[lit-ideas] Re: A Revolution in the USA?

  • From: "Helen Wishart" <hwishart@xxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:35:36 -0400

sorry - messed up the subjunctive - should be "wishing her office were next to her classroom"

Helen A Wishart



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From: "Helen Wishart" <hwishart@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: A Revolution in the USA?
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:30:46 -0400

There are no mosquitoes in the garden in Canada. It's quite perfect - like the Walgreen's country.

I can't sit out in my garden (what a misnomer that is) because noone has laid finger to it for two months. The grass in the yard is two feet high and I'm sure cabals of snakes live in it. The retreiver refuses (unbelievable) to chase a ball - probably getting cautionary whispers in her ears from the ghost of the golden that was bitten by the cottonmouth.

Before I left for Canada I buried vegetable waste in the flower beds. Over the summer whatever veggie seeds were mixed in with the refuse sprouted. I have a 24 foot squash vine trailing over the roof of the porch - all those little tendrils making holes in the screen mesh. Potatoes, tomatoes, all kinds of unrecognizable plant life smothering the gardenias. It's like a horror movie. And it's too hot and humid to bend over and yank anything out without fainting.


off to another class to foment a revolution- unfortunately that means going outside and walking - but I see the temperature has dropped to a balmy 91. I should put paramedics on speed dial.


Helen A Wishart
wishing her office was next door to her classroom


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From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: A Revolution in the USA?
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:23:46 EDT

How can either of you sit out in a garden right now?  You'll be eaten  alive
by mosquitoes in minutes.  I was out to put my dog on the line and my  legs
are covered with bites.

This heat, humidity, unusually high swarms of flies and mosquitoes are
turning me agoraphobic.

Julie Krueger
in
a semi-cool room relatively insect free.

========Original Message========     Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: A Revolution in
the USA?  Date: 8/14/06 4:20:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time  From:
_judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)   To:
_lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)   Sent on:
> I was responding to the comments by  Rellikgnik on the Amazon
site not to
> Lawrence.  I'm sorry I  didn't make that clear.

it was clear, Helen; I added in a comment of  Lawrence's.

> It is too hot for a Canadian -

ah -- yes; it was  too hot here for Brits in July and early in
August,
and will be  again;  not as hot as it is there but high 80s and
very  humid.

> My daughter finally got home late last night after  a
near-accident in a
> torrential downpour in South Carolina.

I  had a homecoming like that once... at least she is home now.

> wishing  she were sitting in her mother's garden with a glass of
herb tea and
>  dubonnet

I like dubonnet and I like your mother's garden.  Mine  is
unfortunately
extraordinarily scruffy, but I may sit out in it again  now it's
cooler

Judy

----- Original Message -----
From:  "Helen Wishart" <hwishart@xxxxxxx>
To:  <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 10:13  PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: A Revolution in the USA?


> I was  responding to the comments by Rellikgnik on the Amazon
site not to
>  Lawrence.  I'm sorry I didn't make that clear.
>
> It is too  hot for a Canadian - a humid 96 in the shade and much
higher in
> the  pedestrain walk in the university core where you can almost
hear the
>  concrete sizzling.
>
> My daughter finally got home late last night  after a
near-accident in a
> torrential downpour in South Carolina.  They hydroplaned across
four lanes of
> traffic and spun around  twice.
>
> Which supports my contention that a person has a greater  chance
of being
> pulverized on a US highway than in a US airplane  -terrorists
> notwithstanding.
>
>
> Helen A  Wishart
> wishing she were sitting in her mother's garden with a glass  of
herb tea and
> dubonnet instead of mending comma splices in a  swamp
>
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