LOL at myself!!!

After I flipped out thinking I didnt have any more Charlies creeping round my yard, Springtide turned her lovely head a full "Exorsist"-like spin and I saw him everywhere. Laws a mercy!!! I had myself all confused and tore up when I strarted this about who and what Charlie was and now after  a week or so of sitting with him for all too brief intervals, I feel like a total Drama Mama.. :o) He's all over the yard and is coming back up after being mown down and harvested to death my me. I found a vine that was almost 2 feet long yesterday evening!! :)

Herbal Ally 2011 Challenge 2: Infusions

i was sooooooo disappointed that i was not able to finish my 9 Day Spring Tonic Fling with Charlie. :o( After day 2, I started having a really bad heart-burn-y, gas indigestion kind of pain in my center chest area. Since i never have those types of problerms, i was worried that it was a reaction from the tonic so i stopped taking the infusions. Too bad!! So instead, i have been trying to sketch Charlie in his home environment, along the front right of my house. Have yet to be satisfied with it tho so havent gotten any into my journal. Am i supposed to put my attempts into there, as well?? I've never been a journally kinda gal...)

         Charlie, Charlie so divine!
          Can't get you off my mind
            With your twirly vine!!
         And your leaves like a fan
           Your my kind of Green Man.
I just cannot wait to rush out and see you again....

                             Yzzy, 15 April, 2011

Creepingly Yours, Yzzy
         

Charlie kinda tastes and smells like turnip greens with only a faint aftertaste of mint or camphor. Interesting. Had no up-in-your-face body reactions. Wild!!

Grrr!!! My phone's not ever going to let me get to my blog to post so i'll send a text. Started my 9 day Spring Tonic Fling with Charlie today. :) Yay.

:) my buddy Rita calls G. hederacea "that annoying stuff that grows everywhere without having been invited?" lol. Do you have any lovely euphemisms for him?

OH NO!!! I don't have enough Charlie in my yard to do infusions now i harvested some for my journal cover dye. :( Oh well. I'll be hitting neighbors up. Lol.

Is this working?
<3

Glechoma hederaceae

I learned that you should always learn about your plants using their scientific names so you dont confuse two different plants. There could be 15 Creeping Charlies around the world  but there's only ONE Glechoma hederaceae.                                                                                                                                                 :D Great. Now all i have to do is learn how to say that out loud. he he he And spell it from memory.                                                                                                                                                 Now see? I was perfectly content to just call him Creepin Charlie because i had the name linked to Bloodbath in Paradise by Ozzy. Something about nobody being left when Charlie creeps behind. (Charlie Manson, that is. That short little dude still freaks me out and he's got to be 102 yrs old!!
But anyhoo, i digress. There are several aliases for my Charlie that be Creeping!! Ground Ivy~ Gill-Over-The-Ground~Aleshoof~Cat's Hoof~Gillrun~Hay Maids~Hedgemaids~Lizzy-run-up-the-hedge.
Lol. Makes me want to run out and plant a hedge to let my Charlie creep up!

Howdi!!!!

 This is Yzzy starting her blog not knowing the first basic of how to do this. So please feel free to critique!! Seriously. Just be easy if you choose to. I am starting my blog about my year and a day with Creeping Charlie and i will be calling him simply Charlie most of the time. Don't know much about him but he's been calling to me since summer '09. He crawls up my porch steps evey summer and is so gorgeous. I will be looking at other folks posts to see exactly how to do this properly as i get the chance. But for now, this is Yzzy! :0)