My cash is in the mail for one if those....

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James Ayres wrote:
Thanks, Michael.  Now we are four away.

Doc


On Mar 17, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Barker, Michael wrote:

> I sent you 30 today and a dvd of Inside Job today.
> m
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: James Ayres [mailto:jayres@cvctx.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 05:35 PM
> To: weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org <weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Virginia's Roses
>
> As of today, I have 5 $30.00 sponsorships left.  And will always
> welcome gifts to Camp Shakespeare!
>
> Doc
> On Mar 17, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Maggie Megaw wrote:
>
>> I'll pipe up here, in case anyone else wants to contribute to the
>> cause.  Doc spent just north of $400--I think it added up to $435--
>> on the roses, compost, and irrigation supplies.  I think with Gail's
>> rose bush he's half way there.
>>
>> Xxxm
>>
>> maggie megaw | business affairs, inc | 2415 main street santa monica
>> ca 90405 | ph 310 954 8440 | fx 310 362 8707
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org
>> ] On Behalf Of McDonald G.
>> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 11:40 AM
>> To: weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org
>> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Virginia's Roses
>>
>> Dear Doc,
>>
>> I'd like to send money for the roses.  Could you remind me of your
>> mailing address?  I wish I could have been there.
>>
>> Love,
>> Gail
>> ________________________________________
>> From: weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org
>> ] On Behalf Of James Ayres [jayres@cvctx.com]
>> Sent: 16 March 2011 02:22
>> To: weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org
>> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Virginia's Roses
>>
>> And that's the way it was.
>>
>>
>> On Mar 15, 2011, at 5:00 PM, Clay Stromberger wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the note, Doc, and for bringing all the moving parts
>>> together so perfectly.
>>>
>>> This sport, well carried, SHALL be chronicled.
>>>
>>> Though I also think that as always Doc's concrete and brief
>>> chronicle of the time says it very well.  But perhaps there are a
>>> few other moments to recall and pass along.... so here's a note to
>>> those that we love and to them that love us.  We want you all there
>>> for the next planting project.
>>>
>>>
>>> It was a gloriously cool and sunny verge-of-spring morning, very
>>> fitting for such a special person as Virginia Elverson.  The birds
>>> were talking all at once, as Townes Van Zandt used to sing.  I even
>>> saw a bright red cardinal in the Barn, perched atop a metal folding
>>> chair, when I went in there to change out of my longjohns (it was
>>> warming up by then).  As Doc said at one point with a grin, "Some of
>>> these folks haven't been out here before when it's nice."  The grass
>>> was so soft and lush that Willa, 10, could not resist springing into
>>> a few cartwheels, which inspired Emma, 8, to try the same.  Mini-
>>> lessons from Willa ensued, but must be continued at a future date,
>>> as Emma still hasn't perfected that essential skill of girlhood.
>>>
>>> Backing up a bit:  Aug, Em and I arrived a bit late to the lovely
>>> sight of a whole line of folks working hard along the fence line
>>> (first in view:  Maggie in her broad gardening hat and shades),
>>> enlarging the perfectly round post-holes dug by Doc (how did he do
>>> it?  Those digger things are heavy.  The holes were all perfectly
>>> shaped...!).   In the classic Winedale tradition, everyone pitched
>>> in and figured out what needed to be done and brought their
>>> particular gifts to bear as needed.  Jeff and Stan were the old
>>> gardening hands when it came to such things as setting up the
>>> irrigation system Doc envisioned (a long plastic hose running the
>>> length of the fence, with little smaller lines plugged in at
>>> intervals to run off and drip water at the base of each particular
>>> rose) and finding the right mix of mulch and dirt and "root food".
>>> Joy was resplendent in a bright white longsleeved shirt and red
>>> bandana as she fussed happily over her digging project.  It was
>>> great to see Augie and Finlay, fellow "Midsummer" Campers last
>>> summer, working side by side again.  Susan and Maggie kicked off the
>>> rose songs spontaneously at some point, shovels in hand (final tune
>>> was "Love is a Rose," Linda Rondstadt's cover of the Neil Young
>>> original, which Emma was too shy to sing solo, but Susan convinced
>>> her to sing one line with me and then the rest of the crew repeated
>>> it while shoveling the leftover compost into the back of Doc's
>>> pickup).  Finlay and mom Liz looked up the colors of the different
>>> roses, and, at Doc's suggestion, lined them up to ensure a variety
>>> of color as you drive or walk or bicycle past later this spring.
>>>
>>> Part of the fun of digging is the occasional surprise you find.
>>> Exhibit #1 was an old horseshoe (muleshoe?) that Will discovered --
>>> time for an archeological dig at Winedale?  Then Jeff found some old
>>> iron nails in a few other holes and began to wonder if the folks
>>> who'd planted the original roses had put these things in there to
>>> add some iron to the soil...?  Any of you History Detectives out
>>> there have a clue on that one?  Not sure where the horseshoe ended
>>> up, but I hope it can eventually find a home in the Barn.  Meanwhile
>>> Willa and Emma set the record for finding the most grubs -- eight, I
>>> believe (six of them alive!), which they named "Harry," and then
>>> "Harry II," "Harry III".... an little unconscious touch of
>>> Shakespeare in the morning.
>>>
>>> Elroy, the jovial groundskeeper with the musical drawl and the bushy
>>> grey mustache under his glasses, was a huge help, zipping around in
>>> the white Winedale pickup and providing us with tools and a
>>> wheelbarrow.
>>>
>>> This was the kind of work that allowed for catching up with your
>>> neighbor the next rose-bush over.  I found out that high school
>>> senior Noah Sgovio, whom most of you will remember from his always-
>>> wonderful "I do much wonder..." speech this summer, is headed off to
>>> UT in August as a philosophy major and theater minor.  Perfect for
>>> one of the best Hamlets ever to lecture Horatio in the Barn.   Will
>>> and Augie riffed in fine teenage-boy form on the word "clod" while
>>> piling excess dirt on the little red wagon.
>>>
>>> At some point we finally looked up and saw the work was done, and it
>>> was good, and the water was dripping.  So Doc and Maggie headed for
>>> Mercantile for sandwiches (Maggie's treat) and after some chatting I
>>> suggested a hike to MacGregor House.  A group of us headed that way
>>> and soon came upon one of those I-wish-I-had-my-camera images:  Jeff
>>> and Susan sitting in the two memorial benches under the stately
>>> pines, the bright green meadow beyond them.  Jeff had his jaunty
>>> straw riverboat-gambler hat on, and had his right arm looped over
>>> the back of Henry Wilkinson's bench on the left as they talked;
>>> Susan sat in the beautiful new bench on the right.  Ah, I realized,
>>> the bench for Lizz that Matt told us about.  An "On Golden Pond"
>>> moment (yes, we are heading into those golden years...).   We all
>>> stood around and talked about how to arrange all of our future
>>> memorial benches.  Susan wanted a circle that extended into the
>>> meadow; Jeff pointed out how this might make mowing difficult.
>>> Susan countered with the idea of a trail extending into the meadow
>>> to sort of anchor the benches; Joy suggested a labyrinth in the
>>> center (vetoed).   We then segued inevitably into a discussion about
>>> the Winedale Retirement Complex and then set out for MacGregor.
>>>
>>> We wondered how we'd know when Doc and Maggie were back -- well, of
>>> course, we heard a distant pealing as Doc rang the bell by the
>>> Barn.  I raced Augie back (still can beat him, ha ha! -- though not
>>> much longer...) -- and then followed my second camera-pang moment,
>>> as I looked back and saw, like something out of a film (my Michael
>>> Barker influence kicking in), the players of the day heading my way
>>> across the broad green meadow, at varying distances, singly or in
>>> pairs, gesturing (Jeff to Joy I think) or skipping (Emma) or
>>> strolling and laughing.... but all set against that green in the
>>> sunlight, so peaceful and beautiful, no one in a hurry.  I just had
>>> to stare at it for a moment.  Not sure a photo could capture that,
>>> really.
>>>
>>> We wrapped the day up with lunch at the picnic tables and yes, at
>>> Stan's smiling insistence, a four-person (one line each) reading of
>>> the Stein poem sent by Mary.
>>>
>>> What did I miss, fellow early-rosers?
>>>
>>> Augie told me afterwards back at home, in his classic Augie way of
>>> making little pronouncements out of the blue, "Dad, you know, it
>>> felt good to be out at Winedale, working on planting the roses....
>>> I'm not sure why, it just felt good to be doing that."
>>>
>>> Yep.  You said it, buddy.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>> cs
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 15, 2011, at 6:42 PM, James Ayres wrote:
>>>
>>>> We planted 14 roses for Virginia this morning.  Look for Clayton's
>>>> chronicle of the event.  Thanks to Kirsten, Joy, Maggie, Susan,
>>>> Clayton and son Augie and daughter Emma, Jeff and son Will, Noah
>>>> Sgovio and Finlay Scanlon (Camp Shakespeare kids), Willa and Liz
>>>> (Finlay's sister and mom), we completed the task with rose songs
>>>> and a
>>>> reading of Mary's rose poem.
>>>>
>>>> We set up a "Rose for Virginia" sponsorship to defray the costs of
>>>> the
>>>> antique roses, the compost,  and the watering system we put in
>>>> place.
>>>> Should any of you wish to sponsor a rose for Virginia, please send
>>>> me
>>>> a check for $30.00.  We planted 14 roses.  And have already 6
>>>> sponsorships.
>>>>
>>>> We had great weather and great fun.
>>>>
>>>> Doc
>>>>
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>>> College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin
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