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Chit Chat / Re: Everything is falling apart

« on: September 15, 2006, 10:13:37 AM »

Just got back from the mechanics and they gave the car a clean bill of health. . . . kinda scarey since it's still making all kindsa wierd noises . . . like the wheels are scraping something and like there's a bird in the engine chirping it's head off! 

Oh well, I guess life wouldn't be as exciting if the car didn't suddenly die every now and again!

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Chit Chat / Re: Ya'll be careful out there!

« on: September 15, 2006, 10:11:38 AM »

29 bug bombs will cover a lot of space . . . . either that's a really huge (airplane hangar) restaurant or that guy had too many bugs to be in business anyway . . . . I'm never eating at that restaurant!!!

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Chit Chat / Re: Everything is falling apart

« on: September 15, 2006, 07:30:38 AM »

Car trouble is the worst.  I scheduled an appointment for my car today . . . . . had to give them advance notice because they have to go out of their way to get oil filters for the stupid thing.  So I tell them what it's doing and they say "That's strange, we'll drive it and see if we can tell what it is."  So yesterday after I made the appoinment it stopped shuddering at low speeds and this morning it quit tweeting like a bird.  Now I'll take it in and they'll say nothing's wrong and next week when I need to drive to north georgia every stupid day, it'll start it's antics again! 

I want a new car, but only if it's absolutely not gonna give me any trouble at all ever!

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Chit Chat / Re: Hey Jerry - Why all the spiders?

« on: September 15, 2006, 07:21:21 AM »

Now that's a spider!!!

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Chit Chat / Re: Hey Jerry - Why all the spiders?

« on: September 14, 2006, 11:41:53 AM »

Oh I get it!  Won't confuse me again, Jerry!  I think that's a pretty appropriate term and it's a heck of a lot nicer than the one I was using.

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Chit Chat / Re: Hey Jerry - Why all the spiders?

« on: September 14, 2006, 07:37:50 AM »

If you look at the users online, the spiders are listed below the users.  If they weren't, none of us would know when they are here.  There's one on now.

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Chit Chat / Re: Everything is falling apart

« on: September 14, 2006, 07:35:26 AM »

Sometimes it's the little things that get you down, especially when there are so many of them coming at you all at once!  Car trouble is the worst!  Mine's going in tomorrow and I'll have to sit and wait on it - don't know what's wrong and really hope it's not something serious.

Maybe your dishwasher is something simple like a small piece of something got down in the works . . . . hope so anyway!

The rain quit here and the sun is coming out today . . . .

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Chit Chat / Re: Hey Jerry - Why all the spiders?

« on: September 14, 2006, 05:55:16 AM »

Actually i did know this having been educated bt Sean a few months ago.
Spiders fine, Cockeroachs NO.  We did have one as you know!

What the heck is a cockeroach? 

I was just curious as to why so many in one day . . . . . I've seen them here before, but never so many at a time.  Is Wednesday send out the bugs day?

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Chit Chat / Re: Bad news on the doorstep . . . .

« on: September 14, 2006, 05:53:29 AM »

Thanks everyone.  I'm not sure if I'm just used to the idea or if I'm completely numb or if this weekend was so horrible that nothing could be as bad, but I am not falling apart.  I'm dealing so far . . . . maybe it will hit me later.  I'm mostly worried about my Mom because she and Dad have been together 60 years now and I don't know what she'll do without him.

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Pond Chat / Re: The pondlet did well this year . . . .

« on: September 14, 2006, 05:48:32 AM »

rocmon most of the plants in the pondlet are planted in a kidney shaped basket that's filled with mexican river rock (inch to inch and a half size).  It's too heavy for them to move or turn over.  They did tear the lily out of it's pot several times and they took two other lilies completely out of the pondlet.  I found what was left of nymphea pymaea in the middle of the yard, but all I found of helvola was part of the pot. 

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Pond Chat / Re: I'll be in Newsday this Thursday...Link Added!

« on: September 14, 2006, 05:45:23 AM »

That's so nice for you!  It's a good article.  Did they put any pics of you in?

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Chit Chat / Hey Jerry - Why all the spiders?

« on: September 13, 2006, 06:30:49 PM »

Seems like every time I've signed on today there's been at least one spider here.  Several times there were two and once there were three!!  What's up with that?   We must be important to rate all the arachnids!!!!

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Chit Chat / Bad news on the doorstep . . . .

« on: September 13, 2006, 06:28:49 PM »

Got the results of Dad's biopsy today.  It's not colon cancer or liver cancer, it's bile duct cancer.  It's called cholangiocarcinoma and it's apparently very rare.  The best remedy is to operate and remove the tumor but that's not always possible.  In Dad's case it's not possible.  Apparently there is some positive benefit from radiation, but not a lot and chemo is pretty much no help at all.  Given how far his has gone, we've been told that nothing will add any time, but some treatments may make him more comfortable during the time he has left.  I'm not completely sure yet just how much time that is because I haven't heard the assessment of the mass on his lungs, but it's certainly no more than 6 months and could be a lot less.  He signed a DNR order today and has said that he will not have any treatments of any kind.

Thinking positive today didn't work . . . . well, maybe it did a little the prognosis for liver cancer was even worse.

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Pond Chat / Re: The pondlet did well this year . . . .

« on: September 13, 2006, 06:16:18 PM »

Croft . . . . our backyard gets a lot of shade.  That's the sunniest spot in the yard, and it really only gets a couple of hours in the morning and then again in the late afternoon.  The water did get hot because there wasn't a lot in there.  The beta didn't seem to mind and the plants loved it.  The fantails either got eaten by the coons or came in side and there were a couple of itty bitty shubs that have grown now to maybe an inch long.

Nancy - the betas are the fighting fish, but they only fight with each other.  You can safely keep them with other kinds of fish. 

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Pond Chat / Re: Company Gone FINALLY.. Strawberry POT, Plant IDs??, fall pictures and BEES!

« on: September 13, 2006, 06:12:45 PM »

Wow Tink!   The gardens around the pond have filled in so nicely!  Everything looks so lush and lovely!  You've done very well this summer!!!

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Pond Chat / Re: Grope shot by Lynn (Songbird) Opps Group! At the So Cal Party

« on: September 13, 2006, 02:08:00 PM »

Ya know I've been wondering all day why this was a 'grope' shot . . . . .doesn't look like there are any hands where they shouldn't be!

Nice group of folks . . . . wish I could have been there.

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Chit Chat / Anyone here from Southeast Virginia?

« on: September 13, 2006, 11:00:45 AM »

I don't think I've seen Debi here, and that's where she lives.  Does anyone else live anywhere near Hampton Roads? 

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Photo Album / Re: Pictures on Labor Day, Olympia, Wa.

« on: September 13, 2006, 07:23:01 AM »

That is really amazingly beautiful! 

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Chit Chat / Happy Positive Thinking Day!

« on: September 13, 2006, 07:01:25 AM »

Not selling anything or suggesting anyone buy anything, but positive thinking sounds like a great idea!

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“You are what you think,” says ipopin.com Founder Kirsten Harrell, Psy.D. “Positive thinking and optimism have been linked to a variety of health benefits -- including a decrease in stress hormones, enhanced immune function, reduced risk of coronary artery disease, and decreased depression.”

According to Dr. Harrell, “Christopher Reeve represents the best of positive thinking. It is because of his unwaivering positive attitude that we are proud to be raising money to benefit this foundation.”

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Pond Chat / Re: Thank you, Jerry ... Thank you, Sean ... Such a difference!

« on: September 12, 2006, 07:15:53 PM »

Yes, yes, yes, yes, what they all said!!!  It's been great lately and I'm so glad!!!!

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Pond Chat / Re: Overwintering a miniature papyrus??

« on: September 12, 2006, 07:14:58 PM »

Ok, so keep the pretty pot by the front door idea but just cut a big hunk of the main plant and drop it in there.  Then you will still have the plant and it will grow quickly next season, but you won't have to worry about finding a place for the huge plant that you currently have in the pond.  (And send me and Tammie each a hunka that big sucker!)

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Photo Album / Re: Hey Moe! Why I oughta....nyuk nyuk nyuk!

« on: September 12, 2006, 07:12:24 PM »

Love them!  And the wakin too . . . . gotta get me a couple of them next year . . . .

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: Some nice flowers today . . . .

« on: September 12, 2006, 06:55:41 PM »

Caerulea should be hardy for you, but be careful letting it loose as it's a real spreader.  (In other words, it's a huge weed and if you don't contain the runner roots, you'll have it everywhere!!!)

I don't know if Lavendar Lady is hardy or not . . . . I treat her sister Jeanette as if she was not.

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Pond Chat / Re: Overwintering a miniature papyrus??

« on: September 12, 2006, 06:53:16 PM »

Can you bring it in and treat it as a houseplant?  Find a pretty pot to put it in (just drop the current pot in the pretty pot) and stick it in a corner?  It will help humidify the house too.

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Chit Chat / Re: Having a crappy weekend, wish you were here . . . .

« on: September 12, 2006, 04:45:25 PM »

I won't file any report.  As you said, it would just make an already unpleasant relationship even worse and it will hurt other people as well.  And I won't contest any changes my father chooses to make to the will for the same reason.

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Chit Chat / Re: Blind 'Too

« on: September 12, 2006, 04:42:41 PM »

I tried mascot and I think it worked . . . . and that's definitely caerulea and it looks happy.

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Pond Chat / Re: My Pond

« on: September 12, 2006, 04:30:31 PM »

I love the flat slate rock edging.  I would have prefered to do my pond that way, but I had to build a wall around it to keep the turtles in . . . didn't count on raccoons lifting them out! 

It's gorgeous and I'm glad you figured out how to post pics!

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Pond Chat / Re: Desert Pond doing OK

« on: September 12, 2006, 04:28:31 PM »

The pond looks lovely.  The flowers are gorgeous.  You must have designed the pond very well to run that smoothly with so little interference.  It certainly is gorgeous!

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Chit Chat / Re: My poor little guy

« on: September 12, 2006, 04:26:13 PM »

I remember jumping out of the camper when I was young and landing on a nail . . . . it was so painful and scarey.  Glad he has you there to give him lots of love and care. 

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Chit Chat / Re: R.I.P Steve Irwin

« on: September 12, 2006, 04:25:05 PM »

That is obscene!  I know that Steve Irwin would be horrified and hurt to hear of that happening.