Some things I have learned from gardening and yard work
1. Nothing tastes as good as homegrown tomatoes ripened in the sun. Folks who have only tasted imports don’t have a clue what they are missing.
2. Gardening, like life, requires patience and optimism, both good qualities to nurture.
3. I have spent years trying to get my crappy, heavy clay soil in good shape. I figure by the time I am 92, it will be close to perfect.
4. Moylets always has the best selection and quality, not to mention great service.
5. Move plants around that aren’t doing well instead of giving up. Just like people, we don’t all flourish in the same environment.
6. If I added up all the money I have spent on plants, mulch, etc through the years, I could help make a serious dent in the national debt.
7. It is great exercise, and each passing year I realize just how much with my increasingly aching back and sore muscles.
8. You can get really interesting plants from ordering on the internet.
9. And finally,as much as I enjoy fall, I wish summer would last just a bit longer.
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I’ve learned from gardening that perennials are the way to go. They “spring-up” every year and require practically no work. Most can be divided and moved around, so you don’t have to spend money buying plants every year. Alot of perennials have a short blooming time, but if you mix them up, you will have color all summer.
Now to bring this topic back to Seneca County. Hats off to the students at St. Joe’s school who have planted an extensive garden, and are donating the produce to the needy.
What a great idea at St. Joe’s. I too rely on perennials for nearly all my landscaping. Many years ago I offered to set-up a bird feeding station through the scouts at our elementary school. I also offered to do plantings through the scouts. In both instances I was rather impolitely turned down. I am such a rabble rouser.
Scout – If you have any rotten tomatoes, I’m sure the fellow bloggers can think of some good ideas for those!
Good point, Speak. From my experience, rotten potatoes emit an even more repugnant stench! They hold their shape a bit better than tomatoes when thrown.
Rotten eggs REALLY get the job done!
In these difficult times community gardens are a great idea. During world war two almost everyone who had a plot of ground had what was then called a victory garden and no one threw rotten food it was feed to the hogs. Wast not want not!
This is fine,just remember Turds make good fertalizer.Lets not start slingin’ them next.
Speaking of turds…we’ve got a few politicians around here that float on the punchbowl of life in Seneca County.
Forget about throwing vegetables. We all know Soupy has a pantry full of cream pies just waiting for a target!
It’s a shame that the only speaker they could find for Mamorial Day was a person who never spent a day in the military Mr. Nutter he sure is trying to be a big fish in a little pound.
There was a flake in a county west of us who paraded – and spoke – as a hero from Patton’s Army. He ‘knew it all’ about the dangers he faced during the “Battle of the Bulge.” Fact is, the guy was all-blow, and no-go. He never saw combat, but… he was a hero! Always getting media publicity about his deeds in WWII.
Why is it a shame that a non-military citizen is the speaker at the memorial day ceremony. I think it was impressive that he even showed up. Memorial Day serves to remember those who have died having served us and our ancestors. Was Lincoln’s Gettysburg address any less meaningful because it came from a non-combatant?
As to Nutter trying to be a big fish in a small pond, I think he’s actually gone beyond that. Does he get any credit for serving on the executive board as treasurer of the Ohio Commissioners Association. In fact, he has been selected to speak behalf of all counties like ours that are currently in danger of losing our child protection funding due to budget cuts because we don’t have local levies to support those funcitons.
Can anyone question his motives in this regard. It is easy for seneca county to be completely invisible among the other 87 counties in this state, especially with the likes of Franklin, Cuyahoga, Hamilton and Lucas County, so we should be proud of any our representatives who become relevant in the statewide discussion.
Frankly, Im curious as to why we don’t hear from Wagner or Sen. Gillmor advocating for our county. Ironically, Wagner is a member of the house’s economic development committee and yet we have never heard him utter any sort of economic development for this county. He’s also the ranking minority member of the agriculture and natural resources committee…and because of this Seneca County has received what? Even though he is on the environment and brownfield development committiee I am mystified as to how he has delivered here as well. At least he’s also on the faith based initiatives committee or we would not have all these great faith based initiatives in this county. Maybe its faith based initiatives in that we are supposed to close our eyes and pray it all gets better.
But alas karen Gillmor is fighting for us by among other things sponsoring legislation to create Paul Newman Day in Ohio; to create ALS Lou Gehrig’s Disease Day; to create a tax exemption for movie production in Ohio; continue and extend a tax credit for investors in broadband improvements (cable companies and telecommunications companies); designating the salamander as the official state amphibian and the bullfrog as the official state frog: and exempting small businesses from regulation. She also did partcipate in three other appropriation bills. Maybe we need the same lobbyist that the salamandars hired. Funny, I never read about this in the AT.
As to Rep. Latta, he moved his office out of Tiffin showing how important this county is compared to Wood County. At least he is busy using our tax dollars to produce campaign materials, I mean information pieces, and staging political rallies, I mean courthouse meetings to this county’s benefit, and a pretty nifty website. In fact, if it weren’t for his website I wouldn’t know that increased fuel prices have hurt the average family. Really Sherlock. However, he does tout that he adheres to the “all of the above” solution to our energy problems but then clarifies that he is busy with a braintrust from the energy people to come up with a real plan. I wonder if the virtual Latta that appears on his website is available for parties.
When an authentic military leader like Maj Gen. David Einsel was involved, the Memorial Day ceremonies usually had a combat vet as main speaker. Ironically, when he retired back to Tiffin after playing a key role in the Reagan defense department, Einsel lost two races for city council while the usual dim bulb insiders were reelected. His books are eye openers about how important he was in the Cold War defense of America. He won a Silver Star in Korea too.
As an elected official, Nutter was OK to invite on the dais, but a vet would have been more appropriate in the keynote role. I give him credit for showing up though. Bluto scores points in his comp analysis of Nutter vs. Daddy Wags, Small Latte, and the widow Gilmore.
Tell me, what do old cars and canned music baton twirlers have to do with Memorial Day? The United Vets floats and vets wagon a few years ago were very classy and much appreciated. I recall when WWI vets used to march in their uniforms. LIke everything else, traditions slip, but let’s keep Memorial Day on target and leave the candy tossing and hoopla for less solemn holidays.
But, keep the Zenobia Hornets.
Memorial Day touches us in many ways. I wonder how many Republicans recognized that the party power struggle this week end focused two Viet Nam combat veterans (and moderates) Tom Ridge and Colin Powell lining up against two right wing hard liners who never wore the uniform, Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh. Kudos to Ridge and Powell for standing up to the bully boys. Maybe there is hope for the party of Lincoln. Meanwhile our man Latta continues to act as a ventriloquist dummy for Limbaugh.
This is the same part of the party that ripped McCain as a coward when he first ran for president and has no problem attacking veterans in favor of policy wonks like Cheney. I really do believe that if Powell would have run for president he would been a very competitive candidate prior to his getting burned by the UN missle tube fiasco. If he has a fault, it is that he is too loyal.
Soupy, there were veterans in the parade, but we have to face the fact that WWII veterans are shrinking in exponential numbers and Korean vets aren’t far behind.
There are far too many wars…some recent…. to provide veterans for parades everywhere – some not that old.
Celebrating the holiday with friends and family and enjoying all our other blessings is perhaps the activity of choice for some veterans rather than parading.
It is sad that some seem too busy to participate or be a spectator in a Memorial parade and service but I guess private thoughts, prayers can also honor those who have given us that freedom.
In regard to Mr. Nutter speaking at state level….I guess only he knows if he is doing it to further personal goals rather than as a public servant.
I am a veteran of the Korean War and I have never meet a true vet. who thought of his or herself as a hero.Anyone who brags about there war adventures is usually a blow hard.I don’t believe anyone sets out to be a Hero it’s usually a matter of circumstances that make up heroes.all those who have died for there country are the true Heroes rather they were recognized as one or not all the rest are lucky.
Korean war veterans are disappearing at a fast rate and they have never truly been recognized because the war never ended.
As far as Nutter speaking at the Memorial Day celebration to each his own to bad he felled to mention the Korean and Vietnam Vets.!!!!!!!!!
Thank God this one is not all about Ben! I do not think that was his intent on this either.After all he did like all come to honor.
Old Timer God Bless you and your Korean War Vets.
It’s good to honor the living veterans, but we must also remember those who gave their lives for this country. What about WWI, the Civil War, etc. Those who fought those wars are just as important. How many of you visited the Soldiers’ Monument on Frost Parkway, and read the names of the various battles. Too bad it doesn’t contain the names of individuals.
I tink dat Veteran’s Day honors living veterans, but der Memorial Day memorializes da vons vee Deutsche shot during der Vorld Vars!!!
Qvite correct Klink. Armed Forces Day (May 15) honors der serving soldaten.
I have visited the soldiers monument and read the battles listed there. I also have traveled to Shiloh and other battlefields and visited the memorials and tombstones of Seneca county soldiers so far away from home.
I would also recommend for our great citizens to visit our local cemeterys and note how many graves bear a GAR marker (Grand Army of the Republic) or the later markers from later wars. There are even some from the Revolution and the Spanish American War.
Now you can throw those rotten tomatoes at me for getting off topic!!!!
I too have visited some of those Civil War battlefields. What struck me right away is the silence and calm of a place where such a bloody battle took place. These are good places for meditation and reflection.
I hesitate to breach this topic, but I think the courthouse could serve as a veterans’ memorial, and at the same time be a functioning courthouse. There may be funding available to make it happen.
Before you scoff, let me explain. First of all the courthouse was built by veterans of the Civil War. Secondly the original metal tower was scrapped during WWII and the metal used for the war effort. What a great reminder of the sacrifices of war.
As always, Speak provides thoughtful perspective. The current encroachment of sprawl on our Civil war battlegrounds is another reminder that our deeds do not always match our words when it comes to respecting our history and the memory of those who sacrificed themselves for a greater cause.
I recently attended a funeral service in a church built in 1865. The stained glass windows erected after the war are memorials to Civil War dead from the congregation. My own great-grandfather, a Civil War vet himself, sat in those pews with his family and looked at those windows. My grand dad was baptized there in 1876. My eyes became their eyes as I sat in that historic place still in use and respected by a congregation who is proud of its heritage.
History is not something to be dragged out by orating politicians on national holidays or embalmed in textbooks. We walk with it and in it every day. Our courthouse, our venerable churches, and our beautiful historic buildings bear the handprints of our ancestors. They are the cultural DNA of our land. To destroy them out of expedience is a form of self mutilation that further erases our connection to our past, our ancestors, and the ideals which we claim but seldom live up to.
Very well put Asa ! I applaud and concur with those sentiments.
coment to speak easy about the courthouse tower, don’t know if you are correct about it being scraped for the war effort. what I read from the history is that the darn thing leaked so bad, and they wanted to put in an elevator, they started the repairs in 1939, but the war came and they couldn’t make the rest of the remodel job. History all depends on who’s telling the story.
cigarman – You are correct. It was leaking badly and had to be replaced. The timing happened to be right to toss the metal in for the war effort.
Cigarman’s comment about hiSTORY being dependance upon who tells the story is correct. Reading and learning all we can from various provides proper perspective. Published newspaper accounts will also be archived for the future to tell a hi-story….sure glad there’s more than one reporter and more than one publication. If all records are in a format we can’t use years from now….we may have no hi-story from our times.
Oh that Dilbert – he’s at it again! I swear he’s in Tiffin sometimes!
The courthouse tower story reminds me of a twin-tower church here in Ohio. Construction was begun during WWII. Once the basic structure and the first tower were completed, the congregation ran out of money. The base of the second spire was in place, so they capped it — and ceased construction.
The shortcoming was “covered” with the rumor that the congregation wanted to ape the cathedral in Europe that had lost one of its twin spires to the bombing effort there.
Imagine THE SIN of it all! A Christian church, spinning a yarn!
Who knows if the metal from the tower was used for the war effort or not ! One of the stories going around is that it still exist and is someones barn.
The important point is when County Commissioners are allowed to make the decision that obnoxious tower is what you get and it was declared progress.
So…what you are saying Old Timer is that we have been electing bad decision makers for 60+ years?
Now THAT is progress….
I resemble that remark, Anonymous!
good job…
thank you….