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Yesterday’s plant sale was *pretty* successful. Not as successful as the spring sale, but one would have to expect that folks aren’t as eager to purchase new plants in the fall as in the spring. Still one of our favorite sales events.
Feather and Fan Shawl — Still cranking along. I’ll be starting row 88 of 190 rows tomorrow. Still working on two circulars, as the shawl is now larger than any one of circulars in the needle size. The more I knit with this yarn, the more I’m happy with the results.
And finally a link I ran across on Metafilter. Another take on Intelligent Design.
Popularity: 8% [?]
Lorette wrote:
That is very hilarious. How did I miss that in the New Yorker?
Posted on 26-Sep-05 at 12:01 pm | Permalink
obscure wrote:
Glad to see the Intelligent Design link–it should be required Whitefolksonly House reading. I do miss the “100 days” quizzes that were on the back page of the New Yorker every 100 days during the first W administration.
Half price perennials at the garden center where I work. I’m hoping some will be left for me to adopt–baptisia, gaura… Eveyone wants mums, mums, mums here in CT. Pumpkins, too, of course, even though it’s been too warm to harvest and we hear that the crop really suffered in the heat. Can Xmas be far? Customers really rush the season, and we have to, too, with the supermarkets and Home Despot full of mum, mums, mums.
Posted on 26-Sep-05 at 5:55 pm | Permalink
Jerry wrote:
Haven’t read the New Yorker in *years*, but if this an example, I may have to start again..
Mums. Eye candy. Easy to grow and full of instant color. What I really enjoy about the plant sale we had this past Saturday is that the buyers, for the most part, are extremely knowledgable about plants in general. This sale, and it’s spring equivalent, is a magnet for the plant geek. They realize that small plants become large, impressive plants in a year or two and are not looking for instant gratification. And with our adding some of the less common native plants we do quite well.
Posted on 26-Sep-05 at 11:09 pm | Permalink
Lucia wrote:
We’re just coming out of a drought here in Illinois. I have to admit I got out of the habit of going to plan sales during the time when it wasn’t raining.
Mom sent me some plants just as the drought began. The didn’t do well. Still, I should get some bulbs in before winter!
Posted on 04-Oct-05 at 6:23 pm | Permalink
Lucia wrote:
The link to the ID article inspired me. If you had trackbacks enabled, I would have tracked back.
Instead, I bring you this:
http://www.thedietdiary.com/blog/lucia/456
Posted on 05-Oct-05 at 8:15 am | Permalink