The GUILD 4-29-2002 Adam and Eve in the Garden

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

GARDEN OF EDEN

One day in the Garden of Eden, Eve calls out to God, "Lord, I have a

problem!"

"What's the problem, Eve?"

"Lord, I know you've created me and have provided this beautiful garden and

all of these wonderful animals, and that hilarious comedy snake, but I'm

just not happy."

"Why is that, Eve?", comes the reply from above.

"Lord, I am lonely. And I'm sick to death of apples."

"Well, Eve, in that case I have a solution. I shall create a man for you."

"What's a 'man,' Lord?"

"This man will be a flawed creature, with aggressive tendencies, an

enormous ego and an inability to empathize or listen to you properly.

All in all he'll give you a hard time. But he'll be bigger and faster

and more muscular than you, he'll be really good at fighting and kicking

a ball about and hunting fleet-footed ruminants, and not altogether bad.

"Sounds great," says Eve, with an ironically raised eyebrow.

But you can have him, only on one condition."

"What's that, Lord?"

"You'll have to let him believe that I made him first."

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

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[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

It's a little early, but it's the 29th somewhere.

[mountaineer]

It's well after midnight in London. Wonder what Chelsea is up to?

[Carolinamom]

ok by me! I'm not an admirer of Dick Morris, but his review of Joe Klein's The Natural about Clinton is a tour de force...more of an essay on Clinton than a book review. (National Review, May 6 issue, p.48)

Sample: Bill Clinton was not natural at anything. He was the exact opposite; a contrived, artificial, highly scripted, poll-driven politician whose warm empathy with strangers in public was in stark contrast to his moody, self-involved crankiness in private. He is a man of abysmally low personal character who regards the truth--with splendid impartiality--as merely one of several options to consider before he speaks.

*****snip*****

Taking the former president at his word, Klein faithfully recounts the bite-sized achievements of Clinton's presidency. The list grows more trivial by the day as we see it framed by the events of 9/11 and the truly dangerous world Clinton left behind for us to cope with.......

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Who's to say that Chelsea is even in England? Isn't there a fashion show somewhere on the planet that she needed to attend?

And while I am musing here, why would a family who only wears black pantsuits even need to attend a fashion show?

[MaeWest]

Whouuuueeee! See Dick, see Dick skewer Clinton. Sounds like Dick just nailed that "Clinton Legacy" the media groupies used to obsess about.

[Aggie Mama]

Oh gosh, that is too funny HLL! =) I needed that. I've been snipping at my husband all day.

[Iowa Granny]

Good One, my dear. 44 degrees here. I'm sorry I whined about that 90 degree weather a couple of weeks ago.

[SuziQ]

44 degrees here. I'm sorry I whined about that 90 degree weather a couple of weeks ago.

You and me both, Granny! It's 37 degrees here in MA. We even had a dusting of snow two nights ago! And folks around here were complaining about temps in the 80s a couple of weeks ago. It will probably be a few weeks before we work back up to that! I'm just glad its raining for the next few days because I spent the last week or two working hard getting the yard repaired. Had to dig out the grass the grubs destoyed, kill the slimy little buggers, then put lime, new grass seed and fertilizer down. With the rain, I won't have to water the lawn for a few days.

[Iowa Granny]

I remember reading about your Grub Detail. Sounds like mean work. I have put down the Grub Killer stuff, but we've haven't tried the removing sod method. It's not likely we will.... about an Acre of grass to mow here.

Have you done any other garden work? I got a good start on clearing away the winter debris,,, but cold weather set it and everything is at a standstill. The tulips have pushed their way thru it all and are nodding in the wind.

Slugs are the next problem to combat,, lots of hosta in shady areas here. It will take lots of salt and beer.

[MaeWest]

....lots of salt and beer.

We'd all be tempted to drop in for the party if it wasn't for the 'guests' you're inviting.

[BluesDuke]

Archie Bunker, on the Garden of Eden: Adam and Eve, they had it pretty good there in the Garden of Eden. They had all the food they could eat, no trouble to worry about, they didn't even know they was naked...but Eve wasn't satisfied. And so she went up against direct orders and made poor Adam eat that apple. God got mad and said, 'Get your clothes on an' get the hell outta here'."

[Iowa Granny]

Baiting the "guests" with beer in the lid of a Mayonaise Jar,, and sneaking around the garden after dark with a flashlight in one hand,, salt box in the other hand. I honestly do treat my normal guests much better.

Come on over, Mae. I've saved the Corona's back,,,, we'll have us a party as we watch the slugs twist and die.

[habs4ever]

Wonder what an old "friend" of ours would say to your opening??LOL...me, I just groaned.Were you watching Lifetime before you posted?? ;-)

[habs4ever]

Clinton was a con man, that bluffed his way to gaining acceptance by twits like Klein.Con artists have that habit, thay can appear so "believable" to gullible saps.

Geez, HLL, you ever met this type before? ;-)

[SuziQ]

We'd all be tempted to drop in for the party if it wasn't for the 'guests' you're inviting.

That's the problem, she's NOT inviting them! LOL! They are just gate-crashers, like my grubs!!

Though a cold beer after killing little critters like that is, as Martha would say, "a good thing".

[SuziQ]

Have you done any other garden work?

No, it has just been yard work so far. Once I get the last area cleared out, soil sifted clean of rocks, re-seeded and fertilized, I'm taking a break. I'll mow when I need to, but that will be enough for a while. I had put bulbs in last fall during the last yard marathon. We had dug up areas of the yard, put some of that black weed blocking fabric down and put mulch over it. In a few of those areas, I went back, split the fabric and put some bulbs in. The hyacinth and blue muscari have already bloomed and died. The tulips are up right now and are just beautiful. I didn't put enough of them in, but will rectify that this fall. I had a few bulbs try to push up through the fabric in areas I had forgotten that they had been planted several years ago. When I saw the bulges in the mulch, I cut the fabric open to let the plants through.

We're fixing to do a major remodeling job so I'm not going to spend a lot of time doing something that may be changed anyway. But last weeks thread with all the roses made me want to try my hand at them. After we remodel, I'm going to plant a couple of fragrant climbing roses on the south side of the house against the garage wall. It will be a tall, somewhat blank wall area because we're going to build a full floor over the garage for a new master bedroom suite. I'm hoping the rose will grow 10 to 15 feet high to soften that large wall area. I checked out some of the links given for the roses, and was just captivated by the variety of roses available nowadays! I'll be checking locally to see what will grow well here.

[swheats]

Baiting the "guests" with beer in the lid of a Mayonaise Jar,, and sneaking around the garden after dark with a flashlight in one hand,, salt box in the other hand....we'll have us a party as we watch the slugs twist and die.

So that's where that saying came from, "dumping salt on someone" or telling others of someone's nefarious dealings. You can learn a lot from FR. Just stick around.

[Fintan]

...why would a family who only wears black pantsuits even need to attend a fashion show?

Ever try to panhandle at a garage sale?

[Iowa Granny]

Good Morning folks. I'm off to see a new Pain Management Doc today. Lots of lovely big Garden Centers in the City. I will do my best to regenerate the economy.