tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26746624.post114895324962089186..comments2023-10-26T05:35:59.924-08:00Comments on <br><br><br>FieryBlazingHandbasket: Misadventures of an Amateurish GardenerCabinDwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15064395622100420809noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26746624.post-1149189419106135922006-06-01T11:16:00.000-08:002006-06-01T11:16:00.000-08:00First, Ansgar is such a fantastic pioneer kind of ...First, Ansgar is such a fantastic pioneer kind of name. Just reading it, you think, yep, one of those Scandahoovian immigrants who would show up one night with just a pocket knife - and up would spring a cabin, sauna and ridiculously orderly, tidy farm.<BR/><BR/>Second, I am sufficiently chastized. (I almost typed 'chastened' there, but then my brain went off on a riff about 'chaste') and it was <I>all downhill from there</I>, coming to a rest at the wonderful M. Scott Momaday quote:<BR/><BR/>"Chaste makes waste."<BR/><BR/>But I digress. Rumor in the office today is that it is supposed to do another Really Freaking Late Frost this weekend. Dare I put out another set of tomatos?CabinDwellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15064395622100420809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26746624.post-1149106155279357682006-05-31T12:09:00.000-08:002006-05-31T12:09:00.000-08:00Yup. Ansgar Clausen, who came to Ester in 1946 and...Yup. Ansgar Clausen, who came to Ester in 1946 and died in 2000, I think, NEVER, but never, put the plants in the ground or left 'em outside overnight until June 1. Our place is a little higher, so I can get away with it (usually) by May 27 or 28, but my neighbors down the hill lost a bunch of plants (liquified impatiens), and the nasturtiums I had down in the village square (halfway between, elevation-wise) had a couple of curled leaves and one fatality.<BR/><BR/>My parents, when I was a wee child, used to frighten me with tales of snow on top of Ester Dome in July. I've seen it in late June and in August, so I can't discount it entirely....Deirdre Helfferichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07176487150966377070noreply@blogger.com