Comments on: You Again: Sticky Time

By: Marcia in OK

Marcia in OK — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:08:43 +0000

Sticky Time! What a great term.

I love the Sticky Time for my projects. Parties to plan or crafts to make or gifts to make. Not a book, or a collage, but the process is very similiar.

Can’t wait for Agnes and Zelda.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:23:13 +0000

Mollie, I maintain that you ROCK!

Please, please, please let us have Cranky Agnes Aprons!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:33:41 +0000

I love the perennial expert idea. Molly is a genius!

By: downundergal

downundergal — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:24:39 +0000

Hey Strop – I’ve been to Bodnant. Many many yewars ago but wonderful gardens.
Someone mentioned Oleander. Talk about posionous. Very, very lethal.

By: McB

McB — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:41:28 +0000

Mollie the Wonder Daughter does it again.

Strop – yes, there is a Christie book involving sage and onion. I think its one of the Miss Marples but I can’t swear to it.

Perennials I find heartbreaking to grow because they tend to be needy. But when they take off and do well it is very gratifying. I guess its a bit like raising kids, huh? I bet Mollie never lets squirrels mess with her bulbs. My two most successful perennials are my climatis and my butterfly bush. They thrive almost in spite of me.

By: Strop

Strop — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:31:41 +0000

Getting too excited now, so will go back to my research table and then walk into town through the snow turning to slush.

By: Strop

Strop — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:31:01 +0000

Which, seeing as Zelda is American, gives a really good draw to get her there – visiting English gardens, writing a book about them for Americans.

By: Strop

Strop — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:29:55 +0000

Even better thought: how about setting You Again in England? The American half of the family comes over to visit the English half, and gets stranded by snow/ black ice/ air traffic control strike. Then you have to visit.

By: Strop

Strop — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:25:37 +0000

YES! So does this mean you are coming to visit and we will go look at great gardens?

Bodnant, in the Conwy Valley, north Wales, is just fabulous, with views down the valley to the sea, a laburnum walk and beautiful wisteria stems twining over the front of the house. Give me a little while and I can find many others.

Which reminds me, many of these plants are poisonous to people too. Laburnum, ivy, foxglove – loads of ‘em. And isn’t there an Agatha/ Poirot story where someone is killed when foxglove leaves are deliberately mixed in with the sage used in the stuffing?

By: Jennifer Talty

Jennifer Talty — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:02:05 +0000

Never much into plants, flowers, trees. I once killed an aloe plant. They are pretty tough to destroy. I then killed a cactus. I have no plants. My hubby teases me that the only think I know how to grow are kids.

Anyway, I like looking for things that stick, things you can use. Funny, I find something I can use, I tend to write it on a sticky note and put next to my monitor for when I need it.

By: Conscripted Cherry

Conscripted Cherry — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:29:10 +0000

Thanks-

It is wonderful to hear/feel such enthusiasm from anyone about their job- especially when that job brings such joy to so many others. And I agree the plant thing is great. I can’t wait to see where it goes next.

By: Sheri

Sheri — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:43:17 +0000

Oh, this is great news! I love how everything just started to fall into place as soon as Mollie said “perennial specialist”. You know it’s right when you get one idea and suddenly it’s like a floodgate was opened somewhere and they all come rushing out and engulf you. I like the sticky idea–that resonates with me.

Glad to hear that Zelda is letting you know who she is. I, too, have been waiting for quite some time for this tome. I was under the impression way back when that it was already published and had searched (unsuccessfully, of course) for it until I realized that it had yet to be written. And now it will be even more fun because I will get to watch the story unfold from the inception to the gestation to the final pangs of labor and everything in between… Oh sorry, was that too graphic? *wink* But we all know that our stories are like our children, so I thought the symbolism was apropos…

Anyway. Off to work on my own mss.

By: Michele

Michele — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:03:21 +0000

Jenny, I find your thought process fascinating. I am not a writer, but I always love learning new things and new ways to view the world. Sticky notes- I wonder if that is how certain things end up sticking in my head as I develop lesson plans! I’ll have to explore that more….

We have a forsythia bush along the side of our house. It is one of those perennials that will go out of control if you aren’t paying attention. The pictures they have on websites don’t do justice- we forgot to trim it until late last summer, where it had grown to about 10 feet tall in spots (normally about 6) and was about 8 feet wide (rather than the 3 feet). They have to be pruned at least once a year in order to not go crazy. It took HOURS to finally wade through the forsythia jungle- I think we pruned enough to create another full-sized plant! Based on its out-of-control nature, it’s kind of like the “wild child” of the perennials.

Oh, and I agree with Silke- Walter the Walnut tree?!?!? Based on what I’ve read about Zelda’s character, that seems like a cheesier thought than she would have.

Love the Twelve Days of Zelda- can’t wait for more!

By: Silke

Silke — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:28:02 +0000

Wooo nice one!

Gosh golly gee… all this talk about perennials strangling each other reminded me that the oleander needs to be trimmed again. With a chainsaw. (It has decided to be a tree.)

I love the idea of the plants and the way that can work through like… well… vines.
But WALTER? Noo….. Please… not Walter… lol.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:26:51 +0000

We’re in the process of finalizing the Cranky Agnes logo which will end up on merchandise as soon as we get the merchandising stuff going (and by “we” I mean Mollie). She was thinking mugs, but I told her Agnes has a Cranky Agnes apron in the book, so there may be those, too. The incredible Mara Lubell (who designed the HWSW cherry bomb logo) is working on it now. You will see it here first, of course.

By: Wapakwoman

Wapakwoman — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:18:31 +0000

Mollie- the Goddess of daughters. And your very own resource person. That young woman is just awesome.

Did I understand that we will be able to purchase Cranky Agnes Aprons? Or was that just wishful thinking?

I know I am in a line about 1000 people long, but really “Agnes, the out-takes” would be a fine thing. I mean TV shows make DVDs with “NEVER BEFORE SCENES!” Why can’t we have a little companion book with Agnes?

Or if that doesn’t work, I, too, volunteer to keep all of those words safe and sound and happy all of their lives. I will even take them to see BOB as my sister lives in the Carolinas.

Zelda hasn’t seen the light of day for quite the while and she already rocks…..ooh think of what a landscaper can do with rocks?!

By: roben

roben — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:11:28 +0000

Sticky business, eh? Ever watch the PBS show, Rosemary and Thyme? It’s one of my favorites, two female British horticulturists (I think that’s what they are but maybe Mollie would know) who go to exotic locations and always uncover a murder, or two. It’s a contemporary mystery series. It’s kind of fun, a little tame on the plot, more of a Christie type story line. I get it on the West coast on Friday night, not sure about in your neck of the woods.
Glad to hear Agnes has been sent in. Looking forward to reading it. But also looking forward to hearing more on You Again. Very interesting font choice. The reason I hadn’t liked it in the beginning was because the G looked like it had something growing off it. Heh. ‘Twas a vine.

By: me

me — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:45:01 +0000

Continuing this incredible symbolism theme…Is the giant old house everyone’s stuck in going to be covered in ivy? The dense, creeping kind that slowly overtakes and chokes off everything in its path? Just an idea…

By: orangehands

orangehands — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:31:42 +0000

*happy dance*

this is so great, Jenny. send your DD some chocolate.

fertilizing? *snort* the (bull)shit of family. i like it. *hee hee* oh, my mind was the only one that went that way? okay then…

By: K.L.

K.L. — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:00:26 +0000

There is just so much symbolism between gardening and families. Pruning, weeding, fertilizing, nurturing, separating, feeding, growing… And of course the things you can do with plants to enrich your own life. Flowers for beauty, herbs for seasoning, vegetables for feeding…

I can hardly wait for you to pull this book into being.