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Swimsuit shopping not enjoyable for women After performing my civic duty by downing half a box of Girl Scout cook ies. I headed out to my favorite one-stop shopping store to do my weekly shop ping. I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw' them: rack upon rack and a large wall of this season’s newest swim suits. No grown woman can pos sibly enjoy this time of year. Even if you are in relatively good shape, trying on a swim suit is no simple matter. If you are a woman, you are proba bly nodding your head emphatically. If you are male you are probably scratching your head and wondering what I am talk ing about. After all. when a man needs a swimsuit, he does not even have to try it on. The most he does is to hold it up to his torso, but not if anybody is looking. Can you imagine a man choosing six to 10 different swimsuits, each one in two or three different sizes, then Special I never knew my friend’s Aunt Elsie but still this woman, a stranger to me. will have a place of honor in the memory files where I store important reminders. Though I never saw her face or heard her voice, the parable she authored will always be vivid and deeply ingrained. Aunt Elsie died recently, having lived to be 81. Her grandest adventure happened over 30 years ago when she had gone to see a cousin in Memphis. They visited Graceland, had tea at the Peabody Hotel and shopped at the city's finest store. Passing by the lingerie department. Aunt Elsie saw How to care for leaf spot By Shaw Smith For the Forsyth County News Q. My Hawthorne plants look horrible. They are covered in dark spots. What is it and what should I do about it? A. It sounds like your Indian Hawthorne plants have Entomosporium leaf spot. Symptoms on foliage are dis tinct circular red lesions with gray centers forming as the lesions expand. Dark specks (fruiting bodies of the fungus) may be visible within the gray centers. Cultural practices are important to control Entomosporium leaf spot. Infection is favored by free moisture on the leaves. Avoid wetting the foliage when watering. Selective pruning can increase air circulation through the plant and reduce disease incidence. Severely infected leaves on the plant and those fallen on the ground should be removed from the area and thrown away. Infection occurs primarily in the milder weather of the spring and the fall. Fungicides are most effective during this time. Daconil, Funginex (triforine) and Banner (Immunex) work best. Susceptibility to leaf spot development varies by culti var. If you have to replace some of them, choose one of the following resistant vari- All About Floors CARPET • VINYL • WOOD Carpet & Installation $10.99 s/y Free Pad (w/Carpet & Inst.) Berber & Cut Pile All About Floors, Inc. 678-513-2550 V Free Estimates! TWf al»o 9eU Wood, Crank, ft Vinyl Commercial & Residential home matters by Adlen W. Robinson for the Forsyth County News - L«- Jjgn i jL i JfOSm heading to the fitting room for an hour or more of agonizing self-criticism - all under the glare of blinding (and need 1 mention unflattering) fluores cent lighting? While in the fitting room, women take the opportunity to notice each and every one of their bodily flaws. I would not be at all surprised if this time of year caused a sudden surge of calls and to plastic surgeons everywhere. When it comes to swim suits, most men. do what my husband does. occasions sometimes have to be created hixie Vi® by Ronda Rich for the Forsyth County News ' a I something that took her breath away —a long, flow ing white peignoir set trimmed in matching lace and ribbons. It looked like something that Grace Kellv w'ould have eties: Olivia, Eleanor Tabor, Indian Princess. Gulf Green, and Georgia Petite. Susceptible varieties include Bay Breeze. Cameo, Springtime, Pinkie, Enchantress and Heather. Good plant selection will By Lk j Smith give ‘permanent’ control of this disease. Springtime Landscape Chores * Early spring is the right time for two special turf treat ments. if needed: vertical cut ting or thinning to remove thatch and aerification or cor ing to reduce soil compaction. * Apply a pre-emergent herbicide before lawn weeds get started. These chemicals work by preventing the seed from germinating. Therefore, it is important that the herbi- New & Used Best Prices in Georgia “ Georgia's Largest Yamaha Golf Car Dealer" Golf Car Central A Division of Outdoor Power Products. LLC 800-285-9048 www.glfcarcentral.net Fr ° e Delivery He simply says, "Honey, can you pick up a new pair of swim trunks for me while you are out get the long kind." That is it. No matter what brand, color or pattern I bring home, he is happy. Well, not happy exactly, but then most men are never exactly happy about clothes, are they? When I was growing up, you wore either a bikini or a one piece. Basically, you donned a bikini to tan your tummy, and a one piece when you were actually going to swim. Nowadays, there is a plethora of swimsuit styles. There is the very popular tankini. These are for when you want to feel like you are wearing a bikini, but pretty much all of your tummy is hidden from view. A designer with a psychol ogy degree no doubt thought of this style. There are also hundreds of different types of one-pieces. All of these can now be pur chased with extra padding where you want it. Many have worn in a movie. Aunt Elsie was, accord ing to her niece, a good Methodist woman who taught Sunday School and regularly baked goodwill cakes. She was a plain, salt-of the-earth woman who pre ferred sensible shoes, sup port stockings and flannel gowns. But that fancy negligee caught her eye and, in a moment of unexplained weakness, she bought it. For the rest of her life, she adored that gown which she stored in a cedar chest at the foot of her bed. But she never wore it. Never took the tags off. Instead, she spent the next cides be applied in early spring, before growth of the weed seedlings. * Rejuvenate your liriope by using a lawn mower to cut back the old foliage to a height of 2 to 3 inches. Avoid mow ing too close and damag ing the crown of the plant since that is where the new growth emerges. * Divide and transplant summer- and fall-blooming perennials (astilbe, aster, bleeding heart, coral bells, daylilies. phlox and shasta daisies). Perennials perform best in well-drained soil with plenty of humus. Astilbe, hosta and bleeding heart will bloom in the shade. * Don’t forget to fertilize naturalized bulbs in the spring as leaves emerge. Do not mow the area until the bulb foliage begins to die back. * Prune evergreen shrubs before growth starts. * Prune spring-flowering shrubs after flowering is com pleted. sewn in girdles to help you suck in what you don’t want people to notice. This year’s craze seems to be a hip hug- 66 Even if you are in relatively good shape, trying on a swimsuit is no simple matter. 99 ging, “boy-underwear" type bottom. You know you are getting old when you cease to under stand clothing. 1 remember my father questioning Capri pants. "Are those short long pants or long short pants?" He wanted to know. I thought he was out of touch. Now 1 understand and appreciate his confusion a lit tle more. There are also more and more "build your own” swim- 30 years saving it for a “spe cial occasion". Sometimes - when she was feeling blue - she took the gown out of the cedar chest to admire it. When she died, her daughter realized that her mama had one last chance to wear her beloved peignoir set. That’s how Aunt Elsie, the practical Methodist, came to be buried in a white chiffon gown and robe fit for a Hollywood queen and stunned the other Methodists as well as the Baptists who came for the viewing. Somehow, I suspect that wasn’t the special occasion she had been waiting for. Time just got away from her. No one will find anything beautiful in my closet or FORSYTH 100 Ml new people move here weekly. PnJ 226 BW*- square miles of land. spons * people for each square mile. 2,500 w i business establishments. 22,000 MM students in our schools. _ wl Education, 40 f 000 ft,*-; 1 S T housing units. 8 newspaper each year that reports on the progress of this great community. Forsyth County News J Your "Hometown Paper "Since I9OH J "I M Progress 2004 * " I An award-winning special edition ft. which chronicles Arts, Education, Government, Sports, Health, and ■MMI Business in Georgia’s fastest g-fcl t growing county. . S Your enterprise can acknowledge your business or service accomplishments by advertising g r - & Co , nin in this highly-visible edition. u Contact your Forsyth County News ; Account Executive or « call 770W7-J125 for early deadline information. * FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Sunday, March 14, 2004 suits. Walls and walls of ten types of tops, ten types of bot toms. Do you want a scoop bottom or a thong. For most of us, the "T” word is a frighten ing thought. Last year when I was at Lake Lanier Islands with my kids, a beautiful young woman had on a bright yellow teeny tiny bikini top and an almost not-there bright yellow teeny tiny thong bot tom. The life guards watched her closely in case she started to drown... After that experi ence. I now think swim suits should carry ratings and young people under a certain drawers that hasn’t been worn. If I love it, I wear it. even if only 1 know I'm wearing. There have been times, though, that I haven’t bought something because it was impractical and 1 asked myself, "But where will 1 wear it?" 1 won’t do that again. If a beautiful item speaks to my heart. I’ll buy it and then find a special occasion. Shortly after hearing this story. I was passing the shoe department of an upscale store. Dark colored shoes dominated the scene but a pair of shiny, red patent leather, knee high boots popped out. They glimmered like a ruby in the midst of age should not be allowed to purchase, much less wear cer tain styles in public. My father suggested sec tioning off areas of the beach for different types of swim suits. Not a bad idea: Thong wearers swim here, bikinis here, all others in this section. I did not try on swimsuits on that particular shopping trip I was just having too positive of a day. Inevitably, though I will have to make that pilgrimage to the fitting room armed with loads of shiny, nylon swimsuits. There is one related thing I never mind trying on and pur chasing: a cover-up. Adlen Robinson’s ‘Home Matters" column is published in every Sunday's Lifestyles section of the newspaper. You can also read her food column in Friday’s newspaper. She welcomes reader tips, com ments and suggestions! Please email her at a4kidz@bell south.net or write to her at the newspaper. black coal. I couldn't keep my hands off of ’em or my feet out of ’em. They were so gorgeous that women stopped to admire them as I pranced in front of the mirror. "It goes perfectly with what you’re wearing," one helpful soul rightly pointed out. "I'll just wear them out,” I said to the clerk as I paid. "I’m celebrating. I got a good parking place." Special occasions, you see, aren’t always divinely delivered. Sometimes, they have to be created. Ronda Rich is the author of What Southern Women Know (That Every Woman Should) and Ms Life In The Pits. PAGE 7B