A friend sent me this newsletter from Canada. Don't know if it is useful or if it is free. I beleive one issue is sent out each day. jeff ---- Diary of a Mad Gardener April 7 On the way home yesterday I rescued a few split cedar rails that I plan to use around the yard. A hundred and forty years old, hand sawn by the early settlers, they were about to be bulldozed under to make room for a new housing development on the edge of town. They're going to call the place Conservation Meadows. Is it me, or is there some irony in that? The city keeps on growing -- but not growing -- so to speak. Can't blame the farmers for selling out. They've been sitting on their back porches for years watching their pension plans march toward them -- arrived too late for some and the developers got it all instead. Another hundred acres paved over. It's too bad. Soil is important; soil is life, which must be why I like to make it -- something to do with resurrection, maybe. Picture of cedar rails=20 (not an endorsement) http://www.angelfire.com/biz/splitrail/=20 *************************************************************** Mother's Day is coming -- -- Mom will love you for it. http://home.golden.net/~dhobson/book.htm *************************************************************** Check the weather in Dibble's garden &province=3DOntario ***************************************************** If for any reason the diary does not arrive please let me know ASAP. If this does happen it may be due to technical problems that I am unaware of. *************************************************************** Join the International Society of Mad Gardeners and get your membership certificate at: http://home.golden.net/~dhobson/madsoc.htm Questions, feedback, comments always welcome. ************************************************************** Note: Web site version of the diary may be subject to editing. http://home.golden.net/~dhobson/diary.htm [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************** Feel free to forward this to gardening friends, but please leave intact with all attributions. Better still, give them a free gift subscription. To unsubscribe, reply with UN in the subject line. **************************************************** Copyright =A9199= 8=20 David Hobson The Garden Humour Web Site, http://home.golden.net/~dhobson Home of Soiled Reputations, hilarious tales of gardening rivalry. =20 Attachment Converted: "C:\EUDORA\Attach\Ivy.gif"=20
