« i suppose it should seem natural | Main | not just for second showings anymore »
May 19, 2006
wedding preparations=tutorial in gardening
as i've mentioned previously, i'm trying my thumb at the garden/yard thing, to see how green it is
so far, so good, with the seeds i got started.
however, getting them in the ground is another matter. in addition to the rain, there's the whole matter of my never having transplanted more than houseplants, from one pot to another pot....why i would think this was so much different than transferring from pot to ground, i don't know, but i did. i found out that there was a bunch of planting going on over at the sullivans' (where the wedding reception will be held) yesterday, so i went to offer my assistance. i figured it would be a very practical tutorial; not only would i be learning, but i would actually be able to say i'd done a little bit in assisting with wedding preparations. now, i don't want to spoil anything by showing everything...which i suppose i couldn't really do, since not everything's been done. HOWEVER, i will be only showing snippets of the "wedding carpet" as phil calls it.
speaking of phil, here he is under the yellow arrow...
although working on one of the original paddle boats from look park at the moment, he's been doing major yard prep, with
my brother tully.
here's gail, overlooking part of the carpet, as she's been designing the flora arrangement of the carpet
and here i am, just in case the photo's themselves weren't enough to prove i was there...(and might i mention that gail and phil are brother and sister, which was funny to me, in that my brother and i were there too)
although i look kinda upset, i was really just blowing hair out of my eyes...i wasn't upset AT ALL, because in addition to helping plants summa these
and summa these
which i assure you is only about a 20th of the entire wedding carpet...
there wound up being the glorious reward of having a lunch and snack made for us by phil's mom...who would be about the same age as my grandmother, if gram or gi were alive...needless to say this was an exceptional treat to be eating ol'skool food that wasn't made by me! we had asparagus on toast (first local of the season, and everyone knows western mass has the best asparagus grown in the country), and date filled cookies for the afternoon snack. dude, i'm talking TOTAL TREAT OF TREATS!!! i wish i'd thought to have taken pictures, but i was too consumed by the food...i mean consuming the food!
Posted by Meagen at May 19, 2006 12:29 PM
Comments
everything's going green: so funny that not until this year have i been yard-obsessed and figuring it out as i go along. because i started last fall with a weed&feed yard winterizer and dumped all of this other seed and stuff this spring, and the rain, i've some major grass happening!
looking forward to visiting you. we'll do a farmstand tour for western mass produce....so good.
Posted by: tedzzo at May 19, 2006 03:11 PM
miss you
want to come and visit all the green glory
soon
gotta post photos of the crazy ivy growing in the back of the house..
ciao miss you
Posted by: rachel at May 20, 2006 09:07 PM
This weekend, following the instruction of Martha Stewart, I did up a big planter for my deck. I bought a set of 3 nesting pots for wicked cheap on the side of Rt. 138 near work. In the biggest one, which is like 2 ft high x 2 ft wide, I followed her layout of the 'spike' in the middle, 'trailers' on the edge with 'filler' in the middle. The spike is a little 3 ft. high tree thing that has yellow daisy flowers; the trailers are these delicate stringy things with little purply blue flowers that I hope will flow over the edge; for filler, a purple coneflower plant and some white sage plants. The purple coneflower is a common name for echinacea purpuris, I learned from the tag. The tag also said something about the blooms attracting butterflies. Weird, when I was finishing up, a butterfly flew over to it even though there is no flower yet! If it all lives, it will look great.
btw, in noho, look out for Paul and David (who are no longer Paul + David), Troy (he wouldnt leave W.MA), big Tom N (out of the closet finally and lost weight), Christine (dated Jeff from SE St. and bought into The Grotto (formerly Death Star) a while back - she might still be there)... and Meg's mother. Remember that day we were out of our tits and kept on seeing her in town but were too afraid of her seeing us? She still doesnt know about that day. So funny!
Posted by: tedzzo at May 22, 2006 04:09 PM
I looked and I do not think the Grotto is there anymore. It probably went Starbucks.
Posted by: tedzzo at May 22, 2006 04:20 PM
i want a yard
Posted by: mr skirvin at May 30, 2006 11:02 AM
HELLLLOOOOOOOOO
we miss you
tell us what you are doing pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease
xoxoxoxo
Posted by: rachel at May 31, 2006 10:13 AM
we need a new post.
btw, i don't think Christine dated Jeff; Tina did.
Posted by: tedzzo at June 1, 2006 03:03 PM
3 words for you: hazelnut iced coffee.
Posted by: tedzzo at June 21, 2006 10:01 AM