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1. Hootin' Anni Says:
   May 18th, 2008 at 10:10 am

   LOL on the ‘ignoring the kids while reading’!! Good one. I like it, I like it a lot. Just this morning I was telling dear man of mine that last year this weekend we were in Houston for our son’s Master’s Degree Graduation! [I still ignore him mostly! Golly, maybe he'll become a doctor yet!!]

   Beautiful flowers and love the Amish buggy!!

   My Green Thumb is shared – hope you can stop by for a visit. I love Sunday company!!!

   Hootin’ Anni,
   I do all that reading for their own good trying to be a good example Keep up the good work. When he becomes a doctor I’ll let him call on my daughter.

   No hope necessary. I always visit those who leave a comment. I’m hard pressed for time but never to the point of neglecting common courtesy. (another one of those examples for the kids)

2. Aiyana Says:
   May 18th, 2008 at 11:27 am

   The Creeping Phlox is beautiful!
   You must live very close to an Amish community with all the photos you have of their buggies.
   Congrats on the daughter’s graduation. What was her major?
   Happy GTS,
   Aiyana

   Aiyana,
   We have a couple of townships where the Amish have settled over the last several years. They have taken over many of the marginal farms that otherwise would have disappeared. While they are concentrated in some areas they are more neighbors than a community of their own.

   Math – and she certainly didn’t get any help with her schoolwork from us.

3. Mark Says:
   May 18th, 2008 at 2:10 pm

   Shame on you Wise acre for not having a rock garden, I didn’t untill this afternoon, now all I need is a load of soil and some plants, could you spare one of those asters.
   Do the Amish ever come back to their buggies only to find someone has taken the wheels and left it on bricks?
   Well done to your youngun’, mine is just about to finish school and go onto college, that’s if she get’s out of her cage…lol

   You will be able to see our pile of stones tomorrow, so hold on if you can…

   Cheers Mark

   Mark,
   I know I know – shame on me. I’m so lucky to be able to ‘work’ my hobbies but it comes at a price. I never get to do much at home.

   I wonder how the Asters would do if I sent some barerooted. One is never enough so would you take 3?

   I don’t think anyone has ever tried to strip an Amish buggy. I think the image of a mob with pitchforks after a thief is more of a deterrent than the threat of jail time.

   Oh my – a high school age daughter. You have my deepest sympathies. When mine reached that age I thought about giving up on the cage and finding a cave for myself. But then I had 3.

   Soon as I get done responding to comments I’m headed your way. I’m always looking for a piles of stone.

4. Teresa Says:
   May 18th, 2008 at 3:36 pm

   Congratulations to the graduating daughter! You are so fortunate to have a thriving ‘seedling’. What no rock garden! I have a rockery that needs continual weeding. I’m ready for a trade.

   Teresa,
   I might call my kids ‘life sucking parasites’ but they are my treasures.

   I have a case of ‘shoemakers syndrome’. It’s taken 10 years to do a couple weeks work in my own yard. For some reason I don’t feel like wrestling rock at home after doing it all day somewhere else. Tell you what. Send me your rockery and you can have one of the kids.

5. Laura Says:
   May 18th, 2008 at 6:42 pm

   Congrats on the kids graduation! Nice blooms. I sure would like to find those sights on the side of the road!

   Laura,
   Thanks but my daughter deserves all the credit. And nature gets the credit for the blooms. The wildflowers and Amish are just a couple of the perks of living in an underdeveloped area.

6. Laura Says:
   May 19th, 2008 at 11:58 am

   i dont know the latin name for the star flower I have in my garden, but Ill find out for you. Gives me an opurtunity to go to the local nursurey. Darn eh? I remember seeing it in a white colour as well. I also only like pink in the garden or on my children! LOL!

   Laura,
   Looking at your front yard tells me you had plans on going to the nursery anyway. I’d like to see more of that project. It’s already given me a couple ideas. Now all I need to do is find someone willing to spend their kid’s inheritance.

   ———-
   go look at Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my! – just watch out if you go around to the back yard.
   

7. Mr. McGregor's Daughter Says:
   May 20th, 2008 at 2:09 pm

   Congrats on your young one’s graduation. Ignoring kids to read a book sets a good example (so I keep telling myself). I hope you find time to install your rock garden. There are so many neat plants for them.

   Mr. McGregor’s Daughter,
   Whoot she’s out of the house and going to get a job! The off shoot is doing better than her parents

   There’s at least 15 Sedums I want to grow again so there’s no problem deciding what to plant. Lucky me, I can get cuttings of them all. And the Wyoming Asters will get a special nook of their own. After those I guess I’ll need to build another rock garden for all the plants I haven’t even begun to think of yet.

8. Frances Says:
   May 21st, 2008 at 5:21 am

   Hi Wiseacre, you are an example of great parenting and common sense. Congrats to daughter and parents. I am looking forward to seeing the building of your rock garden, and what plants you put into it.

   Frances at Faire Garden

   Frances,
   The kids and mom deserve all the credit. All I did was make sure their food and water bowls in the cage were filled.

   I might never get to the rock garden – I suffer from shoemaker’s syndrome. My yard goes bare while everyone else gets something to wear. The vegetable garden is still in a state of arrested development from a month ago

9. Apple Says:
   May 22nd, 2008 at 11:38 am

   Congrats to your daughter!

   All those rocks and no rock garden?

   Apple,
   I’ll tell her next time I stop ignoring her

   You know how it goes. Everyone gets rocks but the stone guy

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