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Crinums
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Light.......Meant to tell you a few days ago: The crinums have been repotted. They are in 12 inch pots now and have a whole potful of delicious, nutritious, fortified dirt! It was amazing to see their root systems. They LOVE to propogate their roots. One of them is completely buried in the soil. T...
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Humming bird feeder
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This year I have a new humming bird feeder. It was an on-line order and came from a place that specializes in bird and humming bird feeders. It's a charming antique style bottle that hangs upside down. It screws into a covered feeder tray dish with 4 metal flower feeder ports. They said it was bee and...
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lit a lot
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The sugar maple has leafed out to its max and is now blocking the sun light from my east facing office window. It is an amazing change. The problem it created was an inability to critically view photo images on the computer. It was too dark in the room. Normal tungsten bulbs, with their yellow light m...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RUFFLES!! MAY 25th!!!
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Happy Happy Happy Happy Birthday, Ruffles!!! Wishing you an absolutely wonderful year filled with irises, German Chocolate cake, and sweet music! What would we do without you and this board! -- Edited by meggie on Tuesday 25th of May 2010 04:17:11 AM -- Edited by meggie on Tuesday 25th of M...
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It is officially Iris Season now.
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The first tall bearded iris opened this morning. Theatre is right next to the back door of my garage. I frequently take a break by sitting on the step that's there. Theatre is right in my face. Not bad!!!
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New CNN article RE Facebook
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/13/facebook.delete.privacy/index.html?hpt=C1
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I'm a lucky person!!
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I just got home from an absolutely fabulous Eagles concert. Incredible...three hours of wonderful music, lots of oldies, lots of new stuff, and can those guys sing and play guitar. Joe Walsh is an amazing guitar player, and had the whole place rocking! Can you believe I won the tickets in a radio Eag...
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The color test
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See if you can get 100% on the first try. It is not as easy as you might think. http://www.humorsphere.com/fun/8787/colortest.swf
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Move over Amanda!
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The idea of using the whole month to celebrate your birthday sounds good to me. In my case, Mother's Day can be thrown into the mix. Today, my daughter and sil picked me up and we drove all the way to Boston. We had a fabulous dinner at Legal Seafood, on the warf and within a stone's throw of the aquarium...
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Water, what did I ever do to you?
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Now that the groundwater has ebbed out of my basement, a ten foot wide water main has ruptured in a town west of here, causing a boiled water order in 30 communities, including the city of Boston. 2 million customers in 700,000 households. That's alot of undrinkable water coming out of our taps. So I'...
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For everyone who uses Facebook
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http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2010/04/27/todd.facebook.privacy.cnn?hpt=C2
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How do you make cornbread pancakes?
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How dare they!!!
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How could they possibly link sugar to heart disease! I LOVE sugar! This is not fair.
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This is too scary for me!
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/21/facebook.changes.users/index.html?hpt=T2There is NO WAY that I can feel comfortable about having any part of myself plastered all over the net. Maybe there will be some control over this in the privacy settings but I am not at all sure, nor secure about an...
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A beautiful quilt
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Light has shared a picture of her recently made quilt which is positively lovely. Pink is one of my favorite colors! I used to sew but the amount of work, time, energy and creativity that goes into a quilt I cannot fathom. The 'quilt talk' that happens between fellow quilters is a foreign language to...
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Two questions:
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1. How do you pronounce this? Eyjafjallajokull 2. How do the kids in Iceland, or anyone for that matter, ever learn how to spell ?
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Meggie ..... question
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You have friends in England. Would you be able to ask them how they control the bleepity bleep bleep red lily beetle over there? We've got the beetle but no natural predators and no effective pesticide for it. Wish the birds would eat it. The stupid bug is bright red. It's easy pickings.
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GULP!
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There's no choice anymore. My Nikon DSLR is all packed up and ready for a trip to the Nikon docs. It's been shooting black frames and over exposed the daffodil pics. The irises are on their way. This camera needs a fix ASAP! They estimated 3 weeks which does not include shipping time. Its cutting t...
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Speaking of irises ..........
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They are looking positively splended this year. They are growing like mad and are green! green! green! The weather has been perfect. It has also been warmer than usual with no ghastly cold spells. As a result, I've already discovered 2 flower stalks within the base of a couple of irises. The bul...
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Soap powder?
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Is it still possible to get laundry soap powder? Gopher holes of various sizes are showing up everywhere as I am tending my way through the iris beds. I was wondering about dumping a cup of soap powder in the holes, if it would be a deterent and if it would be environmentally ok. Dish and laundry deterg...
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Once upon a time .........
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A long time ago, which was 1973, or 75, or so, I bought a bag of King Alfred daffodils. There were 25 of them. They were properly spaced apart and planted across the end of my driveway. Nobody eats daffodils, they are disease free and they multiply like rabbits. What to do? What to do with over 25 ye...
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Help please re Curling irons and hair dryers
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This may seem odd to most of you but I've just entered into a completely different world of hair care. I have naturally curly hair which I've always managed by wet setting. The rollers or pin curls force the hair to dry straight (not frizzy) and curl in the desired direction. Most hair dressers don't...
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Happy Easter!
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Have a beautiful Easter everyone.
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Ohhhh KK
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I hate to think of what your situation must be right now KK. We have been receiving a ton of rain and you are getting a whole lot more.
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Does anyone know ..............
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Would you know of a nice, FREE forum site? I'd like to start something for my chorus. It needs to be photo friendly and password protected. It would be nice if movie clips could be posted there as well. If you know of a free site, could you post a link here please? Then I can check it out
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Can you handle a little more rain KK?
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Looks as if you'll be getting another 1 - 3 inches of rain. How do you think this will be for you?
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How are you KK?
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The Boston channel says there's been a ton of rain out your way. They are showing some serious flooding videos. The governor is declaring an emergency. How are things for you?
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Spring's harbingers have begun
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The peepers are singing tonight. This is their first night. How beautifully sweet they are. Also, my crocus bed had its first blooms today. Compared to last year, they are 2 weeks early. We are having exceptional weather with a streak of 60+ days and the potential for 70 on Saturday. This will be...
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HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY meggie !!!!!!!!
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Have a great birthday meggie! May it bring you a year filled with your grandchildren's hugs, kisses and giggles, sun warmed garden blossoms, beautiful quilts and lots of great hockey games.
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Spring feels great!
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We've had two glorious days of 50*plus. I've been outside with the leaf blower each day and have cleared all the iris beds. The crocus bed is sprouting like mad and a few of the earliest of daffodils have their noses up. It feels so good to be outside!!!
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