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Date Posted: 22:47:12 07/30/01 Mon
Author: Marlene
Author Host/IP: 64.24.39.94
Subject: This is how you can tell you're not getting old...

you have arrived - you *are* old!
First of all........let me say - this is Mack and Jacke's fault.
I used to love to garden and I kept my yard nice, puttering, planting, deadheading, watering, raking and sometimes killing myself with physical labor.
Then Mack came along.........much of the yard was mature - the foundation bushes and trees, the roses, the
groundcover.....he couldn't destroy most of that. But as far as planting all the annuals I used to do every spring, I haven't even tried for two years. It doesn't look too bad, it is kinda "park-like", nice and shady, mostly just needs watering, pruning and raking to keep it presentable. But it is........GREEN, and I miss all the pretty colors of flowers.

This is the part that Jacke started. With her swinging gnome. I love that little guy and I WANT ONE to hang under the Japanese Maples! I have been to every Wal-Mart within 50 miles, but no gnomes, swinging or otherwise :-(( But once I started looking at garden statuary and knick-knacks I discovered all kinds of neat stuff.

As for the *OLD* part..........I used to think that yards that had fake elves, deer, birdhouses and all that stuff were tacky and "old-lady" looking! But now I have a weathered copper dragonfly weathervane on a tall stake, copper dragonfly chimes with iridescent marbles in the body, a black wrought-iron Ladybug on another tall stake, a tin "3 holer" birdhouse nested in the ivy on the fence, a fake smiley face rock, another fake rock that says "Happy" and 5 little rocks painted by my neighbor (the artist) like ladybugs.
When we were camping we went scrounging for rocks - they have "better" rocks than we do around here. We had the
back of the Explorer full of rocks as big as we could manage.
So now, I have all my rocks, critters and "junque" scattered here and there amongst the bushes and trees and
groundcover. Mack can lift his leg on this stuff if he wants - won't hurt...........but I have to make a trip to Indiana and sneak off with Jacke's swinging gnome to make my backyard complete.

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