Fanciful Fox Cove

[Lemon Cheesecake]

it's been days and I still have not adjusted

[Mika]

Isn't that the truth.... I didn't want to get up this morning....

[Lemon Cheesecake]

someone said that there is a higher incidence of heart attacks around the time change and today I found out one of my customers died this morning and there is a chance we lost another one last week too! Maybe another reason to not change the time.

[Mika]

Oh wow. Can't say I've ever heard that before. That's sad to hear.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

on to brighter things.... I think I am starting to adjust. Have gotten to see some beautiful sunrises as a result of the "earlier" time

[Mika]

Yeah..... I'm still not there quite yet.... All I feel like I do is yawn during the day... And I feel kind of sluggish...

[Maro]

/flops dovvn on the floor/

[Mika]

Hey there Maro.

[Ka Lai]

What's happening here?

[Lemon Cheesecake]

days are starting to get lighter later so that's good.

[Mika]

Im going to have to dig up my garden.... I dont want to move.... Its going on year three that i have owned my Snowball shrub and i still wont get to see it bloom this year.... grrrrrrr I refuse to move until I see my tulips bloom.... I planted over 100 last year and i refuse to dig them up before they bloom....

[Lemon Cheesecake]

hmm, one year I planted close to 100 tulips bulbs as a border and I was wondering why most didn't grow/bloom until I realized the gophers were eating them. So I dug the ones that survived up and planted them in planters instead so they bloom every year. We don't have to dig bulbs up here to winterize them, they survive. I was so upset though that most in the ground got eaten. I found out that gophers/rabbits don't like daffodils or paper whites so those stay in the ground and come up every year. I thought they don't like Iris either but found out the rodents are eating those when food is sparse. They are also not suppose to like agapanthea's (lily of the nile) but that is not true. I had some gorgeous royal blue/purple ones and they got eaten. I salvaged a few surviors and stuck them in planters. They don't eat the alyssum either so I spread the seeds of those like weeds. I love the purple ones best.

[Mika]

Hmmm I've never had any rodents come chewing on my plants. But I would be hunting them down if they ever dared xD. I'm hoping that my Dahlias managed to winterize successfully.... I read a book in a bookstore on them and as long as the ground didn't get below Zone 8-9 I believe, 5-10° f, they should hopefully have a successful winterizing. But we had a few close calls here... I should snap a picture of how my garden currently looks... Weeds and all... I figure its no point pulling them if I'm just going to have to move.... Bleh.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

Mika, why are you moving?

If you put plants in planters you can move some of them with you...

I love Dahlias

[Mika]

I'm moving because that is what my mother is demanding.... She is moving all the kids back into the same darned house.... We have no choice in the matter because she is selling the places where we currently live..... None of us want to live in the same house together.... Everyone knows that if its not my two brothers, it will be me and my brothers girlfriend that will come across issues.... We've lived in separate places for over three years now.... We've adapted to our own living ways.... And my brothers girlfriend makes me want to punch her in the face as is... Living with her will be worse... Plus they have no respect for others living in the house when they have intercourse.... Which is another huuuge reason why I prefer living with my second oldest brother who is single or at least knows to do those sorts of things elsewhere....

I refuse to plant my flowers in planters though. They get much better nourishment from the ground. My current garden is great since it hadn't been used in ages before I moved here... Plus the worms are a plenty and help even more. But I will be digging everything up and faking with me. I won't miss anything unless its some of the Lillie's where the bulbs tend to be so tiny when they first split off to spread and grow. It sounds stingy, but when you have spent as much money on flowers as I have, you tend to want to take all of them with you.

Dahlias are great. Especially the 'Dinner Plate' kind. They get so huge! And last year was my first year having planted the ones I'm hoping to have come back... So if they survived the winter then they will be even bigger when they bloom. I had some pretty wicked looking dahlias. They got so top heavy though.