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Apr. 2nd, 2005 03:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsSquish, squish, drip, drip
The first thing you're supposed to do when you transplant a plant is to water it. So it made sense to go plant my new dozen roses in the rain. Well, it did when it was just a gentle mist. When water was sheeting down the driveway and pooling on my glasses as I bent over, not so much.
(Today was "filthy disgusting job day." I've climbed under the house to turn the outsidee water on, planted a dozen roses and transplanted one, bleached my shower stall and dyed the ruined skirt - and an equally ruined blouse - black.)
Now, it's time for hot cocoa and Bollywood movies.
My papal $.02
I've had the lyrics for "Dirty Laundry" stuck in my head since yesterday:
Is the head dead yet?
You know, the boys in the newsroom got a
Running bet....
Rumor has it that it is/was ritual to whack the Pope with a hammer tomake sure he's check if he's dead. Snopes isn't sure either way - but there's a blaspemously funny version of "Pontiff's Silver Hammer" three comments down on this post. John Paul's quizzical, studied metaphysical questions off in Rome,
Late nights all alone with Aquinas, oh, oh oh oh.
On the serious side, may he find peace soon.
The first thing you're supposed to do when you transplant a plant is to water it. So it made sense to go plant my new dozen roses in the rain. Well, it did when it was just a gentle mist. When water was sheeting down the driveway and pooling on my glasses as I bent over, not so much.
(Today was "filthy disgusting job day." I've climbed under the house to turn the outsidee water on, planted a dozen roses and transplanted one, bleached my shower stall and dyed the ruined skirt - and an equally ruined blouse - black.)
Now, it's time for hot cocoa and Bollywood movies.
My papal $.02
I've had the lyrics for "Dirty Laundry" stuck in my head since yesterday:
Is the head dead yet?
You know, the boys in the newsroom got a
Running bet....
Rumor has it that it is/was ritual to whack the Pope with a hammer to
Late nights all alone with Aquinas, oh, oh oh oh.
On the serious side, may he find peace soon.
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Date: 2005-04-02 08:14 pm (UTC)But I have just had a first hand report from the most circular square in the world - he's gone
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Date: 2005-04-02 08:17 pm (UTC)Some centuries, I wouldn't be surprised.
Well. Go in peace, John Paul. I didn't agree with a lot of your philsophies, but no great man should suffer.
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Date: 2005-04-02 11:21 pm (UTC)Congratulations on the planting accomplishment. What kind of roses are they? (I know, I haven't e-mailed you re garden stuff, but the rest of this month is totally fraught.*sigh*)
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Date: 2005-04-03 02:24 pm (UTC)They're all David Austin roses from England. I've had the best luck with direct order, even over the same roses in local nurseries. I'm building a Shakespearean garden down the side of the driveway, so I put in new Noble Anthonys (petals perfect for drying, the fuschia turns dark red), Heavenly Rosalinds (great hips, nice old fashioned look), and Cordelias. I also got a couple Ferdinand Prichards just 'cause I liked the look and put them in the back, along with transplanting the Black Magic back there so it will get more sun.
The Austin "English roses" are really hardy and rebloom all summer long, and tolerate a certain amount of neglect without dying - "Mistress Quickly" and one of the Juliets lost half their roots to a mole and they're still carrying on. I packed fertilizer under their stumps yesterday and propped them up.