Comments on: “Bottom of ze Barrel” http://www.eastsidepatch.com/2010/02/bottom-of-ze-barrel/ Take a walk on the East Side Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:10:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: ESP http://www.eastsidepatch.com/2010/02/bottom-of-ze-barrel/comment-page-1/#comment-792 ESP Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:58:42 +0000 http://www.eastsidepatch.com/?p=5314#comment-792 Hi G. The Opuntia tree is slowly gaining in height, I try to be as brutal as I can with her up-pruning. I am sure I should probably be more aggressive with this activity, but after the agonizing demise of the Cactus man, I am leery of such drastic measures. <em>"They are under Hellstrips orders and they're off"</em>...<em>"and making the first turn it is ESP who has the short lead from Witchy G who got off to a slow start in the Hellstrip challenge 2010 because of some impromptu shovel sharpening in her shed..."</em> I look forward to seeing what you come up with in your little strip of Hell. I am just amazed you have any time left to do this, with your work and book writing! With each others support we will prevail and freeze our hell strips over, wait, bad choice of words after this winter! Yes, poor little anole. I must admit though, the Bear Grylls eating "all things dead" image quickly cheered me up. Agave americana var.marginata 'Aurea' it is indeed Germi. I have some Aurea babies planted around the base of the Opuntia, but they have also taken a hammering this winter, I lost one for sure, it just sort of vanished in a puff of mush! I am not familiar with Mario Bava but will check into him. The Hobbits never sleep! Bye for now Gypsy G, (sister of Voltar AND Esmeralda). ESP. Hi G.

The Opuntia tree is slowly gaining in height, I try to be as brutal as I can with her up-pruning. I am sure I should probably be more aggressive with this activity, but after the agonizing demise of the Cactus man, I am leery of such drastic measures.

“They are under Hellstrips orders and they’re off”…“and making the first turn it is ESP who has the short lead from Witchy G who got off to a slow start in the Hellstrip challenge 2010 because of some impromptu shovel sharpening in her shed…” I look forward to seeing what you come up with in your little strip of Hell. I am just amazed you have any time left to do this, with your work and book writing! With each others support we will prevail and freeze our hell strips over, wait, bad choice of words after this winter!

Yes, poor little anole. I must admit though, the Bear Grylls eating “all things dead” image quickly cheered me up.

Agave americana var.marginata ‘Aurea’ it is indeed Germi. I have some Aurea babies planted around the base of the Opuntia, but they have also taken a hammering this winter, I lost one for sure, it just sort of vanished in a puff of mush!

I am not familiar with Mario Bava but will check into him. The Hobbits never sleep!

Bye for now Gypsy G, (sister of Voltar AND Esmeralda).

ESP.

]]> By: Germi http://www.eastsidepatch.com/2010/02/bottom-of-ze-barrel/comment-page-1/#comment-790 Germi Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:36:00 +0000 http://www.eastsidepatch.com/?p=5314#comment-790 HA! There was a ticking in my brain on Friday evening and a mist clouded my field of vision ... and I saw it... the shovel, the HellStrip, the mattress - but it was the BEAUTIFUL Opuntia tree (good job, ESP!) that oriented me. NO! You are attacking your HellStrip WAY before me! Okay, I have to hurry up and get my part of this Hellstrip Challenge 2010, ESP and Witchy G, underway! I can't wait to see the result of your fantastic scheme ... it is going to be a vision! I'm going to add Muhlenbergia capilaris to my HellStrip in honor of your planting. Not biting your style, mind you, merely an HOMAGE... The little anole made me sad, but I very much approve of the dramatic mise en scene it created for its end of life tableaux. Bravo. I appreciate theatre in all its forms, especially when it happens in a garden! Lovely, lamented anole! The teeth on that A. americana aureo-marginata (it IS called that, isn't it? I might have just brazenly made up that name!) REALLY make me want to bite something. By the way - are you a fan of Mario Bava, by any chance? If so, you have to watch the beginning of 'Black Sunday' - scary, but the shot you started the post with made me think of it. Make sure the Hobbits are asleep! Another exciting visit to The Patch! THANK YOU!!! Gypsy G, Esmerelda's sister HA! There was a ticking in my brain on Friday evening and a mist clouded my field of vision … and I saw it… the shovel, the HellStrip, the mattress – but it was the BEAUTIFUL Opuntia tree (good job, ESP!) that oriented me. NO! You are attacking your HellStrip WAY before me! Okay, I have to hurry up and get my part of this Hellstrip Challenge 2010, ESP and Witchy G, underway!
I can’t wait to see the result of your fantastic scheme … it is going to be a vision! I’m going to add Muhlenbergia capilaris to my HellStrip in honor of your planting. Not biting your style, mind you, merely an HOMAGE…
The little anole made me sad, but I very much approve of the dramatic mise en scene it created for its end of life tableaux. Bravo. I appreciate theatre in all its forms, especially when it happens in a garden! Lovely, lamented anole!
The teeth on that A. americana aureo-marginata (it IS called that, isn’t it? I might have just brazenly made up that name!) REALLY make me want to bite something.
By the way – are you a fan of Mario Bava, by any chance? If so, you have to watch the beginning of ‘Black Sunday’ – scary, but the shot you started the post with made me think of it. Make sure the Hobbits are asleep!
Another exciting visit to The Patch! THANK YOU!!!
Gypsy G, Esmerelda’s sister

]]> By: Fits and Starts Austin http://www.eastsidepatch.com/2010/02/bottom-of-ze-barrel/comment-page-1/#comment-789 Fits and Starts Austin Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:11:51 +0000 http://www.eastsidepatch.com/?p=5314#comment-789 I nominated you for a Sunshine award! See my blog at: http://fitsandstartsaustin.blogspot.com/2010/02/ray-of-golden-sunshine.html <em>Thanks for the award, my reputation apparently does not precede me :-) As much as I would like to get into these awards they just take to much time for me to execute. I am grateful you thought of the Patch though, I really am. ESP.</em> I nominated you for a Sunshine award! See my blog at:
http://fitsandstartsaustin.blogspot.com/2010/02/ray-of-golden-sunshine.html

Thanks for the award, my reputation apparently does not precede me :-) As much as I would like to get into these awards they just take to much time for me to execute. I am grateful you thought of the Patch though, I really am.

ESP.

]]> By: TexasDeb http://www.eastsidepatch.com/2010/02/bottom-of-ze-barrel/comment-page-1/#comment-788 TexasDeb Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:41:14 +0000 http://www.eastsidepatch.com/?p=5314#comment-788 Well done Patchster! Hope your back forgives you soonest. The pain always subsides more quickly when there is the prospect of a long planned for improvement as reward. And think of this -your back would hurt just as much if you'd dug that out some other time of year, only you'd have had heat exhaustion to deal with on top of everything else. So good on you for forging ahead. RIP little anole. It pains me to see the dead ones, they're so much fun to share a space with. <em> Thanks Debster. I am feeling more human again today. I have an awful feeling that the other side of the strip is in my destiny (Esmeralda and Germi both saw it in a Tarot reading) for this upcoming weekend. I am determined to make good use of all this rain, and was amazed at just how soft the ground was in this area, It is usually baked clay and completely futile to dig...I have tried the pick axe on it before and lost a couple of teeth. What a strange place for the little anole to draw it's final breath! I am glad the Bear Grylls could not get in there to devour the little chap. RIP. ESP.</em> Well done Patchster! Hope your back forgives you soonest. The pain always subsides more quickly when there is the prospect of a long planned for improvement as reward. And think of this -your back would hurt just as much if you’d dug that out some other time of year, only you’d have had heat exhaustion to deal with on top of everything else. So good on you for forging ahead.

RIP little anole. It pains me to see the dead ones, they’re so much fun to share a space with.


Thanks Debster.

I am feeling more human again today. I have an awful feeling that the other side of the strip is in my destiny (Esmeralda and Germi both saw it in a Tarot reading) for this upcoming weekend. I am determined to make good use of all this rain, and was amazed at just how soft the ground was in this area, It is usually baked clay and completely futile to dig…I have tried the pick axe on it before and lost a couple of teeth.

What a strange place for the little anole to draw it’s final breath! I am glad the Bear Grylls could not get in there to devour the little chap. RIP.

ESP.

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