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Liza
gardening consultant
Waterloo, Belgium
Mary's very special, good-taste humor!9 Mar '07 6:43 am
Mary, THANK YOU, for your sweet and SO funny message! Yes! I had laughed with Bambi's Naughty Marietta, now you, with your .....when Naughty Marietta met Sexy Rexy, it happened again, more loudly! And it would be really nice if those spamers had a little humor....
And , Faith, this very special, open-hearted, self-sarcastic at times, humorous writing style of Mary's , lured me to be attached to this site, some 1,5 year ago, even more of Eggy's excellent, and artistic website lay-out, or their fabulous photos! Because I just said to myself : "I like her! I know her! She feels so "deja vu", so warm and friendly!". 
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
Mary's journal ~ andallthethingsthatneeddoingtoday !!9 Mar '07 6:53 am
Well,I've just checked Mooseys journal again ,without being logged on -alongside her journal are several advertisements for how to organise yourself -How absolutely Thoughtful of Google to make a list like that.So I went to one of the ads 'Getmyselforganized.com '(note the Z spelling )and lo and behold -a list of a squillion things to do to get yourself organised ! To quote Moosey in full cry "AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH !"
Dixie.
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Jack Holloway
Passionate Gardener
SEQUOIA FARM Haenertsburg South Africa
Messy Moosey10 Mar '07 4:43 am
Had to go check what Moosey had written after all that! You see, I've hardly been on the site of late, let alone part of the forum. It made me feel so good about everything, gave me such a sense of perspective. You see I'm simply not in control myself at the moment. On Monday my marks must be in. From 8am tomorrow till 11am on Sunday I will be at school, most likely awake all the time, as my Interacters (like junior Rotarians) are having a 24 hour swimming marathon fund-raiser. As it is, I spent this afternoon erecting a massive tent, something I've not done since my army days... Any way, there are lots of wheels that can fall off, and my approach is that they will learn more from what goes wrong than from what goes right... but they've worked incredibly hard and I do believe it will be a great success.
But what I wanted to say is this: this morning I woke up and said to myself: "It is no longer a case of 'will I cope with the next three days?', it is one of 'how will I cope with the fact that I will not cope with the next three days?" Which made me feel a lot better about everything, to the point of stopping to say "HI" to all of you, because I miss you and long to be back in the swing of things - and a special "HI" to Mark who has brought some fascinating West Coast ideas to the site: some of which I am uncomfortable with, others which I find ravishing; most likely greater familiarity will move my reaction more and more to the latter...
And I also wanted to say if there is one lesson I learnt in my (almost) grown-up years (i.e. since 40) then it is that I will always tackle more than I can really cope with, and nothing bores me as much as being in control of my life.
So: up-the-lists, especially the uncompleted ones!
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Jack Holloway
Passionate Gardener
SEQUOIA FARM Haenertsburg South Africa
PS10 Mar '07 4:49 am
PS: by which I hopefully don't mean the MARKLISTS 
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Jack Holloway
Passionate Gardener
SEQUOIA FARM Haenertsburg South Africa
OK, pics too10 Mar '07 5:23 am
So I fiddled with this evening's pics - and thought I'd share these three with you over supper...
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Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
10 Mar '07 5:38 pm
Oooh the first one is so serene looking *right click*...
And the tree in the second one, what sort is that? Is it an edible fruiting tree? The 'berries' aren't round so I'm a bit confuzzled.
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Faith S
Perpetually learning gardener
Alabama, USA
The Embarkment11 Mar '07 1:37 am
Your photos of The Embarkment are lovely. I also wondered at that plant with the long racemes of berries. I love the wavey pattern cut into the decking of The Embarkment. What an artistic look for a utilitarian object. Did you design this yourself? I really like it!
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moosey
head gardener
12 Mar '07 10:06 am
Go Montgomery the dog. What a thoughtful pose! I love Montgomery the dog, Jack, almost as much as I love your mother for banning plastic on the ground in her rose garden!
Take care, my busy friend, and remember to check for leaf fall. Here the poplars are suddenly yellowing and dropping. They're the first trees to catch a sniff of the season changes to come - it's quite exciting!
I have a theory about coping, that it's only people who don't realise that they're not coping who aren't coping. Blimey - does that make any sense? Cheers, hug Monty for me and give him a vigorous chest scratch, please. I do mean Monty the dog!
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Bambi
Slowly Learning Gardener
Kent, England
13 Mar '07 3:53 am
Ditto all of what has been said! I love that first picture - the deep, luxurious shades of green are just spectacular! And I agree with Liza that Monty has such a great personality and you can see it in his every pose Give him a huge hug from me too!
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