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  • May. 20th, 2008 at 9:45 AM
Garden Party Pirate
We spent the weekend in the garden.  I garden the way I write first drafts... semi-haphazardly, and whatever survives looks better for all the flailing.  Rip-and-tear, with the best of intentions.  We put in six (leetle) rose bushes and two hydrangeas.  I moved plants that may or may not survive, according to their will to live.

The yearly pruning of stuff, the purging of closets and ruthless throwing out of crap continues.  I have a crumbling dressmaker's form about which I am conflicted.

Making bread this morning.  Last time, the two-pound loaf didn't rise enough (although it tasted great, it was super-dense) so this time I used filtered water (not tap) and bread machine yeast (instead of regular) and I also pulsed the 7-grain cereal in the food processor.  This loaf is already taller than its last-week-brother.  Ah, the chemistry of baking.

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[info]haddayr wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 04:52 pm (UTC)
I write that way, too!

Gardening, I meekly follow janradder's orders.
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[info]lisamantchev wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 04:54 pm (UTC)
We inherited all our landscaping from the previous owners, so it's been an adventure to see what would bloom. Every year, I pull a few things out and plant something new. I have no idea what I'm doing, though. *G*
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[info]csinman wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 04:56 pm (UTC)
I moved plants that may or may not survive, according to their will to live.

Hahaha!
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[info]lisamantchev wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 04:58 pm (UTC)
*G* See, then it's THEIR fault when the croak and not mine. They were not long for this world! They just didn't have the WILL TO LIVE! *hee*
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[info]daibheid wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 05:08 pm (UTC)
i am so sharing that quote with my gardener wife :D
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[info]lisamantchev wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 05:12 pm (UTC)
*L!* Let me know what she says.

I also have the philosophy that, in the garden, there are Scarlett O'Haras and Melanie Wilkeses. Some plants will survive anything (as God is my witness!) and others will drop dead if you look at them sideways.
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[info]j_cheney wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 04:57 pm (UTC)
My husband says I practice "Darwinian" gardening. If it survives, I'll usually plant more. If not, too bad....

It's all about the 'will to live'. ;o)
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[info]lisamantchev wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 04:59 pm (UTC)
YAY! We're not killing them... we are engineering biologically superior flowers.
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[info]j_cheney wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 05:02 pm (UTC)
Survival of the fittest... ;o)
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[info]lisamantchev wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 05:04 pm (UTC)
Exactly!

I'm trying to not think about how we're doing the same thing with the bugs, spraying for pests and only the stronges survive. Gah!
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[info]j_cheney wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 06:48 pm (UTC)
Ah, the horror of overthinking things...
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[info]marshall_payne wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 05:02 pm (UTC)
A well-rounded life for an author, I think. Beats sitting around a staring blankly at the muse hoping it'll come out an play. :)
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[info]lisamantchev wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 05:03 pm (UTC)
*L* I think my gardening-muse was sitting on the writerly-muse. They both have big butts, but the gardening-muse has bigger arm muscles...
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[info]marshall_payne wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 05:05 pm (UTC)
hee
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[info]lisamantchev wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 06:19 pm (UTC)
You laugh because you know it's true. *G*
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[info]marshall_payne wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 06:34 pm (UTC)
As you well know, it’s very uncharacteristic of me to post a one-word reply, so I think I didn’t have an adequate comeback (a first!) to your duality of muses.

And I thought you were “cracking knuckles and hunkering down over...”?? ;)

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[info]lisamantchev wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 06:36 pm (UTC)
The writerly-muse locked the gardning-muse outside today. *G*
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[info]marshall_payne wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 06:44 pm (UTC)
I hate to say it, but I’m not much of an outdoor person. Take camping. I wouldn’t mind it so much if we could do it indoors, like with Astroturf and A/C and an artificial babbling brook and no bugs and the most important thing of all...Internet! :)
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[info]lisamantchev wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 06:47 pm (UTC)
Bwaaaaaahahahah.

My favorite line from Titanic (and yes, the dialogue is gawd-awful, but I still love that movie) is "You just seem like, you know, kind of an indoor girl."

Angel nudged me VERY HARD when Jack said that.
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[info]marshall_payne wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 06:56 pm (UTC)
Now that's funny! *IG* (indoor grin)
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[info]difrancis wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 06:16 pm (UTC)
I live in Montana at 5,000 feet. Every year i plant a few new things and wait to see if they survive the winter. It's sort of like a treasure hunt. Very Darwinian. I'm still waiting to see if certain things will come back. We just warmed up enough for them to consider coming up, so we'll see. I'm hoping the peonies make it and I believe I lost one of my leetle rose bushes planted last year. anaother one, planted a couple of years ago, is a climbing rose and is going *huge* already. So it's just a case of which has the will.

And my kids are at home with strep today and we are watching a speed racer marathon, and right now speed is being chased by men on camels with guns. I don't know how this came about at all. I am marveling at just what can happen to speed racer in any given show.

Di
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[info]lisamantchev wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 06:19 pm (UTC)
Oh, peonies. I would love to have some of those. That can go on the wish list for next year! Are they a pain in the arse? Super messy?

Sorry about the strep. Germs are just rude.

And shouldn't Speed Racer blaze past anyone riding a camel???
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[info]difrancis wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 09:59 pm (UTC)
Peonies are actually pretty easy. The biggest thing to remember is you have to plant them really shallow. Right at the top of the soil or they won't bloom. They're a lot like irises in that respect.

Germs in may, like snow, is just wrong. I got both. Blech. Well, the kids have the germs, but I have the kids. They are (hopefully) napping, though I am not going to go look in to find out in case that wakes them up.

These were apparently very fast camels. Very fast. And since that car can go over 200 miles an hour, it seems to me that those camels are pretty phenomenal. Supersonic camels?
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[info]lisamantchev wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 10:06 pm (UTC)
Supersonic Camels, faster than the speed of spit!

(Do the peonies come backm or need to get replanted?)
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[info]all_ephemera wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 06:37 pm (UTC)
Unrelated: http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/6684470.html

Also, see icon for nom nom nomming. Hee! My geekery abounds!
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[info]lisamantchev wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 06:40 pm (UTC)
*loff* My kid LOVES that movie.

And I have heard the squees. They are loud and filled with happiness...
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[info]all_ephemera wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 06:44 pm (UTC)
Aw, you're bringing up a good little geek! *grin*
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[info]lisamantchev wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 06:45 pm (UTC)
I do hug her and say, "Who's the tiniest and cutest dork in fandom? You are!"

Heheheheheheh.
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[info]lalam wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 08:34 pm (UTC)
We planted some Azaleas and Japanese Pieres on Sunday. They're good plants for the shade which is what the front of my house is all shade.
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[info]lisamantchev wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 09:14 pm (UTC)
I have plenty of shade under the trees and back by our firepit, but I'm afraid the husband would just run over plants with the lawn mower... *L*
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[info]alaneer wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 09:50 pm (UTC)
I gave up gardening since I've killed two Bonsai trees. But the cleaning out of closets and cupboard is tempting. I think I need a dumpster.
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[info]lisamantchev wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 09:51 pm (UTC)
*L* I've been watching "How Clean Is Your House?" on the BBC America, and I like it when they bring in the "skip" for all the junk.

I need the Goodwill truck to back up to the house, and I'll just shovel it all out of the child's room and out the windows...
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[info]alaneer wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 10:02 pm (UTC)
*grin* You'd have to do it at night, because the child would cling to every piece of lego and every detached barbie leg.
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[info]lisamantchev wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 10:03 pm (UTC)
No joke! Decapitated Ken, anyone??
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[info]alaneer wrote:
May. 20th, 2008 10:28 pm (UTC)
I think we, too, still have a few of his parts floating at the bottom of trunks.
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