Today was a beautiful day, perfect for yard work, so I went back to the recycle place to get more mulch. We had already made four trips earlier in the month and my son and I made three trips today, but I still need more mulch. . . .
New page element...as you can see, I've added a music playlist to my blog. This is courtesy of Projectplaylist.com, and it was fun and easy to do. You only get 75 songs per list, but you can make another list when one is full. You do searches from their bank of songs that are legally shared, so the artist isn't getting ripped off. I was surprised by some stuff I could not find (like "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool" by Barbara Mandrell), but shocked at what I did find, like Country Joe and the Fish! Anyhow, I tried to prevent it from being too obnoxious (you can shut off the "auto-launch" so it won't play when you don't want it to), and the computer I used to make it has no speakers, so some tracks may not work. But hey, fun stuff...tell me what you think! UPDATE:Okay, you really need to set this up on a computer with sound, because several tracks are wrong, incomplete, etc.. Ah well, I still like it!
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Posted by lisa Reblogged by Old Roses to blogs on 2007-11-01, 06:21:20
The paths in our garden are roughly like a wheel and spokes; a circular path runs around the outside of the garden, and five paths run from the circle to the center of the garden, where they converge on a big old red cedar tree on a small hill, with an almost life-size angel underneath it; the angel looks almost straight west, out over the pond. For most of the year, the angel (named Hernia, for what I got moving her 300 lbs.) sits in the shade of the cedar tree, but just at the fall equinox the sun, as it sets over the west ridge, lights her up like she's on a stage... a nice sight as you come up the path in front of her, which runs between two long perennial borders, backed by hedges of weigela. The only odd thing is that I've decided her face bears an uncanny resemblance to George Washington.
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Posted by IBOY Reblogged by Old Roses to whimsy on 2007-11-01, 06:21:09
Hm, from now on I'll let the seedlings grow big enough to have broken their little egg cardboard with their roots. In this batch the egg carton dries out instead of sucking up moist (like I thought it would do), which makes the soil around the seedlings dry and they become more thirsty than an alcoholic at a godtemplar meeting. Rats! Ah well, sometimes we learn best from mistakes...
Since we haven't had a killing frost yet the trees have been very slow to turn. Only a few of the sassafras, sumacs and street maples are slowly changing color.
For some reason this 'Beni kawa' (Beni=red, kawa=skin/covering/bark) Japanese maple started to turn very early in mid October. I bought the tree as a foot tall, one year old graft, two years ago and it has grown to be about 4 feet tall now. . . .
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Posted by Ki Reblogged by Old Roses to trees on 2007-11-01, 06:17:34
Happy Halloween! While you're taking down your Halloween decorations after the holiday, it's a good time to start thinking about outdoor Thanksgiving decorations (U.S.). About's Interior Decorating site provides step-by-step...
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Sometimes it is interesting what people are looking for when they land on your page. Here are a few questions that people had according to my Statcounter, along with the answers I have for them today. . . .
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Posted by Ilona Reblogged by Old Roses to Gardening on 2007-11-01, 06:15:35
In his post of October 23rd, Stuart of Gardening Tips 'n Ideas argues why watering times don't matter, but prevailing advice and my experience argues the contrary: it most certainly does matter. Here's why. . .
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Posted by Ilona Reblogged by Old Roses to watering on 2007-11-01, 06:14:46
The vegetable garden is a sorry looking mess at this time of the year. The tomatoes have browned off in the frost, the beans are shrivelled and the bolted rocket has been devoured by pigeons. And there are lots of weeds poking through. It's so easy after the harvest of August and September to sit back and then winter is soon in on us. . . .
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Posted by John Curtin Reblogged by Old Roses to Gardening on 2007-11-01, 06:04:23
As I drove down Route 2 towards home and Marshfield tonight, my eye caught Gail's car and then Gail out in the daylilies, spade fork in hand, weeding the second of the 22 plots I got planted with daylilies. I slowed down way in advance of the turn because folks returning home after work are not always as cautious as they should be. I pulled up alongside our car and noticed Alex stretched back in the passenger seat reading his H.P. Lovecraft stories and recovering from his very unfavorable experience of weeding with Gail. . . .
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Posted by George Africa Reblogged by Old Roses to lilies on 2007-11-01, 06:03:56
I have finished my second night shift of seven. I wanted some Spooky halloween pictures. I reblogged the pumpkin from last year, and the witches familiar Ziggy from my sisters house.
I love the idea of Halloween, as a link to our pagan past. Jack o lanterns, bobbing for apples, trick or treats!
Samhain was its original name, the day when the worlds of the living and dead crossed over. Costumes and Masks were worn to scare away the evil spirits.
If I'd been shopping I would have carved a pumpkin. maybe next year I will be able to grow several for making pupkin soup and carving jack o lanterns.
Happy Hallowen for all of you bloggers who celebrate it :)
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Posted by snappy Reblogged by Old Roses to autumn, whimsy on 2007-11-01, 06:02:50
After 5000 years of picking, processing, brewing, and tax-evading, the Human-Tea project extends across the world. Drink up this stimulating report by James Wandersee and Renee Clary.
via Skippy's Vegetable Garden on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
