Awesome haul, Molly! And private lessons, too! What a wonderful day for you. Do you live in Alachua? Many many eons ago, I worked in Micanopy. Such a Wonderful area, I miss it.

What's a snickerdoodle?

cookies: https://www.truvia.com/recipes...

No Cindi, I live one county down from the Town of Alachua, 25 miles from here. I came up here from Ft Lauderdale over 10 years ago and I love it here. I live out in the woods about 25 miles from Gainesville, where I work and shop.

I'm trying to figure out where to plant all these. I have an area outside my bathroom that gets sun from noon until it hits the pine trees. Problem there, 10 years ago I planted a cute little bush, I think it's a ligustrum. That thing has sent runners out on both sides and around the front and back of the house, making more bushes. Last March I had some help in chopping, pulling and then I poured chlorine down the cuts. Chlorine dissipates within a few days. Some died, more didn't. A lot of work getting that area cleared....and a lot more snickerdoodles

The last 2 times I've taken snickerdoodles to plant meetings, I've won the door prize. Makes me think I need to bake them more often!
Cliftoncat, I sure hope you try some soon. They are the best cookies! Prize winners.

They are good cookies. AND, if your not into "baking from scratch", they have packages.

Alrighty then, I didn't get my snickerdoodles baked. We had to work that day, but Jeremy came yesterday and we got 5 of the bare roots planted. Still have more in pots, but I gave him a beer, said thank you, I love you and I could handle the rest.

One I have promised to my tenant, the others need some more nurturing before I put them in the ground. Actually, I ran out of planned places to put them all. In the pots, they will wait. Feeding them pond water in the mean time.

Sadly we are into week six of what was promised was to be a two-week refurb of our kitchen... no cooking facilities! But I will definitely give them a try if we ever reach completion! Great name!

Potted roses love pond water. I've always tried to do that for my potted roses. At the tail end of the drought this summer, my big pond dried up completely. I could keep the small ones filled, but the big one would have taken too much of our dwindling water supply to fill. Now the rains have filled it to the brim, so I have to throw a few plants and mosquito fish into it. The frogs are happy to have their pond back. They sing songs of joy every evening.

Zuzu,

I have 3 ponds, all not natural. And this is not counting my above the ground pool. 2 are field troughs sunken in the ground, 1 is a Lowe's preformed. See, we do not have water out here in the sand hills of Levy County. We have had plenty of rain to keep them filled so water is not a problem.

My pool, aaaaahhhhmmmm, I haven't swam in for over 4 years. Summers are very busy for work, no time to maintain, so the only ones enjoying the pool are the frogs/tadpoles and maybe a snake falls in once in a while. The real ponds are stocked with mosquito fish and the large field trough has some goldfish in it, which i rarely see. They aren't stupid so they hang out under the lilies and other plants in there to stay away from the "fishing hawks".

But I always have a bucket nearby and can dip the water out to feed the plants with. What would be better yetter, would be to put on my muck shoes get in and scoop some of the bottom water out for the plants.......but not til the water warms up. I am a bag of bones that chills easily.

I also have three ponds now. I filled in a fourth one because I needed a new spot for a rose bed. The same thing could happen to the other three ponds in time.

Those "fishing hawks" break my heart regularly when they come after the goldfish. Around here, they're blue herons. They sit on the roof, wait for a flash of orange, and swoop down with their killer beaks. The awful thing is that they don't eat the fish. They just stab them and let the poor dead fish float pathetically at the surface to break my heart.

And I'm with you on the cold, my fellow bag of bones. The temperature in the house right now is 68 degrees, but I'm wearing a dress, a jacket, and a bathrobe, and I even stole one of the cats' velour throws to wrap around my legs.

zuzu, I know the heartbreak when herons torture your fish. Quite often they stab our fish and leave them injured but not yet dead -- and herons are protected here so we are very limited in what we can do.
On the cold, why not just drape yourself in your cats? Better than a hot water bottle!

That actually was going to be my fourth paragraph, Cliftoncat. I was going to say that I'm going to go lie down and cover myself with cats.

I think I have pond envy