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 Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 5:29 pm
I really missed a lot here---wig, Pirhan? Why? It does look cute, but then I think you look cute HOLDING it.
One thing I saw on the tv when I was trapped in the land of Boredom was a travel show on Vancouver-----why in the world did you leave such a beautiful place, Pirhan? Just wanderlust? I can't imagine going from almost Eden to the great frozen North for any other reason that makes sense, unless it would be to escape so many people. In that case, you could have stopped in Alberta! I'm sure you can hardly wait to get back there.
I'm in zone 6. We can grow almost anything here, except tropical/Mediterranean plants, unless we have a greenhouse----then we can grow those, too. I wouldn't dare plant outside yet, but about mid-April we're pretty much good to go for most of the early things like lettuces, the brassicas, root crops, then another 2 weeks and all but the real heat-lovers can go in. Soil temp is usually good for them earlier, too, but those spring storms can get them, with the hail and big temperature drops.
It was really hard to resist all the baby birds. I just don't need to babysit them, and I'll still be able to get them later. A girl was there buying turkey poults, her first ones. Then the parents started coming in with little kids, and they were discussing how to keep the birds safe from the coyotes.....it was sweet, those little voices telling their Mom that they would be safe, they just needed a good fence, on and on.....made me want to bring baby birds home even worse than I already wanted to! We tried turkeys twice, and each year on Independence Day, we lost them. Neighbors' big aerial fireworks went "BOOM!" and they fell over, dead! It was terrible, but it was funny, like a cartoon. blaugh
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 6:18 pm
:3 I have troubles with my hair. I like short hair. I like how it's easy to take care of and I don't have to do anything or even wash it. However, society believes that females are not women or feminine if they have short hair. When I have short hair, I always feel pressured either by well meaning friends or TV to have long hair. Having a wig will give me the best of both worlds. I love either super short or long. So when I want short, I have my normal hair and when I want long I have this wig. It also saves me the hassle of growing it out. I hate growing out my hair. I made my boyfriend try it on and he looked pretty good. (Kinda like the dev, Fleep) It was really funny. For April 1st, I'm going to post a picture on Facebook of me, with shaved head, and my boyfriend wearing my wig. It's going to be great. I've dropped hints that I was going to shave my head but no one's really picked up on it. On the Facebook picture, everyone is amazed by my long hair, so it's going to be a hilarious April 1st!! I was wearing it when my mother in law came back. I asked her what she thought of my hair and she said the colour looked nice (she thought I went and got it styled/dyed) and then I pulled it off. LOL. She was like frozen and she's like, "get out! put that back on! let me see!". Can't wait to fool my brother in law. (He's in the long short-hair=boy group) Anyways! Long story short on the Vancouver thing. (I actually lived in Whistler-Squamish which is just north of Vancouver.) We didn't like how the Olympics were changing the place and the absolute tomfoolery the Whistler municipality was doing. (They paved a wetland to park buses just for the Olympics and they cleared a wood lot in hopes for to win a bid for building something that fell through amongst other stupid and inane things.) Squamish totally got jipped in the whole thing. Pemberton got jipped on the special Olympics because Whistler dragged their heels humming and hawing if they wanted or not. So we pretty much had a sour taste in our mouth, sold our Squamish town home and had planned to move to Vancouver but figured we'd try Ontario. The house we bought just outside of Ottawa for just over 200k would be around 800kish in Vancouver. As beautiful as Vancouver is, it's one of the most expensive places to live. Sad thing is, most of the homes are owned by foreigners and they sit empty for most of the year. So we moved out to Ontario thinking since it's Canada it wouldn't be as different as BC; only it would have winters. Well, they're so horribly backwards and consumeristic here that it feels like we're in another country. Even with higher housing, we'd both prefer to be with like minded people with beautiful surroundings. Nothing like absence to make the heart grow fonder! And yes, we should of stopped in Alberta. Where I am now it's zone 6, but my mother in law isn't one for plants so not doing too much for here. Vancouver is a lovely zone 8. Love. Just hopefully we can find a place that will have a terrace or land that I can have some plants. Did they seriously fall over dead? Sad, but hilarious! Even our fraidy cat dog wasn't that bad. surprised
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:46 pm
Got my tax return, still laid off but with money in the bank i can finish fixing my blazer at least. I'm debating on painting the beast because i think having a lifted blazer on off road tires that's painted camo just sorta screams redneck any opinions?
Oh and i had to concede and go to the free clinic that my mom recommended because my ear got messed up again. Turns out i ruptured my eardrum and i'm leaking inner ear fluid or some nonsense. They've got me on some crazy strong antibiotics that make me sick but as long as i don't permanently lose my hearing i don't really care. In a few weeks i'll know more about whether the drum healed and i have to see a specialist to get my ear cleaned out because there's metal shavings embeded in the wax (need new ear protection for when i'm working with the grinders because earplugs apparently did not cut it)
I bought 3 new books and acquired a dozen more from my grandmother while we were cleaning her place and rearranging to prepare for her home care after her surgery. Some very awesome books to keep me busy until i find a new job. I'll be stopping by more regularly as the weather improves i sort of feel better about everything. When the snow is gone and my vehicle is fixed i think i'll be parking on the street again so i can start making knives again. Maybe i'll avoid needing to get a new job if i'm lucky and more patient this time.
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:59 pm
@Pirhan: The wig is so cute! I bet your boyfriend did look funny, though. Don't forget to post some bald pics for us and let us know what happened with your rl friends' reactions, sounds like it will be hysterical!
@Sunset: Welcome back! I'm glad you're doing better. I read your post about the goats to my mom and we were cracking up. I'm sure you'll find a way to make Goatingham Palace work. My landlord (at the place I lived while staying at school, which I still have) has goats. I love to go look at them. Of course the turkeys had a heart attack- they heard the sound of muskets and knew it was an American holiday! xd
My house is USDA zone 8 and my parents is zone 9. I spent a lot of the day clearing out their garden, which they have completely neglected since I moved across the state and am seldom around to help take care of it for them. I can't help but be sad about my amaryllis collection. One of my pots, which had some hard-to-find varieties in it was missing all of the bulbs. That pot was surrounded by pots of commons, which were untouched. I hope an animal got them because Lord help me if I find them in someone else's yard. (I really need to just get over it, since I have the phone number of the wholesale grower they came from and I'm sure I can get them replaced in a year or two- it's just such a long time to wait, not to mention the cost.) Anyway, the roses still need more pruning, and since it froze the week I was going to do it and then was 70 degrees the next week I am really late with it. We were afraid the lemon tree froze, but there are new leaf buds forming all over. It seems we only lost about the last 6" of every branch (big tree) so it is going to be fine and hopefully we will have a good, healthy crop this year. I think the bougainvillea might have died since it was in a pot and not in the ground. The tulip magnolia looks great, though, and is covered with blooms!
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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 8:12 am
@ Pirhan: I know what you mean about the hair. Mine is really just way too long, but I find that I have to mess with it a lot less when it is, so it stays that way. The youngest daughter and I are both donating our hair soon, but it will still be long enough to get up or back in the heat, and be done with it! I have never felt the urge to shave my head, but did always want to go really short and bright red, like Annie Lennox in the '80's, but never did. I didn't want to mess with the upkeep, even then!
@ Teh_Plague: I'm so glad you got that ear taken care of! I was worried about you! We have a few doctors here that have started cash-only, no appointment practices. They charge $25 for an office visit, first come, first served. One of my neighbors went to one of them, and has received such good care! I have even seen that doctor's truck at my neighbor's house! I'm glad you have some operating capital, and some good books to keep you busy. Just don't give up. Things will get better.
@ Dragon: Had to laugh at the thought of retaliation over amaryllis, but that's because I totally get it! The nice thing about living in the country (well, one of them) is that I don't have to worry about the neighbors taking my plants! I grew up in the northern part of zone 7, and really miss the magnolias. There are a few here, in sheltered spots, but I haven't found a place to grow one out here. Mother-in-law in Florida sent me a huge box of lemons for Christmas, but they had a freeze there, and almost half of them ended up unusable. Sad. It's always a matter of chance what escapes a late frost here as far as fruit trees go. I have a friend in California who insists upon sending pictures of all the citrus in his yard......I know he secretly misses the chaos of zone 6, though. And he can't have goats in L.A., which he misses. But being active in politics keeps him in plenty of contact with "old goats," in my opinion!
Yes, those turkeys just fell over dead! I can't remember it without laughing. It was just too cartoon-y.
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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 7:52 pm
*Snags the 500th reply* @Sunset: Yeah, I can see me prowling through the neighborhood, trowel in hand, ready to retake my flowers. rofl Maybe leave some voodoo bulbs in their wake. I've heard the smell described as rotten meat. twisted *Sigh* I wouldn't really. (Well, at least not the voodoo bulb part!) Finished my shadowbox with my tassel and grad pics today. Didn't get much else done. xd Another day frittered away with Gaia and job searching.
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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:51 am
@ Dragon: If voodoo lilies are as bad as Stapelia, that would punish the entire neighborhood!
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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 2:19 pm
@Sunset: Maybe not strong enough to punish the whole neighborhood, at least not the individual blooms. Maybe with enough blooms... I've heard that they multiply relentlessly and are a pain if you don't grow them in pots. Your "punishing the neighborhood" comment made me think of the corpse flower display they had at the Houston Museum of Natural Science a while back. There is a pretty cool time lapse video of it blooming and some blog posts about it on their website. I hadn't seen the plant you were talking about so I looked it up. I found they are also sometimes called carrion flowers. I think that is the plant that the zOMG devs based the carrion fluffs on! rofl That makes more sense now that you have to knock over trash cans in the game to spawn them. Edit: I took a pic of the tulip magnolia biggrin 
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 9:01 am
Thanks for the picture, Dragon! I really do love magnolias. Many years ago, a girl I worked with made me a birthday cake, and decorated it with those huge southern magnolia blooms-------everyone else at work ate the cake, and I took those blossoms HOME. It was, to this day, my favorite birthday cake ever.
A neighbor of mine (when we lived in town) had a stapelia that she babied for years, hoping to get it to bloom. When it finally did, we took it out to the back of their property, about 400 feet from the house, which made it about 200 feet farther from my house. Everyone in the neighborhood could smell it. We all kept our windows closed for several days until the bloom was gone. It was terrible! The most sickening rotten-meat smell you can imagine. It literally made you gag.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 7:24 pm
I'm glad you liked the picture! We have a Little Gem magnolia here as well, which is basically a dwarf variety of the southern magnolia. It is still months away from blooming, but I'll do my best to get some pics of it up when it blooms.
My favorite birthday cake was one my parents got for me when I was little. I think I was 5. They really didn't have the money to spend, but they saved up and got me a beautiful store-bought cake. The cake had colorful circus tents drawn with frosting and plastic clown heads at all of the corners. The largest tent in the center had a big plastic clown juggling little plastic balls standing in front of it. I still have the juggling clown and keep it on a shelf in my room.
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:48 pm
Sorry, bit of a "ugh" moment.
Mother in law ended up in the hospital with a blood clot in her lungs. Could of been a lot worse - had it been in the brain or heart she would of died. All fine though.
In the hospital she said that this is a wake up call and she needs to take better care of herself. (Duh! In laws are far from healthy. One smokes, the other yo-yo diets and they're British which means bland fatty fried foods.)
She has to have daily shots for a week. The nurse came today and said she's fine to do the shots herself. She's upset because she doesn't want to do the shots. I can understand she may have anxiety over this, but doing this, you are taking your health in your hands and taking responsibility for your health. Making someone else give you the shots negates your responsibility. Argh, excuses!
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 3:07 pm
I made a little growing tray out of an egg carton and am currently trying to sprout some sweet basil seeds (bought for $0.20) in it on my windowsill! A very inexpensive project. (:
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:00 pm
@Pirhan: So glad that she is ok. Hope she feels much better soon.
@Stostina: I bought a bunch of seeds to start, too! While I was at the store, I heard someone holler my name. I turned around to see my best friend. She saw what I had in the basket and told me she bought a bunch of seeds this morning, too! She hasn't planted hers yet, so we might split some of our packages in half and trade.
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 5:57 am
@ Pirhan: I had to give those shots to my husband after the motorcycle wreck years ago. Not fun, since he's just a skinny, bone-and-muscle guy, but I got pretty good at it. Be sure she takes her "B"s," niacin in particular helps with clotting. Hubby lives on coffee, cigarettes, whatever doesn't eat him first, but he's very active and takes his vitamins. Although everyone in both our families takes meds for something, neither of us do.
@ Sostina & Dragon: Be sure to keep your unplanted seed in a baggie in the bottom of the fridge for another planting. Some seed stays viable for a long time, anyway, but stashing it will help. I just planted a flat of grey sugar peas from 1997, and they're growing! Sostina, good luck with the egg carton. Sometimes they dry out WAY too fast! You might want to move up to something bigger.
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 7:17 am
Road trip today! Headed to a college town about 5 hours from here to see one of the kids. Haven't been there in 25 years, should be fun! Finishing up cookies first, then donating hair with one of the girls, then on the road. Camera is charging----I hope I don't forget to take it!
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