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Subject: | It was not my finest weekend, and that was mostly my fault... |
From: | Wahoo |
Date: | Mon, 20-May-2024 9:57:05 AM PDT |
Where: | SoapZone Community Message Board |
In reply to: | 💐Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday Potpourri Post 😃 posted by Antwon |
Then early yesterday, before I silenced my phone for church, I got a text from bff asking me to go to the Holden Arboretum for a "craft show" Sunday afternoon. Several years ago, I asked SZ if they ever did something they didn't really want to do just because the person asking them *really* wanted to do it and I was surprised when pretty much everyone replied with some variation of "nope, if I don't want to do some kind of social activity, I don't do it". I have occasionally gone somewhere I didn't want to go or saw a movie I didn't want to see or ate at a restaurant I really don't like because someone I *do* like really wanted to do so and didn't want to do so solo. Yesterday was one of those times. Holden Arboretum is a beautiful place with ponds, lakes, forests, gorgeously landscaped gardens, all with walking paths in and around the area...I'm utterly "meh" about the place. I also think that charging $19 for the mere privilege of being there is outrageous, especially since we have so many fabulous FREE green spaces (and if you love flowers, I recommend the FREE Rockefeller Park Greenhouse in Cleveland)...but bff REALLY wanted to go, so I sucked it up and went. It was nice seeing the various gardens in bloom--the area behind the visitor's center always has something spectacular blossoming and the rhododendron garden was alive with vibrantly colored flowers--and it was nice seeing bff enjoy the walk around the grounds so much but the craft show was disappointingly small and had nothing I was interested in, and it was unseasonably warm yesterday (and warmer still today and tomorrow...I'm feeling a Cassie-level--Cassie from SZ, not the Cassie from the Diddy video--grumbling about the weather coming on).
On the plus side, a neighbor gifted me a tomato plant in a pot (which I will return in the fall). I'm happy about the prospect of fresh tomatoes later this summer but already convinced that if I don't manage to somehow kill the poor little plant, the wildlife will. I found an article online--"11 animals that will eat your tomatoes or tomato plants"--and noted with dismay that I've seen them ALL in our yard at one time or another. The neighbor who gave me the plant is one of those gardeners who's supremely proud of his garden (and yard in general). I've tended to his garden a couple times while he and his wife were on vacation and was given more instructions that the average babysitter or pet sitter, so I'm a little concerned I will either kill the plant outright or something will eat it or the plant will yield nothing and the neighbor will be, well, not exactly upset that he wasted one of his "babies" on me but maybe a little judgmental?
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Well, sadly, some weekends are better than others. Re - the tomato - Cassie - 20-May-2024 2:10 PM
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Tomato plants have their own scent which is a bug repelant. They also are - TaxPert - 21-May-2024 1:34 PM
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My biggest concerns are the racoons and the skunks. It's not unusual - Wahoo - 21-May-2024 2:01 PM
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raccoons never ate my grape tomato plants - chloe - 22-May-2024 8:25 AM
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Hee! That's a common complaint among the gardeners I know... - Wahoo - 22-May-2024 8:44 AM
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the Irish Spring hack is REAL! - chloe - 22-May-2024 10:26 AM
- It is good to hear this from someone with firsthand experience! EOM - Wahoo - 22-May-2024 11:03 AM
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the Irish Spring hack is REAL! - chloe - 22-May-2024 10:26 AM
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Hee! That's a common complaint among the gardeners I know... - Wahoo - 22-May-2024 8:44 AM
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raccoons never ate my grape tomato plants - chloe - 22-May-2024 8:25 AM
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My biggest concerns are the racoons and the skunks. It's not unusual - Wahoo - 21-May-2024 2:01 PM
- I just checked...apparently a garlic clove crushed in water and sprayed - Wahoo - 20-May-2024 3:27 PM
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Tomato plants have their own scent which is a bug repelant. They also are - TaxPert - 21-May-2024 1:34 PM