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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: Let's See Your Garden Flags

« on: September 08, 2006, 05:26:51 PM »

Never had a flag . . . . like yours a lot tho!  Does the fetching one make them or did you find some really cool place to purchase that?

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: A few unusual plants, just shot these moments ago

« on: September 08, 2006, 05:25:57 PM »

I used to love Papayas in the islands . . . . are the mexican ones different?  Happy that your sausage lived . . . .    and the ponciana is lovely . . . .

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: Any Aroiders?

« on: September 08, 2006, 05:24:57 PM »

Um, well then that one would take a bit longer . . . . . but I'm still betting that it will grow into a plant and eventually set a bulb from the roots on that stalk.

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

« on: September 08, 2006, 02:00:47 PM »

It seems to me that what may have looked like recklessness was probably showmanship aimed at keeping the viewer interested.  When people aren't interested they don't watch.  Shows that people don't watch don't stay on the air long. 

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Pond Chat / Re: Third Day Flowers

« on: September 08, 2006, 01:28:59 PM »

I love number one - sure stands out.  And number two is that color that I adore.  Three has a different shape and is so gorgeous.  And four is not to be ignored.  I couldn't pick a favorite if I had to . . . . they are all very pretty!  Thanks for posting them. 

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: Any Aroiders?

« on: September 07, 2006, 07:01:08 PM »

I doubt it will take that long . . . . those things grow like weeds.  You can cut the bulb up and create new plants that way as well.

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Chit Chat / Re: What would make you want to join a water garden club?

« on: September 07, 2006, 06:58:50 PM »

I wish I lived near enough to you to join your club . . . . Atlanta has a koi club, but I don't do koi.

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Chit Chat / Re: You Have Got To Be Kidding Me!

« on: September 07, 2006, 04:14:10 PM »

I can't grow jade plant to save my self, so you won't get a plug nickle outa me for that one . . . . but I bet a tumbleweed would come in handy during the spring concert . . . . . they do so love those cowboy songs!

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Chit Chat / Re: Missing members . . . .

« on: September 07, 2006, 01:27:29 PM »

Sandye is ok and not participating in any forums right now.

Yeah, where is MJ? 

Can we still get to the old membership list and maybe find her email addy?

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Chit Chat / Re: Magic Gopher ~ How does this work?

« on: September 07, 2006, 06:48:02 AM »

Karen - pick one number (multiple of nine) and look at it thru several tries of the game.  You'll see that the symbol by that number is different each time and each time, that is the symbol displayed. 

If you take a two digit number and transpose the digits, the difference is a multiple of nine.  In other words, if you take 43 and flip the digits to get 34 the difference between the two numbers is 9.  If you subtract the sum of the two digits of any number from that number, you'll get a multiple of nine.  So, your answer to their little math problem is generally going to be a multiple of nine.  All of those have the same symbol . . . . which is the one displayed when you get to that point.

I hope that makes more sense to you than it sounds like it does to me.

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Chit Chat / Re: What would make you want to join a water garden club?

« on: September 07, 2006, 06:42:34 AM »

The garden club in this neighborhood has it's meetings the first Wed of the month at 10 or 10:30.  I missed the meeting yesterday, but do try to go to most of them.  Our club also doesn't do summer meetings because kids are home from school and it's tough to get someone to watch them - or maybe it's because of vacations. 

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Chit Chat / Missing members . . . .

« on: September 06, 2006, 07:50:20 PM »

We are missing some old time members . . . Eric, who used to start the lovely 'if I lived on an island' type topics - greenraisin for those who still remember him . . . . Judy from Kentucky who loved daylilies . . . Sandye who had a lovely Old English Sheepdog and wonderful grandchildren . . . . Nan from Hawaii who had a couple of really cute turtles and a beautiful wooden basking island that her DH made . . . . Arden who now posts at Koiphen but I wish would come back here . . . and where the devil is Jen from south Georgia . . . . and why don't we see much of Shae anymore?

Where are they all . . . . and why aren't they here?

Who else is missing?

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Aquatic and Terrestrial Plant Exchange / Re: Koi, waterlilies, frogs, etc ... embroidery

« on: September 06, 2006, 07:36:49 PM »

Do you have any hoodie jackets?  And what other types of designs do you have/do?

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: Even more pix...9-6-06

« on: September 06, 2006, 07:30:53 PM »

It looks so much better now that it's weathered and got a patina!  And it looks great with the plants on it!

Maddie has been in 5th grade for about 2 weeks now and she absolutely loves it too!  At the girls' school, 5th grade is the first grade in Middle school and she loves being a big girl, changing classes and having her own locker.  They are so darned grown up now it's scarey!

We've planted rye for the cats before, but not lately.  Haven't seen any seeds this fall . . . prolly should go looking for some before winter . . . .

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Chit Chat / Re: Ever feel like you've been run over by a truck?

« on: September 06, 2006, 07:09:18 PM »

I haven't posted to this in such a long time, but I've been reading it.  I'm so sorry that this is still going on.  Please know that, even if I don't say so, I'm thinking of you and your family and praying that things go smoothly and healing happens quickly.  How nice that you could sing to him and even nicer that the hymns provided him some comfort. 

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Photo Album / Re: My first tropical bloom

« on: September 06, 2006, 07:06:19 PM »

Very visible and very pretty!  I have always loved that lily . . . . such a delicate lavender.

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Pond Chat / Re: Which is Which?

« on: September 06, 2006, 07:03:50 PM »

Dunno, but all three pads are nice looking!

Now post some more flower pics, please!!!

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: New Passiflora - Sean? Teresa?

« on: September 06, 2006, 06:57:31 PM »

First one might be hardy for you guys - it's hardy here and to colder zones.  Don't think the second one is even hardy here tho.

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: Anybody else hate Plumbago?

« on: September 06, 2006, 06:56:43 PM »

Yuk - with a long haired puppy I don't like any plant with burrs . . . . and the grass in Florida all seems to have burrs . . . . hate 'em!

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: Even more pix...9-6-06

« on: September 06, 2006, 06:55:48 PM »

What is the tall thing with the plants on it?  Very nice!  And Jamie is looking so grown up!!!  What kind of seeds does she plant for the cats? 

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: Any Aroiders?

« on: September 06, 2006, 06:53:47 PM »

Yes, if you plant it, it will grow and create a bulb eventually.  They sell the leaf stalks in the OM and I've rooted several that way.  Marilyn used to do it as well. 

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Chit Chat / Re: Magic Gopher ~ How does this work?

« on: September 06, 2006, 06:50:29 PM »

Try doing it quickly and not thinking about it - it's a matter of the number of symbols on the page at any one time - most of them are one symbol and the chances are that symbol is the one that your number adds up to. 

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Chit Chat / Re: Our bank tried to rip us off

« on: September 06, 2006, 06:46:11 PM »

Nice Lecture Esther - very educational. 

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Chit Chat / Re: Car Of The Future...

« on: September 06, 2006, 06:40:08 PM »

LuAnn you are so right! 

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

« on: September 06, 2006, 06:39:44 PM »

Read first, then argue:

"He came over the top of a stingray that was buried in the sand, and the barb came up and hit him in the chest," Stainton said.

Or better yet, wish the man's family the best, grieve with the rest of the world and keep your unpleasant observations to yourself.

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Chit Chat / Re: Car Of The Future...

« on: September 06, 2006, 06:34:49 PM »

DD#1 did a big report on hydrogen fuel cells . . . . nice to know that there is actually technology to use such a thing . . . . and I don't hate the car either!!!  I so need a new car . . . . that doesn't guzzle gas . . . and doesn't break all the time . . . . not gonna happen any time soon  :'(

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Chit Chat / Re: What would make you want to join a water garden club?

« on: September 06, 2006, 06:26:18 PM »

I guess the difference is that I can take the girls with me to a social gathering but not to a meeting.  If there are enough 'friends' at the gathering I can convince DH to come too.  If it's any kind of club or group meeting, dh won't come and I never feel like I can bring the girls.  It's way hard to split up the family when there is so much to be done - homework and afterschool activities during the week and so little pure family time that giving up weekends is not something we like doing.

Does that make any sense at all? 

I did do something just for myself and one of my hobbies for a while, but it was on a weekday morning when the kids were in school and DH was at work.  But it had a price tag associated with it and eventually I couldn't justify it anymore, so I quit.  I miss it tho.

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: Tomatoes are heat lovers, right! yes, but.....

« on: September 06, 2006, 02:11:49 PM »

It was my understanding that the heat alone makes the pollination help necessary and the humidity makes it even more necessary because it makes the pollen stick to itself rather than fall freely and do it's job.  But since we have heat and humidity I cannot speak to what happens with tomatoes in just heat . . .

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Chit Chat / Re: Our bank tried to rip us off

« on: September 06, 2006, 02:08:18 PM »

The customer used to always be right, but things are different now.  I get so tired of nasty people that I'm just not very tolerant anymore.  If you want my money and my business, you darn well better be appreciative of the fact that I'm GIVING it to you! 

I still say call the bank president and explain why your money is going elsewhere . . . .

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Chit Chat / Re: To my dear neighbor...a true story.

« on: September 06, 2006, 02:01:15 PM »

You sure neither of those jerks is the neighbor in question?

And as for letting a 7 year old tell you what to do . . . . when my youngest was 6, she told off the cat-stealing-w(b)itch who lives two doors down.  I thought, for a long time, that I was the only person in the neighborhood who had issues with her.  Then I found out the couple who live in the house inbetween mine and hers got a nasty note from her before they'd even been at the house for 2 hours - before the moving truck was even parked!  And recently I found out that the three houses behind her all contain residents who think her screws are in upside down.  Now, after I found out that these other people disliked her, I also found out that they've all adopted my name for her (cat-stealing-bwitch) . . . .not sure how it got to be known so far and wide.  She's famous!