15 CELSIUS?! That's pathetic ;lol ;lol ;lol ;lol ;lol ;lol ;lol ;lol ;lol
That's a nice day in SPRING over here!
;lol ;lol ;lol ;lol ;lol ;lol ;lol
... Fall temperature/season over here can end in October. Winter unofficially starts by October and snow begins falling then, frost usually comes before it in the final portions of October.We had crazy weather in this part of the world back in 1986. A sudden unexpected blizzard with LOTS of snow shut the city down for 3 days... on May 29. My dad made it to the hardware store to get propane for our camp stove (electricity was out), and he said the clerks were wearing battery-operated miners' helmets so they could see, and writing the purchases down with pen and paper - the tills weren't working. After that it was impossible to go anywhere, so we got out the candles, quilts (the furnace decided to quit, too), had hot meals made on a camp stove, and I shook my head at all the people who were unprepared for such a thing. Personally, I spent most of those 3 days tucked up in bed with my cat, under every blanket I owned. She had all 4 feet tucked under my chin, and we slept the time away. There were still huge snowdrifts around the city a week later.
To show my one track mind, can't help but thinking what a wonderful place for a pumpkin patch.Complete with a "Welcome, Great Pumpkin" sign and a beagle flying his World War I plane that for some odd reason is in the shape of a dog house? :D
Could make a pretty marvelous graveyard scene there too.It'd need wrought-iron fencing instead of wood, but otherwise it'd be perfect. :)
Could make a pretty marvelous graveyard scene there too.It'd need wrought-iron fencing instead of wood, but otherwise it'd be perfect. :)
Could make a pretty marvelous graveyard scene there too.
Oooo, or use those uprights to support a facade and place a FCG inside. (flying crank ghost, pretty standard haunted house/disney mechanism, do not google if you don't like behind the scenes.)
Heck, with the tree you could do an axworthy justice. (again, don't google if you don't like behind the scenes stuff)
oh, or make fire pits out of those planters and a big temple setup...
A couple pallets and we could make a KILLER witch's hut out of that too....
etc.
I used to have Halloween parties for my students at my old house. It was a tiny little rental property that had a HUGE backyard. I used to set up the "Doggie Trail of Terror" every year which actually only consisted of a series of stations with candle-illuminated signs describing circumstances designed to send chills down my pupils' spines; such as "Dr. Allison is grading YOUR PAPER right now... and has already run out of ink in his SECOND red pen!!!" The screams could be quite blood-curdling...
Mostly grads in their mid 20s. You don't know Dr. Allison.I used to have Halloween parties for my students at my old house. It was a tiny little rental property that had a HUGE backyard. I used to set up the "Doggie Trail of Terror" every year which actually only consisted of a series of stations with candle-illuminated signs describing circumstances designed to send chills down my pupils' spines; such as "Dr. Allison is grading YOUR PAPER right now... and has already run out of ink in his SECOND red pen!!!" The screams could be quite blood-curdling...
;lol
What were you pupils' age, to be so easily distressed?
Mostly grads in their mid 20s. You don't know Dr. Allison.
So five days later, May 9th, I'd continued to train vines onto the trellis, and added opposing lantern/birdhouse/planter hooks we'd had lying around -the original idea was an arch, remember- and filled in space at the top with a sort of dreamcatcher of string.
It doesn't look like I'd fallen into spending hours a day on this project, but I was well on my way to that at this point. I kept wishing we'd started this at least a month earlier, as I was spending a lot of time unwinding vines that had wrapped together on the great mass of vine off to the right so I could arrange them onto the frame.
It would have done fine in time on its own, but I wanted it to get a really good start NOW. You can see the milk jugs - I was using pinhole drip irrigation for watering. While working with the vines, I was always muttering "Don't be a rice-puller".
Bottom left, you can see where we transplanted in a little potted ivy M had on hand - a different species that doesn't strike me as a climber, but it helped cover the bottom front and glam up the thing by that much.
The last shot was taken at sunset and doesn't look all that great, but for once, you can see the vines, not the trees behind them, and tell what you're looking at. I'd finally gotten a good start towards covering the right frame...
Enclosed back porch, yes, but screened, not glassed.
The porch is relatively small, but a great place to drink a cool drink and talk, or do craft projects that require open ventilation, or enjoy a thunderstorm... mmm...wish we could have one of those about now. When the heat and drought stretch out into September... and sometimes even October... (sigh) it really starts to wear you down... My poor, poor, crunchy, beige yard....!
The yard had a nice wet spring. You should see how the grass looked when we got back from America in August.
The last transplant didn't make it without watering, (though the roots have already made a few new shoots since, and I'm sure will produce next year)I did more with the top/arch since, but no plans thus far for anything more. The future at this location is in flux.
I knew you were energetic and productive, but you have more patience than I imagined!
In China long ago, there was a farmer named Liu. He was not a patient man. He was very impatient. He was always in a hurry. He rushed through breakfast. He rushed through lunch. He rushed through his work. He wanted to be first in everything. He didn't worry about being careful in his work. He just wanted to finish it quickly.http://savepost.blogspot.com/2013/05/liu-always-in-hurry.html (http://savepost.blogspot.com/2013/05/liu-always-in-hurry.html)
One day, Liu was in the village. Some farmers were talking about their rice.
"My rice is doing very well," said one farmer. "It is almost three inches high."
"My rice is already three inches high," said another farmer.
Liu hurried home. He measured his rice. The plants were strong and healthy. But they were only two inches high.
Liu decided to hurry his plants along. He pulled each plant up from the ground until it was over three inches high. "Now my rice is higher than anyone's." he thought. "Tomorrow it will be even higher!”
The next morning. Liu hurried out to his rice field. The little rice plants were dead.
The people of the village soon heard about Liu's rice. They laughed and shook their heads.
They said, "Foolish Liu always-in-a-hurry!
That's what happens when you don't have any patience."
This story happened long ago. But today in China, people have a saying for someone who is not patient or careful: “Don’t be a rice puller!”
I really hate that, 'cause it's gonna be the cat's bottom in a year or two, even without me, and I'd like to see.
..., when Mylochka retires and moves into Gramma's house...
These are from 20 February.Please define the term 'America'. Texas was in the United States the last time I checked, and as such could be considered 'America'. This arguement could even be extended to include other countries in North, Central, and South America.
I hated to leave Texas when we did -leaves were just beginning to sprout the week we came back to America- I'd hoped to stay until about the end of May, to get to see close to peak growth.
Hawaii will actually get out faster when the US begins collapsing. It's the other state that was a nation first.
Does not compute.
That's disgusting.
How did the HCG of 2011 crash and burn? Not still her, is it? She was cute.
Geo, they haven't closed, but the house is already sold, and for more than we'd really hoped.
That is the reason it's okay to share now. At this point, it's still her work of art, but she don't live there no more. Pictures coming.
I thought it was at most the size of her current house, without the spacious porch.Roughly, yes. That's real estate photography with a horizontal fisheye effect going on.
I thought it was at most the size of her current house, without the spacious porch.Roughly, yes. That's real estate photography with a horizontal fisheye effect going on.
Tell that to those African refugees trying to cross the French-Italian border.
That's not something coming up in the ethnocentric US news. How serious a problem? What sort of numbers of people are we talking about? What are they escaping? Post-Quadaffi Libyan chaos, or what?
I had to give up being a news junkie in disgust 14 years ago, and am not a good source for what the US news says or does not, but I think almost all coverage at the national level about the Mexican immigrants is from the angle of what the bigots are saying/trying to do about it lately...In fact, you've probably heard about what Donald [Sleezebag], an embarrassment to our species, said recently...
Actually, we have Roku, not cable now, but I bet we do have BBC news on there. I don't actually know how to work the three-remote setup yet...Our internet connection remains sporadically poor because we are at the end of a service line in the city. Basic Cable remains the most cost effective option since TWC (Time Warner Cable) maintains a near monopoly on the cable industry. Satellite remains relatively expensive in our area, but is still cheaper than cable.I had to give up being a news junkie in disgust 14 years ago, and am not a good source for what the US news says or does not, but I think almost all coverage at the national level about the Mexican immigrants is from the angle of what the bigots are saying/trying to do about it lately...In fact, you've probably heard about what Donald [Sleezebag], an embarrassment to our species, said recently...
Geo, you were in aunt Joyce's presence for more than five minutes, so you may recall that she definitely mentioned Hannah and Balin - them.
Uncle and wife? I will - they're usually by a couple times a week.
Damn. I'll need ear plugs tonight. Friend sleeping over tonight in the other room, and the snores are... noticeble... :(
Damn. I'll need ear plugs tonight. Friend sleeping over tonight in the other room, and the snores are... noticeble... :(
If it's bad, you might try the radio as well.
I became a bad snorer as I aged and put on weight. Bad enough to wake people all over the house. It's also bad for my own health, even if my wife doesn't strangle me.
http://www.topsnoringmouthpieces.com/snoring-facts/ (http://www.topsnoringmouthpieces.com/snoring-facts/)
I talked to a specialist about it, they referred me to another specialist, they had me do an in home sleep study. They confirmed the problem. I was referred to a dentist for a mouth appliance. They wanted $1500, which I thought was kinda pricey for something I could probably McGyver together on my own that would serve the purpose, so I said I was seeing my own dentist the next day and would talk to him.
Well, he got out of the anti-snoring mouthpiece business. He would do it for several hundred dollars if he still did it, which he won't. He said $1,500 was a good price, he knew dentists doing it for $3K! The issue is the ADA got involved. There are liability and insurance issues. When somebody dies from sleep apnea, the relatives sue the dentist for malpractice.
So I bought 2/$100 off of the internet. It holds my jaw forward so my airways stay open, and since I made a slight adjustment the second night, nobody has heard me since. I sleep much better, too.
:D That strikes me as funny. I sort of cheaped out. Also, there's my "Happy wife, happy life" motto motivating me to find a solution.
But I figured I'd find out if the concept worked for me first. Doesn't matter if it's my money or the insurer's. $1500-3000 is a lot of money for a gamble. I can always spend more money on mouth appliances now that I know that they do work for me.
I've got over half of those - and you haven't translated the alphabet soup.