I have better things to do with my time, and lots of times when I do check in it's late and I just read and don't reply.
Everything is fine here, except I am in a desperate effort to save my garden. After almost two weeks of 70-80 degree weather, a polar front is moving in and by Saturday they are predicting the temperature will be 19 degrees. Most of my perennials are up and many will be severely injured, if not killed, unless I can cover them enough to keep them warm. I have dragged out every pot I own and will be out in the 40-degree weather tomorrow covering them with dirt and pots. Some of these are plants I got from my late grandmother, my late father, and my late mother-in-law and I have kept them going for over 20 years. My roses also have to be protected and I will have to cut some back so that I can cover them. I can't do anything about the ornamental trees...they will lose all of their blossoms and hopefully will survive. I am SO AGGRAVATED! WHERE IS THIS GLOBAL WARMING I WAS PROMISED???!!!!???
I don’t have any heirloom plants like you do, but my row of hydrangeas are leafed out—and I have seen tons of tiny flower heads. For some reason we had an off year last year—but this looks like a bumper crop—so you know that I will be out with my sheets covering them up—I am not about to let them freeze! It looks like the freezing temps will be here in N. Georgia on Thursday night. Rats! Let us know how your plants fare!
We should be fine tonight, but tomorrow will kill them, as well as the tulips if I can't figure something out.
Where do you live?
Our daffodils took a huge hit two weeks ago when we had about eight inches of very wet snow. We call it Sierra Cement. We also lost a quaking aspen, and the tops of two birch trees. The trees really upset me.
“The reason you haven’t seen me much lately is that I have grown quite tired of wading through the anti-Bush, anti-Guiliani, anti-Romney, anti-everybody threads full of juvenile insults and mindless criticism.”
-
I share your disgust with the current state of FReeperland and have thought about taking a permanent hiatus — who needs the aggravation. HOWEVER, I stay for two reasons:
1.) I love my fellow DOSErs (they’re such a refreshing contrast to the Marxist-Chomskyites that I work with on a daily basis)! and
2.) Because the White House reads the DOSE, I feel it is our ‘contribution to the cause’ to provide the President and his staff with a daily source of support and encouragement!!
So ignore the rest of the FR threads, but continue coming here . . . We’re on duty until January 2009!!
May I use this line everytime I am asked; "Where've you been?"