The Daily Rave

[iris lilies]

Congrats, il. Do you have a picture of the lily in bloom?

you bet! It is the middle one, shown at the Chicago botanical gardens,

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Chicago Botanical Gardens gives plant societies great support, unlike the Missouri Botanical Gardens here in St. Louis. They provide show space in prime real estate for several days, meeting room space for lectures, and they even store show properties ( risers, signs) for us. My friends are putting on the American Daffodil Society show in Chicago Botanical Gardens due to the ease of working with CBG.

Meanwhile, I have spent literally hours trying to line up space with Missouri Botanical
gardens for an iris show. They have grudingly given us 1 day with limited set up time. We have a $15,000 check for them from the sale of iris we dug, cleaned,and sold from their iris garden. Oh and our group takes care of their iris bed thru the year. Ungrateful much?

cooperation from these two botanical gardens is night and day. Suffice to say the Missouri Botanical Gardens are not in my will.

oops this is turned into a rant! Ha ha. I guess I just can’t help but complain

[happystuff]

Thanks for posting, but I can't get the picture large enough for me to see. (My eyes are so bad lately!) But judging from all the ribbons - YAY!

[iris lilies]

Thanks for posting, but I can't get the picture large enough for me to see. (My eyes are so bad lately!) But judging from all the ribbons - YAY!

I never know why some of my photos display the way they do, but this one is enlarged so at least maybe you can see some of it.

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[happystuff]

Much better! And beautiful! Thank you!

[SiouzQ.]

I was going to put this in the rant catagory but have decided to think of it in a different way - we have been waiting for hours (!) for our new refrigerator delivery and I am getting impatient. In the past two months we've had to replace our stove/oven (a circa 1990-ish model that came with our funky house). We had purchased a new igniter for twice in six years. The cost of the part kept going up each time so it made sense to "say when" and just bite the bullet and get a new stove. We've had it for about 6 weeks now and it's lovely. But then for the past year or so the freezer on top of the refrigerator (another '90's model) started making these intermittant weird noises, which if you banged on the fan cover it usually stopped.

Well, in the last few days it started emitting this horrible, dying squeaky death rattle that no amount of banging would shut up. I woke up yesterday and decided, just decided like in a split second that I was going to buy a new refrigerator! So we went to Lowe's and found one and I whipped out my credit card and just got 'er done. I also paid an extra $50 for them to cart the old one away.

The gratitude part of this story is that I have the ability to ring up a big charge like that and the savings to pay it off. We didn't get the fancy side-by-side type; is just a basic model with the freezer on top like I have always had - it was on sale for $679. I have NO RIGHT to be bothered by the inconvenience of having to wait around for delivery (we just found out the delivery guys may be stuck way out in the middle of nowhere making a delivery to someone off-grid near us. The dirt/gravel roads out here in the desert can be a bit treacherous...) when millions of people are in fear of having no SNAP benefits starting on Saturday.

[Tybee]

That sounds like a nice new refrigerator! We should do the same thing and probably will before the snow falls, just to make it easier to get it home. Keep meaning to, and then something else comes up, like a new chain saw last week.

[iris lilies]

A few hours ago, King Charles of England made a bold move with his brother, the disgraced Prince Andrew.


Charles removed all of Andrew’s remaining titles and honorifics, and he has ordered Andrew to vacate the very large house he inhabits with his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson.

Andrew voluntarily gave up his titles about a week ago, but some remained. the King king has done something unprecedented: completely removed the title of “Prince” from Andrew. Andrew will not be known as a prince. He’s going to be a man with a first name and a last name, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.

There is even talk in some circles that Andrew will be banished from Great Britain.

All of this is necessary to address the view that the monarchy is weak and cannot deal with its internal problems. I want to see King Charles take care of the Andrew problem before he dies and his son William takes over. A King William shouldn’t have to deal with old uncle Andy.

this is in the rave thread because I think it’s a good move, a necessary move.

[pinkytoe]

SiouxQ, We recently did same with our 90s or maybe even 80s dishwasher that was misbehaving. A new pump might have fixed it but it was time to start over. Went to Costco and got the most basic Whirlpool one we could find and paid the extra $50 to have it installed and old one hauled away. We are usually avid DIYers but getting old is amending that mindset.

[rosarugosa]

SiouzQ: I believe I did post it in the rant thread, but I tried to apply a similar mindset with my broken tooth. I'm glad I live in the time of modern dentistry, and glad to have the resources to pay for my dental needs.

[early morning]

I too am trying to reset my whine/complain urge. Generally, I HATE to go to the grocery. I do go to Aldi/TJ exclusively which helps (mostly with prices, and with the 50 varieties of the same thing rant). Last week, though, I was so grateful that I could just go to the store, buy what we needed with a few "wants" added, and pay for it. It felt really churlish to complain about it.

I am well aware how lucky we are to be able to do just that. Sure, we made some choices that helped along the way, but a lot of it was luck. Luck to be born when/where we were, to have parents who provided for us, to not have large emotional/mental challenges to overcome, to have good genes allowing us more lee-way health wise - We all like to think of ourselves as "self-made". You'll never convince me that a lot of our success, or lack there-of, is NOT just plain dumb luck.