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Posted on 05/05/2004 7:57:51 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
New verse:
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I have chives that I started from seed. But, I found they were slow in getting going. Mine are good and healthy now, but I lost about half of 'em and I found them frustrating. When having problems - buy them already grown. :-) Specially when you're first starting out. No foul there! Let somebody else get 'em started and just enjoy them! With the perenials you're going to have them long-term anyway and once you have a good plant you can always experiment with seeds in subsequent years.
Yeah, right now that's one of my favorite tea mixes: green tea with fresh ginger, lemon balm, and mint..
Eventually gets her better pay than the ones who don't know the math! I am proof of that!
Caution, taking a teaching job severely messes up that pay thing!
You know...I hadn't even considered that many of these are perennials. I hoped the mint would come back, but that's all. I was shocked when I discovered how many came back in the garden I considered a failure last year. I don't remember even SEEING oregano last year, for example. I certainly never had enough of a plant to use. But this weekend I found a big patch of it when I was starting to turn all that dirt over to try again! And parsley, too.
I thought I was going to have to start over. Bonus!
Well I wonder if that lemon balm you bought from the store is "special?" It is wonderful here. Thriving like none I have ever had before! I love it!
I'm gonna get my doctorate and go into research. That's where the money is.
Seriesly, at the time I thought it was too much math. Now, as I face grad school, I'm thinking it wasn't enough... worrying about my vector deficiencies... wondering if it's been too long since calculus... and I never did take physics!
I'm trying to remember whether I bought it at the grocery store or at Home Depot or Lowe's. It grows very well at "my house", not very well at "The house", and it looks like it's out-competing the oregano here.
Parsley is great IMO because it is a biennial but will re-seed itself. One you have it going if you let it go to seed you won't have to be concerned about having it perpetually. At least in my experience.
Dill used to work that way for me at the old place too.... till Myranda's dad started mowing it down before it went to seed. *sigh*
And until this year I always had basil that did that too. I finally found about 3 little basil plants coming up this weekend but not near like I've had in all other years.
Well, I know it's been too long since I had my college math courses. Since I have been considering going back to school this really scares me. And yet, I still have enough rememberance that I've always been able to tackle anything an engineer did. I did do physics though and have found a lot of that useful in the engineering fields in which I have worked.
Still, I feel that I would need to repeat all calculus in order to be where I want to be in college. I had 3 semesters of calculus so that's a lot to me to be thinking about repeating. I am procrastinating.
My dill didn't come back. But it grew faster and better than anything else last year, so I'm not too worried. I'll have dill.
I'm beginning to get this image of Myranda's dad as a maniac who spent all his time mowing EVERYTHING, flower beds included...
I planted it on the north side of my house here. I thought that was kinda risky but I had an empty bed there and really wanted that whole bed full of lemon balm. It's about 6 square feet. The lemon balm has covered most of it now.
I had three semesters of calc, too. The first two were great, I had a really good teacher. Calc 3 was a waste of time. I didn't learn anything. So of course, when I got to linear algebra, I was lost, because I didn't understand vectors.
Calc 1 and 2 were fun, and so was Discrete. Prob and Stats was hideous (mostly because I'd forgotten too much Calc by that point).
Think I'll need to trim some herbs this afternoon.
Yes.
His mowing and my gardening were often at odds! All that post about stuff that re-seeds for me - scratch that when I was married to him!
My rose garden and fruit orchard were the bane of his life. More stuff to mow around in his words. At that time I had a lovely rose garden too! He did mow around those... some things he just knew *not* to mess with!
I bought my lemon balm at Lowes last year. It did okay. This year it's HUGH. And it's growing in a partially shaded area.
My calculus and linear algebra were good. But, this is weird to me, I had an instructor I just never could understand for Analytical Geometry. Something I should have been very good at. One of the few times I think I really just didn't connect with an instructor. Made a B in the class - but really didn't get it.
Jimmy Buffett - Trying to Reason With Hurricane Season
1974
Squalls out on the gulf stream
Big storm’s comin’ soon
I passed out in my hammock
And God I slept ’til way past noon
Stood up and tried to focus
I hoped I wouldn’t have to look far
I knew I could use a bloody mary
So I stumbled next door to the bar
Chorus:
And now I must confess, I could use some rest
I can’t run at this pace very long
Yes it’s quite insane, I think it hurts my brain
But it cleans me out and then I can go on
There’s somethin’ about this sunday
It’s a most peculiar gray
Strollin’ down the avenue that’s known as a1a
Feelin’ tired, then I got inspired
I knew that it wouldn’t last long
So all alone I walked back home
Sat on my beach and then I made up this song
Chorus:
And now I must confess, I could use some rest
I can’t run at this pace very long
Yes it’s quite insane, I think it hurts my brain
But then it cleans me out and then I can go on
Well the wind is blowin’ harder now
Fifty knots or thereabouts
There’s white caps on the ocean
And I’m watchin’ for waterspouts
It’s time to close the shutters
It’s time to go inside
In a week I’ll be in gay paris
That’s a mighty long airplane ride
Chorus:
And now I must confess, I could use some rest
I can’t run at this pace very long
Yes it’s quite insane, I think it hurts my brain
But it cleans me out and then I can go on
Coda:
Yes it cleans me out and then I can go on
spammich?
I was thinking the same thing with this conversation we're having here. LOL
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