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my twin .. hero, sort of.

Category: summertime | Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 1:22 pm

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first, let me apologize for rambling...and start off by saying, 'it's a twin thing'. i remember my oldest brother telling the story that when we were babies, we couldn't be put in the same playpen because we would fight & fuss, but if you separated us, we would carry on like no tomorrow...solution... 2 playpens, put next to each other, separate but next to each other. i guess that is the story of my relationship with my twin. (i also have twin sisters-in-law).
my brother is a big help in the yard with the 'big' stuff..thank you very much. we were out in the yard the other evening, watering, weeding, etc....very happy with the progress of the cucumbers,tomatoes, sunflowers and discussing how much we should prune the rose of sharon trees. (the trees are not mine, but my next door neighbor..aunt jean..we share our yards..my late husband disliked them - i do as well - but aunt jean won't let us chop them down). a nice night with a little breeze.
well, here comes this woodchuck waddling down the alley, and trying to crawl under my gate. i rushed to the gate, and it immediately took cover in the outside corner of the yard amid the balsam & canna.
(all i could think of was last year when one of those critters made a salad bar out of the cukes and sunflowers). so, where did this thing go? i didn't see it come out the other side, my brother is throwing big rocks at the outside fence....still no sign of this thing. i keep looking in the balsam, and i see a little black eye staring back at me....
so i tell my brother....there it is....there it is....it took him a while to finally see it.....he was hidden well.....ok....so what does my brother do......grabs his edging shovel and proceeds to pummel the critter until kaput!......it was a good size one, and i'm sure if we hadn't spotted it, it would have had a field day with my garden. well, my balsam & canna looked absolutely flattened, but a small price to pay for one less destructive critter. and after a few days of watering, you can hardly tell there was a battle in that corner of the fence. i know it sounds horrible, and in my mind i would rather have them just go away, but, reality says, they are just living their lives & trying to survive.
and in that case, it's us against them. in the meantime, i'm glad i have a twin that is totally opposite of my nature to handle that stuff! now, what is next?



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a little respite

Category: summertime | Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 12:39 pm

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well, here we are, the end of june, and finally the big stuff is done. my brother finished mulching the walkway the other day, and it looks nice and fresh. amazing what new mulch will do! it's been a curious spring for me. i can say it has taken a while for me to get my behind in gear, can't explain why, but i worked through it, and now, it's time for watering cans, sprinklers and hoses! i moved daisies, penstemon & day lilies, dug out a gigantic hollyhock, and any other 'chore' i wanted to do, well, if it gets done, good, if not, there is always next year or later in the fall. (specifically, getting the yarrow moved to the front side of the walkway).
this is also a year of firsts for me. i actually bought tomato starts to plant, and have seen my first fruit appear. i 'gave' a little strip of dirt along the east side of my house to my twin brother for cherry tomatoes, jalepenos & thai dragon peppers, which he has been using for about 5 years and always has a bumper crop. i don't care for the hot stuff, and honestly i can't understand why anyone would subject themselves to that experience. but, to each his own!
as mister rogers said....'it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood'...and i'm going to enjoy this one, and later on, neighbors one block up are going to be shooting fireworks....will pull one of my chairs up to the fence and sit and watch them!

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