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Cellar Scribblings
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 17, 2026, 08:30:08 pm ---Hi Chuck and everyone,
Regarding my weekend, I'm reminded of what Dame Maggie Smith's character, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, said, "What is a weekend?" In fact, my weekend is my work week and my week is my weekend. I'm incredibly busy these two days. Today, I had sewing circle at my church. It's actually a support group for the sewing circle leader. Before that, I had to prepare the minutes for the Rock Garden Society meeting that was held last Sunday. I usually work on these at a leisurely pace and then post them shortly before the next board meeting. But, now they're needed just a few days after the meeting because of a lot of questions and controversy. And tonight, I need to make progress on my blog "Everybody Eats" and a bio of the president of the Native American Sacred Trees group where I'm an officer. Tomorrow I have church, with an all-congregation meeting afterwards and preparing for a meeting on Monday. And preparing for the Women's March on Tuesday. Also, I need to work on my taxes every chance I get. No need to hyperventilate! It will all get done, more or less.
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What is it with garden people? First the permaculture organization, now the Rock Garden Society? :(
Sason:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 17, 2026, 08:30:08 pm ---Hi Chuck and everyone,
Regarding my weekend, I'm reminded of what Dame Maggie Smith's character, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, said, "What is a weekend?" In fact, my weekend is my work week and my week is my weekend. I'm incredibly busy these two days. Today, I had sewing circle at my church. It's actually a support group for the sewing circle leader. Before that, I had to prepare the minutes for the Rock Garden Society meeting that was held last Sunday. I usually work on these at a leisurely pace and then post them shortly before the next board meeting. But, now they're needed just a few days after the meeting because of a lot of questions and controversy. And tonight, I need to make progress on my blog "Everybody Eats" and a bio of the president of the Native American Sacred Trees group where I'm an officer. Tomorrow I have church, with an all-congregation meeting afterwards and preparing for a meeting on Monday. And preparing for the Women's March on Tuesday. Also, I need to work on my taxes every chance I get. No need to hyperventilate! It will all get done, more or less.
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Phew! Just reading this makes me exhausted!
Good thing you have next week to recover, Lee!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on Yesterday at 12:01:06 am ---What is it with garden people? First the permaculture organization, now the Rock Garden Society? :(
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That's exactly what I thought! I hope the controversy is of a less personal nature this time.
Front-Ranger:
Yes, fortunately it is. I belong to several gardening clubs and mostly they are very harmonious. The ones that are are the ones run by women. But in the permaculture and rock gardening worlds, the guys cause a lot of acrimony. They strut about, puffing up their chests, and gather in knots to compare the size of the power tools they use.
This latest controversy is over a book that we want to produce to commemorate the society's 50th anniversary. We call it "50 people, 50 plants, 50 years." We had the most senior person in our group call my friend R. and ask him to write about snowdrops. But later, when I met with him for lunch, he announced that he was in a bad mood because some other guy was asked to write about crocuses. I took him to lunch, I paid for the lunch and met him there and all he did was give me grief. I finally figured out that he wanted to write about snowdrops AND crocuses. I explained that each author was to write about one plant, that was the point of the book. He sulked. I went away with indigestion.
Sason:
You never told us before that your friend R. is 5 years old.
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