Tip # 2, make your tidiest garden be in an area that is fenced in, so that your dogs can be out there with you. This is why my backyard gardens look better than my front yard gardens.Originally Posted by iris lilies
Tip # 2, make your tidiest garden be in an area that is fenced in, so that your dogs can be out there with you. This is why my backyard gardens look better than my front yard gardens.
Haha! "Take off your glasses and enjoy!" Words to live by!
But good gardening advice... The only garden I have to sit in is the pergola with the park bench in it, between 4 raised beds--two on each side. So unfortunately I have to ensure that 4 beds are weed-free if I'm to sit there and enjoy, but since I'm pretty good at not noticing things after decades of raising kids and dogs and working full time, I still can overlook a weed or two.
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Took DH shopping today. He got the majority of his summer wardrobe. Told him to just get what he wanted and not worry about price. Of course, before we left home I downloaded a 25% off coupon! After checking out, went back and asked the gal next in line if she wanted to use my coupon again. She said “I’m Canadian and these things are on sale!” I told her it didn’t matter and gave the clerk the code. The woman’s face was priceless! She saved $30! Kinda made my day…
aw, thats nice!
That's wonderful! It's fun to share!
I'll do the same sometimes with gift cards, especially if it is a place I rarely go. I remember placing an order at a DD, paid with my gift card and then handed it to the person behind me. As I was waiting for my order to be filled, that person used it, then passed it to the person behind her! I think it made it through a total of four orders. LOL. It was nice - everyone laughing and smiling about how far it had gone. Even the people behind the counter!
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." Mahatma Gandhi
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It's 75 degrees out and sunny so I have been playing in the yard out here in the desert. A lot of the yard is bare dirt (it's just how it is here) but I have created different zones by making garden paths using local (as in from elsewhere in my yard) stone to make borders. The weeds are coming in pretty good even without any rain (hardy little bast**rds) so I have been pulling them up. It is still so satisfying to get them from the root! I am DETERMINED not to let things get out of hand like I say every single spring/summer.
Deciding how much to spend on plants is a big concern. I would say that 90% of things I've purchased just do not survive after one season. It is SO hard to garden here so I will probably just buy some pretty flowers to put in the containers on the porch. Everything like that has to be squirrel-proofed by making chicken wire cages. I do plan to plant my lettuce/spinamch bed and also grow collard greens, swiss chard and kale. I've had some success with that, but again, with lots of chicken wire used.
Anyway, it is so nice to be outdoors enjoying the sunshine putzing around. My left arm/shoulder WILL pay for it later but so be it; it's worth it to me to try to have some normalcy in my life.
Last edited by SiouzQ.; 3-24-25 at 7:45pm.
God what a relief. I FINALLY got the power/authorization to get into our iris Society’s website to update it.
the landing pages had not been updated since 2023.
The Contacts page listed dead people.
A third of the pages said “Under construction, coming soon” since 2020.
I kept my mouth shut about this damn site for seven years, this one and the one previous, which was also never current. The oldsters who run the society don’t understand that they had to contribute content, the webmaster who was very good was just the tech person. They never gave her any updated information. She lost interest. Then she stopped communicating with us. Until I got on the board in recent years, I didn’t speak up because I didn’t want the responsibility of fixing
and then a year ago, I started investigating with the webmaster why it wasn’t updated. And it took a year to move the heavens that be.
This is exactly what happened with 2 other garden club and plant groups I’m with.
Anyway, now have the keys to the kingdom and I got into the website and made rudimentary updates. They ain’t pretty, but they are current.
Last edited by iris lilies; 3-24-25 at 9:16pm.
I hate logging onto a site I'm interested in and finding the events page stopped in 2022. Or earlier. It's maddening, and very off-putting. I've dropped the idea of joining several organizations due to their website. If they can't offer current info on their OWN GROUP, then I have to assume they are not really interested in my membership. Good on you IL for updating your society's website. One of the museums we support (in volunteer hours, we have little $$ to support with!) has a terrible web-host, but they have wrested control of the calendar and events pages and complained vociferously, and it's getting a bit better.
oh you have no idea of the general incompetence, or ennui, or both, of the organizations I deal with in their digital lives. They make me crazy!
It is because they are all run by a bunch of old people. Our President is still yammering about wanting a printed newsletter as well as a calendar and roster in print, etc. Yet, the National Plant
Society runs a strong website with tons of great digital resources, and they are not young,
While all of that is fine, we don’t have volunteers to do that and it is a poor place to put focus, anyway. A print newsletter is fine (but wemcannot afford it on $5 membership fees a year!) but we desperately need help with digital communications. We need a Mail Chimp sort of operation set up. We need someone who actually knows how to effectively update a Wordpress website (my knowledge is not even kindergarten level, and today I’m struggling with very basic editing tasks.)
We did find a volunteer to produce the sacred booklet he wants, so that is fine, but …if we aren’t visible in the digital world zwe don’t exist. I take care of the Facebook page which has 3,000 followers, but that is only a little exposure for people in this region. Most followers are out of region.
I belong to a couple of "horticulture" groups and all have very good online presence. It is funny though that most members are older I guess because they have the time to pursue interests. The native plant groups seem to have more younger folk. Today's rave is the weather. Blue skies, puffy clouds and snow on the peak.
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