[at-l] OT - White Picket Fence Dreams

[janl2 at mindspring.com (Jan Leitschuh)]

Okay, so I've done it. The picture I held in my mind all of the AT, 
indeed, for years before that, is coming into being. The 
little-yellow-cottage-in-the-woods is not done yet, but every month 
brings new paint to the sketches.

This past week I installed the white picket fence with the little 
arbor gateway. Okay, so I'm a corny romantic traditionalist homebody 
at the core of my wandering heart. The truth had to come out sometime.

This morning I planted some antique roses - the rosy Zephrine Drouhin, 
Madame Alfred Carrier (a vigorous white noisette climber, very 
fragrant) the pink tea Dutchess de Brabant, Souvenir del la Malmaison 
(old-fashioned, quartered pale pink blossoms that look like lingerie) 
and Madame Isaac Periere (a raspberry cabbage rose, wonderful scent) 
and more to drape over the fence. I'll add a few clematis to clamber 
over them, then start on the perennial bed.

So that's why I've had (as one friend puts it) carpet lint in my shoe 
treads this year. Just thought I'd share that, since you all knew me 
when I was homeless.

Oh, and my peas and cabbage are doing just fine, thank you.

Farmer/Homebody Shoe