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Home » Seasons » year in review » 2009 » The Two of Us

The Two of Us

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Here is a pic of us during our Atlanta reunion. “Johanna-lea” and I didn’t make it to the Botanical Garden, but her description of it made me put it on a list for a future trip.

Here in Ohio we just went through a spate of strong thunderstorms and it is now very humid (that cold front didn’t give us the pleasant weather promised!). So now I’ve got Georgia on my mind;) Hot and sticky!

Hoed out some of the garden before the storms, the weeds grew like weeds heh-heh. Got the kids to mow the lawns(I run the big tractor mower- they do the small ones.)

Summer has set in.

I’m also seeing some dead starlings, etc. I don’t know if this is from the cats or whether West Nile is raising it’s ugly head again. I hear about the Swine flu (Ohio doctors are finding the Health Dept is not reporting all the cases because it saves money on testing -according to latest news story), but nothing yet on the West Nile virus. It took a toll on the bird population- especially Blue Jays. This year was the first I had seen them in awhile. That was late winter spring- none are resident here now.

2009+ Garden photos Ilona Erwin

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  1. johanna_lea says

    June 2, 2009 at 3:49 pm

    we look pretty good for women
    of “a certain age” don’t we?
    next time, let’s plan for NOT
    Memorial day!! %D
    i had a great time anyway.

    if i cant “grab this pic,would
    you email it, old pal…
    love, j.

  2. Ilona says

    June 2, 2009 at 5:55 pm

    I’m trying to figure a way to give you all the pics in full resolution. You can right click and ” save image” but this is a low resolution jpg.

  3. John at JWLW says

    June 7, 2009 at 2:52 am

    Thought I commented to this post. But guess you din’t like what I said.

    did not think it was that bad.

    John

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