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No fool like an....or Hope springs eternal.

nobody@vox.com(metsakins) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:16:49 -0700

So those day lillies I said were eaten, turns out only some of them were eaten and the others are budding!!!!!1!!!

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So with the last ounce of hope and strength I went off to the garden store and bought this....

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crossing all bendy bits and holding breath!

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Uncle, uncle, okay deer take it all, I give up!

nobody@vox.com(metsakins) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:12:55 -0700

I am sorry to report that during the night, the hens & chicks from a previous post were ripped out of the ground, bitten into and spit out. They have been replanted, but are in critical condition. Tune in on Sunday for more updates.

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More gardening stuff...

nobody@vox.com(metsakins) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:11:26 -0700

If was so disgusted last night I forgot to mention the disappearance of ALL daylilly buds. I have at least 10 to 12 feet of day lillies.

and find the hosta in this picture...

you can't but the deer did!!!!!!

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there is a small quantity left.

However, the creeping Jenny are in bloom -

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GARDEN UPDATE (garden let down)

nobody@vox.com(metsakins) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:29:12 -0700

We will now have a moment of silence for the following flowers that have become deer food -

Gooseneck

Black Eyed Susan

about 1/2 my wild daisies

about 1/2 of the wild queen anne's lace (Both of which I intentionally grow in designated areas)

Shasta Daisies

I am happy to report that the money plant is becoming "money" -

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when those seed pods become white, I'll be happy to send any of my USA friends seeds.

On a happier note, I have roses:

and astilbe -

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and lookee what Annie sent me -

Hens and Chicks and they're blooming!!!!

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Tagged!

nobody@vox.com(metsakins) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:37:45 -0700

Well. I've finally been tagged. There's a first time for everything. I can't tag anyone at the end, cuase Metz tagged everyone I know well enuff on vox to tag!

The rules of the game get posted at the beginning. Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer.

1) What was I doing 10 years ago?

I think I was working part time at a cable tv company and taking some classes at community college.

2) What are 5 things on my to-do list for today?

Do the laundry.
Go through the mail.
Finish unpacking.
Download photos.
Do this, cuase I promised Metz I'd do this when I got back.

3) Snacks I enjoy:

Any type of fruit and any type of nuts. and ice cream. Have very serious feelings about ice cream.

4) Things I would do if I were a billionaire:

Help out friends with their mortgages. Hire a maid. Quit my job. Volunteer for stuff. Travel after figuring out a way that my cats wouldn't be too unhappy (which would probably involve a live in cat sitter).

5) Places I have lived:

This is going to be really boring -

Bronx, NY

Stony Brook, NY

Yonkers, NY

Mahopac, NY

6) Jobs I have had:

Bookkeeper, library shelver, babysitter, mounted tapes on tape drives at IBM, programmer, systems analyst, computer operator, teaching assistant, and now I'm a bookkeeper. (its the circle of life!)

7) Bloggers I am tagging who I will enjoy getting to know better. (sorry...none!)

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Violets!

nobody@vox.com(metsakins) — Sun, 18 May 2008 18:04:34 -0700

For some of you who were asking this is white violet :

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The flower is the same as the wild ones, only white, and the leaf looks exactly the same.

Below are the various shades that the wild violets grow in my yard. I have never seem a white one growing wild:

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So as you can see, there is quite a range of color.

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Garden Update

nobody@vox.com(metsakins) — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:35:32 -0700

These pictures were taken in the last week of April.... 4/28 to be precise!

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grape hyacinthe

Japanese painted fern

money plant

I bring in several impatients at the end of the year so I can start new ones in the spring. The grape hyacinthes are in the same area as the hyacinthe. After the hyacinthes die down the grape ones come up. They are entirely different species of plants. The money plant is a bi-annual that reseeds itselft so it keeps moving a bit. (See the fallen forsythia!) When it goes to seed the pods look like coins, hence the name. I love wild violets and I let them grow where I can. They look very nice in the same area of the money plant.

wild violets

azalea

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Why I quilt.

nobody@vox.com(metsakins) — Sat, 03 May 2008 07:36:46 -0700

As some of you know, I used to sell my crafts at various places on consignment. It was not a large money making venture, just a way to pay for my supplies. I stopped in at Sue's Fabric World, one of the shops I sold at, and saw a class advertisement and project on the wall and I knew I had to do it. (As a matter of fact, selling stuff at Sue's Fabric World was strictly a losing proposition for me 'cause I almost never came home empty handed.)

My First Quilt

(and yes below the quilt there is the top of a kitty tea pot, most adorable I might add.)

I took another class a Sue's and produced this -

Sunflowers

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Counted Cross Stitch Kittehs!

nobody@vox.com(metsakins) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:11:26 -0700

Cats and plants! Yay!

Cats on quilts...

Cat on a quilt!

Thats's pretty much my whole life...cats, plants and quilts. Okay, family and stuff like that is pretty important too!

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Needlepoint don't hurtz nobunny!

nobody@vox.com(metsakins) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:38:07 -0700

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