Ooh. Those are lovely plants, Spidra. It's always interesting to me to see what people grow in other parts of the country--most of those are flowers I rarely if ever see around here (USDA zone 6-7, with vicious summers and winters). I saw that a lot of those plants are CA natives, yes? One thing I love about the garden center near my house is that they work with the local botanical garden and encourage people to use as many native plants as possible when landscaping.
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
Mal ,'Safe'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Anne W. - Oct 03, 2010 2:06:11 am PDT #4785 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Connie Neil - Oct 03, 2010 3:13:42 am PDT #4786 of 30000
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encourage people to use as many native plants as possible when landscaping.
It's very early, and my mind immediately went to a Monty Pythonish place of "But most of our native plants are carnivorous!" "Well, we won't deal with the invasive species if we get all namby-pamby about it, will we!"
Shir - Oct 03, 2010 4:13:17 am PDT #4787 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
All hail Buffista~ma! I got a job interview for tomorrow! (not the perfect job, but it's a bad one. And remember, I need a job to come and visit you people, to see Halloween and the shop everything I can in Anthropologie).
Fingers are still crossed for better offers, but again, it's OK for a year.
Edit: also, apparently my secret talent is to recognize lines from Jabberwocky, never mind what language it's written in.
Calli - Oct 03, 2010 4:27:43 am PDT #4788 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Yay Shir! Much interview~ma to you.
brenda m - Oct 03, 2010 4:54:19 am PDT #4789 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
So I come home and see that Sox lost a temp crown, and after reading the advice about denture adhesive, I'm wondering if that would work for him, too, even though it's a permanent crown, not a temp one.
I would think it would help to keep the area covered until it can be reattached.
smonster - Oct 03, 2010 4:57:55 am PDT #4790 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Good luck, Shir! And that's a great talent.
Lovely crisp fall morning. I think Frankie and I need to hit the dog park today.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 03, 2010 5:03:10 am PDT #4791 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Congrats on the interview, Shir! Interview~ma, too.
Can't books on tapes help with that?
Yes, but unabridged they take the same amount of time, and I'm not keen on abridged. Plus I like reading. I do buy audiobooks from Audible to listen to in the car from time to time. Read The Time Traveller's Wife that way.
JZ - Oct 03, 2010 5:30:58 am PDT #4792 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Aw, damn. Half of Matilda's classmates have RSVP'd yes to her birthday/goodbye party, and now the 61-63 and partly cloudy we've been promised all week has turned into undeniable rain. What to do? Station one person at the original (outdoors, in the park) location and redirect people back to our apartment? Start a cleaning frenzy now in anticipation of same? Stay in grim denial and act like the rain is going to stop in time so no change of plans is necessary?
Dammnit, it's early October in San Francisco. This is supposed to be our warm glowy summertime!
Cashmere - Oct 03, 2010 5:32:09 am PDT #4793 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Is there a shelter of some sort at the park, JZ?
JZ - Oct 03, 2010 5:35:19 am PDT #4794 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Nope, not a damn thing. It's pretty much all open playgrounds and ballfields. There are a few indoor spaces, but they're small and have to be reserved ahead of time, for a cost that until Friday we didn't think we could afford.
I think it's going to have to be the cleaning frenzy.