Past Plantings

     When your relatives come to visit and you spend most days alone in quiet gardening there is added stress.  This is a good reason to work 60 hours a week.  You will create, escape around the world, cash and avoid unwanted tramping through the local sites.   However!  Remember all that work has to be seen to be appreciated so you simply must at some point invite a human being onto your property.   Otherwise you can shut off all contact, live off your ebay sales and cry over old photographs while listening to The Rolling Stones.    Desirable as it may sound, you didn't pick all those slugs off your ornamentals just so the Squire can say, "Boy, Sophie sure did a great job on this land."   No.  
     Don't be disappointed or have a Leaving Las Vegas week just because sure as yer born, the deer will eat everything the morning they arrive.   It will have rained all week and the grass has gone to seed.    Maybe it hailed and every pretty petal is now a decomposing slime slip.    You, of course, never, got to the local gal to snip your hair or make those 3 colors into one so look like the same unmade bed that would live on Hillbilly Xin' anyway.    Immediately you mistake Sassafrass for Witchhazel showing stumps of former flora as you go.   One of your guests stops his children from climbing the deck steps until he secures a drill.   Ha, ha, your husband laughs from behind the Brontosaurus ribs he is cooking on the grill that when unfolded is bigger than your car,   he squeezes your shoulder, "Nothing another 4 years of therapy won't work out, huh sweetie?"
Later, I will list the yearly garden plantings and results.    400 bulbs and growing.-D.G.W.W.