The Gnome's Gardens

8 Sep '06 2:23 am

Oh Dixie,

What a lovely fairy you are! Don't worry if the hair is a little grey, the eye a little dimmer (it happens to us all); because that fairy still lives deep in your heart.

I don't have a photo of myself in costume to present to Moosey for her birthday, but I do wish her a happy one. Go gardening wonder!

Faith

8 Sep '06 2:27 am

Oops Christopher,

I forgot where I was in that last post. Your ram costume is spectacular. Everytime I read your posts I learn something new about what a talented person you are. I think God was playing favorites when he created you. You got some of the talent that others of us missed.

Faith

8 Sep '06 6:47 am

I mean about Christopher! Plus, his true diamond of a character, plus his adorable Deb ( she is so lovely in the photo)! And plus, his sweet... gardener Mom!! Wow!

8 Sep '06 6:51 am

Nor am I talented at everything. There are some things I wish I could do but just never will be able to do. You see, I had a fall when I was a child and bumped my head. As a result the left side of my brain is not what it should be. As a result my brains right side is over developed. So left sided functions, like math, I am very poor at. While right side functions, like artistic endeavors and understanding three dimensional things, I am good at. So I may appear talented, but I assure you, it has been a trade off.

Dixie, once a fairy, always a fairy. I love the pic of you as third fairy. What wonderful memories to have. You reminded me of when I was a youth and worked in a Vaudeville show. I had a partner at the time. A comedian named Sid Williams. Sid was the real star of the show and I was just his side-kick. Sid was a Gnome and I was a snail, he was a mermaid and I was a clam, he was the Piper Pan and I was a tree, he was a pirate and I was a parrot. My part always being a puppet of some sort and we would do a cross talk routines as part of the act.

Sid had his own acts as well that he did solo. One of them was as a Fairy Queen. He made an awful looking fairy and he sang a song.

For years a fairy queen I've been
for years I've foiled the demon king
but, alas, I'm getting on, the years have flown somehow
And I feel that fairy Snowdrop isn't wanted now

Nobody loves a fairy when she's forty
nobody loves a fairy when she's old
she may have magic powers but that is not enough
they want there bit of magic from a younger bit of stuff
when once your silver star has lost it's glitter
and your tinsel looks like rust instead of gold
you stand there shouting "What-Oh!"
but they all pass by your grotto
no one loves a fairy when she's old

it was I who helped Aladdin find the cave that wasn't there
it was I who made * Whittington return, and then Lord mare
I was the spirit of the flowers, the fairy daffodil
I was the fairy of the wind,(BURP!) and I suffer from it still

in satin covered ballet shoes I toe danced in the glen
beloved by all the children and chased after by the men
no one could touch me at the splits my splits were all the rage
until the night the woodsman left his chopper on the stage

Nobody loves a fairy when she's forty
nobody loves a fairy when she's old
as far as I can see they try to push you off the map
when once your wand has withered and your wings refuse to flap
if you can't cast a spell with out it spilling
and a fairy tale for years you haven't told
Your fairy days are ending
when your wand has started bending
no one loves a fairy when she's old

Christopher

8 Sep '06 10:48 am

An absolutely delightful piece ,Christopher ...Now if you were predominantly LEFT -brained ,you would be an Accountant ,A Lawyer ,or (horrors) a Politician - Would you want to be that ? Nah ! Me Neither. ! Smiley once thought that it would be good for me to learn to do the farm accounts ...We grazed heifers ,and charged $ 4.50 per head per week ...Ummm --- with 37 heifers @ $4.50 per week for a month of 31 days .I did what any good right - brainer would do ,and cried !I never did figure it out ,and Smiley does the accounts.
Cheers !
Dixie.

11 Sep '06 4:45 am

Dear Christopher, I've glad that I've finally managed to catch-up with your garden diary and am delighted with all the lovely posts, pictures and poetry therein. Wow, your ram costume that also comes fitted with an air-conditioned head is a real masterpiece Applause

and it amuses me so seeing you in it Wink

. Thanks for sharing and treating us to your many talents, that gladden our hearts Very Happy

.

And my dear Dixie, a beautiful third fairy you certainly were! Thanks for that lovely poem that accompanied your photo. Smile

21 Sep '06 8:48 pm

Well, last night we had our first frost. It was an early frost as normal temps are around 8C at this time of year. So the frost killed all the pumpkin leaves and so I cut the fruit off there vines and brought them around to the greenhouse. Funny thing is, the pumpkins I planted on the west side of the garden seemed sickly and yellow all summer compared to the east side. Lo and behold when the leaves all collapsed, there was 2 pumpkins hiding in the foliage! Shocked

I swear to you that I had never seen them before. Not surprising really seeing as how they are the smallest ones of the lot. So the tally is, I planted 6 pumpkin plants and each gave me one pumpkin. Last week I removed the 2 pumpkins from my neighbours vacant lot as I was afraid they would be stole by the neighbourhood kids. Someone made off with all the leaves from the vacant lot so I decided the fruit was to come home. My neighbour told me that some people roll pumpkin leaves in to cigars and that was why all the spent leaves were gone. Have you ever heard of such a thing? Smoking pumpkin leaves? Think

Anyway, I moved all the roses in to the greenhouse to try and protect them from the killing frost. I'm so worried about them. Poor things. Any advice you can give me as to how best to make my roses last through the winter would be greatly appreciated. Do I bring them in to the basement? Or put them in the garage, unheated as it is? Shall I set them in the living room and water them all winter? Mom said she heard of putting the rose, pot and all, in to a plastic bag to help keep it moist and them putting them down in the dark basement for the winter. Is this a nutty idea? Should I put the biggest ones in to the ground right away and cover them up with mulch? We have so many mini roses in 6" pots, around 16 or 18 of them. It would be a shame to see them perish. Please help me and tell me what to do. Pray