Well, maybe not a new family, exactly. This old classic is from the spring of 1997, not long before Arlo had his hair cut. Obviously, this site has been limping along, lately. I’ve been very busy with other things, but I haven’t forgotten about you, appearances to the contrary. Actually, I am traveling this week. I am in Memphis, and I have a good excuse! Yesterday, I was privileged to be among several cartoonists assembled at St. Jude’s Research Hospital to draw for some of the young patients there. It was a great day, but I’m looking forward to getting back to work.
Busted!
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297 responses to “Busted!”
The naked gardeners made me forget what I was going to post. I have over 80 feet of those 4 x 8 raised garden beds back there and each has trellis at each end and across top, which gives me lots of aerial planting space. The kitchen garden off this end of property has about 64 feet of the 4 x 8 raised beds with wooden walks and decks surrounding them. The ones in back will have either concrete or stone walks between each bed to stay dry.
Front beds have shorter trellis surround their walls for things like cucumbers, snow peas, other climbers. Starts looking like Eden around here pretty fast, naked gardening would go well with that.We already have the snakes.
Mark, are you a cellist by any chance yourself? I love cello, stringed quartets, cello and piano, almost any combination.
Love, Jackie
What’s the point of naked gardening? I’m missing something here.
TruckerRon, less to wash?
Jackie, nope. Never learned to play an instrument. When they were recruiting for students for Jr. High band I wanted to learn drums. They wanted a trombone player. Grandmother always wanted a musician in the family and they bought the instrument. Then parents moved us to Texas, and that was the end of that.
Why not post signs in yard: Warning, snake sanctuary. That ought to keep the literate trespassers out.
Too much of my gardening involves keeping my wife’s wild roses under control. I would wear steel gauntlets if I could find them. The idea of exposing extra flesh to those demonic thorn-bearing weeds… ugh!
Trucker, you must indeed love your wife! Most people would take a weed eater and commercial chemicals to wild roses. I like them but they are hard to control! We had them on fences on farm where I grew up. I notice they are no longer there now that my grandmother is dead. I also noticed my neighbors down the street who dug them up on roadside and transplanted them to their fences have taken brush cutters and fire to theirs! Probably Roundup too.
I think of my friends who founded the famous rose Rustlers of Texas who saved the antique roses from the brush and overgrowth, or my long dead friends who saved and propagated the wild Louisiana iris (I have a blue one blooming in my day lily bed on way to shop right now) or the ones who are digging the antique jonquils from the fields where houses used to be. There are many, many ways to show love, as another friend just pointed out to me a few minutes ago.
Love, Jackie
Trucker & Jackie
We have a large (twenty feet wide) Logansport city maintained (ha) ditch area on two sides of our property in the back. These areas contain several flowering wild plants (apple trees, black wild cherry trees, redbuds, wild roses, etc.). They are very pretty to me and the WBH, especially in the early spring, when we are anxious to bid winter, “Be Gone!”.
As long as I mow the lawn faithfully, these plants all stay put nicely. Faithfully is key word.
Steve Moore
Sam, Trucker, Mark and all of us who love the wild, I would love to have such a forest around my property. I grew up on a riverbank with the river and the swamps surrounding me and my grandparents farm. Yes, nature encroaches fast if not kept a bay! I had a large plot of my own among the trees and thickets and still have the house plans to build on that river but I am 71 now, not 35 as I was when I bought the plans from Southern Living. Yes, Mark, an Alabama designer of upscaled slave quarter houses and unpainted tenant farms copied, in weathered cypress. I own the land now but won’t build there.
But what a joy! To own property with such a view, such a “neighbor”. I sat here in the dark this morning and listened to my birds, watched the sun light the sky behind my bank of trees. We are given these gifts to celebrate a greater being than we humans and can worship in places not built by man’s hands. But I will get to celebrate that glory now in so many beautiful places I have never seen before.
Love, Jackie
Then there are these ten ladies welcoming sailors into port. http://whatsupnewp.com/ladies-of-new-england-harbour-club-salute-team-alvimedica/
Good morning Villagers….
And what a glorious day it is here in S IN. Windows are open, breeze blowing in, and the woods in the back is soaking up the sun’s rays. I love living in the country. We also have wild roses growing along the county gravel roads. Plus wild daffodils and black eye susans line the drive to work. But once I hit the highway…it’s farm land every where, and the farmers are busy with manure trucks and plowing. Soon we’ll see the beginnings of hard work sprouting up in rows of corn, soybeans and milo.
Right now, we have guests. My husband’s nephew, Jason and his girlfriend spent the night. Count the children….8 little ones running around here…all under the age of 10. The ten year old is the only female in their brood. Good thing I brought home extra eggs 🙂
Another nephew just showed up (he is the one who has three horses in the pasture between our house and the gravel road)….he showed up to mow the yard.
gotta go….guests here and I love it.
later
Too cool! Our schooner came from Rhode Island, home of some great boats, designers and builders. And obviously some cool women. Loon must be proud, I know I am. What, no frontal shots? Love, Jackie
I have shared this before, but when I was working in the yard 15 yrs ago, I got poison ivy on my hands. When I went to the bathroom, I washed after I went. When I started to break out, I went to the ER, I started telling jokes and the Doctor said “Do you always work in the yard in the nude?” I answered “You know that comment was extremely insensitive” After a pause I gave him a sly smile and then we both had a great laugh.
I arose at three o’clock yesterday morning and returned home from my daytrip just-post ante meridiem* this morning. By the time I got to bed, I was seeing oddly-shaped and furry-yet-ethereal little creatures from the corners of my eyes, which I learned in college is generally a sign that I’ve been awake too long.
Happy to be back home and back in the Village.
* That means “just after midnight”, Debbe. 🙂 (I hope it does, anyway…I’m still sleepy.)
Mark…
Q: What do you call someone who hangs out with musicians?
A: A drummer.
Debbe, you are a darling! What a houseful!
Ghost, they sound kind of cute!
Steve, I didn’t feel the quake at all, did you? I’ve seen some reports that folks in Troy, Utica, and Shelby Township did.
I’ve been to Japan 8 times, where they have quakes all the time, but I have never felt one. I think that I was shopping or mowing the lawn yesterday. If I was in the car, then I doubt that I would feel it. Might have mistaken it for a pothole!
Have felt a number of rollers in San Diego. One memorable time was a very large one centered near Joshua Tree, it hit in the week morning hours. A young lady and I had just slipped between the sheets when it hit, she cling tight as our world rocked. 😉
Cling should have been clung, Siri did a switch-a-roo.
Oklahoma has been declared the earth quake center of America and I seldom notice them. Didn’t feel them anywhere else I lived. May notice one in some of the places my travels are to take me.
Love Jackie
Sand, I am smiling at that memory for you. In fact, I think I am laughing. And refraining from further comment. Love Jackie
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In memory of sand’s memory…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoHuxpa4h48
Debbe 😉 I’m sure you never did any of that, back in the day. 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeDtmbt4JS4
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Great minds or at least mine works the same way as Ghosts. That is the very song I thought of but I was sitting in front of the garden center at Walmart when I was laughing at Sand. I was going to say, rock my world, Sand. Love, Jackie
I looked up the date and time of the quake: 2:47AM, Saturday, October 16, 1999. USGS states it was a 7.1 shaker, centered in the Josuha Tree National Park.