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Thu, 24 May 2012 21:25  |
 b_twin_1
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Summer, gardening, blood and leg warmers
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Summer, gardening, blood and leg warmers [message #49976 is a reply to message #49974 ] |
Thu, 24 May 2012 21:36  |
EMoon
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Wow! Those leg warmers! Beee-YEW-ti-ful! Love the colors. Love the texture. WHAT lumps? I don' see no steenkin' lumps! I see interesting patterns of color and texture and--are those CABLES? Anyway, flat gorgeous leg warmers. And that's a lot of knitting...lots and lots and lots of knitting...wow. Impressed. Admiring. All that.
As for finishing leg warmers at the start of summer...phoosh. We knit when we can, and we wear what we knit when it's needed.
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 Re: Summer, gardening, blood and leg warmers [message #49977 is a reply to message #49974 ] |
Thu, 24 May 2012 21:40 |
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DrDia
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The tweet I received announcing this blog said “Champagne is good for blood loss. Make a note”
I believe every one of my blood deficient and/or anaemic patients did a happy dance right then – as did their doctor. I’m sure I will now be THE doctor in town, when I begin presenting this advice, in addition to the fine selection of chocolates I already host in my waiting area. Thank you, Robin, for my rise to stardom.
I’m just sorry it has to come at the expense of your legs, arms, and any other parts of your anatomy that are coming into contact with grouchy roses. Do be careful, please. You need those extremities for hurtling hellhounds, ringing bells and writing beautiful stories.
I’m off to treat a patient and dream of my upcoming cure for blood loss – mmmm.
Dia
"The superior physician treats that which is not yet ill. The inferior physician treats that which is already ill." - Ling Shu Ch. 55
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| Re: Summer, gardening, blood and leg warmers [message #49978 is a reply to message #49974 ] |
Thu, 24 May 2012 21:59 |
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Recently my 89 yr. old mother was tested for dementia ... the MD said the real problem was with her hearing, not her answers or her memory. His prescription, 4 oz. of dark chocolate daily. She carries her medicine (Dove miniatures) in a ziplock bag and offers them around after lunch and dinner.
I now have a robin and nest in the climbing rose which occupies the fence between the path to the compost heap (and the brook which is my water source) and the hoop house I've been building for my tomatoes, peppers, etc.
There are two beautiful eggs in it, and I suddenly understand why I seem to have robins as constant companions whenever I am in the veg. garden, on my away to the compost heap, etc. I guess that's going to put a damper on the hoop house for now. At least it's warm for May, and I feel no compulsion to supply mealworms.
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| Re: Summer, gardening, blood and leg warmers [message #49981 is a reply to message #49974 ] |
Fri, 25 May 2012 00:42 |
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Diane in MN
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The legwarmers look excellent. I agree with blondviolinist that the in-progress green ones look especially accomplished. YAAY!
And we’re not going to get into the ‘leg warmers? You know it’s summer, don’t you?’ thing, are we?
No, we're not. Ideally, we would spend our summers making things for fall and winter and our winters making things for spring and summer, but it never works out that way, and we also observe that the winter knitting magazines aren't full of summer patterns and vice versa, are they? I am working on a summer sweater--well, two, but one needs Concentrated Attention which has been in short supply around here, so it's being worked on in name only--which, if I am lucky, I might actually get to WEAR before fall. Hope springs eternal, but there are only so many hours in a day. And . . .
even in a garden the size of mine at the cottage there are areas that are working and areas that have clearly gone over to the dark side.
Oh gods, my entire YARD has gone or is going to the dark side, I want to scream or cry every time I look outside, and there are only so many hours in a day . . .
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Summer, gardening, blood and leg warmers [message #49984 is a reply to message #49974 ] |
Fri, 25 May 2012 05:51 |
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I have one snapdragon that came through this winter outdoors.
I too have ONE snapdragron that came through from last year. I had never attempted to over-winter them before, having always just pulled them up at the end of the year. It was discussion on this blog that inspired me to try this last autumn. I need to get it planted out in one of the beds before too much longer.
Currently, I am attempting to construct a rockery in my garden. There was, theoretically, a rockery in my garden when I moved into the house some years ago: it was the only part of the large garden that was not given over exclusively to lawn (there are a lot of shrubs and trees making up the hedges, but that's another matter). It was quite rubbish however, with only a few uninspiring plants in it and I have ignored it in favour of making a selection of straightforward beds that I could fill with all the masses of bedding plants my father grows for me from seed each year. I keep having to add extra beds to accomodate the quantity of plants he provides.
Producing flower beds has been more difficult that I originally envisaged when I moved into the house, because in the dim and distant past some previous owners had had a massive (and I do mean massive) pond in the back garden with ramparts of stone walls and surrounding patio / plaza type thingies made from huge slabs of stone and brickwork. When they decided they no longer wanted a pond they disposed of it by smashing up all the brickwork etc, chucking it into the pond itself, and covering it all over with grass. They did NOT remove or puncture the pond's liner / base / foundations in the process. Ask me how I know this?
Anyway, when Dad and I first attempted to dig out a flower bed in the most obvious place to have one, we almost immediately hit huge chunks of masonry and early attempts to clear it all out foundered owing to my disinclination to hire 6 strong men or earth-moving machinery. The proto-flowerbed showed every sign of reverting to a pond as we attempted to dig it out, while my mother bailed furiously, and ultimately I was forced to follow the example of my predecessors and just chuck everything back in the hole again and grass it over. I now have a selection of smaller flower beds in less aesthetically ideal places. Oh well! They're full of pretty stuff.
The rockery was constructed of some of this masonry and was sitting on the remains of the pond's surround and was full of far too many chunks of unattractive lumps of concrete, weeds, firethorn and ivy. I have now removed the larger and less aesthetically appealing rocks to the tip and pulled up enough ivy to fill my green wheelie bin. Tonight I attack the firethorn. Pray for me!
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| Re: Summer, gardening, blood and leg warmers [message #49986 is a reply to message #49984 ] |
Fri, 25 May 2012 06:50 |
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| Mockorange wrote on Fri, 25 May 2012 05:51 |
I have one snapdragon that came through this winter outdoors.
I too have ONE snapdragron that came through from last year. I had never attempted to over-winter them before, having always just pulled them up at the end of the year. It was discussion on this blog that inspired me to try this last autumn. I need to get it planted out in one of the beds before too much longer.
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Snapdragons are sold as annuals here too.
Except....
I'm a very lazy gardener and don't get around to yanking out annuals until they are actually dead.
So this is what happens when snapdragons go feral and self-sow and live longer than 2 years (and you don't have snow):
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Summer, gardening, blood and leg warmers [message #50005 is a reply to message #49974 ] |
Sat, 26 May 2012 21:02 |
librarykat
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Well, y'all, it took a while, but all you knitters have got me convinced to try again. It helps a lot that my daughter-in-law knits, so I have someone in the house to help me when I get to feeling like I'm all thumbs. She has been making the cutest hats. Her mother knits, and has made some neat things for my grandson, including a very cute knitted pig. So, here goes (for I think the fifth time in my life ...)
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| Re: Summer, gardening, blood and leg warmers [message #50037 is a reply to message #50005 ] |
Tue, 29 May 2012 04:41 |
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| librarykat wrote on Sun, 27 May 2012 02:02 |
Well, y'all, it took a while, but all you knitters have got me convinced to try again. It helps a lot that my daughter-in-law knits, so I have someone in the house to help me when I get to feeling like I'm all thumbs. She has been making the cutest hats. Her mother knits, and has made some neat things for my grandson, including a very cute knitted pig. So, here goes (for I think the fifth time in my life ...)
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Yeah, another knitter! The hardest thing about learning to knit as an adult is forgiving yourself for not getting things perfectly straight away. So let yourself get the stitches wrong, DON'T yell at yourself for wrapping the wrong way, and find the part of knitting that speaks to you. Once you start finding your stride, the frustrations come fewer and farther between (though possibly more maddeningly frustrating for all that) but it does take a while to get there.
But welcome (back) to the fellowship of knitters!
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| Re: Summer, gardening, blood and leg warmers [message #50041 is a reply to message #50040 ] |
Tue, 29 May 2012 11:45 |
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| Julia wrote on Tue, 29 May 2012 09:43 |
Oops, I forgot to change that. Sorry for the confusion. I am, sadly, no longer in France. I'm back in the USA now, and suffering from pain au chocolat withdrawal.
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It doesn't get much better with time--last week I was seriously considering paying over $10 including shipping for a loaf of brioche tranchée. (For those who are not familiar, this is not quite the same as regular brioche, which I could at least attempt to make myself. Brioche tranchée has a sweet taste somewhat comparable to Hawaiian bread, but a firmer texture and the correct shape to go in the toaster. Very good with Nutella or Breton salted butter.)
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| Re: Summer, gardening, blood and leg warmers [message #50075 is a reply to message #50073 ] |
Thu, 31 May 2012 06:13 |
Katsheare
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| Jeanine wrote on Thu, 31 May 2012 06:03 |
Have you seen the elbow length gloves specially for gardening roses?
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That sounds wonderful, but I wonder if anyone makes a full-body job? Our plot in California was tiny and crammed full of bushes (they loved the close contact), and climbing around in there for any gardening required a determination normally reserved for knights about to joust. All I ask is a suit of armour...
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