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Chit Chat / Re: Need some prayers for happyoutsidegirl's husband!

« on: May 30, 2007, 02:46:43 PM »

Debbie, this may sound strange but you can make grief your friend.  What you are going through, and you will get through it, will make you strong.  Someday you will look back and wonder how you ever did it, and you will look at yourself and know you did and are a better person for it. Grief is just not the emotional but the physical as well. Some people can't sleep, some can't eat.  For me I felt as though I had been kicked in the pit of my stomach. Because of the physical assault on your body and  the emotional toll, remember to rest and be kind to yourself. You have a wonderful family, and a strong faith, all of which will support you and help you.  In the long run however, it is a walk you walk alone because it was your husband and no one can know exactly how you feel.

Carol 

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Chit Chat / Re: Need some prayers for happyoutsidegirl's husband!

« on: May 24, 2007, 02:38:30 PM »

Debbie, Words cannot express how sorry I am.  Please know Doug and I are lifting you and your family up in prayer. Hugs

Carol

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Chit Chat / Re: My oldest son just called

« on: May 23, 2007, 03:16:58 PM »

Esther, I am been lurking for sometime now.  Trying to get to know the posters.  You all are such a loving and caring group of people.  Please know I am praying for Braeden. and your family. Hospitals are scarey places for childlren, and what he is going through is hard on adults.  The amazing thing is children have wonderful spirits and are real troopers when it comes to cancer treatments.  We could all take a lesson from them.

Carol

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Photo Album / A Picture of Our Pond

« on: May 23, 2007, 11:22:27 AM »

This picture was taken the first of May.  Our pond is in its fourth year and is such a joy.

Carol

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Chit Chat / Re: Need some prayers for happyoutsidegirl's husband!

« on: May 23, 2007, 07:47:28 AM »

I met Debbie on the Aquascape Forum over a year ago, and she has been a frequent poster on the IPPCA Forum.  I know she is a person of strong faith and will draw strength from that faith during this time.  Knowing that so many people are praying for Bill must be a great comfort to her. Watching your loved one struggle to breath and not being able to help is one of the worst experiences anyone can have.  I know because I have been there.  Hugs and prayers .

Carol

Carol   

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Chit Chat / Re: Smile for the day

« on: May 23, 2007, 07:26:13 AM »

What a great way to start the day.  Laughed until my sides hurt.

Carol

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Chit Chat / Re: A video of some of you (added one)

« on: May 22, 2007, 08:23:38 PM »

Jen, Great video of the fires.  We had a bunch of smoke here in Atlanta today.  It was misrable outside.  I can't imagine how it must be having all that in your back yard.

Carol

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Pond Chat / Re: Welcome Denise!

« on: March 18, 2007, 03:23:22 PM »

Hi Everybody.  Haven't posted much.  We have been soooooooooo busy pulling algae.  Our Georgia weather changes from day to day.  I keep hoping with the warm weather the stringey stuff will disappear.  But then it gets cold and comes back with a vengeance.  This will be the first year we do not do a clean out.  I'm hoping our new system will allow us to skip it.  I have stirred up the gravel and except for an occasional leaf, there is nothing coming up from under the gravel.  When we put the pond in back in 2004 I wanted the tall grass and lots of it.  Golly if I had know then how messy that stuff is and that it takes over and makes eveything look like a jungle, I would have had much less.  So we have been taking out alot of those plants to take to out club's plant sale this spring. Glad to see all my old friends here and happy to meet new ones.  What about Nancy.  Has anyone PM'd her.  She would enjoy it.

Carol

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Chit Chat / Re: Gone to the dogs!!!!

« on: March 09, 2007, 07:24:59 AM »

We showed dogs for over twenty years and usually had seven dogs.  Also had a business in our home and three kids. My husband was an antique train collector, antique car collector and active in the boy scouts. Believe me when I say our home was a zoo all the time.  I look back now and wonder how I kept my sanity.

Carol

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Chit Chat / Re: American Idol

« on: March 09, 2007, 07:16:50 AM »

The wrong people are being sent home.

Carol

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Pond Chat / Re: Just wanted to say hello

« on: February 19, 2007, 07:17:13 AM »

Hi Debbie, Go for Linda.  Nancy should come on too.  She is just too bored up there in Canuck Land.

Carol

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Pond Chat / Re: This springs projects and plans/ plants your looking for... cant wait to see...

« on: February 15, 2007, 03:32:51 PM »

What a great idea, we have one of those large  pre-formed home depot fish ponds, which we have never used.  Wouldn't that work as a lilly pond?  I have  a sunny spot where it would be really beautiful?

Carol

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Pond Chat / Re: Just wanted to say hello

« on: February 15, 2007, 08:28:45 AM »

Thanks Sean for the picture info, and also for getting my activation done.  This is a great and informative forum.  I will really enjoy meeting all the new folks.

Carol

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Chit Chat / Re: The best deal going....sad but true

« on: February 15, 2007, 06:02:56 AM »

Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light, the hords of illegals and their Mexican flight........

Carol

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Pond Chat / Re: I've Got Fish!

« on: February 15, 2007, 05:38:23 AM »

Hi Debbie,  Not in the warm sunny south, rather the frozen sunny south.  22 degrees today.  The fish aren't even moving. Doug is a southerner and doesn't understand when I tell him, northern cold is different from southern cold.  The cold today is a northern cold.  The kind one likes to be out in.  Later today, I'll go out and do my favorite thing, pull out string algae.  Oh my aching back!

Carol

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Pond Chat / Re: Just wanted to say hello

« on: February 14, 2007, 09:07:14 PM »

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome.  I haven't figured out how to post pictures.  What buttons do I push?  Things are pretty brown here in Georgia, and this current cold snap has really hit hard.  This is our first year with the Russelll Water Garden system, so I'm hoping we can avoid the annual spring cleanout. I'll have to get out the waders when things warm up a little, and stir up the gravel.  That will tell the story if we need to do it. Hope everyone had a Happy Valentines day.

Carol   

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Pond Chat / Re: I've Got Fish!

« on: February 14, 2007, 01:38:31 PM »

Hi Debbie and Andy, Finally got the E-Mail address correct.  Thanks Andy for you help, and you Debbie for telling me about this forum. 

Carol

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Pond Chat / Just wanted to say hello

« on: February 14, 2007, 01:32:58 PM »

Hi Guys,  Just thought I would drop in and say hello.  I'm looking forward to reading about your ponds and seeing pictures.  Our pond is three years old and we have seven koi kids. 

Carol