One more thread about the mysterious Huguette Clark
Alisande
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Anyone remember the thread about DH's disasters?
Comments (92)My wife has a beautiful garden with all kinds of lilies and hosta and many other types of flowers which I have no idea. She wins contests for our yard and we've spent a lot of money with irrigation, truckloads of mulch delivered by semi, trips far and wide to various garden stores to buy the elusive flowers... I say all that to make the point that our yard is her passion and she loves to garden. A couple years ago she went on a vacation with a girlfriend for a week or so. She left me in charge (mistake #1). I was given strict instructions on running the irrigation (we hadn't yet installed our final leg of irrigation that summer and it was hot and dry). Oh, and we have a real deer problem - they will eat her garden down to the ground if we don't spray the garden at least once a week with some "deer-away" stuff that smells like two month old horse urine. Soooo... she gave me instructions to spray all the flowers with the nasty urine smelling stuff she had kindly pre-mixed for me in the hand-pumped sprayer in the garage. Well I did my duties just as instructed, watered, and on the allotted day spent probably 30 minutes spraying the deer repellant onto all the flower beds. When I was done I brought the sprayer back into the garage and suddenly realized I hadn't smelled that horrible smell as I was spraying all the flowers. I then noticed that there were TWO sprayers in the garage. Hmm, i thought. I opened up the second one and PHEW what a smell - well that one is clearly deer repellant. So what I had I just sprayed all over the entire garden? Yes, you guessed it. Round-up. Oh my goodness. Panic set in. I ran out with a hose, but then thought, what if that makes it worse. I feverishly called the manufacturer and tried to get information on what I could do - the guy laughed and said pretty much I was screwed; once it was on the leaves there was nothing I could do. I went out and sprayed and sprayed anyway for hours. Ran the sprinkler for I think 2-3 days continuously. Wife came home. I said nothing. Flowers started looking bad in spots. Then worse. Eventually I had to fess up. And then I went out with a HUGE black permanent marker and LABELED the sprayers. Thankfully after her initial anger, she forgave me. And I wrote many checks that summer to replace flowers....See MoreAn interesting picture story about a mysterious heiress
Comments (20)That was a fascinating read. A huge thank you for finding this and sharing! I tired to look for more info and there is nothing out there. Even Wikipedia only has a short blurb on her father and does not even mention the offspring. I wonder how close her life resembles that of Barbara Hutton (The Woolworth heiress who turned reclusive.) I read a biography on her life. It was just one tragedy after another. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Hutton "Who names their baby girl Huguette? That's just awful." It is a pretty common name depending on where you are from I guess. I don't know how a name can be "awful". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguette Here is a link that might be useful: Huguette...See MoreFor Alisande and others intrigued by late heiress Huguette Clark
Comments (9)Interesting! Thanks, Pammyfay. She wasn't a bad artist! Re the jewelry, I wish they'd shown us that pink diamond. I don't know much about diamonds, so I looked up the D-color. Apparently it's the highest quality: colorless. It's somewhat sad to see the photograph of those two pretty young girls in their big hats, with their father--no idea of what lay ahead for them. (As if any of us know that.)...See Moremystery granite--more photos, please help identify if you can
Comments (7)Hard for me to tell - however - it DOES look like a natural stone, and it looks like the stone is 2CM. I has some of the qualities of Polar Blue - except not so much blue.... HA! This is one that I have not seen before - it could be a newer species of material that is new to the marker... I dunno.. Have you back tracked to where you got the stone? Perhaps the Fabricator that you got it from may have a pick ticket from the distributor that they sourced it from??? Hopefully VR James will chime in on this thread - I would think that he'd have better handle on this = as he IS a distributor... hth kevin PS - It's a VERY NICE looking application!!! GREAT Workmanship - especially on the turndown for the front edge - nice detail work!!!...See Morejkayd_il5
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