And I'm not happy with it. So the backyard grows like gangbusters, as the lady I bought the house from last summer described it. And that's really cool. And things were growing like gangbusters this summer, and everything was lovely. But recently, everything's been falling over. And I'd been thinking to myself that everything had grown so big that it was falling over under its own weight. And partially, that's what was happening. But not entirely.
This evening, I took a closer look at the goings on. And I'm not happy. There's this vine, and it's wrapped itself tightly around virtually all of my flowers, and is more or less suffocating them, and they're all collapsing under the weight of these vines that are climbing the flowers to get to the sunlight.
And I had hoped to be a laissez faire gardener. But I see that it's no longer a possibility. But now, in a way, it's too late. Because of the trauma that I have to induce on my flowers to get rid of this damn vine. And you have no idea how much of it I pulled out. It just kept coming and coming, and I'm sure there's a ton more. It's taking over everything. It's getting all up in my business. And I'm pissed. And I've let my lovely flowers down.
It got dark tonight. I'll go back soon and keep going. But I don't know how I can really beat this stuff. It's insidious. I have a feeling this this will be my own personal never-ending war on (flower) terrorism hell.
In other news, I randomly stumbled upon this earlier in the night. I really really wasn't looking for anything of the sort. Popped up on a Google search for something else entirely. But totally hot.
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They don't look comfortable at all.
ReplyDeleteOk. What's with the name here? SW? I was thinking Sara Warren, but then there's the little SH finger-mustache icon right next to the name. And the same thing next to the comment over at DB, now that I look at it, which is definitely from SH. And now all the posts over at DB saw posted by SW, whereas they all used to be posted by Szu-Hua. So you've totally changed your blogger identity. But why? And you used to be able to click on your profile name and see a little blurb about you whistling at bah-mitzvahs (which I always had a problem with how you were spelling, but anyway) - and now? No Blogger profile.
ReplyDeleteYou're turning anonymous. But why?
I never said they looked comfortable.
ReplyDeleteI'll explain in my next post.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I like to say bah mitzvahs as an old european lady. I'm aware of the spelling.
Actually no I'll just explain it here.
My web presence was starting to get a bit too ubiquitous for my liking. The internet is freaking me out. It knows too much. I once had a some guy I barely met find my blog from just having my name. I don't like that. And with the likes of facebook and freaky sites that know your email addresses, its so easy to find a person these days. I don't like that either. So I had to be a bit less conspicuous. The End.
I totally hear 'ya. I'm not on the FB, and I sort of wish I didn't have any hits at all when my name gets googled.
ReplyDeleteAnd your name is pretty unique.
I remember when I set this blog up that there were settings like 'don't make my blog searchable' or something like that - I don't think this blog would turn up in a search, but I haven't checked. You might do that. I think you can also password protect your blog. But if you do that, please make sure I'm one of the people with the password. Otherwise, I'd be sad.
In fact, I would sort of like it if you kept your blogger name Szu-Hua but found some other way to secure the blog from prying eyes. There was this special moment that happened sometimes where I log into my email and there's a message 'from' Szu-Hua. In fact, it's a comment awaiting moderation. But just for a fleeting moment I'm able to pretend that we're real friends and that you're emailing me. And now with the change I'm not going to have that moment any more. So if there's any way of protecting your identity while still giving me that fun moment, I vote for that. Thanks.
But what does SW stand for? Secret woman?
A, I find it nice that I am SW to you, but in fact her initials and mine are the same (and frankly, she had them first; I married into mine).
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about the vine. That sounds like a disaster. How lovely that you have flowers though.
Permission to add you to my list on my blog of blogs that I read? Did that sentence make sense?
Ha. I wish I was clever enough to have thought of secret woman, but alas, those are just my initials. I hadn't realized until you mentioned it that I now share the same initials as my bff in adulthood. Or maybe we had a discussion when she got married and I just can't remember.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the kind and sweet words. I feel like we are friends in some way, though a very weird way. An unconventional friendship, if you will. If you give me your email I will email you and my email still has my name on it, so it will still show up when you receive it. I'll look into switching it back on the blog, but...I don't know, I kind of need a low profile right now. And I wasn't sure what you meant by a "comment awaiting moderation."