Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Here we are again. The weekend and the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.
Hosted each week by Kristi, all blog writers and blog readers are invited to join in on a reflection, examination and celebration of the people, places and things that cause, inspire, instigate and otherwise elicit the emotion of gratitude. The bloghop makes reference to ‘Ten’ things of thankful, so if you write a post with ten items you’re on pretty safe ground. This place is nothing if it’s not freedom hall, so if you write Thirteen Things of Thankful (TToT) or Three Things of Thankful (TToT!) or even Five Things of Thankful (T/2 ToT), you’ll be safe as houses.
You get the idea. So on with the post
1) Una gets top billing this week because…
2) Phyllis … lol, she is, as am I, accustomed to getting second-billing to a certain Chodsky pes.
3) the Wakefield Doctrine
4) the Great Brush Pile project of 2019 continues…
5) Question for Readers. We’re comfortable with the notion that our Una garden, while in all ways satisfying in the demands it puts on us to move dirt from one place to another, suffers from a certain photo-deficiency. Specifically the amount of direct sunlight it receives. Current estimates put it at less than three hours per day. ‘Cause of the pine trees, in whose gathering we live, our question is do we plant driveway corn this year? (Newer Readers: we did a corn spiral and driveway corn last year. The spiral was in the backyard and so, did not flourish. The driveway corn, on the other hand, gets way more sunlight. So, let us know what you think. (No sense in asking the neighbors, I suspect they think we’re kinda weird.)
6) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules). Besides providing the ever-useful SR 1.3 (see last Item on this list), it also allows for a special type of grat item, the much-whispered-hardly-ever-invoked, HypoGrat category. While a full exegesis of this portion of the BoSR/SBoR is beyond the scope of a single item, allow me to say, “That!! The thing about the Una garden and plants that don’t grow but still enough to make it a all-you-can-eat for the local fauna?” See Item 7 thats a hypograt.
7) Them pine trees and their two-hour horizon
The view from. the upper storey back deck. A house in an ocean of carboniferous waves.
8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE. For anyone either on the fence or standing on the vanishing boarding platform of some soon to become a museum trainstation, having posted their TToT only to see an Item, somehow not made a part of the intended post. (Friend of the Doctrine Mimi took excellent advantage of this feature only last week. So, come on down.)
9) Thanks to Kristi Campbell for inviting us to participate in her own bloghop, Finish the Sentence Friday. It is, as everyone knows, the first ‘hop I participated in and totally spoiled me on bloghops. It’s fun, welcoming and no pressure (and, …cue the famous Groucho Marx joke about ‘clubs that would have people like me for a member’.) lol. It runs from Thursday night to the weekend. Tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya.
10) S.R. 1.3 “…[in part] the fact of having nine items of gratitudosity is, in and of itself, something to be…. (wait for it)…. grateful for! Go ahead and put that bad boy into Item 10…. er, quid pro quo y’all.”
(got the following stuck in my head late this week, thanks for helping out)
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Driveway corn for sure. I need to weird out my neighbors.
And...and! you’re all ready with the Fall decorations when the time comes
Una deserves to come first, she is a beauty!
I started reading Almira, once I finish I will mail you about it, but it will take some more days.
Have a wonderful week!
This is very true.
If Una’s garden is that shaded, you might consider hostas, if you aren’t adverse to a perennial garden. As for the driveway corn, I vote yes, although I hear that corn produces better planted in blocks rather than a single row. (Although it looks like the driveway corn did just fine in the past!)
Love Una’s video!
Yes on the corn, there’s nothing like fresh corn you picked yourself an hour ago and pulled off the grill a minute a go.
We are often thankful for our pets first and foremost, too. They are less trouble!
Well, while we did get stalks to come out of the ground, before the deer got wind of the new item on their menu, the ears were like… those candies at Halloween about that size lol
Hey! Corn Consensus. Plant the driveway corn :D
Wonderful Una vid. Of course the humans get second-billing. Duh! LOL
thats a big ten four on the vertical vegetables
Clark! It’s like I never left! Except for corn. Driveway corn sounds marvelous, though I do agree with Kristi. Corn does do better when it has other corn around it. Perhaps a couple rows on each side of the drive? :) But the Una garden!! That is awesome. And again I agree with Kristi. Hostas are great for shady places.
Good to “see” you again.
Christine! (That surely is the measure of friendship-based relationships*) The Una garden (2nd year) is fun and about the right scale for my interest in gardening (as opposed to altering the environment for the fun and amusement of those so inclined.
..typing right back ‘atcha
* I still use (and people identify with) an exchange we had, years ago, at ‘the Coop. Something to the effect that, when it comes to comparing virtual to ‘real’ world friends and relationships, it comes down to the occasions of saying/typing “…And remember the time the lawnmower got stuck in the driveway and….”
I was all ready to give Una a big hug! She was almost there.
Driveway corn :-)
Jason Mraz music is a great way to end your post. I recognized his singing style from Playing for Change, although I had to google to see if he had been one of the singers. Such happy sounding music.
I’m enjoying spending some reading time with Almira.
(Smile icon here)
She is a good dog.
The corn will, hopefully, grow as high as a minivan’s…. er sunroof?
I’m enjoying hearing the parts (of Almira) that people find… noteworthy.
Just wanted to pop over and tell you I’m grateful for the Doctrine! As soon as I get back home, I’ll come back and comment “proper” haha. I hope you have a great week!
you too!