Gossip-Hillary/Soldier with a must-see pic; Gardens-Where are the Tomato Cages?; Delaware Still Needs a Slogan

 


Matt LeBlanc Says His Show Was “Daunting”

All together now … “AW…”

Matt describes this emotional drain HERE

"When we started out, it was tricky emotionally for me. I was sad to be standing on the same set with the same crew, without my 'Friends' co-stars.
"It was also daunting to be up there on my own."

 

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Here’s a Bill Clinton Health Scoop
William Jefferson Clinton always embodied, if nothing else, a vibrancy and love of life. Though I never liked him for his ideal logy, I am distressed to see his health suffering so for such a young guy.

Now it seems Bill is trying to hide his health problems.

From The American Spectator

Clinton walked through the station, spoke to some people, and then according to advisers began feeling weak. He was escorted back to the holding area, where Clinton is said by sources to have caught his breath.

Clinton also caught enough of a rest in a private room (paid for by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases) at the Pentagon City Ritz-Carlton where the dinner was held (and also the location where Linda Tripp famously was wired by federal authorities to nab Monica Lewinsky), to have enough strength not only to appear at the dinner but to take several backhanded swipes at the Bush administration for not doing enough about HIV around the world -- even though it's doing more than Clinton's ever did in this regard.

"It was classic Clinton in every way," says a reporter covering the event.

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Speaking of a Clinton

Get a load of the picture below.
 


Seems the soldier was “coerced” to make nice with Hillary. Notice his crossed fingers in the pic.

The picture is NOT doctored as authenticated by Snopes.com

Crossed Fingers

Claim: Photograph shows soldier shaking hands with Sen. Hillary Clinton while crossing his fingers.
Status: True.

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Tidbits

Seems a duck has built herself a nest in front of the White House.

Said duck now under the protection of the United States Secret Service.
Which is as it should be.
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Saw the wedding of Charles and Camilla. I was underwhelmed.

Although goodness these two have been an item for so many years it does seem logical that they finally get married.

As for the ghost of Diana hovering over the ceremony as alleged by the handsome talking heads, well Diana knew about Charles and Camilla BEFORE she married Charles. She chose to be a Princess and have her body used as an incubator. I have little pity for her. As for her untimely death sad and tragic as it is, hey, you go riding around in vehicles going over 100 miles an hour with NO seatbelt, alluding paparazzi that YOU called, well this is kind of stupid.
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Michael Jackson in a heap of trouble.

This past week a slew of his former employees testified to things they witnessed with their own eyeballs. Such as Jackson showering with young boys, Jackson with his hands down their underpants, Jackson licking their heads.

The defense alleges that these people, ALL of them mind you, have axes to grind. Some filed a lawsuit for wrongful termination, one received money from the tabloids for their story, one stole money from Jackson.

Now I know the defense has to do their job. But these people are under OATH, people. There just aren’t too many people who will climb on a stand under oath and tell a bald-faced lie, much less the many testifying in the Jackson case.

Of course this is Hollywood and California does give its celebrities free murders and such. So who knows?
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Paris Hilton’s Going to Sing!
Can’t tell you how excited I am over this.

HERE

"It's Blondie meets Gwen Stefani," says Paris, without a hint of irony. "It's so hot."

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Fox to Launch Reality TV Channel
Well they are the experts.
HERE

The obsession with reality TV will hit new levels next month when US network Fox launches the first channel devoted solely to the genre.

Fox Reality will air a continuous stream of favourites such as Joe
Millionaire and Temptation Island.

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Finally, SpongeBob Squarepants arrested
 

From the Star Tribune

An ex-convict suspected of being the "SpongeBob Squarepants" bank robber was arrested Friday on suspicion of a string of armed holdups in the Twin Cities metro area.

FBI agents had been investigating whether the same 45-year-old South St. Paul man may have committed as many as eight armed robberies of TCF Bank branches.

For some of the robberies, the FBI has said, the man used a bag depicting SpongeBob, a popular cartoon character who is always getting into trouble.

 

I Can’t Find the Tomato Cages!
I’ve looked everywhere. In desperation I even asked husband if he’d seen them.

Finally I peeked over the fence and noticed the neighbor has tomato cages all over the place. I ponder if I should swipe some.

Why do I need tomato cages?

For the peonies that won’t die.

Once upon a time I had a wise idea that peonies, a plant that hates to be uprooted, would be great in a container.

My goodness, once I got these things in a container, one a white resin type of affair and one a whiskey barrel planter, there is no way short of a nuclear bomb they will leave. Peony roots are tenacious things, wrapping around each other until almost a rock. I had no choice but to move them in the containers.

They do fine in the homes they so love. So much so that they bloom so many flowers the stems can’t hold them. Thus, the tomato cages.

I even had a note in my calendar, entered last September, to remember to put the tomato cages over the peonies BEFORE they bloom. Because once these puppies bloom there’s no controlling the foliage. Beyond staking each leafy stem individually. An act I deemed unnecessary as tomato cages, placed upside down over an emerging peony then trained to go through the wire squares on the cage, well I thought this would work just fine.

But I can’t find the tomato cages!

Tomato cages are wire affairs, shaped like a tornado. Only made of wire. With long wire points that dig in the soil. The idea is that as the plant it protects grows it will spread out in the approximately in the shape of the wire tornado.

The peonies are now growing rapidly and I cannot find the damn tomato cages. I mean, where on earth could such things hide?

Besides the peonies, the daffodils bloom happily in the garden. Daffodils that I planted last year on my new Delaware lot that had never held a daffodil bulb. What a pretty harbinger of spring they are. They also guilt trip me into cleaning the winter littered gardens as such pretty flowers should not be allowed to grow in an environment of debris.

Also, I planted some of the plantings I wrote about so lovingly
in this gardening post. A post I wrote and posted just as soon as I ordered them from the gardening magazines that so tempted me.

Below are the plants I ordered and now have received and planted. The pics are actually from the garden magazines. They are now planted and happy here in Serendipity Shore. Come end of summer I shall post the REAL plants as they bloom happily, hopefully, in Grandmother’s gardens.

Fescue Grass 


Canna 


Crimson Butterflies 


For pics of my gardens in their winter gloom Click here.

I can’t bear to post an ugly garden picture again.


 


It’s Like Hiring James Carville to Audit the Democrat Party Books
…But then it is New Castle County.

"This is a sad day for openness and good government in New Castle County."
April 6, 2005 After the controversy over the recent firing of County Auditor Bob Hicks, New Castle County Council President Paul Clark announced the hiring of partisan Democrat Bob Wasserbach to the county's watchdog position, said David A. Crossan, Executive Director of the Republican Party of Delaware.

Recently Paul Clark and the Democratic controlled County Council fired county auditor Robert Hicks without legitimate reason.

"Now it is clear that the reason Mr. Hicks was fired is that he would not be a rubber stamp for Mr. Clark and his Democratic colleagues," Mr. Crossan said. "Instead of an independent auditor, it would certainly be more convenient for Paul Clark to have a Democratic hack like Bob Wasserbach"

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Delaware’s Slogan Problems Continue
 


Even the Delaware Tourism Office won’t use it!
From Delmarva Now

Julie Miro Wenger, acting director of the Delaware Tourism OfÞce, told members of the alliance earlier this year that the slogan needs to "resonate'' more with visitors.

But Wenger, who regularly attends alliance meetings, said she was surprised Graham brought up dissatisfaction with the slogan at the legislative hearing. "Disappointed is a very good word,'' she said.

"That organization has never discussed the slogan and the brand as being an issue that they were going to raise,'' Wenger said.

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Delaware Things That Make One Go “Hmmmmm
Now let me get this straight.

The bridge in Rehoboth Beach needs to be “fixed” and fast.

So I come across this gem. An engineer met with the town commissioners and estimated a NEW bridge would cost around a million and a half bucks.

Yet “in the works” is a temporary fix of the bridge which will cost between a million to 2.5 million?

Would these town commissioners run their households like this?

No wait. I wonder who the businesses that would be affected contributed to in their last campaign?

From DelmarvaNow

City of Rehoboth Beach engineer Alan Kercher told Rehoboth commissioners on Monday during a special meeting that the costs of a new bridge could vary depending on the type of bridge built. Costs could range from $1,464,835 to $1,668,990.

A temporary fix of the bridge, which will cost between $1 million to $2.5 million, is in the works and should be complete by May 13, he said. City officials said they supported a short-term solution to decrease inconveniences to visitors this summer. Closing the bridge, which leads to the Village Improvement Association, the Henlopen Hotel and Condominiums as well as a variety of north Rehoboth businesses, requires a detour through residential areas.