ohhh, for the first time in 6 years, I have been able to grow...zinnias! I LOVE them. they are hardier than dahlias which I also love, but won't grow in this heat. We have organic soil now and some of these babies are 5 feet tall!

Oh, I have flowers by the kitchen sink too! The zinnias.
We pulled down the birdhouse gourd vine yesterday. It was encroaching on the sea buckthorn trees we are experimentally growing here. I will have none of that! Only one gourd too.

I know I'm new here and I know I talk alot, however I'm really glad to have found this place. My best email friend, and really, my best friend other than the Lord died in April. She was a heart friend and we would write missives when we wrote, but we didn't write every week. maybe every
1-2 months for a few at a time, then nothing for another month or two.

I would have told her about my zinnias and I'm really missing her today for some reason. She lived in NZ. I never met her face to face, but we saw each other on video cam and talked on the computer before skype was alive.

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