When you're the least favorite child
shaggydogs
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Comments (2)Someone's bound to come on and chastise me, but...About the annuals thing: there was a time 20 yrs ago when your 2nd teeshirt would have been most appropriate in my book. I'll NEVER forget when, 20 yrs ago,3 yrs. after moving here, I met the local garden club president, standing in line at the bank. And I swear to you, I am not kidding, that after I told her about our gardens,she asked me, "What's a perennial?"* But now annuals are yet another extension (along w/ tropicals etc.) of the vast world of "the advanced gardener". My version of your annuals tshirt would say "Friends Don't Let Friends Buy Impatiens" (but then again there ARE some exquisite exotic impatiens...!)and I bet many gardeners have their own fill-in-the-blank dislikes. best, mindy www.cottonarboretum.com/ * I am NOT saying that garden club presidents are all like this.That experience was mine, in my particular town, in 1990....See Moreleast favorite gardening experience
Comments (101)When I rolled over an old log on the ground and there was a nest of baby garter snakes under there. Loudest scream I think I have ever uttered. The big ones generally don't bother me but that nest....eeeew! When my dachshund slurps up the garden slugs on the sidewalk. Truly gross, she also eats other bugs. My old (deceased) one used to go after bumblebees and eat them and she didn't seem to mind. (That dog was as indestructible as a cockroach though, lived to 16 and a half years old). Seeing my old sugar maples die of verticillium wilt disease and there is seemingly nothing I can do about it. Even worse when I have to pay $300 (actually a reasonable rate around here) a piece to get them taken down....See MoreFavorite and least favorite color/type of hosta
Comments (27)I got to "thinking" further and realize I have sort of done that very thing, just not stacking the barrels on top of the other. I have a two tiered corner bed, where I have some barrels and hosta at differing levels, and so on and it works for me! Here's that corner, the subject of many pics. I have taken! In this one, you don't see my current situation where I put a barrel in place of the smaller and whiter pot to the right and another one down and behind the Lady Isobel Barnett on the same right! I did this at the end of the season with some of the many barrels I purchased on clearance! And another example of "tiering": I love the effect of higher and lower hosta placements! I think it gives the best views of some of those vase-shapes, especially, to be up high so you can truly appreciate their uprightness! I think it also gives a depth and dimension to the garden not easily achieved by one-level plantings! I'm done now--for awhile--back to the rest of you!! :o) Janice PS Note the "Sugar and Cream" (white margined, but lighter green--shhhhh--don't tell! I'm not suppose to like the white margins!)...See More'Read to your child at least 20 minutes a day,' but ...
Comments (18)Thanks for all the responses. Excellent suggestion to check her eyes, but we have, and they're fine. And yes, we've read to her since she was a tiny baby. She used to love being read to, many books at a time. I think it was about three years ago when she started to resist. I was specifically talking about me reading to her, though I didn't make that clear. I do feel like I've tried a huge variety of books of all sorts. I'll also notice when she's interested in something, then take us to the library to find a book on the subject It's not an issue of making time away from distractions. I've tried reading at different times - after school, after dinner, before bed, even first thing in the morning. Her usual response is, "Well, I'm going to go [play - cut up paper - go to sleep - get something to eat]. Why don't you finish the book by yourself?" It's exactly what her mother, my sister, was like as a child. And she hates to read now. Now that my niece can read herself, I've tried asking her to read to me, or asking her to alternate . . . words, sentences, pages . . . in a book. I can often catch her attention for one book the first time I try something, but then she doesn't want to do it again. Her teacher says she's reading above grade level and fluently (for a kid), so they have no concerns about her. I think I'm going to try some magazines and joke books. Both of those seem like they might capture her attention, and they're short enough that she might actually sit still to read them. I like the books on tape idea, but does that really promote reading? Labmomma said, "you have to find her passion." I think that's right, but the problem, as I see it, is that her passions involve *doing* things, not reading about other people doing them. She is a *very* motion-oriented child. She watches television while jumping on a mini-trampoline or hanging upside down off the back of the sofa, she eats dinner while rocking on her chair, she deals with waiting in line by spinning like a top. She's able to fit within the rules at school, but everyone knows that she needs to move a lot. She doesn't have an attention problem - she can concentrate ferociously on things she wants to concentrate on. But where another kid might stay still and listen to a story out of inertia (and thus get interested), she'll be up and away. Thanks for the recommendations on magazines. It's not exactly what I hoped for, but I think it might work. Short and to the point. At least she'll be reading! (And here I was hoping for "The Chronicles of Narnia" and "A Circle in Time" within the next year or two ....:)...See Moreshaggydogs
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