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Chit Chat / Re: A Wedding in Fiji

« on: April 10, 2007, 05:10:38 AM »

Viv you know that there are those of us out here who do understand what you are going thru with Katie.  It's the hardest thing in the world to worry about a child who is ill or not thriving.  It's not selfishness that causes the weariness and you don't have to apologize for it. 

Can you post the link to the photobucket pics?

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Chit Chat / Re: I really didn't want this to go public

« on: April 09, 2007, 07:50:12 AM »

Please don't leave.   I don't know who said what or when or how or where but it can be forgotten.  I know that I've said things on forums that shouldn't have been said and they were either forgiven or forgotten or just plain faded away . . . . .

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Chit Chat / Re: A Wedding in Fiji

« on: April 09, 2007, 07:47:52 AM »

Send me the pics and I'll post them . . . . . Glad you guys had fun.  Hope things are not too bad for the girls . . . .

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Pond Chat / Re: Giving up - filling in pond

« on: April 09, 2007, 07:46:22 AM »

A little bonus for having to wait so long . . . .

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Pond Chat / Re: Shade plants

« on: April 09, 2007, 07:45:40 AM »

I have some dwarf acorus that grows well in pretty much complete shade - its a variegated plant so adds interest even tho it doesn't bloom.  Also have golden club and lizard tail that are doing well in shade.

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Photo Album / Re: Spring Treats

« on: April 08, 2007, 05:48:09 PM »

Candy cane is still gorgeous . . . . even without her stripes.

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Chit Chat / Re: Any knitters?

« on: April 08, 2007, 05:46:15 PM »

The nitpicker I have is a long needle like tool with a rough end . . . . pulls the snags to the back side of the knitting so they don't show . . . . .

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Chit Chat / Re: Any knitters?

« on: April 08, 2007, 05:37:25 PM »

I assume all of you knitters have a nitpicker.

Steve

Nope.  You wanna move south?

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Chit Chat / Re: New Jeep Pix...

« on: April 08, 2007, 05:35:55 PM »

I am soooo jealous . . . . gotta post a pic of my car tomorrow . . 

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Pond Chat / Re: Joyce

« on: April 08, 2007, 05:33:55 PM »

Missed you again . . . . drove down on thursday night and figured 11:30 was too late to call . . . . .

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Pond Chat / Re: I'm getting a lily pond! Yippee!

« on: April 08, 2007, 05:33:03 PM »

I have a lovely little pink mini hardy that blooms even in shade and a graziella that's quite tolerant of shade.  I suspect that both might need dividing . . . . . perhaps I can share with you.  You'll have to wait till it warms back up tho cuz I'm not going near the water till it does . . .

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Pond Chat / Re: Giving up - filling in pond

« on: April 08, 2007, 05:31:30 PM »

Tammie Honey, I'd send you all those rocks in a heartbeat if I could afford the postage . . . . did you get my last box? 

Shae the poppy did well in that pond for a long time . . . the blooms got sparser and sparser as it got shadier and shadier and eventually the plant died.  The turtles loved to chew them to pieces tho and that's why Tammie sent them to me.  She's a sucker for a little green shell . . . . .

I'll still have my lilies, but I'll just have them in pots on the patio - the last bastion of sunshine in the backyard.  They'll be right next to the passion flowers that also love sun . . . .

And LeeAnne the raccoons did tear up the pond and the lily pots.  The only lilies that didn't make it thru it were helvola and pygmaea which were tossed unceremoneously in the middle of the backyard where they sat for several days while we were away at the beach.  It was too late for them when we got home - I tried to put them back in the water anyway, to no avail.

I figure that as long as the 'coons aren't in the house, I'm doing good.

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Pond Chat / Re: Packed 12 Priority Boxes Tonight...

« on: April 08, 2007, 05:26:45 PM »

Found mine on the kitchen floor when I got home tonight . . . . . will open it and send postage in the morning.  I just happen to have some empty lily pots from last year's tropicals that didn't get saved . . . . . waiting for something to grow in them . . . . . 

Will send out postage in the morning . . . . .

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Pond Chat / Re: 'Tuesday Morning'

« on: April 08, 2007, 05:25:22 PM »

I love Tuesday Morning . . . . but you never know what you'll find there . . . . sometimes treasures, other times trash. . . .

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: New Plants for 2007 (Post Yours Too!)

« on: April 08, 2007, 05:16:52 PM »

There are several there that I'd love to see pics of . . . .like all the mini hosta and the ajuga and the hippeastrum and the zantedeschia . . . .

I got some wild zephyranthus today that I just love . . . . . smell just lovely.

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Chit Chat / Re: 499 members, can number 500 be far behind?

« on: April 05, 2007, 01:24:33 PM »

I'm gonna go sign in as someone else and be number 500!!!!!

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Chit Chat / Re: Just won a buncha tatting shuttles off ebay . . . .

« on: April 05, 2007, 08:38:51 AM »

It is beautiful . . . . I can't do that yet, but maybe someday I'll be able to . . . . .

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Chit Chat / Re: One Happy Camper...YES ?

« on: April 05, 2007, 08:37:49 AM »

Couldn't tell by his face that he's happy!!!  It's always nice when they find something that makes them smile like that . . . . .

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Chit Chat / Re: Mother Nature played a trick on us

« on: April 05, 2007, 08:36:28 AM »

We got that too and this weekend we're supposed to have a couple of hard freezes.  And it naturally occurs right after I put all the potted plants out and DH planted the annuals . . . . haven't had a freeze this late in forever, but we aren't officially past the last freeze date yet . . . . .

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Chit Chat / Re: Any knitters?

« on: April 05, 2007, 08:35:04 AM »

It's one of those things you either love or you don't get it at all . . . . . Welcome to the club!  (If you need any help, let me know . . . . I have one of those cameras hooked up so if we can get into a chat room I can show you how to do things with it.)

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Chit Chat / Re: Time to Make A Move!

« on: April 04, 2007, 06:27:23 AM »

Believe it or not, you CAN get a dui on a bike . . . . one of my husband's college buddies did!

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Chit Chat / Re: Just won a buncha tatting shuttles off ebay . . . .

« on: April 04, 2007, 06:25:45 AM »

Barb that is so cool!  You'll either love it or hate it.  But to give knitting a fair chance, you have to knit a little bit (even just 10 minutes) every day until you get comfortable with it - otherwise, you'll forget how and get frustrated.

I've been a knitter all my life - it's something I am compelled to do.  I know how to crochet and sometimes crochet edges on knit pieces or crochet them together and every now and then even crochet a flower or something small, but not often.  I've had one of Mother's tatting shuttles in my knitting stuff for as long as I can remember and always wanted to learn how . . . . now I'm actually doing it, but slowly (hafta knit a bunch of cat costumes first).

My sister is much better at lace making than I am - she also makes bobbin lace which is really hard.

Here's a pic of a tatted snowflake . . . .

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Chit Chat / Just won a buncha tatting shuttles off ebay . . . .

« on: April 03, 2007, 06:53:19 PM »

Learned how to tat when my sister visited . . . .

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sewing-Notions-tatting-lace-stapler-crochet-yoke-hook_W0QQitemZ300095959480QQcategoryZ4836QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sewing-notions-glass-darning-egg-tatting-lace-thimble_W0QQitemZ300095959971QQcategoryZ4836QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sewing-notions-tatting-shuttles-punch-tools-thimbles_W0QQitemZ300094014186QQcategoryZ4836QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Any of you sewers want the any of the rest of the stuff?   Most of it I am totally disinterested in . . . . just wanted the shuttles . . . .

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Chit Chat / Re: finally, a fundraiser I like

« on: April 03, 2007, 06:44:58 PM »

The elementary school that the girls used to go to had a plant fundraiser every fall and every spring.  They found a local grower who would give them a great deal on plants - not a huge variety, but enough to make it interesting - and they sold them to the parents directly.  They sold gallon sized perrenials for about $7 to $9. They also sold bedding plants (lantanna, pansies, coleus, etc) for less than the nurseries were selling them for . . . . the school made a chunk of change, the growers made a bit of money and the parents got a terrific deal.  I got painted ferns, trandescantia, salvia and many other lovelies far cheaper than I would have gotten them for elsewhere and helped pay for the gardens at the girls' school while I was doing it . . . . a definite win, win, win situation . . .

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Chit Chat / Re: Pet food madness

« on: April 03, 2007, 06:15:51 PM »

Um, that's just going a bit toooooo far if you ask me.  If my kids or my dog or my cats won't eat something, I'm not gonna eat it either . . . . learned that when DH tried to feed the girls hotdogs that were well past their prime . . . .

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Pond Chat / Re: Giving up - filling in pond

« on: April 03, 2007, 03:36:28 PM »

Oh Tammie Honey, you can have them all . . . . you just hafta come and get 'em!



Seriously, I just don't know what I'm going to do with them.  There's a lot up there and I'm not looking forward to carrying them all somewhere else . . . .

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: More pics from around the yard.....

« on: April 03, 2007, 10:19:27 AM »

I really, really love peonies . . . . they don't much like Georgia tho . . . too hot and dry.  Hope you'll post some more pics when those babies open up . . . .


Have some seedling sagos  . . . .  those seeds take forever to sprout . . .

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Pond Chat / Re: Giving up - filling in pond

« on: April 03, 2007, 10:07:39 AM »

Yes Shae, that is water poppy.  Tammie sent it to the turtles as a gift several years ago.  I had it for many years, but it decided it didn't like living without sun either and croaked. 

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Chit Chat / Re: Pet food madness

« on: April 03, 2007, 10:00:33 AM »

I tend to agree that the media does take any issue that has the possibility for emotional response and blows it up a lot bigger than it necessarily is - and they definitely tell only part of any story.  At the same time, this story is probably more frightening because we just discovered that part of the food chain is coming from China and tho this time it's in the pet food, could it be in food for human consumption next?  Too close for my comfort.

And I'm absolutely changing the food I feed my pets to something healthier for them and less likely to be contaminated by carelessness . . . . I agree it may be hysteria on my part, but my babies are too precious to me and my girls to risk their health . . . .

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Chit Chat / Re: Someone cleaned me out over the weekend...

« on: April 02, 2007, 04:44:47 PM »

That really sucks!  A dear friend of mine down here had her entire bank account emptied not once, but twice!  She went to the bank after the first time and did all the right things, but they didn't protect the account at all and the bad guys came back 2 months later and did it again!  They did it the same night that her hubby's paycheck was deposited each time.

I hate crooks.