Here's to deep-seated yearnings everywhere, even if they're for rocks Joanna
At 19:18 24-01-01, you wrote:
>At 09:50 AM 1/24/01 +0200, Peter van Heusden wrote:
>>On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:43:27AM -0500, kelley wrote:
>> >
>> > who needs a garden patch of berries when you can climb a hill, catch a
>> > glimpse of the white tails bounding through the forest and find your best
>> > berry patches surrounding the dilapidated stone foundation of a homestead
>> > erected 200 years ago.!!
>>
>>Um, those of us who either don't have such a hill nearby (Table Mountain's
>>pretty cool, but it doesn't have strawberries, butternuts, tomatoes,
>>sweet and african basil, fennel, rosemary, oreganum, etc :)?
>
>:) i was teasing joanna (hence, the "smooches" in close). i know i had
>the luxury, one which i'm deprived of now :( waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. i
>don't have a yard for a garden. waaaaaaaaaaaaah. i love gardening and
>used to keep a fairly large vegetable garden 50x100 ft. (oh geez, i should
>traslate into the appropriate measures... spank me!)
>complete with teepees around which curled pole beans and miniature
>pumpkins for the kiddles in neighborhood to play in.
>
>heh. joanna will like this: i used to make the sonshine homemade
>teething biscuits b/c nothing terribly impure went in that kids mouth for
>the first year. (was a cornell recipe!) well, he promptly tossed those
>biscuits on the floor, terribly uninterested in ma's homemade
>biscuits. took him into the garden. he plopped himself down and started
>chewing on rocks. :)
>
>>On its own, pottering in the garden and avoiding McDonalds is a
>>delusion, but its one which is rather perculiarly therapeutic,
>>for me at least.
>>
>>Peter
>
>
>yes, and even when it's a working garden as i had, it's difficult labor,
>yet enjoyable. see, i do understand what dennis and chuck were talking
>about way back. it's just that i would rather keep one foot firmly planted
>in the reality of what life might be like were to actually have to do all
>that work the *really* hard way.
>
>i have a good recipe for getting rid of the pests that i'll share
>--listerine and epsom salts as i recall (tho probably bad for something,
>somewhere huh?)-- in addition to companionable planting. *sigh* oh i
>miss that garden with marigolds and narcissus all around it and up and
>down the rows in various places. :(
>
>if you dig into the ground around here you hit water and sand pretty fast
>from what i can tell.
>
>kelley
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