<p>^^^</p>
<p>I think I need a shower…</p>
<p>Mommusic, if your tulips have declined to the point of greenery, it’s unlikely that separating them will have any effect. Most tulips on the market today are not reliably perennial (most are Triumph tulips; showy but short-lived) and shouldn’t be counted on for bloom after about 2-3 seasons. You’d be better off planting new bulbs this fall (it’s not too late), and if the old greenery mixes in with the new bulbs, you can trim away anything you don’t like in the spring. </p>
<p>As far as marking where bulbs are planted…I recommend golf tees.</p>
<p>m&s~</p>
<p>Your pm box is full. ~b.</p>
<p>Eww.</p>
<p>We are better than this in here. We send this kind of stuff out to the hot tub.</p>
<p>Now, if we are going to talk tulips, someone will have to go root around behind the bar and look for some old Lipton’s bags. I know I saw them there somewhere. Then get the creamer we use for Irish Coffee. We can have a regular tea party. Although I guess in this political climate perhaps a Boston Tea Party is in order.</p>
<p>Right. We can stage it in the hot tub, boats and all.</p>
<p>And it’s almost time to force the paperwhite narcissus! We can all be genteel! </p>
<p>Pass the scones, please, and the potted cream.</p>
<p>No one ever said congratulations about my son’s soccer victory.</p>
<p><em>pouts</em></p>
<p>Iced tea–unsweetened, thanks. Hot tea when it gets cold out. Good sturdy lapsang souchong or “tea, Earl Grey, hot” for those of you who get the reference.</p>
<p>Thanks for the tulips tip!</p>
<p>And congrats to Alumother & son!</p>
<p>For some reason I’m net getting email notification of new comments, so I have to keep coming back to check on ya’ll. I’m missing lots of fun, I see.</p>
<p>And…I don’t want to leave the impression that I’m some sort of GARDENER! I only plant perennials, so I don’t have to deal with things every year. And I like digging in the dirt and hate paying someone to do what I can perfectly well do myself. :)</p>
<p>Boston Tea Party! would Long Island Iced Tea be out of place?</p>
<p>Actually, my DH is from Boston, and Son stayed there this summer in the ancestral digs so he could afford to live in the Fair City and work there. Great fun.</p>
<p>Congratulations, ALmom! You and you son rock! :D</p>
<p>jym - should MD20/20 always be kept in the brown paper bag, or should it be decanted into a paper cup before enjoying? </p>
<p>btw - Tuesdays MD vintage had insufficient alcohol…they spoiled the entire batch. :(</p>
<p>Here are some [url=<a href=“http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=md+20%2F20]testimonials[/url”>Urban Dictionary: MD 20/20]testimonials[/url</a>] about Wednesdays’ batch however. :)</p>
<p>CONGRATS TO ALU’S SON!!!</p>
<p>Alu~<br>
That really IS <strong><em>SO</em></strong> EXCITING, made all the more so by the fact that one of HIS OWN goals helped ensure the <strong><em>VICTORY</em></strong>!!</p>
<p>WE ARE PROUD OF HIM!!! 
:)</p>
<p>love, ~berurah</p>
<p>actually, berurah, you want to be careful celebrating the phrase ‘own goal’ when it comes to soccer.</p>
<p>wiki-An own goal occurs in goal-scoring games when a player scores a goal that is registered against his own team. It is usually accidental, and may be a result of an attempt at defensive play that failed or was spoiled by opponents.</p>
<p>The term has become a metaphor for any action that backfires on a person. and that will likely be me in this case for entering a room of witty women, rarely to be found in the real world, unfortunately.</p>
<p>love, ~ro</p>
<p>
I wasn’t celebrating the <em>PHRASE</em>, but rather Alu’s son’s goal and ultimate team victory. Methinks she knows the intent of what I was trying to say, and I trust that, unlike you, she will not choose to pick apart an obviously well-intended post. ;)</p>
<p>
Looks like I just scored one? :(</p>
<p>
YEAH…<em>SCOOT</em>!!! ;)</p>
<p>
didn’t know you had it in ya, roro</p>
<p>well, mistress of the flaunted vb code, i understood your intentions into which i have been scolded to realize are always charitable. But what of the other team? While you celebrate, are there not others who stare with crushed dreams upon their muddy bitter cleats?</p>
<p>~love, ro</p>
<p>(the smiley face is often employed to cover a lot of mischief, much like a mask)</p>
<p>
I believe this represents a misinterpretation of my “scolding.” I <em>think</em> what I was <em>trying</em> to convey to you was that my intentions are pretty much always honest or true, as in true to my feelings, beliefs, and value system. And no, I do not generally care for gratuitous ugliness. </p>
<p>
All’s fair in love, war, and soccer. However, that does not diminish my capacity for feeling empathy for the losing team.</p>
<p><a href=“the%20smiley%20face%20is%20often%20employed%20to%20cover%20a%20lot%20of%20mischief,%20much%20like%20a%20mask”>quote</a>
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DAMN STRAIGHT. ;)</p>
<p>~ber</p>
<p>well you will I’m sure disagree with my suspicion that love and hate are not separate states but overlap so seamlessly that it is wiser and more fruitful to appreciate the passion of the source than claim to belong to one camp or the other. much like an angry old testament god who shows his loving thunderous hand in mysterious ways. this is why ‘nice’ bothers me.</p>
<p>~lv,ro</p>
<p>
Not so, surprisingly. </p>
<p>
and ‘mean’ bothers me. So we’re even?</p>
<p>~ber</p>
<p>well, girls might claim to like ‘nice’ but in practice they prefer something with a bit more tooth. I have only ever found smart girls attractive and my natural approach to conversation, which is challenging, lovingly teasing(whereas I am a thoughtful husband and father, please grant me) some might say difficult, hardly ever failed in my flirting days to win the ear of the princess. There’s mean and then there’s interesting which often entails complexity, duality, and the glorious ambiguity of meaning so despised by our denotative prosaic public selves.
~lv, ro</p>
<p>
AH!!! So we have finally found that “common ground.” There is a WORLD of difference between <em>gratuitious meanness</em> and <em>interesting</em> in the context in which you use it. Make no mistake, roro. I am <em>not</em> “one-dimensionally ‘nice,’” which I’m quite sure you have figured out by now. 
By the same token, though, there is a time and a place for everything, no? </p>
<p>~ber</p>
<p>When did somebody let Shakespeare in here?</p>
<p>dunno…I <em>thought</em> was just congratulating Alu’s son, and he just appeared??? 
</p>