"Kiyu" wrote in message
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That's funny. You actually backpacked a cast iron skillet into the
mountains? Did you pack it out?

That's the really bad part.
I still have the damned thing.G

Bravo.

Wolfgang
the important things in life ain't always obvious.

Wolfgang wrote:



the important things in life ain't always obvious.



.... some (too few, imo) seem to be better than others figuring that
out... i feel very fortunate to have opportunities to spend time in the
company of those sort of folks. looking forward to next week and
september...

btw...what's growing in becky's garden this year?

jeff

"Jeff Miller" wrote in message
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Wolfgang wrote:



the important things in life ain't always obvious.

... some (too few, imo) seem to be better than others figuring that out...
i feel very fortunate to have opportunities to spend time in the company
of those sort of folks. looking forward to next week

Say "Hi" for me.

and september...

which is approaching at breakneck speed. We are extremely dry down here
but, if conditions two weeks ago up in Merrill and George's testimony are to
be given any credence, things are looking pretty good up in da nort woods.

btw...what's growing in becky's garden this year?

We got tomatoes, a couple of varieties of lettuce, arugula, some volunteer
sweet peas, pole beans, cucumbers, acorn squash, immature asparagus,
strawberries, raspberries, thyme, oregano, three varieties of basil,
tarragon, epazote, parsley, cilantro, celeriac, several kinds of bell
peppers and chilies.....and a fence that matured just today. Had a bit of a
celebratory cookout in the back yard with friends and family. Cullen
(perhaps not surprisingly) is WAY ****ed that there doesn't seem to be any
way out of the yard anymore. :)

The front yard is a jungle. We've got so many different perennials (and
tall sunflowers) growing out there that the house is barely visible from the
street anymore. Spireas have taken over the front stoop......I plan to
attack them with hedge clippers, flamethrowers and whatever other means
prove necessary first thing in the morning. I only hope the tigers haven't
moved in yet. :(

Wolfgang

On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 17:46:29 -0500, "Wolfgang"
wrote:
(snipped)

Spireas have taken over the front stoop......I plan to
attack them with hedge clippers, flamethrowers and whatever other means
prove necessary first thing in the morning. I only hope the tigers haven't
moved in yet. :(


If you dislike them, trim them from the outside going in. If you like
them, cut out the deadwood on the inside of them (much more difficult)
so that they'll live to bloom another few dozen or hundred years.
From the outside in a mere two or three years of trimming can see them
dead and gone.

Cyli
r.bc: vixen. Minnow goddess. Speaker to squirrels.
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli
email: lid (strip the .invalid to email)

Wolfgang wrote:


We got tomatoes, a couple of varieties of lettuce, arugula, some volunteer
sweet peas, pole beans, cucumbers, acorn squash, immature asparagus,
strawberries, raspberries, thyme, oregano, three varieties of basil,
tarragon, epazote, parsley, cilantro, celeriac, several kinds of bell
peppers and chilies.....and a fence that matured just today. Had a bit of a
celebratory cookout in the back yard with friends and family. Cullen
(perhaps not surprisingly) is WAY ****ed that there doesn't seem to be any
way out of the yard anymore. :)

The front yard is a jungle. We've got so many different perennials (and
tall sunflowers) growing out there that the house is barely visible from the
street anymore. Spireas have taken over the front stoop......I plan to
attack them with hedge clippers, flamethrowers and whatever other means
prove necessary first thing in the morning. I only hope the tigers haven't
moved in yet. :(


nothing quite like a good garden. ...and, as i recall, i witnessed the
infancy of becky's garden, if not it's birth. glad to know it's
maturing well. ...it's among the best household improvements a homeowner
can make, imo.

jeff (garden gastropod)

"Cyli" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 17:46:29 -0500, "Wolfgang"
wrote:
(snipped)

Spireas have taken over the front stoop......I plan to
attack them with hedge clippers, flamethrowers and whatever other means
prove necessary first thing in the morning. I only hope the tigers
haven't
moved in yet. :(


If you dislike them

Hard to imagine why anyone would dislike spireas......but stranger things
have happened, I guess.

trim them from the outside going in. If you like
them, cut out the deadwood on the inside of them (much more difficult)
so that they'll live to bloom another few dozen or hundred years.
From the outside in a mere two or three years of trimming can see them
dead and gone.

Interesting. This is the first I've heard of sensitivity to methods of
pruning. This will be the third year running that we've dealt with their
attempts to take over the world. We never prune them until after they have
finished flowering. As the flowers appear at the end of new stalks, and
those stalks grow prodigiously before the flowering occurs, the plants grow
from cute little shrubs at either side of the front stoop to monstrous
shaggy beasts over the course of the spring and early summer. Today (if the
rain ever stops), as I did the last two years, I intend to prune all the new
growth back severely, so that what is now a rough hemisphere of
approximately six feet in diameter at ground level will once again be about
a two foot sphere. In the last two seasons this left some sad looking
plants for a couple of weeks, but new growth has come in strong and very
quickly.....so much so that they have needed another pruning in the early
fall. If they should react badly this time......well, that's just another
opportunity to plant something. :)

Wolfgang
who knows that without death there can be no rebirth.

"Jeff Miller" wrote in message
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nothing quite like a good garden. ...and, as i recall, i witnessed the
infancy of becky's garden, if not it's birth.

Then you were here at the wrong time......given a single moment in which to
enjoy any of the multifarious seasonal blessings of a garden, I'll pick the
harvest every time. :)

glad to know it's maturing well. ...it's among the best household
improvements a homeowner can make, imo.

jeff (garden gastropod)

We were fortunate in that the previous owners did the hard work of laying
out and building a good container garden. All we do is weed 'em and reap.

Wolfgang

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 10:22:46 -0500, "Wolfgang"
wrote:


In the last two seasons this left some sad looking
plants for a couple of weeks, but new growth has come in strong and very
quickly.....so much so that they have needed another pruning in the early
fall. If they should react badly this time......well, that's just another
opportunity to plant something. :)

Wolfgang
who knows that without death there can be no rebirth.

Maybe yours are a different variety. Or maybe my father and my
husband both got too happy with weed killing chemicals. They both
love them. Rather my father loved them when he was alive. Or maybe
they trimmed the bush at the wrong times. I believe it was blooming
when each went at it. Neither telling me what they were doing
beforehand, of course.


Cyli
r.bc: vixen. Minnow goddess. Speaker to squirrels.
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli
email: lid (strip the .invalid to email)

Wolfgang wrote:

All we do is weed 'em and reap.

I hope you don't mind if I steal that line from you.


Chuck Vance

"Kiyu" wrote in message
...

That's funny. You actually backpacked a cast iron skillet into the
mountains? Did you pack it out?

That's the really bad part.
I still have the damned thing.G


That is funny, I just weighed my backpack, it's just a tad over 10 lbs.
including stove, fishing gear, sleeping bag, bivi sac, pan, food, water
filter, clothes....no iron skillet.
-tom