100

Posted on 17th November 2010 in Just Stuff

This is my 100th post.

I’m feeling a bit of stage fright. Of pressure to perform, to create something witty, humorous and momentous to celebrate the occasion. Imagine how people must feel on their 100th birthday? To come up with an entertaining speech that covers 100 years of life, whilst negotiating slipping false teeth, squealing hearing aides, a full Depends and too much champagne. I might just skip that birthday and go straight to 101.

I’m a bit surprised at how much this little blog has affected my day to day life. What started out as an outlet for all the millions of words and thoughts and random crap that filled my head about my new little hobby of gardening (simultaneously preventing both mine and Crazy Car Man’s sanity from slipping out the front door and running helter skelter down the street) has become a whole separate hobby on it’s own. Anytime anything weird or interesting or properly mental happens, I immediately wonder how I can work it into a post. And my camera now has a permanent home in my handbag.

And the frustrated entertainer in me who badly needs an audience, and who still has machinations to run away and join the circus, thinks you who laugh at me are awesome!

So thanks.

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Summer and the Cicada Army

Posted on 14th November 2010 in Art, Bugs, Just Stuff, Musings

I’ve always loved the song of the cicada. It’s the herald of summer and subsequently all the good things that come with the rise in the mercury. When I was a kid it was 6 weeks holiday from school, Christmas and the accompanying bag of books that Santa so thoughtfully gave me, the thought of being able to secret myself away in one of the many hidey-holes I had to eat homemade iceblocks and read one of the books from the bag, of nights so humid and hot I couldn’t sleep and so my 6 weeks holiday seemed twice as long.
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Dams and Bridges and Ladders for Fishes

Posted on 4th November 2010 in Just Stuff, Musings

My garden is a bit boring at the moment. It’s raining a lot, so there’s no stories of me injuring myself hefting heavy watering cans or tripping over hoses and impaling myself on tomato stakes. All the seeds have sprouted and are doing what they’re meant to be doing, and since the first corn disaster, even the new batch of corn seed has avoided being drowned and or eaten by birds, mice or possums. I could post photos of the plants doing their growing thing, but it’s not very exciting or funny or traumatic, and so doesn’t make for an entertaining read.

I know this website is called Crazy Garden Lady, and I may be upsetting some people by writing about stuff that isn’t strictly garden related. I was considering changing the name to Crazy Garden And Sometimes Random Man Made Stuff And More Often Weird Nature Stuff Lady.com but it just doesn’t have the same ring to it. Not so snappy, harder to remember, so I’ll just have to stick with the original name and hope the strictly garden people don’t run away when I write about things like bridges, and dams and fish ladders.
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The Bridge To Nowhere

Posted on 1st November 2010 in Crazy Car Man, Just Stuff, Musings, The Bush

It was hot on Sunday.  I mean really hot, not just a little bit warm, but so hot my ears were sweating.  And I’ll pause while you truly get to grips with that image….

….. you’re getting the hot?  Good!

And naturally, being so hot, instead of doing normal things like going to the beach, or swinging in a hammock under a tree drinking a gin and tonic (where the only thing sweating is the cool cool glass), Crazy Car Man decided a walk across a scorching field was the activity du jour.
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The Great Winter Tomato Hoax

Posted on 26th October 2010 in Armchair Gardening, Crazy Car Man, Fruit, Just Stuff, Not For Eating, Update

There is nothing better than a cheese and tomato sandwich, on really fresh bread, with salt and pepper. Even just writing about it makes me crave one.

Crazy Car Man doesn’t agree. In his opinion, until very very recently, the only thing a tomato was good for was making tomato sauce. And he has a point – in the shops, tomatoes are crap. In fact, in his opinion, tomatoes come in a close second to his most hated fruit, known as The Fruit of the Devil (seriously, he says it in capital letters), the dreaded pineapple.
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1.52pm

Posted on 24th October 2010 in Armchair Gardening, Chickens, Fruit, Just Stuff, Kingswood, Vegetables

Saturday morning was so hot I pulled the gardening shorts on for the first time since May.  I sent up a warning flare first so people in the vicinity could put their sunglasses on before looking at the legs directly – it is akin to looking at the sun, the glare will leave leg shaped black spots before your eyes for days afterward.

The shorts and I zoomed up to the nursery to buy some potting mix, as some of the tomato seedlings are requesting an upgrade to business class, and on the way there I spotted the cloud.

It was black.  It was roiling.  It was moving in fast.  It looked angry and like it might have some hail to throw on my cars and my garden.  The nursery folk were outside pulling the lettuce seedlings undercover, always a bad sign, so I threw some money on the counter and a couple of bags of potting mix into the boot and headed home like the hounds of hell were on my heels.
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You Couldn’t Make It Up

Posted on 19th October 2010 in Just Stuff

These are the search words someone used to find my site.

I laughed really hard and then tried it myself.  Sure enough, I’m first and second in the listing.  Who knew?

I’m the Kylie Minogue for transgender gardeners!

I hope I age as well as her.

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Question for the Collective: Deadheading

Posted on 18th October 2010 in Books, Just Stuff, Not For Eating

What I know about growing flowers could fill half a thimble, and that’s being generous….in all honesty, it’s probably more like the drops that are left in the bottom of a thimble when you fill it up with water and then pour it out, give it a good shake and then set it upright again.

Not much.

And so I call on the wisdom of the cyberverse, and all you legends who pop into Crazy Garden Ladyland on occasion, for advice on what to do with my flowers.
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Nightmare Bloom

Posted on 10th October 2010 in Just Stuff, Not For Eating

I’m having nightmares after seeing this plant. I think it looks like it would take a chunk out of you as you walk past.

I’m getting strong visuals of some unsuspecting person leaning in to smell it, and losing their nose.

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Rainbow Fields and Weird Creatures

Posted on 4th October 2010 in Just Stuff, Musings, Travel

Long weekends are things of great joy, and when you combine a long weekend with a new 4WD ute, it says one thing and one thing only.

Road trip!

Friends of ours, the Bedouins, have just moved to a tiny town in the Upper Lachlan Shire, so visiting them became the focal point of the trip. A loose plan was devised (we’ll head here on Friday night and then get to their place at some point the next day using as many dirt roads as we can), a camera and toothbrush were packed, a quick look at Google Maps to get a general ‘use the Force’ sense of direction and we were off.
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