A pot full of name tags from all our roses that have died over the years, mainly due to late hard frosts.
Spunk meditating on a landing from a stairway to Heaven.
Gwendolyn: “What are you talking about, stupid Paparazzo? I just climbed a stairway to Heaven to get here! 🤬!” Sasha: “And I just climbed a stairway to purgatory to get here. 🤪!”
I wonder how many other people have bought and killed a Stairway To Heaven? It’s a gripping, dripping question.
Gwendolyn: “I think I see a stairway to Heaven through the microwave glass!”
Silly Silver and Spunk: “No comment!”
Sasha meditating on a question about electrolytes and hydration needed to climb a stairway to Heaven.
Off Center & Not Even 
I never grew ‘Stairway to Heaven,’ but this past week I had all the roses that died in last summer’s heat because I wasn’t home to water them hauled away. I still have a few of my favorites, but all the ones in pots died. NM can be hard on roses in many ways. I think that is why we can appreciate the hardy survivor, Dr. Huey.
Love the cats.
NM has a harsh environment. Thanks, Susan.
Zany animal adventures with Tim and family.
Thanks, Brad.
I love the cast of characters, the repartee and the references to stairway to heaven, the floral variety I never knew of — and that magnificent cloud photo; put a buzz in my day 🙂
Happy to buzz you. As I said, we have characters. Thanks, John.
Beautiful cats…and so interesting that you have such a record of your roses….
Thanks, Janet. The late frosts are really hard on roses. It will be warm in early May, and the roses leaf and start budding, even blooming. At the end of May, we can have very cold nights with hard frost, which kills the roses. In 2005, we lost 70 roses to one late cold snap.
Wow. It sounds like your frosts are more severe than ours. Where I am in the south east of England our weather is pretty mild and with climate change getting milder all the time, However, in Scotland winters can be much more harsh. What is the name of your town? I was telling my friend MEBS (Santa Fe) about you and she asked the question.
We are in Corrales just north of Albuquerque, below Rio Rancho.
Thank you..
You sure to have plenty characters there, as befots you both in the nicest way when it comes to the words stairway to heaven alone.
There is no shortage of characters around here. Thanks, Shey.
That comes shining through you every post.
So many lovely heavens!!
Thanks, Leenda.
So much to ponder in Timlandia but one, you already are in Heaven! 😉
That’s what the cats were trying to tell the stupid paparazzo. Thanks, Marina.
The kitties seem to be full of themselves this morning! I’ve bought and killed plenty of plants but never a Stairway to Heaven.
They are pretty cheeky. Thanks, Liz.
You’re welcome, Tim.
Beautiful clouds, Tim, and of course the kitties are having a grand old time being kitties. You catch them in their various moods quite well.
Being from the east coast, some of our plant experiments here have not worked well, but we have learned a lot over the years.. Deer generally get any roses here not inside the deer fence. Black Spot fungus can be a problem in the wet season.
We don’t have much problem with fungus and blackspot because it’s so dry. Late cold snaps do our roses in. One type of rose we have never lost is David Austin roses. They are super hardy. Thanks, Lavinia.
That’s sad about the roses, Tim. I have the opposite of a green thumb, so when I moved here, I was stunned that the roses survived having me tend them. However, the excessive and prolonged heat last summer killed a third of them. It’s happening again this year too. I made a bed of solar light “flowers”. I might be making another one this year…
The sky-scapes are stunning, and it’s always wonderful to see part of the clowder! Hugs from the Scoobies and me.
Rose will survive with minimal care as long as they get some water and don’t freeze when they are leafing out. Thanks, Teagan.
Seeing that bowl full of names is heartbreaking. Weather can wreak havoc on our gardens…
That bowl filled over a 20-year period. We lost 70 roses in a late cold snap in 2005. Thanks, Dale.
Still…
Yes, I have a problem just growing an avocado tree.
That’s a lot of dead roses.
Still, Dr, Huey is a beauty.
Better still, the cats are heaven, and Spunkie-Poo 💋 is the angel. 🙄
Thanks for the fun post, Tim! xx
You’re welcome, Resa. Spunk is a bit of a fallen angel, but he can be awfully sweet at times.
Lol! A fallen angel is still an angel. I still see him collapsed in your lap after he found his way back home from his mysterious adventure.
That photo comes up on my iPhone photo memories every now and then.
Lol… so cute…memories of a grateful, loving Spunkie-Poo 💋.
I love your cats.
Thanks, Gigi.
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Oh my! Losing roses due to late frosts would break my heart. I hope you still have a few.
Love the kitties!
We have 130 or so rose bushes.
That makes me feel better.
What a magnificent eclectic blog, Sir. Loved it!
Thanks, Inchie.
As they say, the fact there is a highway to hell and only a stairway to heaven tell you which way has more traffic ha. If needed, I can help Sasha with all her electrolyte questions – I fret over that stuff day in and day out! Purgatory eh, someone must of had a nun experience.
I asked one of our young staff if she knew Stairway to Heaven. She said, “No! But I do know ‘The Highway to Hell!'” She’s a preacher’s daughter. Thanks, Brian.
Good play here with the post and your roses now in heaven or hell? The quandary of the kitties have 9 lives so they’re good to go❣️
I would assume roses go to heaven, but as thorny as they are, maybe not. Thanks, Cindy.
Good call on that!!! 🤔
Amazing post title and rose names. Spunk is posing as if he wrote the book on electrolytes and hydration.
There are a lot of interesting rose names in the world of roses. And we have a lot of the remains in name tags, or should I say maim tags? Thanks, JYP.
Ha, maim tags – good one!