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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

If he keeps that up he is going to overdevelop your
place.  I suggest you avoid that by sending him to
stay at my place for a while.
Van Dell


--- Lynda <lurine AT softcom.net> wrote:

> We are having one weird winter.  Temps average 5-10
> degrees each night.  Not
> the usual.  No snow.  Not the norm.  No rain.  Not
> the norm.
> 
> So, we had all kinds of indoor projects planned
> because this time of the
> year we should have been staying indoors keeping dry
> and warm.  Instead,
> daytime temps are up to 60, so we've been outside
> doing things we were going
> to do in the spring.
> 
> We're adding more raised beds.  Put in another 11
> trees (apple, cherry,
> plum, apricot, almond).  We extended the "frontyard"
> and moved roses.  Have
> 8 more to move.  We moved rhodies, azaleas and
> planted bulbs.
> 
> To understand what happened next, you need to
> understand that DH is a Type
> AAA personality.  Not a Type A.  Nooooo, that would
> be too easy to live
> with.  He's a type AAA!  And that's without coffee
> <g>  This is our third
> winter here and he's cleared all the brush on 9
> acres.  Hauled all the old
> useless junk to the dump.  Put up carports.  Built
> storage sheds.  Built an
> A-frame chicken coop.  Put up about 500' of split
> rail fencing.  Fenced in
> my "new" garden area (the old one you may remember
> has too much water, which
> of course can't be true since this is California
> <g>).  He's split the wood
> to build a pergola for the front deck.
> 
> Now he's bored.  He wants a park area with specimen
> trees and exotic and
> rare shrubs.  He wants a dry creek bed and plans to
> build a bridge over it.
> He designed plans (he used to do architectural
> drafting in another life) for
> a gazebo.   So tomorrow he is off to buy a roll of
> field fencing to fence
> off his "park" and I'm supposed to find a list of
> trees and shrubs.
> 
> With that in mind, anyone have any favorites (trees
> or shrubs that flower)
> that will grow well where the temps reach zero in
> the winter and 110 in the
> summer?  Then again, they don't necessarily have to
> supposed like this type
> of weather since all of my redwoods are doing quite
> well and growing like
> crazy!
> 
> Lynda
> 
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