GIP!

[stoney321]

For those that remember the FANTASTIC film, Rocky. Ha ha! You're a CHAMP! Women weaken legs!!

All last night I kept telling the kids, "You're gonna eat lightening and crap thunder!" They didn't, though. They ate pizza.

Today is all about the outdoors. Mmmm. Upper 70s, garden is growing, things are blooming, dead birds and bunnies are... under... the... trampoline. Dammit, cats! Well, Mr. Stoney is home, so he's on clean up detail. Yesterday, I was a ROCK STAR. Mowed my lawn, no small feat considering this is my lawn mower. My husband can barely push it without having a coronary. Because he is WEAK. I am strong. HA! BTW, it weighs about 48 pounds. But my lawn? She is a PUTTING green. And no gas, no oil... Just woMAN power. Fertilized, weeded, (hand pulling-only way to be SURE) pruned what needed pruning.

Today is my MG garden club get-together. We get together every month and swap plants. Oh, and drink margaritas. THIS AIN'T YO GRANNY'S GARDEN CLUB!

My *cough*herbs*cough* are growing nicely in the bathroom. Need to find a flourescent light for my attic. If I go to jail, I loved you all. Maybe I'll find a nice, butch girl with a sweet face to make me hers.

*enjoys the morning breeze with a hot cup o'joe*

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You're always a ROCK STAR.

[somecandytalkin.livejournal.com]

If so? I'll bring you a file baked in a cake. My friend's growing hers in the middle of tomato cages. With climbing veggies on the outside of said cages.

Have a glorious Saturday.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

See, that's smart. They're tropical, meaning, no direct sunshine, but filtered sun all day. Basically my suppler is gone. And um, I don't know how to find good herbs anymore.

*eyes you*

Is it raining down there? We had showers early this morning. Now is PERFECT. Off to go excercise outdoors!

weak girly confession

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

I have never mowed the lawn.

I am afraid of lawn mowers.

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

My respect for you has just skyrocketed because manual lawn mower? Whoa. Dude.

**sprinkles stardust on your "herbs"**

[buffyx.livejournal.com]

My *cough*herbs*cough* are growing nicely in the bathroom. Need to find a flourescent light for my attic. If I go to jail, I loved you all. Maybe I'll find a nice, butch girl with a sweet face to make me hers.

Haha. I adore you.

And yes, I've been having trouble lately with, um, suppliers as well. WOE!

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

SERIOUSLY. It's a hell of a workout. Gotta keep my back from flabbing up. And I do it three times a week. *sigh* THAT is why I want more flower beds than grass. It's almost a 1/2 acre.

As to my herb bed... are you SURE you can't find a way down here for Star Wars-fest? :-D

Pah. No worries.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Man, I *hate* lawn mowers, too. Noisy, stinky, can take your foot off... With Mr. S traveling every week, I needed something that I could manage. Hence the reel mower. (Did you see the link? It's an old, fashioned push mower, but on crack.) No oil, no missing toes..

I *still* won't touch the edger or string-trimmer. I don't like gas powered machinery, unless it's a car.

your icon gets a laugh all its own.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

What's the deal?! They are either disappearing, they make you sit on their stinky sofa for four hours to listen to crap stories before you can even bring up a sale...

Or you're like me: mom in suburbia, totally out of touch with the world at large. HA! Fortunately, that MG badge gets you supplies without an eyebrow raised. I was *blown away* by how many old, stodgy gardeners enjoy fully their herb gardens. Hee!

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

SNORF. *pat runs off to sign up for MG program*

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

We're a small faction, but deeply rooted. Bwah.

So.... No chance your India trip is getting cancelled so you can come play on Memorial Day, huh? *pines for you*

[sangueuk.livejournal.com]

"You're gonna eat lightening and crap thunder!" Hmmm...sounds like a description of me after my chick pea salad lunch.

Your gardening club sounds like such fun and I find myself strangely interested in your herbs...

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

are you SURE you can't find a way down here for Star Wars-fest? :-D
Okay, just for the hell of it -- tell me when it is again? I really doubt finances will allow it, but hey, might as well know the details.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Hee! Or after my red pepper hummus and broccoli slaw pita pocket. Heh.

My herb garden... she is lovely. *pokes you*

[sangueuk.livejournal.com]

now I want to know how to make red pepper hummus and broccoli slaw - maybe I should evacuate the Sangue family first? For their sakes...

[crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com]

It's like thunder! Lightining! Thanks for the early morning (well, it is to me - I was up 'til 4:00) disco.

Herbs, 'eh? I call mine drop leaf table. It's that gardener / antique-whore difference between us. I think I'm gonna paint my kitchen today. Or buy shorts. Not sure which. There are evidentally squrirels the size of Rodents of Unusual Size in my attic above my garret. Or else Caza's got someone stashed up there.

I'll come see you in the pokey (heh, pokey) where you'll no doubt be leading a madcap group of miscreants in "Hard Cock Life."

[crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com]

*I* want you to come down for Star Wars fest! It's Memorial Day weekend, I believe. (I'll show up when Stoney tells me - I only have a 3 hour drive.) C'mon! You know you wanna!!!!

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

So, you aren't going to consume my herbs when you come visit me on Memorial Day weekend? :-D

I have no idea what you are talking about with the comparison of my Vietnam herbs and your drop leaf table. Seriously.

I should loan you DarthAnne. She's our resident serial killer.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Sue's coming down Saturday, the 28th. If it makes the ticket cheaper, you're welcome to as well. The kids will be there Saturday, so if that affects your trip, come Sunday. I'm already making a trip to the airport...

We party all Sunday, head off to see Star Wars at the DLP theater down the way (all digital - the ONLY way to see these movies) then people are dispersing to their homesteads later that day, Monday the 30th.

[crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com]

Oh herbs! Gotcha. Speaking of, what does fresh oregano look like? I needed some for a recipe and I went to the grocery store with the fresh herbs, but all they had was rosemary, sage, thyme (yes, it was the Scarborough Fair Grocery) and mint. There was a sign that said oregano, but I never found it. *is confused*

Did you know Christian Kane is going to be here next week? At The Brick (that's our ballpark.) No word on if he's signing body parts...

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

*hangs head* I buy the hummus.

Broccoli slaw: grate brocolli stems, finely chop tops, grate a little carrot, purple cabbage, jullianne a few green onion stems.

If I eat the slaw alone, I'll mix in a dollop of plain yogurt and some chopped pecans or walnuts. NUM.

Seriously. I didn't know what the hell you were talking about.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Small, green leaves with a slightly pointed tip, closely branching.

Like this: http://www.chamomiletimes.com/images/oregano2.jpg

Dude. Did Mr. S ever tell you the story of him being on a marching band trip in HS in Hawaii and he and his friend got suckered into buying a $100 bag of "pot" that was oregano? TWICE? Ha ha ha. They look NOTHING alike. What a maroon.

[elcazavampiros.livejournal.com]

You are a goddess and Mr. Stoney is a lucky man. crazydiamondsue would never mow a lawn due to a "medical condition." That's called laziness. Just Kidding. She's prone to break out in a bad rash when around cut grass. It's kind of weird and disturbing.

Re: Pah. No worries.

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

If I were going to get a reel mower, I'd go for the one Smith and Hawkin's sells which has bigger wheels and a large reel and doesn't make nay pretense about producing putting green conditions. As it is we have a stinky Honda mower, because the yard over the drainfield alone is 40'X 60' , and all of the grass is either native prairie grasses or Seven Star Pasture Mix... oh, and a bit of Reed Canary grass, which is like mowing bamboo.

Julia, even if I make everything else flowers or mulched walks, that has to stay grass, dammit

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

It must be ten years since anyone I know got popped for inconvenient herb publicity, but that time it made the front page "There were only four plants, said the sheriff's deputy, but they were as big around as Christmas Trees." (Family pride comes where you can get it).

Thanks for the Very Silly Card and the delightful little gila-ish lizard. Franklin won't get anywhere near the lizard; I think he got himself scared to death by the one time his bunch of little Texas suburbanite hoodlums found themselves a real one down in the creek bottoms in Hillsboro.

Speaking of which, am I wrong to insist that Arlen looks just like Hillsboro? It doesn't help that Franklin looks a lot like Hank Hill, if Hank had left Texas at 13 and spent his Wonderbread years living two blooks from the corner of Melrose and Western.

Julia, Mr. Space, he is a conflicted kind of guy

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

I do wanna! But I think unfortunately that it's now pretty clear that it won't happen. The fares are way too high. But I'd love to come to Texas and/or OK another time -- I've never been to either of those states!