tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36658796156087893682024-03-12T19:11:00.791-05:00A Rootdigger's SunnysideHome and Family, and some favorite activities.A rootdiggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02642330951208433671noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665879615608789368.post-50086508063721305782023-11-29T11:11:00.000-06:002023-11-29T11:11:30.134-06:00Let's Catch Up So many new things to catch up on.
Yeah, Arootdugger blogger has been gone for awhile.. It is time to save the blogs.
Just in case Google thinks about letting this one go,
i cant let it go, so here i am back at it.
There seems to be some missing formating,
which I shall have to learn more about.
I also want to make it easier viewing on your phone.
Maybe I can release some drafts, which are already formatted.
Oerhaps shorter posts.
I;ve been caught up on viewing via You Tube. So much time
has past, So there are many things to discuss
What do you suggest.
I'll see you soon.
joA rootdiggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02642330951208433671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665879615608789368.post-48794721859396913642015-03-14T11:05:00.000-05:002016-06-07T04:33:16.021-05:00Crochet Idea Has It Been Done.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">I was thinking of my friend Lola who wrote me that she has been selling Doilies on EBay and has sold tons of them. Then like a true ADHD person my mind was racing along to what's online. Today I thought of a Christmas tree skirt.<br /><br /><br /><br />h</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">ttp://compare.ebay.com/like/300245721502?</span><br />
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<dt class="comment-author blog-author" id="c7286327390717742838"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/12778819932306082151" rel="nofollow">aren</a> said... </dt>
<dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-7286327390717742838">The skirt pattern I used can be found here:<br />
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I used a H hook and did 27 rows. On the last row of red, I continued the double crochet st to finish it off. </dd>
<dt>http://karensgardenofcolors.blogspot.com/2010/11/christmas-tree-skirt.html</dt>
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A rootdiggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02642330951208433671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665879615608789368.post-18244110038740138202015-03-14T11:01:00.002-05:002015-03-14T11:01:36.596-05:00More about the Harvey Property on the 2011 Garden Tour<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-style: italic;">This is the one special garden I have been waiting to see. </span><a href="http://www.leadertelegram.com/news/front_page/article_5b1564c0-a6c3-11e0-90f0-001cc4c03286.html" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> Here</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> it says she has some rare Hostas. She admits to collecting. I can't wait to see the native flowers she said was there when they moved in. Lets see if the street view embed. works.</span><br />
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...............In addition to the Milky Way hosta, another unique hosta in Harvey's garden is the Sadie Hybben Harvey, a plant Harvey named for her late dog and for Menomonie photographer Pete Hybben, who helps her in the garden.<br />
Harvey tries to recycle as much as possible in her garden, using leaves and pine needles for mulch............</blockquote>
I did go and sorry but I forgot to take a picture of the special hosta.<br />
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One if them is from Mom's Funeral which has been awhile back. I have to make some decisions about how the blog works with a phone too.
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joA rootdiggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02642330951208433671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665879615608789368.post-52849861272787917392013-06-07T21:39:00.003-05:002013-06-14T08:58:10.743-05:00Nik in the middle - One of Those DaysThose were the days when the house was full of the sound of children. See below for one of those days.
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We have the piano players Jennifer Gates, Nik, and Adam Fruit.<br />
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A rootdiggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02642330951208433671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665879615608789368.post-82550801239066309202013-06-07T13:53:00.001-05:002013-06-14T09:08:05.674-05:00My boy NickMy son and daughter in law have requested some of his baby and childhood pics. I couldn't seem to get them uploaded onto facebook, so I shall make a try here.<br />
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He is happy here. <br />
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It is a "save" under Nick's Birthday.He is standing in Colfax by the sign which gives the latitude location there.<br />
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Nick and Kelly [ Notice the pillows on the floor for their safety.<br />
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A rootdiggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02642330951208433671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665879615608789368.post-84082677955272190822013-04-23T12:27:00.000-05:002013-04-23T12:27:13.923-05:00A Rootdigger's Sunnyside Land Is Not All SunshineGood morning,<br />
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How's it in your neck of the woods? Snow here, but then it's constant this year.<br />
We can't seem to get out to do any work in our gardens like we would wish to do.<br />
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That rain barrel or another type of container is necessary in this garden so I left it in this photo because it shows what's actually real in a gardeners life. It means that the days are not all sunny in sunnyside land.. Or maybe sometimes too sunny for our needs. The owner of the garden in these photos has been gardening on a very step hill with very low water pressure in her hose. And it fails to supply water to the top. I hope you can tell almost how high up by this photo below. <br />
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I don't need to run out and buy one, I have one in storage that I have intended to fix up to my drain pipe and to collect the rain water. My hose does run down a small hill. It can reach anywhere on my long garden area and has <i>adequate enough pressure</i>.[ <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Not that, I wouldn't mind better ]</i></span><br />
When I set mine up I am going to keep in mind what the lady on the Larson farm did with her water tank. As an experienced Gardener, she bundled it up to keep out the critters and maybe even the insects. You can't see it, but she also has one on the north side of the log barn too.<br />
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Dry or wet in the the summer the clematis needs what it needs to look this beautiful. I never imagined having to supply extra water this high up a very steep hill with barely any water pressure. I also have my own watering problems with a garden downhill from my water supply. Keep in mind that when you connect the wrong hoses together running down hill a long distance, you also can lose water pressure. But I still feel blessed. since I saw the Larson Farm in Dunn co. Wi.<br />
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We'll just have to see what I get done. With rain or sunshine at my land I'll be glad when it's summer. If you live in the north, I suspect you think the same.
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<i>Top of the morning to thee. tis a tall Irish tale likely to be told on tis fine of a day. </i><br />
<i>I don't think me </i><i>tale involves pots of gold, though thou may think thou see them.</i><br />
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<i>Even though it's happening seems somewhat mystical and magical there ar no fairies or blarney stones. I don't know if I should even tell thou may simply disregard it as a yarn of blarney. Tis true to me heart.</i><br />
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It happened long ago, so many hours ago as Me, Jenni Aloegist sat reading thee ol' Meyer heritage book so intent in me search. . While, Outside, dark it was with the snow coming down to the ground already piled high with snow. I made meself snug in me nook with a cuppa tea and a cholcolate biscuit or two. I had on her thinking cap, me family can tell you, I always wears it when I am doing me work. I stretched out as I read and read so many pages. Intent I was to find thee Katharina Margarethea Elisabeth hiding place. I wanted to find her and bring her into the light and place her in her proper place on the old family heritage book , so cherished by me family line of people who once lived in the old country at the time of kaisers<br /> and kings..<br />
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Aye, If I knew if me dear Pap had lived to see this day he would be so proud to know that Twas me who had filled many a page in thee ancient green book under the old names, solving the ancient family mystery tales in the dark of the evening. Ttis true me had wished to meself, so many times, that if me had asked me dear Dad those details twas what he probably knew and kept to himself deep in his heart. He didn't write it down, probably sure in himself's mind that we didn't care to know. And of course me sadness rose again in me heart, as It came to meself, how I had disappointed him by showin a lack of interest. But I know'd I'd find her!.It was in me Dream. Me would keep at it. Checkin and recheckin.pages after page. I'll do it for meself and me old deceased Dad's Dream of family knowledge.<br />
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Me went back and forth all night till crack of dawn travelin in page and in me mind visualizing to where she twas most likelyto have traveled. In Illinois with city directories lists of Joliet. States of Ohio, Indiana and Nebraska. I ambled past the plains, mountains and rivers, but never beyond the sea. Maybe by his kin folk, maybe not.<br />
I furiously wrote down at me ol weblog what I had seen and where me had been in wanderin an galvantin from city lists to city lists in me search for me mysterious greatest aunt. I searched for hours and retraced the steps I had other times used. For all me seekin I couldn't find her.<br />
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I had to record what steps myself had taken and wrote not getting up to eat or get another chocolate biscuit or more tea. Me was achen and tired, but happy with what twas written so others could read of where me had been and what me twas planen on doin next.. Retracing meself steps, examinin as I tried to write me sentences the Alder bug had walked across me pages while readin.. SWOOSHED HIM me did AWAY, Tis then he came agin. Twas he that landin on me arm and I twished him away. "Get away with yah " me said.<br />
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By this time I an old granny like can be a little crabby, sore, a little weary, and little disappointed that me dreams efforts seemed to be for nottin. Others might call it despair. Ttwas Tryin so hard and workin so many nights to cracks of dawn, hours with me hurtin in me joints. Nottin stopping Thee little Alder bug was comin back over and over as he had so many time. before. Never givin up. His wish was to just to crawl over me work and up my arms on to my fingers knuckles and lookin at me as me had written down me thoughts. . Exhausted me was of him and the pages not gettin me what I wanted. Not inspired by it's tenacity in accomplishing himself's end. I said<br />
<i>"Aye Little bug , here thou ar sittin on my hand. Isn't there somewhere else thou should be, shouldnt you be gettin there?. If thou have something else to do shouldn't thou be be a doin it. Now I don want to see thou come around again!. Off thee should be. .Get otta here, now.. Done.. Vamoose."</i><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Didn't me know it all too well tis his ancestors rarely happened in his little world. I felt sad for him As I decided to let him be. Twas his little head a noddin at me and his little twitchin of fear seemed to less for himself. And somehow me kindness and goodness had maybe grown and gave me and himself peace.</span><span style="color: #0000ee;"></span><br />
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Workin on ignorin him as best for meself. He halted an twas still. Maybe silently communicating to me it would be all right as he was advancin across the words on me new page . Little Alder bug moved his antennae and was blocking some of me view of the Stille pages and then he moved again.<br />
<i>"Dog gone it's that Mecklenburg ludwiglust again, Tis the Schwerin Mecklenburg census Now I will be getting past that". Oh, Thou moved, Lets see what tis it-- Margrete Stille born 2.2.1842 Tis her birthday Eichdorf!!</i>.<br />
Me Gettin so excited, so I said out loud cause thou and I know I wasn't alone.<br />
<i>" How many Eichdorfs tis there now. Tis better to remember to look little detail like that later. Me might as well see it. since Tis Eichdorf needs a looksee being the same Birthday and all.. Oh me golly, </i><i>Alder, tis true tis her me Katharina Margarethea Eliabeth born at Eichdorf. living in Mecklenburg Ludwigslust or in the very Schwerin territory me been blastin hatin so long a time!"</i><br />
<i>"Why thou Alder bug thou work thee magic, my Dream wish has been granted".</i> .<br />
And he nodded again at me. an he knew he granted me one wish for savin his descendants pappa. Grateful, and happy me thought again of me Dad and thinkin to meself how happy he would be to see one of his ancient ancestors sister had been found and placed by meself Gennie Alogist, in the ol green family book just as I told yeh..<br />
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Hi, Spring is here, and summer around the corner. Or at least it seems like it will be soon. It's been a crazy spring. That delay, just gives more time to get in the mood and figure out what I plan to do this summer. I want to share some of my ideas with you. So lets get started.</div>
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Okay. what your seeing is the eastern side yard at Jan's garden. [You've seen her garden here before.] There is so much uniqueness. I love her fence for a start. her garden gate is tough, but still cottage style. What can be better than white and Pink?. Honeysuckle vine is something I had heard about, but not seen. I like it. What I want you to notice here is the pink plants. Behind the Honeysuckle is the clematis, and I don't know which one it is. I posted so you get a view of what I think is the Malva because I'd like to try that light pink shade.<br />
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We can see the same grouping in more detail as I give you a view looking back. I know Gertrude Jekyll says you need a little orange in the beginning of a stroll through a border in a flower garden. do you like it? I never would have thought to include it, it does seem to work with the yellow, and it works because of the yellow. I would never have thought to include it with all the pinks. All her other lilies are really lovely. I suspect some are Asiatic lilies. I've had those in the past, and they work for me.</div>
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I have been leading you up to this picture which has more vibrant more pink with the inclusion of the Brighter poppies of course with some blue and yellow green shades. Her foxgloves are the perfect shade . I wished I had asked what kind they were. Again I love her lilies and, well nearly everything about this border.The color combination with that glorious blue shade plant is just Yum. I wish my view for you was larger, because it's worth it large. [ <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Give a click on it to put it in another tab, and see what happens.</i></span>]<br />
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I really want to do something similar maybe matching colors with the Malva plant. Maybe not a white at all, but the pink one. I'm just not sure what the blue plant is for sure. I suspect campanula <i>Blue Clips</i>. Some times a camera photo can mislead you. In this case my photo shares it as blue more than lavender.<br />
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I think she has other Delphiniums coming later. I would have thought to have white, but you know I like it without the white, cause there is plenty of white on the siding of the house and fence.<br />
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You may not realize what other plants are included in more of the garden photo shots that I was careful not to include with this romantic cottage type of flowers with the foxgloves and and poppies.<br />
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Should I let you see those unexpected surprises of plants on the opposite side, further down the path as it heads downward to the somewhat shaded back yard?. Do you really want to know what I left out?<br />
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I am trying to decide, if it is what I would include myself, if I had those plants. [<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>I can't seem to get this picture vertical, so we'll just have to deal with it, until I can turn it.</i></span>] But see what I mean, the unexpected is that chocolate coral bell and the Astilbe. Evidently in Wisconsin, east side is shade enough for these. [<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>We're always learning aren't we?</i></span>] She also had shade from a tree in the neighbors yard to the east of this side garden.<br />
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A rootdiggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02642330951208433671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665879615608789368.post-78939931988245427122012-01-28T13:46:00.000-06:002012-04-23T01:30:42.987-05:00Who needs outdoor temperature gauges?Hi, How are you doin?<br />
I hope it's starting to feel like spring by you, it is here, although we recently got about three inches. The three inches are melting as we speak with all the sunshine. I don't mind all the snow, since it doubles the light receiving factor. <br />
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Who needs the outdoor temperature gauges?<br />
Not me!<br />
The only thing I do mind about the warmer weather is the increase of the box elder bugs. It seems, I don't have to check my weather page anymore, I just look to see how many box elders came into the house and if they are in the inside of the window. Those are my clues. Cause you know just sometimes the sunshine can be a bit misleading.<br />
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I know, now you can tell I have an older home, unremodeled, but I don't care.<br />
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In any case this hermit is venturing forth happily today. See you later.A rootdiggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02642330951208433671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665879615608789368.post-91431641447272551042011-11-04T09:22:00.001-05:002011-11-04T10:07:04.584-05:00Tips of Things Worth Knowing<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8S4Bv0z3SZY/TrP-pMS7_aI/AAAAAAAAEKE/ZLnVQpeJ5sc/s1600/34228_407310243911_608378911_4564482_2065702_n-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 148px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8S4Bv0z3SZY/TrP-pMS7_aI/AAAAAAAAEKE/ZLnVQpeJ5sc/s200/34228_407310243911_608378911_4564482_2065702_n-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671156339418332578" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Hi, How are you doing? I myself am really busy getting ready for the daughters birthday party this sunday. As I was cleaning I found a page from an old little booklet named <span style="font-style: italic;"> 'THE HOUSE OF GURNEY'</span> I thought I would share a tip or two from that page<br /></span><blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;"> " THINGS WORTH KNOWING"</span></blockquote></div><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;">--To keep ants moths and other insects out of closets or pantry,</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >sprinkle the shelves and corners</span><span style="font-style: italic;">with Sassfrass oil, l and they will soon bid you goodbye. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">--<span style="font-size:100%;">Blue Ointment and kerosene mixed in equal proportions and applied to the bedsteads is a unfailing remedy as, as a coat of white wash is for a log house.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">--If you value your own and your family's digestion, don't serve tea with fish. The tannic acid hardens the fibre and makes it indigestible. It should not be offered with any form of fish including lobster and crabmeat. Iced tea and soft shell crabs for example, are a combination that should be avoided. [</span><span style="font-size:85%;">In those days of the past there was not such a thing as Instant Iced Tea</span><span style="font-style: italic;">] </span><br /></blockquote></blockquote><br /><blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: left;">I suppose the housewife back in the forties kept a little bottle of the oil in her cleaning pantry. Don't you wonder how she got the sassfrass oil and if she made up the oil herself. Maybe she would get it in a little jar from her druggist.<br /></div></blockquote><br />I find so many of the tips outdated. But they are fun to read anyway, so I'll share a few more soon.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Well, as the supermarket clerk says</span> "Have a good day"!A rootdiggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02642330951208433671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665879615608789368.post-51607856791606013002011-07-10T10:40:00.001-05:002013-05-04T11:46:35.396-05:00Dreams Are Made From Gardens Like This<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">The Jan Harvey Garden</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">In the year 2004 Jan Harvey's garden was featured in the annual food Pantry Garden tour. Years later now, the Garden tour is sponsored by the same organization, but with the new name <span style="font-weight: bold;">- Stepping Stones</span>. I was unable to attend at that time. In the mean time I had driven by and saw the possibilities of this garden's realities / fantasies for my own home . I had seen similar gardens in the Better Homes and Gardens magazine, and had hopes of what could lay behind the gate. It was my nature to dream of having such a example dream of a garden in my own yard. </span><span style="font-style: italic;">If the opportunity came , I could do similar since I had a small side yard like this on the south of my house where it receives sun most of the time except in the front where the roses would be.<br /><br />In the mean time I was dying to see inside this garden to see, if I had similar ideas/ fantasies as the reality of hers. I was almost sure it was so. There was no way, I would miss seeing what was beyond that gate.<br />{ No I never went to the fence and peeked in. Wish I had thought of that. But then there are limits. lol}</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> Those photos that I saw of similar gardens gave me something to desire. It was a soothing to my soul. I have always thought that surely this garden is like those photos and I was right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">The owner of the garden offered explanations of the plants with Numbered locations corresponding to the additional pamphlet they gave us at the registration entrance. I regret not checking the name tag of one of the hosts there, who was exceptionally accommodating to our questions. </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br />Click the pictures for the enlarged images, otherwise you really miss out. The small photos do no justice to the garden's merits.</span> Most of these are not edited. To do so I would have to darken. I am sorry the light colors do get washed out. It's my camera and my abilities, which you will see are not so good.</span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2tpnk3c4Ix4/ThnKOR4kCZI/AAAAAAAAED4/IOvpE6BFt78/s1600/100_9566.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627751556043770258" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2tpnk3c4Ix4/ThnKOR4kCZI/AAAAAAAAED4/IOvpE6BFt78/s400/100_9566.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>The beginning with anticipation<br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NrcwDfafGCM/ThpDTHjfbAI/AAAAAAAAEF4/q-fnCSF7Dk4/s1600/100_9567.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627884680077339650" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NrcwDfafGCM/ThpDTHjfbAI/AAAAAAAAEF4/q-fnCSF7Dk4/s400/100_9567.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Seen and unseen the walk contains Malva, Talictrum, Allium, Penstemon, Lysimachia, Filipendula, Astilbe, Lupine, Anemone, Alematis [maybe Clematis] , Tanacetum.<br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lBpFyjCwjm4/ThnL944dQUI/AAAAAAAAEEA/f762gdj59ug/s1600/100_9631.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627753473477787970" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lBpFyjCwjm4/ThnL944dQUI/AAAAAAAAEEA/f762gdj59ug/s400/100_9631.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Which will lead to this circular bed ..........<br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VuIk2nRN4RU/ThnPN8Vp88I/AAAAAAAAEEg/IPRK_DGDrSs/s1600/100_9575.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627757047818351554" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VuIk2nRN4RU/ThnPN8Vp88I/AAAAAAAAEEg/IPRK_DGDrSs/s400/100_9575.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Looking back to the entrance I am now being followed by a couple, which limited my dalliance over each awesome find. The garden walk was as it should be, a narrow path and I couldn't side step to allow them to pass.<br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3Ec6QRb1UOY/ThnP1xwGSmI/AAAAAAAAEEo/ebx_Acslbmw/s1600/100_9576.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627757732171237986" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3Ec6QRb1UOY/ThnP1xwGSmI/AAAAAAAAEEo/ebx_Acslbmw/s400/100_9576.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a>A gorgeous lavender Clematis, with Pink and white. The daisies are perfect. On the opposite side I see she has the coveted <span style="font-style: italic;">Josephine</span>. [I welcomed the opportunity to see it up front.]<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-U31bcpJwSbQ/ThnQ_IUXBSI/AAAAAAAAEE4/F4xEF2lSTSk/s1600/100_9581.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627758992359359778" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-U31bcpJwSbQ/ThnQ_IUXBSI/AAAAAAAAEE4/F4xEF2lSTSk/s400/100_9581.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Ahh, Poppies, foxglove, campanula, Lobelia, Lilies, I was so glad to see them. Imagine the Lilies evening fragrance.<br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kaMPvNhHutA/ThnQhnuuU3I/AAAAAAAAEEw/5K1PtHoNlzQ/s1600/100_9577.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627758485395362674" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kaMPvNhHutA/ThnQhnuuU3I/AAAAAAAAEEw/5K1PtHoNlzQ/s400/100_9577.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 294px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 183px;" /></a>All the colors and romance of a greeting card. All that's missing are teacups and saucers. Possibilities of a few well done crystal totems I probably would have inserted here.<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-U31bcpJwSbQ/ThnQ_IUXBSI/AAAAAAAAEE4/F4xEF2lSTSk/s1600/100_9581.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627758992359359778" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-U31bcpJwSbQ/ThnQ_IUXBSI/AAAAAAAAEE4/F4xEF2lSTSk/s400/100_9581.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Just love that coral pink color with the blue. One can never have too many poppies as far as I am concerned.<br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DkC0mWfwmHg/ThnShEC8hYI/AAAAAAAAEFI/gDH5tAJTeAQ/s1600/100_9586.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627760674839758210" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DkC0mWfwmHg/ThnShEC8hYI/AAAAAAAAEFI/gDH5tAJTeAQ/s400/100_9586.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>In this case, one has to stick with thin plants, with the other combinations. This works out just fine. This was the year to see all versions of the Creeping jenny in nearly all the gardens.<br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XyW6KXCZWG0/ThnRa-93BDI/AAAAAAAAEFA/GNcFJsmga8g/s1600/100_9582.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627759470885405746" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XyW6KXCZWG0/ThnRa-93BDI/AAAAAAAAEFA/GNcFJsmga8g/s400/100_9582.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>I didn't get to ask if her foxgloves and some other plants reseed themselves. I love them in the summer time. I may just have to have that lily.<br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Whd4o4sQ8PI/ThnTFtMeXkI/AAAAAAAAEFQ/5IQ33KniZ_Y/s1600/100_9592.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627761304360869442" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Whd4o4sQ8PI/ThnTFtMeXkI/AAAAAAAAEFQ/5IQ33KniZ_Y/s400/100_9592.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Isn't this to die for, it almost makes me get into the Victorian mode. I certainly would swing into a Jane Austin mood. It takes a little work to keep those Hydrangeas blue. Unless they are the Nicky variety. [ <span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Hope I have the name right</span></span>] There is a similar one near the exit area,<br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4JlPmxRoALU/ThnVqD7I5gI/AAAAAAAAEFY/8TAX8Jc0tGk/s1600/100_9599.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627764127960720898" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4JlPmxRoALU/ThnVqD7I5gI/AAAAAAAAEFY/8TAX8Jc0tGk/s400/100_9599.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a>You have to click this one to go ' ahh' gaga over those blue Hydrangeas! In addition to the great blue of the Hydrangea, there are touches of the yellows in their greenish tints and a bit of coral tinted pinks. Here seen and unseen are alchemilla mollis, Cornus below the steps are yellow barberry shrub, two and species of Carex, two species of Thalictrum, two species of Aruncus [ goats beard], Astilboides, and Korean Angelica.<br />
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These were exactly the color and plant combinations I had hoped to see and those I love. It lived up to my expectations and more.<br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5S-q1sV1sVw/ThnbE-lpcyI/AAAAAAAAEFw/fygyE9IAh3M/s1600/100_9626%2Bring%2Bof%2Bflowers.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627770087943009058" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5S-q1sV1sVw/ThnbE-lpcyI/AAAAAAAAEFw/fygyE9IAh3M/s400/100_9626%2Bring%2Bof%2Bflowers.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 311px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>So here now, we have arrived to the circular bed, just where I said we would. In the tour I went past here through an arbor down to the Hostas and other more shaded plants. Some areas are a little romantic and worthy of my little tour here, but sorry, this where I end it today, since I was mainly showing what I liked of her examples for my side garden, if I ever were blessed with the opportunity of creating something of my dreams made from this garden.<br />
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Now I see having a little shade there in the front of my house is not so bad.<br />
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You might get a glimpse of a photo or two later, when I do a post on the fencing ideas that I liked about her garden.<br />
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If you didn't click, you missed out. Really.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;">just me jo</span></div>
A rootdiggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02642330951208433671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665879615608789368.post-11720349758551913202011-07-09T15:21:00.000-05:002011-07-09T15:30:44.491-05:00More on the Harvey property in the Garden tour<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">More about 2011 Stepping stones Garden tour.</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">This is the one special garden I have been waiting to see. </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.leadertelegram.com/news/front_page/article_5b1564c0-a6c3-11e0-90f0-001cc4c03286.html"> Here</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> it says she has some rare Hostas. She admits to collecting. I think there is a special breed of Hosta gardners who do that and even more so raise their hostas from seed. I would think you have to be a dedicated hosta gardner to do that. I can't wait to see the native flowers she said was there when they moved in.<br /><br />Lets see if the street view embed. works.</span><br /><br /><br /><iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=514+oak+parks+circle&layer=c&sll=44.858966,-91.923185&cbp=13,198.87,,0,6.85&cbll=44.859232,-91.922953&hl=en&sspn=0.006295,0.006295&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=514+Oak+Park+Cir,+Menomonie,+Wisconsin+54751&ll=44.858966,-91.923185&spn=0.000582,0.001245&t=h&z=14&panoid=Tpc78imHG9fBxKBTLpPHJw&source=embed&output=svembed" width="425" frameborder="0" height="350" scrolling="no"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=514+oak+parks+circle&layer=c&sll=44.858966,-91.923185&cbp=13,198.87,,0,6.85&cbll=44.859232,-91.922953&hl=en&sspn=0.006295,0.006295&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=514+Oak+Park+Cir,+Menomonie,+Wisconsin+54751&ll=44.858966,-91.923185&spn=0.000582,0.001245&t=h&z=14&panoid=Tpc78imHG9fBxKBTLpPHJw&source=embed" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-align: left;">View Larger Map</a><br /><br />If not how about trying this link.<br />http://maps.google.com/maps?q=514+oak+parks+circle&hl=en&ll=44.859211,-91.923026&spn=0.000622,0.001357&sll=44.858966,-91.923185&sspn=0.006295,0.006295&layer=c&cbp=13,198.11,,0,6.97&cbll=44.859232,-91.922953&t=h&z=19&iwloc=A&panoid=Tpc78imHG9fBxKBTLpPHJw<br /></small><blockquote style="font-weight: bold;"><small><br /></small>.................Harvey's rare Hosta plant, which she plans to name Milky Way, is believed to be an offshoot of the spilled milk hosta. Once it is registered, Harvey will name the hosta and also can choose to sell divisions of the plant or create a tissue culture from it and make it available to other hosta growers...............<br /><br /><p>...............In addition to the Milky Way hosta, another unique hosta in Harvey's garden is the Sadie Hybben Harvey, a plant Harvey named for her late dog and for Menomonie photographer Pete Hybben, who helps her in the garden.</p>Harvey tries to recycle as much as possible in her garden, using leaves and pine needles for mulch............<br /><small></small></blockquote><small><br /></small><div style="text-align: center;"><small style="font-style: italic;">I am sure to enjoy it. I can't wait to see ponds and the use of rocks. It could rain. </small><span style="font-style: italic;">Which could be good news.</span><br /><br /><br /></div><small>There has been curernt articles in the papers and an appearance on the local news.<br />Links about the tour:<br />http://chippewa.com/dunnconnect/variety/article_f34b429c-a424-11e0-bb65-001cc4c03286.html<br /><br />http://steppingstonesdc.org/2011GardenTour.pdf<br /></small>A rootdiggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02642330951208433671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665879615608789368.post-3777398482926702222011-07-07T08:24:00.000-05:002011-07-07T22:11:47.218-05:00Last year and this years local Garden Tour<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TIZ0WllSHf8/ThZtVJvjDPI/AAAAAAAAEDU/hyW4h-W1gfA/s1600/100_8129.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TIZ0WllSHf8/ThZtVJvjDPI/AAAAAAAAEDU/hyW4h-W1gfA/s400/100_8129.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626804994606042354" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >Click on my pics today to see some of last years garden tour -</span> I don't get a chance to share them often enough<br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And later I will tell you just</span> what kind of <span style="font-style: italic;">Flower Beds</span> I will see this Saturday on the annual Garden tour that I just might share here?<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I have been very excited about going to the annual garden tour this weekend. The money is money used for the local food pantry, so it's for a good cause as well as our enjoyment. I went last year and after that, I have posted a few pictures. I took many, and the little I have shown are merely a snow flake in a blizzard.</span><br />I have kept my pictures on the camera disk despite the little room I had remaining for this summer pictures of my own garden.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">With the tour coming up,I have been worrying these last few days about lack of space on my card in my digital camera. I am going to have to hurry and figure out what I am going to do. I want to protect some of them. A few years ago my computer burned out, and I had no opportunity to save my pictures off the hard drive. So I was thinking of finding a program of some sort something like photo like photo bucket. Or even entering them all into Picasa where all those from our blogs are stored. But no matter, it's not your problem. I'll figure it out.</span><br /><br />As I was glancing through the different garden photos the topic for this blog post came to me. The types of the various gardens seemed be running similar.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Last year there seemed to be a lot of gardens with raised planted spaces.</span><br />As you see here in her back yard it's raised due to a buried waste system. Their garden disguises it well. Her little hill curves around nearly half the back yard.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1RW4dWyRiSU/ThXC4SmeDQI/AAAAAAAAECU/uZrx8n8g_Fc/s1600/100_8774.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1RW4dWyRiSU/ThXC4SmeDQI/AAAAAAAAECU/uZrx8n8g_Fc/s320/100_8774.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626617581790956802" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o6shuYI_cnE/ThXAGyp3mmI/AAAAAAAAECM/m7k0lVzEawA/s1600/100_8929.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o6shuYI_cnE/ThXAGyp3mmI/AAAAAAAAECM/m7k0lVzEawA/s320/100_8929.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626614532378434146" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">In this case she raised the bed</span> next to the shady woods, which she also landscaped.<br />It's so much easier to see the detail. I wonder if the deer can reach them. Would they jump up there to reach them, probably not.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-172lxzCRJbM/ThW_Z9opFlI/AAAAAAAAECE/NJXgb3vRkh8/s1600/100_8947.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-172lxzCRJbM/ThW_Z9opFlI/AAAAAAAAECE/NJXgb3vRkh8/s320/100_8947.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626613762231965266" border="0" /></a>It's gorgeous anyway with the added rock and moss. In the photo above it is much lower than the previous raised bed we just saw. But still she couldn't resist more rocks and moss.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O-aAWcTzpzQ/ThYDN139f_I/AAAAAAAAEC8/rQ4xrMpq-us/s1600/100_8014%2Bsloping%2Bproblem%2Bsolved.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O-aAWcTzpzQ/ThYDN139f_I/AAAAAAAAEC8/rQ4xrMpq-us/s320/100_8014%2Bsloping%2Bproblem%2Bsolved.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626688320780992498" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Another clever gardner made good use of space.</span> What I like about this plan besides the arrangement of plants on the slope; is the fact that the door gives an exit under that Deck.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Iv1ghLphL3k/ThW42f0sCWI/AAAAAAAAEBs/n4FmXCLgv6o/s1600/100_8045%2Bheavenly.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Iv1ghLphL3k/ThW42f0sCWI/AAAAAAAAEBs/n4FmXCLgv6o/s320/100_8045%2Bheavenly.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626606555864238434" border="0" /></a>This is the same slope but further down. I love the Pink roses and surprise of unusual plants.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fR6FL9gJKlA/ThW34svqLUI/AAAAAAAAEBk/JDQx_SupFuw/s1600/100_8031%2Bgarden%2Bslope.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fR6FL9gJKlA/ThW34svqLUI/AAAAAAAAEBk/JDQx_SupFuw/s320/100_8031%2Bgarden%2Bslope.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626605494180916546" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">They may seem a little busy</span> with so much but, If I remember right I think this was also a Memory garden.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZiPa-ZnRLcw/ThW2XiNSHVI/AAAAAAAAEBc/4RTDPPfU518/s1600/100_8030.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZiPa-ZnRLcw/ThW2XiNSHVI/AAAAAAAAEBc/4RTDPPfU518/s320/100_8030.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626603824905067858" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Again instead of the box store type preformed</span> rock like building material she has used real rocks which gives her a wall, and a ledge with lots of personality. I especially like those fuzzy white like plants. Kind of like angel feathers.<br /><br />Well that was last year and it did include some pretty Hostas and falls and ponds.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KyN8GqGLCHM/ThZnZTMWfhI/AAAAAAAAEDM/HHWoSxgTX0E/s1600/100_8261.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KyN8GqGLCHM/ThZnZTMWfhI/AAAAAAAAEDM/HHWoSxgTX0E/s320/100_8261.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626798468792483346" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Now this year</span> I get to anticipate some thing other than raised beds. Okay flat ground, well not in Wisconsin. Not all through the garden. This year there will be some sunken garden spots and ponds and water falls and lots of Rockery.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Lh1rFrhSXd8/ThXiTIyvusI/AAAAAAAAECc/CeU5yQnfJso/s1600/100_8674.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Lh1rFrhSXd8/ThXiTIyvusI/AAAAAAAAECc/CeU5yQnfJso/s320/100_8674.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626652127875021506" border="0" /></a>So we will be looking down rather than up.<br />And Hostas galore, one can never have too many Hostas.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sh85nPaw5dI/ThXxAbqAQoI/AAAAAAAAECs/Ms57KR1PsTg/s1600/100_8168.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sh85nPaw5dI/ThXxAbqAQoI/AAAAAAAAECs/Ms57KR1PsTg/s400/100_8168.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626668299195531906" border="0" /></a><br /><br />More tips,tricks and ideas are always nice. I am glad I saw this picture from last year, it reminds me to make some wire cages for my phlox.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JJ0AZBPS4Ek/ThZm2k_3mII/AAAAAAAAEDE/raoaCwZXSa4/s1600/100_8088.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JJ0AZBPS4Ek/ThZm2k_3mII/AAAAAAAAEDE/raoaCwZXSa4/s320/100_8088.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626797872276543618" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />So now, I had better leave you and get some disk clearing done. As well as a few other things, if I am going to be off playing garden lady Saturday.A rootdiggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02642330951208433671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665879615608789368.post-84497960639060834072011-05-22T12:30:00.000-05:002011-05-23T23:19:22.466-05:00Art in the Garden<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--tIB2uOdBls/TdnkjvN7gBI/AAAAAAAAD-0/HIboeyvEOSI/s1600/100_8502.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--tIB2uOdBls/TdnkjvN7gBI/AAAAAAAAD-0/HIboeyvEOSI/s400/100_8502.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609766113488109586" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-St3X1VtdsX8/TdnerERTzbI/AAAAAAAAD-M/2ucH_YwN_mE/s1600/100_8490.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-St3X1VtdsX8/TdnerERTzbI/AAAAAAAAD-M/2ucH_YwN_mE/s320/100_8490.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609759642328747442" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rusty Art in the Garden.</span><br />Your thinking, now I know Jo has gone nuts, that's just a part of a wheel thrown in among plants. That's not art. Maybe jo a rootdigger should stick to genealogy?<br />Yes your right, of course, would you believe me that it's not trash thrown there; but it's there because of its rusty color. I think it coloring blends in nicely with the plant selection in that area and it balances this other art object a short distance from the other two.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZGPuVWm32BM/TdnfYks-dWI/AAAAAAAAD-U/U_SqKMbo_UY/s1600/100_8494.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZGPuVWm32BM/TdnfYks-dWI/AAAAAAAAD-U/U_SqKMbo_UY/s320/100_8494.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609760424128836962" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">An Armadillo art piece.</span><br /></div>Did you notice the burgundy or rust color plant in the above picture,I think it helps to keep the eye going from there to other spots of the color around the very large garden from the entrance to the end. To me her art and the color rust in the garden help tie the garden all together. This Midwestern Gardner creates some extra interest with her use of Rust color or that shade of brown. I'll just have to show you what I mean.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-826r2V9HSPc/TdnjIv29VpI/AAAAAAAAD-s/NB7KV34CyRg/s1600/100_8558.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-826r2V9HSPc/TdnjIv29VpI/AAAAAAAAD-s/NB7KV34CyRg/s400/100_8558.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609764550292100754" border="0" /></a>At this right side of the garden slightly below the wheel placement you can find more rust placement. See the line of poles with the little birdhouses and the rusty colored hen ornament in the foreground behind the yellow flowers on our right in the picture. I think Gray weathered wood and rope is another color and feature she uses to tie to the log building.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pqJL7VR2n2c/TdnhqE8IXxI/AAAAAAAAD-k/iJyXaXkUfbY/s1600/100_8405.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pqJL7VR2n2c/TdnhqE8IXxI/AAAAAAAAD-k/iJyXaXkUfbY/s400/100_8405.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609762923863367442" border="0" /></a>She has done the same at this other left side of the entrance to her garden. Naturally the rope has it's practical side, because the garden path is rather steep. The Line of the color leads us up the path. She leads us and gives us little perks as we spy each interesting piece of art all through the garden walk. Kind of like playing '<span style="font-style: italic;">I spy</span>'.<br />Did you notice that the building below, which is a house, that has the same hue of Rust.<br /><br />I have never really had a desire before for the rust or burgundy plants for my garden, but seeing them in her Yellow combinations of plants, I now have had a yearning to try something like this on my own.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1NLH_cBOuLw/TdnggxrvdBI/AAAAAAAAD-c/zRtTx55vtSI/s1600/100_8505.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1NLH_cBOuLw/TdnggxrvdBI/AAAAAAAAD-c/zRtTx55vtSI/s320/100_8505.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609761664563901458" border="0" /></a><br /><br />More of the same rust color with lights and yellows and in this photo with some lavenders and pink tones. Often she includes some gray tones with her accessories. I really love this color scheme, can you tell.<br /><br />Go ahead and click on the photos, you'll enjoy the colors more.<br /><br /><br />Back to the right side of the garden, where she alternates between the rusty art with the rust or burgundy colored plants to set off her pallet scheme of the yellow. Now you can see why she ties in the gray hue.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-St3X1VtdsX8/TdnerERTzbI/AAAAAAAAD-M/2ucH_YwN_mE/s1600/100_8490.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-St3X1VtdsX8/TdnerERTzbI/AAAAAAAAD-M/2ucH_YwN_mE/s320/100_8490.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609759642328747442" border="0" /></a>This snaped shot location is not far from the old wheel. I hope it shows you that the selection of this creative art piece is intentional. Sometimes as in the case below, some pieces are hard to see, but not so in person.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M2MvQr7fJO0/TdlYkEB7kRI/AAAAAAAAD8k/ZVUgF_dKNFk/s1600/100_8561.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M2MvQr7fJO0/TdlYkEB7kRI/AAAAAAAAD8k/ZVUgF_dKNFk/s320/100_8561.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609612187447038226" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-S-rHA1yeNCo/Tdnd7APGmzI/AAAAAAAAD-E/sdo1Vy2FFWs/s1600/100_8473.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-S-rHA1yeNCo/Tdnd7APGmzI/AAAAAAAAD-E/sdo1Vy2FFWs/s400/100_8473.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609758816612031282" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EnfgukGeJNA/TdndWU8pESI/AAAAAAAAD98/e-kyY9e2BtU/s1600/100_8476.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EnfgukGeJNA/TdndWU8pESI/AAAAAAAAD98/e-kyY9e2BtU/s400/100_8476.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609758186516582690" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IROX2neReP0/Tdnczk6ZGrI/AAAAAAAAD90/Mo_KbZPPx90/s1600/100_8477.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IROX2neReP0/Tdnczk6ZGrI/AAAAAAAAD90/Mo_KbZPPx90/s400/100_8477.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609757589506693810" border="0" /></a><br />Sorry, I did try to take decent pictures at the last minute of a tour, which was about five o'clock. I had no choice of time. And my camera is not that great. Nor my skill with it. lol.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dZjvu2-JiOU/TdldJdWFutI/AAAAAAAAD9U/-zREWahDOFw/s1600/100_8406.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dZjvu2-JiOU/TdldJdWFutI/AAAAAAAAD9U/-zREWahDOFw/s320/100_8406.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609617227944147666" border="0" /></a>This is one of my favorites. I think what makes it for me is the color of that carpet she uses through out the garden. Were looking from the left to the right and maybe south to north. [ <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Sorry roads in Wisconsin twist and turn, one quickly loses direction.</span>] She said it helps to keep the shoes free from mud and dirt. It does look new for the tour. The color makes me think of a pond viewed from a certain angle.<br /><br />I bet by now, your thinking that the garden is the same with the same colors through out - rust, yellow, pink, lavender, creams and whites. But your wrong!.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br />[<span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Does that make me jo arootdigger right?</span> Yahoo!]<br /><br /></span><br /><br />See, I couldn't leave these out, I find the blue Delphiniums so beautiful. Do you see the art piece? What's so special in it's use? Want a better look. [ <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Sorry my camera just lacks the ability for the good detail the garden deserves. ]</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o_zrvlS2Hck/TdlavL9BNtI/AAAAAAAAD88/WUwZw0wHPtU/s1600/100_8409.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o_zrvlS2Hck/TdlavL9BNtI/AAAAAAAAD88/WUwZw0wHPtU/s400/100_8409.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609614577575737042" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gjSls-cQQE8/TdlZKF9mhvI/AAAAAAAAD8s/Hm5GGkb0FrQ/s1600/100_8413.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gjSls-cQQE8/TdlZKF9mhvI/AAAAAAAAD8s/Hm5GGkb0FrQ/s400/100_8413.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609612840800782066" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Ahhaa you say, rust and gray in an old farm tool placed at the perfect spot.<br /><br />And you find that she used a little gray here and there. I am not sure if the log chunks have a purpose, or why they are there, but I like them there. You know one just has to break up the view of just plants.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5a8ChhmeRXQ/TdlO4j4yuOI/AAAAAAAAD7s/71_5IjsB8B4/s1600/100_8635%2Bb.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5a8ChhmeRXQ/TdlO4j4yuOI/AAAAAAAAD7s/71_5IjsB8B4/s400/100_8635%2Bb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609601544479750370" border="0" /></a>In other spots she has used all kind of weathered wood bird houses.<br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cfHBpqH96ag/TdlTsEv7fPI/AAAAAAAAD8M/IqHrnNsW1fU/s1600/100_8674.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cfHBpqH96ag/TdlTsEv7fPI/AAAAAAAAD8M/IqHrnNsW1fU/s200/100_8674.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609606827520785650" border="0" /></a><br />I just had to share my love for this garden. With its use of all the rust pieces, which are better appreciated close up, of course. I kind of wanted to emphasize that your garden art doesn't have to be shny and new. We can re purpose and be green at the same time.<br /><br />I hoped you clicked on the pictures for a larger view. I find them so breath taking.<br />You saw side views, views looking up and part way down. There are more beautiful different colored flowers. Those will wait for another day.<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />I found it to be so much fun to see what old materials from old machinery and '<span style="font-style: italic;">what nots</span>' were used to make up the rust color art pieces that she used in her garden.<br /><br />Thanks for stopping by today. </span> <span style="font-size:130%;">Maybe you would take time to stop and comment and tell me </span> <span style="font-size:130%;">what old pieces from the attic or elsewhere that you have used or seen in a garden.</span> <span style="font-size:130%;">I'd love to know.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;">just me jo arootdigger at sunnyside slope<br /><br />See you later, I have some more garden art the next post.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">For more reading on garden art:<a href="http://shabbygardencreations.blogspot.com/2011/02/flea-market-garden-magazine.html"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">http://shabbygardencreations.blogspot.com/2011/02/flea-market-garden-magazine.html</span></a><br /><a href="http://fleamarketgardening.com/2011/05/22/win-a-free-copy-of-flea-market-gardens-magazine/"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">http://fleamarketgardening.com/2011/05/22/win-a-free-copy-of-flea-market-gardens-magazine/</span></a><br /></div></div>A rootdiggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02642330951208433671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665879615608789368.post-55961951740099786272011-03-31T07:17:00.000-05:002011-03-31T13:31:12.136-05:00I AM NOT EMBRACING<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5WFSCb1wXRA/TZS7XnzFcZI/AAAAAAAADww/jVPhjRGhhXs/s1600/n1107881211_30135352_7468-2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 188px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5WFSCb1wXRA/TZS7XnzFcZI/AAAAAAAADww/jVPhjRGhhXs/s200/n1107881211_30135352_7468-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590299051968262546" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">No more AM I EMBRACING</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">one of gods creatures, the box elder bug </span>here at sunnyside slope<span style="font-weight: bold;">. </span> Last night, two of the little red devils flew in and landed on my head, while I was sleeping. I am such a light sleeper, I was able to detect them each time and smacked the little devils. Before these last months it's been hard for me to kill anything so directly during the waking hours, but in semi unconscious state, they met their fate. Several months ago, I consciously declared war. and have been making some<br />attempts to get them out of my house or remove anything tempting them inside.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The dark red box elder bug can be a rather endearing</span> curiosity in the daylight. That's why I am ashamed to say that they have made themselves too comfortable in between the kitchen windows s and a few have worked their way to the inside of my kitchen window on the south side of the house. Especially those who have seeked me out.<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">I think they must have built in heat sensor</span>, because they definitely crawl around to where it is very warm. Despite the coldness of the outdoor temperature lately, I have kept my heat in the house to be cool, and have donned sweaters and blankets, as I am doing now. Earlier when they emerged it was warm enough at my house temperature, so they<br />wouldn't need to seek heat like they have. Occasionally, I hear them banging a light<br />bulb, which would be too hot to crawl on long. I have noticed them on my<br />coffee maker and my hot lap computer while I am using it.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">My hot laptop is a magnet to them during the day</span>, if they choose to wander away from the security of the window area. They used to crawl up my blanket even onto my hand pause, and look at me. There seems to be no fear in them at those times before my<br />declaration of war. I speak to them in such loud voice to remove themselves<br />from my presence, since I do not wish to tolerate them any longer , but it seems<br />my words and meaning fall on deaf ears. I merely flick them away and it crawls back<br />several times, dare I say with a <span style="font-style: italic;">limp</span>. Yes, on that sight, I feel such distracting guilt.<br />Guilt<br />that evades me when they land on me during the night. The ones smacked at night<br />surely may be the ones who had the blind trust. Surely the others heard it at the time<br />of the smacked death.<br />Yet there were two last night.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Such tenacity and braveness</span> of their nature has me wondering how this creature is out in the wild world of nature. Who is it's enemy in the higher level of the pyramidal food chain. Would the box elder bug seek out other large animals and sit on the animal for a time where it's tail can not reach them. It makes no attempt to bite, pinch like some ants or sting like the bee.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I have wondered after moments of reflection </span>on Gods little creature that it is possible that they seek their fellow bug's dead body. Perhaps it is why they brave this giant to crawl around my blanket here at my chair to look for the deceased. Haven't you seen ants carrying the deceased somewhere. I have and I find that a curious nature of theirs.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">What nourishment do they seek.</span> I haven't notice if they come to you at the smell of food that your eating, such as dairy or fruit like a fruit fly or a house fly. [ Although house flies don't live long enough in my house to be observed] I do have spider plants at my window and I do see them perched on them. They are rather ratty looking anyway, so I don't know if some of it is from them or otherwise from my attempts of horticulture. I am not the most tidiest of the human race so there are tidbits here and there. I rarely see them on my stove. but I do see them by my fruit, which I intended to leave out in the open. I detest the thought of them crawling on them, or into them, so it's nothing I care to do often while they are around.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">It's almost seems as there are two separate actions</span> of the Box elder bugs so far in my house. The occasional Box Elder bugs at my side who show no fear, while I am busy blogging and browsing; and those who remain in the kitchen at the window and a few occasionally on the coffee maker. Earlier I mentioned that they seek us out anytime, but lately in my war on their presence they seem to have spread the word of my elimination attempts down my kitchen sink or in an awaiting glass of soapy water. Now when those at the lower areas of the window see me they hide behind my ornamental bottles on the window ledge, maneuver under the coffee maker or behind it. Some even seem to have enough intelligence to know they won't be bothered high where I do not bother to reach them. [ So far, they can't read minds] One of the techniques of those upon their site of my giant presence is to immediately drop down. They seem to know my grasp is meager at times. Then too that window [ which will be remedied of that error soon] needs caulking badly at the edge of glass, so maybe they hope to exit there, where they may have entered in the house in the first place.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sometimes it seems as if they forget that they can fly</span>. You will find that they crawl or walk rather than fly to their destination. Their obvious flight is noisy like a fly.<br /><br />Once upon a time I was able to catch a fly in the air with my hands. I will say, it rarely can happen now nor do I catch the box elder bug on the window that easily. I usually drop them into soapy water. If my vacuum hose was longer or my vacuum lighter, I would try that method. I have used the soapy spray, but it leaves my window ugly to viewers. the spray residue on the window, doesn't seem to drive them away, either.<br /><br />I have wondered how they would do with a venus fly catcher plant.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Maybe they have a time sensor based </span>on the heat temperature from the sun, because it seems they disappear out of the window at night and only emerge to the window again during sunshine. Hopefully they can find their way out as it warms up outside. Would they? Which is more important to them, being in a luxurious life, which leads them to be a target for terrorism.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The first thing on my </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">'to do list'</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>as the weather warms is to learn to caulk, fix air leaks, and other general methods to fix the windows so that the box elder bugs can no longer enter. Secondly, I may talk it over with the dh. about taking away the Box elder tree. We have several other kinds of trees and I see no need for it. However, there are power lines of many types in that very area, it may not be anything we want to tackle. So my efforts before Fall will involve cracks and crevices that they can enter.<br /><br />Because, <span style="font-weight: bold;">I am not embracing the Box Elder bug.</span><br /></div>A rootdiggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02642330951208433671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665879615608789368.post-22995813349460262582011-03-29T09:55:00.000-05:002011-03-29T10:01:31.839-05:00A flower dressing for the bed, just like a pillowBrowsing, and found a unique idea or two. : )<br />Here goes:<br /><div><a href="http://www.houzz.com/photos/48473/Dreamy-Whites-eclectic-bedroom-"><img src="http://st.houzz.com/simages/48473_0_3-8969-eclectic-bedroom.jpg" alt="Dreamy Whites eclectic bedroom" width="249" border="0" height="320" /></a></div><div style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><small><a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" href="http://www.houzz.com/photos/eclectic/bedroom">eclectic bedroom design</a> by <a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" href="http://www.houzz.com/professionals/media-and-blogs/"> media and blogs</a> <a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" href="http://www.houzz.com/photos/professionals/10677/Dreamy-Whites">Dreamy Whites</a></small></div><br /><br />From this <a href="http://www.houzz.com/photos/48473/Dreamy-Whites-eclectic-bedroom-">little gal at Houzz </a>who practically begs you to put them in your idea file. She even offers a idea file subscription. Actually the picture is from<a href="http://dreamywhites.blogspot.com/"> Dreamy White</a> who has the most wonderful blog.<br /><br />Isn't that lovely. Maybe one wouldn't want to lay one's head on it, but I would certainly love looking at it, even on a white couch.A rootdiggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02642330951208433671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665879615608789368.post-70797601703134503352011-03-27T01:31:00.000-05:002011-07-08T07:34:34.700-05:00A gypsy soul<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ih2fnRDkZqo/TY8wfRk7B-I/AAAAAAAADwI/dUtnU2DUXVU/s1600/sheepgfairy004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 181px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ih2fnRDkZqo/TY8wfRk7B-I/AAAAAAAADwI/dUtnU2DUXVU/s320/sheepgfairy004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588738976442419170" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Get images at the Graphics Fairy and Magic Moonlight Free Images</span><br /><br /><br /></div>What a delightful find. A<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-izLqHYP_kbE/TY5yHk5lrAI/AAAAAAAABDI/Jz-DKx49LoA/s1600/hut.jpg"> <span style="font-style: italic;">shepherd's hut wagon</span></a>. I have to say that I wondered if it were for real. You need to <a href="http://burlapluxe.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">browse this a bit for yourself.</span> </a><br />It is subject for a little fantasy and what a subject for art.<br /><br /><br />Just like the author of the link, I think I also have a gypsy soul. I would love something like a gypsy = GRV. To do up like the olden days. Just go wild with it. It surprises me that they had such a tiny stove and even a stool. Naturally it was a gentleman's shed, and way different than a ladies gypsy wagon. There probably was a special place for his pipe and his sheep dog too.A rootdiggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02642330951208433671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665879615608789368.post-69452198741858358652011-02-14T12:05:00.000-06:002011-02-27T09:39:08.647-06:00My everlasting love affair.??<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0hNgv2RiazM/TWF-lbLlHpI/AAAAAAAADr4/3wcDVfVXjYA/s1600/scan0010%2Bsecond%2Bhalf%2Bblue%2Bfav.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 285px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0hNgv2RiazM/TWF-lbLlHpI/AAAAAAAADr4/3wcDVfVXjYA/s400/scan0010%2Bsecond%2Bhalf%2Bblue%2Bfav.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575876995077971602" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xqi9H8T0oEQ/TVl1fcXHoHI/AAAAAAAADnQ/3yFF9FKyHjs/s1600/scan0005%2Bfav%2Broom.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 311px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xqi9H8T0oEQ/TVl1fcXHoHI/AAAAAAAADnQ/3yFF9FKyHjs/s400/scan0005%2Bfav%2Broom.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573615196897255538" border="0" /></a>Does any one remember this photo from and old issue of this magazine. I bought that magazine purely for that kitchen article.<br /><br /><br /><br />I was a sucker for blue and white and a dash of pink more than a dash of yellow. It caught my fancy.I was in love with that room.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UwSLFHDtu8c/TVlzI_8j9QI/AAAAAAAADnI/4dGZ7zxERIM/s1600/scan0008%2Bding%2Bw%2Ba%2Bbl.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 311px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UwSLFHDtu8c/TVlzI_8j9QI/AAAAAAAADnI/4dGZ7zxERIM/s400/scan0008%2Bding%2Bw%2Ba%2Bbl.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573612612289295618" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">My love affair is still lasting after all these years.</span><br />I've wanted to do this in my dining area for years. I have the book cases in place. But how could one get it to the year 2011. Actually I would have to paint the book cases. Move the books. in order to get this look. around 1974 I started getting b<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>lue and white dishes. A few years ago I started picking up some pink flowered plates, and tea pots in the two colors.<br />I love blue transfer ware, but never got any. Which is perfect for this.<br /><br />If one had no doors in the kitchen on the cupboards, I suppose it would be similar. But I have no room for a table and chair.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I know it was a country cottage feeling.</span> But well I still live in a cottage. I just don't know what to do with all that oak that I have. You see that is what has kept me from doing this. [Also the fact that I love black looks too.] As for Oak, I like my Buffet as oak, though I have seen it painted a creamy dreamy white and it looks good. I couldn't paint the tall Hutch though. I could move it.<br />My adjoining kitchen is still white with dashes of blue and pink.The Pink preference<br />is coral pink.<br />The pink in my magazine shows a slight tendency to have some coral hints.<br /><br />My love is pure, but my mind over heart has won so far.<br /></div><br />What do you think of the room?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Have a Happy Valentines Day</span><br /></div>A rootdiggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02642330951208433671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665879615608789368.post-18318343527146712832011-02-11T10:56:00.000-06:002011-02-11T11:19:22.350-06:00Somehow I always know when I am lying to myself.<div style="text-align: justify;">Oh my! I think from Monday to Thursday " On Friday I am going to work hard and get a lot of house work done, then on Friday what happens. I sit down here to finnish the work from the night before and do one more thing Then One more , and just one more won't hurt and then guess what it's afternoon. Then I think, I can't start something now.<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Good Grief, Charlie Brown..... Start. Do something. Anything is an improvement.!</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">I used to reward myself, but how often I wonder should I do so.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">If I reward myself with a piece of cake or a dish of ice cream, I have to sit down and eat it and I can't sit down with out the puter??<br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Lately, I have tried to only do puter reading or blogging only at meal times.<br /></div> My goodness snack/ lunch breakfast sure can be a long time for some people around here.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Well I can motivate or discipline or threaten myself. I do better under pressure.<br /></div><br />Okay, I am going to threaten myself.<br />" No puter till you get the kitchen floor scrubbed!"<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Somehow I always know when I am lying to myself.</span><br /><br /><br /></div>A rootdiggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02642330951208433671noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665879615608789368.post-58940141415876812162011-02-04T15:43:00.000-06:002011-02-04T15:49:18.657-06:00Oprah will leave, who will replace her in our lives?<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Oprah</span> hit our world so big. Her impact so large.<br /><br />I ask you, who do you think will replace her in our lives?<br /><br />I have recently found<span style="font-style: italic;"> Nate Berkus show</span>, but I doubt for spiritual speaking about life as <span style="font-style: italic;">Oprah</span> did about life, he falls low.<br /><br />At least he comes on tv early and then done. I would always foget to watch<span style="font-style: italic;"> Oprah</span> on my days off or late on evenings.<br /></span>A rootdiggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02642330951208433671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665879615608789368.post-48809821504402699762010-12-28T20:58:00.000-06:002010-12-28T21:09:51.484-06:00I Was Missing One Chritmas Gift of One Million Bucks<span style="font-weight: bold;">Heres how the event went.</span><br />I just couldn't make it to shop Black Friday to get the good deals in games and videos. So I had made up my mind to gift money, which they would need anyway after all the christmas shopping they had to do. I think they still have something to open if I can present this in an interesting and creative way.<br /><br />Then I didn't make it to the bank on the few days before Christmas. No big deal, so I wrote a check. I have done so before.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_czX-zy-QPkc/TRo94cO0ZLI/AAAAAAAADNI/-zeN0yjXw2o/s1600/100_9407%2Bperfect%2Bstory%2B1%252C000%252C000.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 322px; height: 304px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_czX-zy-QPkc/TRo94cO0ZLI/AAAAAAAADNI/-zeN0yjXw2o/s400/100_9407%2Bperfect%2Bstory%2B1%252C000%252C000.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555821130175243442" border="0" /></a> and took out one of these specially purchased Chocolate Candy wrapped in wrappers that says <span style="font-size:130%;">"1,000,000</span> BUCKS" or<span style="font-size:130%;"> <span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"</span>1</span></span> Million Bucks" from my wooden train car. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_czX-zy-QPkc/TRouTCQcd-I/AAAAAAAADME/MIpecttup2A/s1600/100_9402%2Bmillion%2Bbucks.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 251px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_czX-zy-QPkc/TRouTCQcd-I/AAAAAAAADME/MIpecttup2A/s320/100_9402%2Bmillion%2Bbucks.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555803994873165794" border="0" /></a> I folded it in half length wise and folded it until if fit the package molded shape.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_czX-zy-QPkc/TRpFaQEGHqI/AAAAAAAADOc/PxofsMucw3c/s1600/100_9407%2Bperfect%2Bstory%2B1%252C000%252C000.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 236px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_czX-zy-QPkc/TRpFaQEGHqI/AAAAAAAADOc/PxofsMucw3c/s320/100_9407%2Bperfect%2Bstory%2B1%252C000%252C000.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555829407605989026" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />I dropped one into my daughters large bag first to be on the bottom. I did not add the tissue until much later, since as usual, I have to hunt for hidden away gift items purchased earlier in the year. Or some last week. I think I need to get a 'designated spot'. [Because two different gifts are still 'lost in space' from purchases earlier in the year.] I wanted Snuggies for the kids and possibly the sons girlfriend, but I failed to go to the Drug store. So DH. got them for me on Christmas eve day.<br /><br />I had already did my sons, but I wasn't sure what was what with a couple extra items . As I had a couple extra people to gift and maybe even a mother of a nephews girlfriend. I didn't make that many cookies and candy, so I couldn't give that either.<br />So I shuffled and rearranged sacks a bit for the son. I kept the same gift sack the same for the daughter.<br /><br />Long story now getting short. When they opened their sacks, neither child found the gifted money carefully wrapped in the Million Bucks chocolate wrapper. It was not to be seen. I looked around. I said one was on a white bow, and another was on a red bow. I rewrote them. And I told them if they found the original one, they get to keep it.<br /><br />Late christmas night the daughter told me she found hers attached to a white bow.<br /><br />Maybe I had thoughts of visions of the son coming back and vacuuming and picking up more around the dining area in hopes he would find the missing Million Buck. Nahhh that did not happen.<br /><br />As I was filming this story, I found the second one. I felt like I found a lucky million bucks.<br /><br />It was behind the box of my gifts and on the floor between the wrapping paper.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_czX-zy-QPkc/TRo_CFH065I/AAAAAAAADNQ/aMFTkDLonuw/s1600/100_9403%2BBows%2Band%2BPapers.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 172px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_czX-zy-QPkc/TRo_CFH065I/AAAAAAAADNQ/aMFTkDLonuw/s200/100_9403%2BBows%2Band%2BPapers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555822395282221970" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_czX-zy-QPkc/TRo6UVPDdpI/AAAAAAAADM4/mrGhznuw-PU/s1600/100_9407%2Bperfect%2Bstory%2Btold%2Bhere.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_czX-zy-QPkc/TRo6UVPDdpI/AAAAAAAADM4/mrGhznuw-PU/s400/100_9407%2Bperfect%2Bstory%2Btold%2Bhere.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555817211287008914" border="0" /></a><br /><br />On the back of a bow which was not Red, but Green.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_czX-zy-QPkc/TRo6-8PRRFI/AAAAAAAADNA/PUT6uOVlS4w/s1600/100_9408%2Bstory%2Bhere.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_czX-zy-QPkc/TRo6-8PRRFI/AAAAAAAADNA/PUT6uOVlS4w/s400/100_9408%2Bstory%2Bhere.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555817943311402066" border="0" /></a></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Mystery Solved.<br />THE END</div>A rootdiggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02642330951208433671noreply@blogger.com2