Gardening the Garden

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Yes Suzie…go play with your dog and your daisies and the people you work with. I’ll spend the day with my family…something I never hear you say you’ll do, but I’m sure you will now leave a lengthy post about how you’ll spend the day with your daughter. You’re so pathetically predictable, after all. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Took buford out for a stroll – the sun is bright and the air is not to hot – shirtsleeve weather.  Neighbors are out tending to their contaner gardens.  I pulled a few dead blooms offa the petunias and they are smiling and perky. Buford found a pile of cat hair – and being the short sighted little guy that he is – thought it was a real cat and pounced playfully on it.  Hee hee – embarrassment – no kitty.  But he keeps trying to find one to play with. Gots to go work with newbie voluteers – some of them were at the party last night and it was great to see the interact with the old-timers there.  There was lots of healing talk and lots of love amongst the new hotline volunteers and the old time ones.  A lot of people came who don’t answer the line anymore but still feel connected and still recruit volunteers and do some stuff.  It was really cool to see them too. We worked all day turning a banquet hall into a Mardi Graus wonderland – actually we have been roaming around finding neat stuff to decorate with for weeks.  And it all went together into a magic room with a full view of the Houston skyline at night – it was very very cool. Its a great day to get the little white flash washed on my way back home.  Its simply a really great day.  One that is screaming out for company and to be enoyed. See you later!!!! Crisis

Liz http://www.geocities.com/wellesley/7368 ‘I Love Lucy’ in hell, on acid

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I am a good girl, I checked before I snipped the archive thingey. Took buford out for a stroll – the sun is bright and the air is not to hot – shirtsleeve weather.  Neighbors are out tending to their contaner gardens.  I pulled a few dead blooms offa the petunias and they are smiling and perky. I try to do something to help my garden everytime I leave of come home. Me too – I pass by and do a little pruning – check the water level.

If you were my neighbor you would probably think I am a little teched in the head. I go by and drop my morning banana peel next to a rose bush…an excellant source of potassium for the plants. Finally, my husband hired someone to dig up and weed around the front gardens. My son-in-law or grandson move stuff around for me when they are here that helps.  They look so good and relieves me of the pressure. I plan to run out for plants after church tommorrow to put in groupings of flowers, fertilize the roses, and then water. I love my gardens, but school and work make it harder and harder to spend the time I used to. Something else is always there to be done, but I try to take the time because it is so relaxing.  Its nice to sit out there in evening when I’m on the phone or just thinking about stuff.

When school is done after this semester, I will be able to return to my gardens. I get the same theraputic solice from gardening that you do.  Buford found a pile of cat hair – and being the short sighted little guy that he is – thought it was a real cat and pounced playfully on it.  Hee hee – embarrassment – no kitty.  But he keeps trying to find one to play with. He sounds like a wonderful, overgrown, googus. He is – he makes me laugh…

Our cats, outside, come running up when we come home. They throw themselves in front of your and block your path so you have to pet them or pick them up. If you step around them they hurry up and run ahead again and aim right for your feet. Our cats insist on you paying attention to them. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I have kitties all over and sometimes when they are hiding in the overgrown jungles of my gardens, they come tearing out there and look at me with great disgust because I turned the sprinkler on. They do tend to hide under the bushes that is the first place buford checks when we are outside – if he’s in a kitty hunting mood. Gots to go work with newbie voluteers – some of them were at the party last night and it was great to see the interact with the old-timers there.  There was lots of healing talk and lots of love amongst the new hotline volunteers and the old time ones.  A lot of people came who don’t answer the line anymore but still feel connected and still recruit volunteers and do some stuff.  It was really cool to see them too. Your work sounds like it gives you a great deal of satisfaction. Volunteering is a wonderful thing to do – it has a lot of rewards that paid work could never match.  It is satisfying – especially the teaching part, I enjoy that.

If you can express yourself to a live audience as well as you do here, they get thoroughly entertained in the process of learning.  And most of the people there who do the training with me are old and close friends.  That makes it doubly nice.

That is the ideal working conditions…..friends working together. I feel at home where I work, although I just began. That is such an important service and not always recognized, because it doesn’t make money. You and I will have to go to heaven without ever making the headlines, Crisis! But, the satisfaction is deep. Hee hee – I dunno.. but the banquet last night for to recognize the volunteers who had excelled and donated so much time and effort during last year.  So many friends in one room and we planned it and worked so hard to put it together.  There were five of us who worked for months to make it happen and the magic was actually in the interaction of all the volunteers coming to gether to honor each other and to have fun.  It truly was a magic night.

I haven’t gone to a party in a long time, your place sounds like a good My knees and ankles gave out about an hour before I left, after all day of decorateing  and I kept walking around talking looking drunk for goodness sake !!!! (hee hee saab)

She has infiltrated every person’s written words. I saw on another post that another didn’t think SAAB is an "independent" thinker and I snorted out loud. Of all the women on the ng Saabirah is a VERY independent thinker and a little crazy to boot. Anyone who would go off to a foreign land and join their religion, learn the language and live with total Not to mention she does art no else does and reads books most of us wouldn’t even pick up. She is a very talented, very individualized, very radical person. (She doesn’t even wear makeup, for goodness sakes! (whoops, now there I go)). and a friend of mine took my arm and just stuck with me so my footing was sure – he probably thinks I need to go on a diet, I was leaning on him.  But I didn’t want to leave that magic.  ,

I am glad you had a friend "to lean on" and got to stay the whole time.   We worked all day turning a banquet hall into a Mardi Graus wonderland – actually we have been roaming around finding neat stuff to decorate with for weeks.  And it all went together into a magic room with a full view of the Houston skyline at night – it was very very cool. Wonderful setting, I haven’t seen the Houston nightsky, except from my son’s backyard. He lives in Pearland on a gulf course, which gives him a BIG backyard. This was a tiny little banquet hall on the edge of downtown – it was a perfect setting.  Pearland is beautiful, but man they get a lot of storms.  Seems like tornados are required to stop at Pearland

I don’t think anyone told him about that! Maybe i won’t either. It has built up a great deal since he bought less than a year ago, and I think a giant shopping center is going in, which they will welcome. Its a great day to get the little white flash washed on my way back home.  Its simply a really great day.  One that is screaming out for company and to be enoyed. Thanks for that little snippet of your life, Chrisis. I hope you can experience it first hand Mary, and visit the hotline and see all the volunteers in action someday.  Its truly magic.

The next time I go up there I will contact you, Chrisis. I am wondering if you and Panther are still able to come down here? Love ya

Ditto, Mary – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Crisis Blessings and pleasure, Mary See you later!!!! Crisis — For more information about this posting service, contact: If you want an anonymous account, visit our sign-up page: http://asarian-host.org/emailform.html

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Took buford out for a stroll – the sun is bright and the air is not to hot – shirtsleeve weather.  Neighbors are out tending to their contaner gardens.  I pulled a few dead blooms offa the petunias and they are smiling and perky.

I try to do something to help my garden everytime I leave of come home. Finally, my husband hired someone to dig up and weed around the front gardens. They look so good and relieves me of the pressure. I plan to run out for plants after church tommorrow to put in groupings of flowers, fertilize the roses, and then water. I love my gardens, but school and work make it harder and harder to spend the time I used to.  Buford found a pile of cat hair – and being the short sighted little guy that he is – thought it was a real cat and pounced playfully on it.  Hee hee – embarrassment – no kitty.  But he keeps trying to find one to play with.

He sounds like a wonderful, overgrown, googus. I have kitties all over and sometimes when they are hiding in the overgrown jungles of my gardens, they come tearing out there and look at me with great disgust because I turned the sprinkler on. Gots to go work with newbie voluteers – some of them were at the party last night and it was great to see the interact with the old-timers there.  There was lots of healing talk and lots of love amongst the new hotline volunteers and the old time ones.  A lot of people came who don’t answer the line anymore but still feel connected and still recruit volunteers and do some stuff.  It was really cool to see them too.

Your work sounds like it gives you a great deal of satisfaction. That is such an important service and not always recognized, because it doesn’t make money. You and I will have to go to heaven without ever making the headlines, Crisis! But, the satisfaction is deep. We worked all day turning a banquet hall into a Mardi Graus wonderland – actually we have been roaming around finding neat stuff to decorate with for weeks.  And it all went together into a magic room with a full view of the Houston skyline at night – it was very very cool.

Wonderful setting, I haven’t seen the Houston nightsky, except from my son’s backyard. He lives in Pearland on a gulf course, which gives him a BIG backyard. Its a great day to get the little white flash washed on my way back home.  Its simply a really great day.  One that is screaming out for company and to be enoyed.

Thanks for that little snippet of your life, Chrisis. Blessings and pleasure, Mary – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – See you later!!!! Crisis

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