worked…till now, at least for me. I don’t know how I can or if I will ever be able to chat and smile with people who voted for the hate monger, people who have close bi-racial family as we do.
RealityBites
Hard frost here this morning. Finally. About 2-3 wks late. No global warming going on here. I usually have to put out the birdbath heater no later than Halloween. Don’t EVER remember a first frost this late.
Have to leave for an adoption event. Will only have 4 kitties today. Too much upper respiratory stuff going around.
WereBear
@debbie: Well, actions have consequences.
There are family members Mr WereBear and I refuse to have much contact with. Across the room at funerals kind of thing. Some of them have done loving things for us in the past, like the uncle who only went wingnut after his wife died.
It was their choice, more than ours, I’ve realized. They had already decided that their religion ‘Trumped” our choice of beliefs, their worldview of fantasy ‘Trumped” our acceptance of science and facts, their barely concealed contempt which ‘Trumped” our choice of employment and lifestyle, (Real Men work with their hands in the case of graphic artist Mr WereBear and Real Women have children and want to stay home with them in the case of WereBear.)
They will only “love” us if we pretend to be exactly like them. Which means, they don’t really love us.
I’m sorry. You asked about a way back, and I didn’t give you one. But if you wish to avoid argument during what is sure to be a fraught family holiday, you are right to decide not to cross the bridge right now.
Instead of burning it.
OzarkHillbilly
@bemused:
but only for “people” who haven’t been born yet, everybody else can suck it.
bemused
@matryoshka:
I wonder if fundies also think women who have abortions should be jailed if Roe v Wade was overturned as in El Salvador.
Schlemazel
If you have not seen it you really should, the cold opening from SNL last night. Bring a tissue
ALLELUIA
bemused
@Currants:
I have a concern that I may blurt out that they are good Nazi’s because it fits imo so it’s best If I limit contact as much as I can until I’m sure I won’t.
Schlemazel
And simply to make sure I remain the cynical asshole I am the first thing that came to my brain after watching Hillary perform that song was Tom Lehrer’s song “The Folksong Army”
Remember the war against Franco?
That’s the kind where each of us belongs.
Though he may have won all the battles,
We had all the good songs.
JPL
@bemused: Studies have shown that laws making it difficult to obtain an abortion, does not change the number of abortions. It just makes them less safe.
greennotGreen
@CarolDuhart2: I think gardens are for areas of the country that have rain. I’m not sure Tennessee is one of those areas anymore.
Jeff
Planted 200 tulip bulbs on Tuesday. Why I bought them I’ll never know. It seems like a good idea at the time. They arrived last weekend and had to be dealt with. Dug out the area in a perinnial bed where the perennials had died due to lack of rain and the heat. Yesterday took the electric hedge clippers out to start cutting down everything else. The compost pile of this past summer debris is underway. Hope that encourages the mice to stay outside. We’ve been invaded.
Baud
@Schlemazel: Someone described that earlier. Don’t know if I’m ready. I might check out the Chappelle clip that OzarkHillbilly linked to.
debbie
@WereBear:
Yes, absolutely. I just want to get past the stage of yelling at people who aren’t there!
WereBear
@debbie: Naw, that’s a GOOD stage. You say what needs to be said!
OzarkHillbilly
@WereBear: We always have Thanksgiving with my stepdaughter and her in-laws. They are hardcore GOP. So is her husband and she has bought into it. They are all pleasant people who just happen to have some really anti-factual beliefs. shrug Every now and again some body slips up and says something and I always reply (stunned silence then rules) but for the most part politics are verbotten. There are some more relatives from his side coming this year and I guess we will see if they abide by the rules or not. My wife has already reminded me not to bring any politics up and I reminded her that I won’t but if somebody else does I will not keep my mouth shut. We’ll see how it goes.
matryoshka
@bemused: Well, the shitgibbon has said he thinks “there should be some kind of punishment” for women who have had abortions, and I can’t think of a fundie I’ve ever met who didn’t get frothy at the idea of punishing others.
bemused
@JPL:
Sure. Roe v Wade passed just 4 years after I graduated from HS so I remember the years before that well. Really poor teens/women were sol as far as affording safe abortions. If you were middle class/wealthy, you had more choices. D&C’s done for “heavy” periods. Some teens/women gave up their babies with much shame involved for unwed moms or they quickly got married.
Another Scott
OT: Cole’s Twitter feed with the comic got me curious. The original is by Tom Toro (searching for “Torb” is a dead end). Dunno who came up with the revised caption, but it was very well done. (Of course, the original works really well, too.)
(sigh)
Have a good Sunday, everyone!
Cheers,
Scott.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: “Hallelujah.” is worth the trip. Chappelle is just funny.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: Watching Chappelle now.
HeartlandLiberal
Here in South Central Indiana we have finally had a hard frost, 24 degrees last night. That took care of the only remaining remnant of the garden, the pepper plants. We had already cleared everything else. I have three huge clumps of lemon grass in the herb garden, and I am leaving them just to see if they can survive the winter into next Spring. We had pruned a couple of fruit trees late, semi-dwarves. Four other trees need pruning, I need to research and see if it is too late to do it now, or if I should wait for Spring.
bemused
@OzarkHillbilly:
Could happen. From my experience, a lot of Republicans live to gloat over libtards, just dying to make comments designed piss us off. Maybe your relatives have more control.
Baja
Returned home to Baja yesterday. Spent the previous week in Texas w/family. Went north to watch the election. Today I will plant my garden. I will not read the news.
geg6
Our garden was put to bed for winter last week. We still have some hardy roses in bloom because the weather has been so nice. But they will soon go, too.
I am nursing myself through all of this by making and eating comfort food. Stuff my mom made. Friday, we made my mom’s “garbage” pasta. Whatever pasta is available in the pantry, ground meat, whatever veggies need used up and diced tomatoes. Yesterday, it was baked chicken breasts topped with a sauce of mayo, Parmesan, garlic with roasted potatoes and green beans. This morning, I put together beef stew, which is bubbling away in the crock pot as we speak. It soothes me, both the making and the eating. Oh, and I made an apple pie to use up the apples we got at the orchard near our cabin in Titusville a month or so ago.
It’s pretty much all I can manage right now. I feel like I’m trying to recover from a lengthy illness. Shaky and fragile. The only good thing, other than food, my John and my amazing pups, is that, unlike many of you, my family will all be feeling the same way on Thanksgiving. We will have a hard time being thankful, though.
debit
Hey. Taking a break from my self imposed exile to say good morning and that those pictures are beautiful. Really makes me wish it was spring and I was up to my elbows in dirt.
I went to a birthday party yesterday and told the host in advance that if politics came up I couldn’t be held responsible for reactions, which would definitely include foul, abusive language and (if the situation escalated) potential physical violence. Once all the guests arrived he made an announcement that no politics were to be discussed, and everyone had a grand time. There will come a time when I’ll be able to politely interact with hard core GOP true believers on a political level, but not yet.
My method of coping with my fear and grief is to keep busy. I’ve started cleaning up my yard and finally began shopping for and putting together the empty rooms in my house.There has also been a lot of random dog cuddling. Today I’m going to buy a ladder, since the old one didn’t make the move and put up some solar powered motion sensor lights by the doors, buy some white speaker wire and set up the satellite speakers for my surround sound and bring in a bike and once again attempt to use the rollers without falling over. That alone should keep my busy all winter.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: Thanks. It was touching.
SiubhanDuinne
Leon Russell has died.
Because 2016.
R.I.P.
GregB
The Twitter is telling me that Giuliani, when asked about conflicts if interest and ethics said: “Those laws don’t really apply to the President.”
Schlemazel
@GregB:
“It is not illegal when the President does it.” Turds to live by from America’s Republican Moral guide
Mary G
@SiubhanDuinne: My heart hurts. RIP.
WaterGirl, the flowers are spectacular, especially that fuchsia. Thanks for the pictures.
Poopyman
@SiubhanDuinne: Shit.
“A Song For You“, from back when we were young.
Betty
@Mikefromarlington: That is my theory. It would be easy to find materiall to discredit him which could be used to convince him to resign.
CarolDuhart2
Listening to Leon right now. We’ve lost so many great musicians and artists this year. Grief is now mixed with relief that their fading years aren’t going to be having to endure this. Yes, there are new musicians and new music, but so much of our heritage is leaving the physical realm.
CarolDuhart2
@OzarkHillbilly: Can you just skip a year? Might be good for your blood pressure and everything else to have it at home. It’s a suggestion I have for everyone who has this situation. I mean, if you could end up fighting, is it worth the trip and free food? And BTW, the same goes for Xmas as well.
Another Holocene Human
I have salvia and pentas going gangbusters and attracting flying nuisances. :)
MomSense
@bemused:
Earlier this year a minister Inwas close with died. In the years before Roe v Wade, he was raising money on the down low to put young women on busses and smuggle them to Canada fair they could get safe abortions. Some of the women he helped spoke about him and how he comforted them and didn’t judge them and made sure they were safe. The young women in that memorial really didn’t appreciate how recent that experience was and how terrifying it was then.
We can’t take anything for granted and we have to tell our stories.
One of the consequences of the decades long scorched earth politics of the Republicans is that it makes people hate politics and try to separate themselves from it because it is so toxic. The problem is that over time people start to think that politics doesn’t affect them. In the absence of basic reporting about how laws like the ACA positively benefit our lives people don’t appreciate how much they have benefited or how much is at stake. I don’t know how we change this given how horribly our media has failed over decades.
greennotGreen
@SiubhanDuinne: Annus horribilis.
I saw Leon Russell live a bunch of years ago. He was 20 minutes late which always offends me because I find it unprofessional. He walked out onto the stage slowly, teacup in hand, set down the teacup, seated himself at the piano, and proceeded to give us one hell of a show for at least an hour and a half.
At least this year is almost over.
OzarkHillbilly
@bemused: Her FIL will contain those urges, her MIL will likely slip but she has Alzheimers (early stages) and not a mean bone in her body so I will let her slide. The two newcomers might have to be educated. As far as just dying to make comments designed piss us off, I suffer from the same impulse towards them.
WaterGirl
@Currants: I would love to overwinter the fuchsias, and believe me, I thought about it. I can’t believe it’s still blooming in the middle of November, but I’m sure that’s because it’s protected on the new porch.
I already overwinter the usual suspects – my fern which measures 5 feet side-to-side, 3 huge tropical hibiscus, two huge monsteras, two bleeding heart vines and 3 other plants – so there’s just no room at the inn.
It makes my small house crazy tight over the winter, and it’s even worse with the christmas tree up! But it’s all worth it when I can bring everything back outside in the spring. All of them go to the front of the house, mostly on my front deck, but a few go to the side area that is pictured in the bottom photo.
Elmo
@Schlemazel: @Schlemazel: Wow. Thanks for that. I’d heard about it, but “Hillar Clinton sings Cohen” struck me in bad taste so I didn’t go look. That was beautiful.
She looked about to break at the very end. Now I’m weeping and I have to go get my hair cut. Dammit.
ruemara
I got to see Dr. Strange and enjoyed having a 3 day weekend. I think if this job goes well, maybe I will adjust my schedule to work from home every other week. Attended a protest, showing solidarity and had one of my republican lady thank me for other unfriending her. I’m going to have to let her know she’s going to unfriend me, because if she voted for the Cheeto, she’s voted for white supremacy and eventually, everything I’m saying will cause her to go. & I’m cool with that. Today is bake more cookies and workout day.
WereBear
A surprising number of performing artists have stage fright, some severe. Van Morrison sings with his eyes closed. Miles Davis had his back to the audience. John Lennon threw up before going onstage.
I always felt Mr. Russell was one of those. And sometimes it takes longer to psyche oneself up.
OzarkHillbilly
@SiubhanDuinne: Damn. I will be very thankful to have 2016 in the rearview mirror.
WereBear
So you wind up even. Good move.
WaterGirl
@MazeDancer: You are so kind to say all that, MazeDancer! I wrote the story and sent the photos last weekend when we were in happier times, I know I wouldn’t have had the heart to do so this week.
But I sent a lot of photos with the story last week and Anne Laurie, in her infinite wisdom, saved some of the photos for this week. We surely need beauty and peace now more than ever.
Schlemazel
@OzarkHillbilly:
I am more freighted we will look back at 2016 in longing.
matryoshka
@MomSense: The media prioritized spectacle over fact. They are useless. In a few months, the only ones still standing will be 24/7 shitgibbon fluffers. I also agree with your point about people avoiding “politics” so they can manage the required daily interactions with others, but everything is political now, as the Republicans have spent decades forcing the lines further to the right and polarizing the culture. I will force myself to be coolly functional with them at work, but I am not going to have them in my personal life on any front. I only have time now for people who are in the fight.
tybee
@SiubhanDuinne:
damn.
guess he’s gone back to the island. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7MoZuP3JBo
greennotGreen
@WereBear: Most musicians I know are irrepressible hams, but I did know one guy who had to leave the concert tour because of nerves. He became a physical therapist which is a gift to anyone who needs physical therapy. Yet when he plays music with friends you can see any tension leave his body to be replaced by joy.
debbie
@Baud:
Watch the whole show. It helped me.
I am baking lemon bars now and listening to the New Yorker Radio Hour. A half-hour interview with George Packer and Amy Davidson about the election (constructive to hear) and a half-hour last interview with Leonard Cohen. So far, this day’s better than yesterday.
WaterGirl
@Jeff: On buying bulbs – ‘It seemed like a good idea at the time’.
That is a statement that will be true for eternity, for most of us, I think. But I’m really grateful for that initial instinct and I’m so glad the regret comes later, otherwise most of us would never have glorious flowers greeting us at the beginning of spring.
HeidiMom
Who is that doggie in the photo?
OzarkHillbilly
@CarolDuhart2: I don’t do holidays, couldn’t care less about them. Other people do and it would hurt them if I did not go. Besides, if they want to go there, a good fight is always worth the trip.
laura
@rikyrah: it is indeed a morning Rikyrah, and here we all are together. And that is good.
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
Put a little bag at your front door labeled “Park your politics here for the day.”
CarolDuhart2
@OzarkHillbilly: Now I understand a little. Some people want to see you and know you’re okay, and you are up to the fight, I guess. But I’m guessing nerves are going to be particularly raw on both sides this season, and If some people may feel they need space, then so be it.
About gardening, we used to have a few pots outside for herbs. I guess we’ll restart those.
laura
Yesterday I hoed weeds in the 50×5 planter and then covered it with sheet mulch and will be poking through and planting some pomegranate and Meyer lemon. I planted 4 Mexican sage and some hot pink crysanthemum. After that, we went to the opening of Manetti Shrem Museum in Davis and I made a wish for peace and tied it to a tree that’s part of a Yoko Ono installation. I ate heaps of cheese and drank some IPA and today farmers market then art with a gal -and yesterday’s SPT post will really bring the inspiration.
Thanks for the beautiful garden photos, simple beauty.
WaterGirl
@HeidiMom: That’s Tucker in the photo. He is a mix of lab and brittany spaniel, but he kind of looks like a golden retriever in a smaller font.
When he was a pup I started googling about golden retrievers and found out that they bred labs and spaniels to get golden retrievers, so I guess Tucker came by his look honestly!
I always wanted a golden retriever, but they are too much dog for me to handle. And by ‘handle’ I mean that in case of emergency, I need to be able to pick them up. Tucker is perfect for me at 40+ pounds.
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie: Arguing politics has never ruined my day, livened it up in fact. Other people feel differently and I am more than willing to accede to their desires on that day. But I will not be a throw rug. If somebody brings it up, I will go there. I’m just not that nice a person anymore.
WaterGirl
Thanks to everyone for the garden chat and talk of flowers to remind us of gentler times.
It brings me so much comfort to be with all of you on balloon juice. Many of my family members voted for Dump, and there is only one person in my real life (a neighbor) who feels the way I do and is truly aware of what is surely coming. Even the ones who didn’t vote for Dump think that it probably won’t be as bad as you think.
You guys make me feel not so alone.
WaterGirl
@satby: Hey satby! My email still won’t go through to anyone with a hotmail account, so I haven’t been able to write you for over a week. Glad you are there safe and sound. I must have missed the dog fight, it’s so hard to be worried about your guys when you are away so I am glad you’ve gotten everything settled from afar.
Leave all the heartache behind and have a wonderful week.
WaterGirl
@Currants: P.S. I share your hate of the smell of geraniums. I could not have them inside my house.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Satby seems to be gone already. I know she had been to India once before, so I am certain this is not her first time abroad. But I think it is the first time in quite some time, I would guess possibly a decade or more.
CarolDuhart2
@matryoshka: Yes.
WereBear
So much useful for the upcoming holidays, from the awesome Captain Awkward:
How to be the party pooper at the bigot party.
Kristine
@WaterGirl: I love your patio.
J R in WV
@WaterGirl:
So can you tell us what the various flowers are in the pictures, top to bottom? They are so pretty and lush. The vines with bright yellow flowers under the pic with the puppy, for example, we have no idea what that is.
Not to mention the pink flowers at the top, wife supposed they might be peonies…