no work on the dollhouse
Monday, May 24, 2010
I was working in my gardens all weekend. What was it Susan said one day a week or two ago, nurseries are evil?....I'll second that.
I'm also reading a book on the history of the city of Paris. I've read from 53 BC to 1460...it's mostly been a big blur, but I think the book will get more comprehensible further in. The author is really rushing through the ancient history...covering the important events and giving enough of an overview to set the mood, so to speak. So far a lot of churches have been built, destroyed, rebuilt, destroyed, rebuilt, destroyed, rebuilt, destroyed, and rebuilt again.
Very pretty picture! I love columbine!!
On Saturday, I dug up a few things for Alan to plant at his house - we walked around the yard and he wanted some of the huge hosta, and some ferns.
And of course, being boys, he and his brother wanted to salt slugs. I hadn't got to put out slug bait yet this year - since it's warmed enough for slugs to come out, we've had constant rain, and now the slugs are pretty bad.
Melinda, my sons are 26 and 17, and they never grow out of being gross boys. To dash your hopes, just in case you were hoping...
We went midnight bowling at the base Friday night - Alien Alley, with black lights and glowing aliens - and went to the market on Saturday. Good weekend, all the way around.
So what did you get at the greenhouse?
Posted by: Susan | Monday, May 24, 2010 at 10:38 AM
OMg on the Sofa King!!
>"Jutta Verderosa, who began her fashion career at Christan Dior, has brought her flair for fashion to Litchfield County. Verde Rosa Designs offers vintage and new fashion and accessories that Jutta has resourced and restored."<
Between the lines, I read "Jutta found an old macrame hanging from the 70s, sprayed on some Fabreeze to cover the age smell, sewed the bottom shut and is selling it for $425, because that the way things roll at Christian Dior"
Remarkably, Jutta has no sales whatsoever, despite the hours that someone's nana spent crocheting all the blankets she hacked up to cover pillows with at $95 a pop.
Hint to Jutta - Nana gave those blankets to the family because no one would buy them at the church bazaar.
Posted by: Susan | Monday, May 24, 2010 at 10:46 AM
I am so not buying the Christian Dior thing.
What did I get at the greenhouse? Some neat variegated bright purple leaved annual thing without a tag...looks like some kind of coleus. A couple of lilies for the lopsided circular bed around the maple tree, to try to even it out...a mandevilla and some purple alyssum that I planted next to the purple leaved thing by the front door...a clematis for the trellis in one of the beds in back where a rosebush died...some thyme, rosemary, oregano, basil, chives, sage, tomatoes, two kinds of parsley and two kinds of peppers for Matt's vegetable garden...two hanging baskets of fuchsia for the front porch...a purple baptisia for the front garden...a couple of epimedium for the shade garden...and a couple of annual ivy for temporary filler in the shade garden.
I went to the greenhouse to get a couple of holly bushes to fill out the shrubs along the front of the house, but I couldn't find them anywhere. Maybe it's the wrong time of year to plant them and I'll find them in the fall.
I got the stuff I bought planted, and started moving some existing stuff around, before it got too hot and I came in the house to read. I still need to move some daylily and hosta out from under the pine tree in the back yard, and move some ajuga and lily-of-the-valley that are creeping their way out of the shade garden. I'm going to use them to fill in some bare spots.
Posted by: Keli | Monday, May 24, 2010 at 11:33 AM
LOLOL - greenhouses really ARE evil, aren't they?
But danged if they don't help your yard look awesome!
The black swallowtails lay their eggs on the curly parsley here, so if you see yellow and black caterpillars on yours, don't kill them.
Or eat them accidentally - now you know to look.
Our greenhouse, the one I go to the most, gives out "Knollwood bucks" - for every $10 you spend, you get a Knollwood dollar, which you can use to pay for half of any purchase after some date in June.
It's a gimmick, but every year, the amount of Knollwood bucks I have by the date they can be used scares the living beejeebers out of me.
Wish I had the "Knollwood bucks" for the stuff you just bought!
Posted by: Susan | Monday, May 24, 2010 at 02:59 PM
I have a 19 year old step-son too, and I know he's still pretty gross. So I kind of knew, but secretly hoped that without a batshit crazy mother my son might grow up a little less disgusting. LOL
Posted by: Melinda | Monday, May 24, 2010 at 03:18 PM