http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__s_Garden/Some things grow and some things die. Gardens teach nurturing, responsibility, creativity and wonder. My grandchildren and I learn much in the garden classroom.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__s_Garden/572688Tonight, at about 10 p.m. I heard real rain on the roof. Haven't heard that in weeks and I had gotten used to it this summer. Now I hear my windchimes from my son's trip to Korea making their tiny brassy ding, ding, ding.... When the winds are stronger, I can hear the coconut fish knock, knock,...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__s_Garden/571068down to about three feet above the ground, still has a fabulously grand and useful root system. So, tiny branches are popping up all over the sides of the trunk. Hope sings eternal, springs eternal? Dunno why my fingers wrote SINGS the first time. Anyway, it is coming screaming back. Great. My...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__s_Garden/570477through it. I actually made myself sit on my huge garden swing and the dogs jumped up and we all just went back and forth, them jumping on and off, for about sixty minutes last night at about 1 a.m. Lovely.http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__s_Garden/565549The front fencing is broken and needs about 14 wooden slats replaced and two 2x4s. The Texas Rangers are now gone so that I can paint the front wall and make the front garden fresh and pretty again, soon. The pigeons have found the bag of seeds this a.m. as I was late filling feeders for the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__s_Garden/562990Help! I have tried all day off and on and I can't get this darned thing to do anything but stall. I am stuck and shall suffer over it all week.?click here? and do better than I, perchance.http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__s_Garden/560859We look like Phoenix. Phoenix is always green as they are a water wasting city. We have chosen desert plantings more often than not. Except for the newcomers. However, this sweeter than usual summer of lower than usual temperatures and with the rains and higher humidity, we have flowers...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__s_Garden/558251It began to rain tonight, about two hours ago and it has not stopped. I am almost in tears over the darned raindrops on the roof. My garden is rejoicing, a windchime is ting tinging in a soft breeze and the thunder which sent the doggies all under my chair, has ended. Three dogs do not fit under...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__s_Garden/556758I begged for it to come here, thinking that he would leave it as he leaves so much else for long periods of time. But, no. He may move it tomorrow. Darn!! I spent two hours yesterday, filling it with bamboo. Today two passing young fellows helped me to fill the three huge garbage cans with cactus...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__s_Garden/555244I went to get my little foreign student granddaughter so that she could go through the boxes on my back porch. She had said that she was sure to be able to get her things into 6 boxes for the Amtrak ride to Wisconsin. HAH! We have filled 8 at her dormitory already and there is more left over...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__s_Garden/554829My old bones ached all day, waiting for this. I danced some rain dances and prayed some rain prayers and asked for two hours of rain today. May it come true. My big old trees and those next door and down the street could really use a break from this endless drought. I watered for two hours this...