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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b likes 3 comments on a discussion: 30 acres of empty gorgeous farmland
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Sherry8aNorthAL

Rescue senior or mistreated horses like Marilyn in Texas.

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Ally De

Your post brought tears to my eyes. Your grief is palpable. I am so sorry.


I can't even pretend to know what you should do. We all grieve differently, we all find different things healing or restorative....


I guess all I would say is don't make any rash decisions. If your mind isn't sure what the answer is, I would say there is no rush to decide. Give yourself the gift of time with no pressure, and perhaps the answer will become clear.

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barncatz

Thank you all. Your kindness is tremendously comforting.

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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b likes a comment on a discussion: Now that it's back to normal, COVID ponderings
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Olychick

I don't think most people have children thinking they aren't going to be able to provide for them. Not all children are planned. Not all pregnancies are a result of a loving relationship with the father. Not all fathers support their children. Not all women have access to birth control or health care. Blaming poor people for being poor is what is gross.

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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b commented on a discussion: Found a rare artifact!
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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b

Oh the humanity! 😄😄😄

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schoolhouse_gwagain

Oh darn, too bad they weren't chocolate gram crax.

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dedtired

By stale I mean they look kind of dry and shriveled. Im sure some are broken but most seem intact. In fact, I think they are petrified. Maybe enough whipped cream would soften them up and noone will know the difference.

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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b likes 2 comments on a discussion: Love our little airport
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Kathsgrdn

Arcy, have only had one major delay when flying due to weather. That was in Northern Spain. They had fog roll in so they put us on buses and sent us about an hour south. We were on the bus when our exchange student, who we were visiting, messaged me to ask why they bused us when the fog was already gone. We were flown to Madrid and the airline put us up in a hotel where the staff stayed late to serve us dinner. Our connecting flight back to the states was delayed until the next morning. This is the same flight that lost my luggage on the trip back to Chicago.


A year or so ago, one of my old friends and her husband took her first international flight to Germany. They were stuck in an airport for like a day and a half. I felt so bad for her. They had major delays going home too. It may have been during strikes in Germany but can't remember exactly, but what horrible luck.


When my daughter and I went to the U.K. two years ago to visit my son, we were planning to take a train from London to Edinburgh. Of course, right when we were heading there, there was a train strike and we had to take my son's car instead. We were also going to fly from Edinburgh to Dublin on a small carrier but since we now had his car we just took a ship over with his car. So, wouldn't be the first time we had to change plans at the last minute if something did happen. It wouldn't be fun since the trip as it is will be long and any delays will make it miserable. The time in the country is also very short, just 6 days not counting fly days.


Carolb, I always have a tag on my luggage and paper inside with all my information and phone number, just in case.

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chisue

Remember when flying was kinda fun? Not an ordeal?

I'm so old that I remember when people would drive out to what is now ORD to park by the fence and watch the planes land and take off. Once my DM was driving home from a late RE deal and wandered onto the tarmac. We used little Midway in Chicago, where you'd be dropped off in front of the building and walk a few yards straight through it to your gate.

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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b likes 2 comments on a discussion: UPS gripe
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foodonastump

And my mother’s hearing aids which were mistakenly resent to her rather than returned back to the seller, sat on her porch for like a week because they were left there where no one would see them rather than by the garage where we would have. And the porch is like 13 stairs up, so not lazy.

They can't make everyone happy. Best bet is to sign up for alerts with the major carriers so that you know when something has been delivered. Then you know to retrieve it and not tempt the porch pirates.

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foodonastump

There’s no precipitation visible in Judi’s picture. The leaf covered path though may have given the impression it wasn’t a well traveled entrance. All I’m suggesting is that with this sort of thing, one person’s preference might be another person’s annoyance. And my impression is that these drivers are under a lot of pressure to blast though their routes, I’d tend to cut them a little slack.

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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b likes 2 comments on a discussion: New Blooms Feb./Mar.
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four (9B near 9A)

Flowers of Aristolochia trilobata Pipevine. Photos taken today March 24.




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four (9B near 9A)

Hamelia patens



Virginia Pepperweed


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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b likes 3 comments on a discussion: Putting lack of ginger cookies into perspective. (Baltimore bridge)
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floraluk2

I'm sorry some readers failed to comprehend my post. But most people did. I added the explanatory subheading to clarify it for those who didn't understand the meaning.

I heard this news on the radio very early this morning, still the middle of the night in Boston, and was very shocked by it. I then went on line and saw the video. The "holy he ll"comment was the horrified human reaction heard from the person taking the video. I was surprised nobody on KT had mentioned it so decided to post about it. I mentioned perspective in order to contrast this genuine tragedy with some of the frothy topics we usually enjoy here. If anyone finds genuine shock at a disaster and a thought on reminding ourselves of what really matters in life 'a cheap shot', then I'm afraid that's not something I can do anything about.

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HU-127064464

When I read it, I thought of the earlier reference in a thread about ginger cookies disappearing from store shelves, and thinking about the huge contrast in issues that we hear about during daily life, I went on to consider the tragedy with sadness for possible hurt to people and regret about the damage and resulting disruption.

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beesneeds

I bet if they rebuild there, they will plan on something different. Accomidate the larger ships. That ship didn't have much wiggle room. The bridge opened in 1977- the average container ship was around 3,500 containers at the time. The ship that crashed was a 10,000 container ship. Some of the largest ships now can carry 24,000 containers.

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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b likes 3 comments on a discussion: I'll show you mine/you show me yours - W 3/27/24
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vgkg Z-7 Va

Yesterday's pic....


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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b likes 3 comments on a discussion: I'll show you mine... T 3/26/24
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Kathsgrdn

Buzzing around my weeping cherry out back almost 2 weeks ago:


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Pictures taken by my husband at Swan Island, Dahlia farm, Canby, Oregon

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sealavender

From a LEGO art exhibit at a local botanic garden


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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b commented on a discussion: Oh no...JoAnn's files for bankruptcy
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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b

Projecting much?

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claudia valentine

How sad that many refer to the store as a "craft" store. I dont want another darned craft store that sells insignificant craft stuff. I want a real fabric store!!!! There is not one darned thing in Michaels that I consider to be worthy of dealing with or owning..plastic flowers, seasonal nonsense, glue and gitter and cheap yarn...is what all that is. Most of it is pure junk, in my opinion. J's is the only thing left for most of the nation, as lame as it is. I dont hold out for a better fabric selection at J's . They will probably center more around that cheap craft market. There may be more profit in that cheap stuff than there is in being a seller of quality fabrics and supporting sewing needs.

A single piece of candy sold as an impulse buy at the checkout may have a higher percentage return of profit than a serious item. I know taht was the case when I worked at Borders as it applies to book sales. The profit margin on the candy was higher.


The same is likely to be true of many of the cheap craft items at J's. Clever marketing gurus factor in some many little details in order to create a profit from the jumble of merchandise. it can be surprising to see just how some retail entities make a profit and where that profit comes from might be surprising. It may not be what appears to be the main product being sold where they actualy make their profit.


Another example woud be extended warranties. I used to sell sewing machines at Sears, too. And Sears made more profit from selling the extended warranty than they did selling the machine.

All is not as it might appear to be when it comes to business.

That explains those impulse items at most cash registers at most store. Never was there candy at the fabric store back when the world was normal . Some even have soda machines!!! Horrors!! Maybe there was just this little thing or that little thing as a impulse buy , but not the likes of candy and novelty kids socks and silly things to hang on the wall.

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claudia valentine

bees, there is a confusing and not well defined defintion as to what is craft and what is beyound that. If we refer to the work of a talented needle artist and the kid with the fusible bead kit as both being a "craft" that is very confusing.

I think that we have taken the word "craft" and applied it much too liberally and way too generously to too many things! So much so that we have sullied the meaning of the word.


I dont consider my sewing to be a craft, Neither is it an "art", necessarily. I consider it to be a skill that required a learning, materials, techniques, sophisticated tools and experinece that produces useful and durable items of quality and value and, even, art.

Much of the craft stuff at Michaels and J's requires very little skill of any kind and anyone can do it.......fast, simple and easy is what they advertise it as on the packaging. My sewing skills were not acquired quickly, simply or easily. I earned and learned them and refuse to see myself the same as one who threads cheap yarn through plastic "canvas" to make an image of a sunflower or a cat, or uses a sewing machine to make little hearts and bookmarks from felt.

Any set of tools or materials can be use to create art. Art is another vaguely defined and overly applied definition. Sure that a talented artist could extract art from one of those kits where you glue glittery dots to a chart to make a unicorn.

I invested too much of my life in learning a skill and it would feel to be devaluing of myself to put myself into the same catagory as to fit the modern usage of a crafter. Also, I am not an artist no matter how many fancy tricks I can do with my sewing machine. But my skills are learned and I have invested in them.

I do understand the point you are making, though. There is dimension to the meaning of the word, but we have reduced it to a flat desigination for too many unworthhy things and have devalued it.

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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b likes a comment on a discussion: Completely frivolous car purchase, Midlife crisis or - WWYD?
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lyfia

I really really appreciate the responses and things to think about. I really thought they were going to be along the lines of Jennifer's. Which is where my brain is and making it hard to take the leap. I would have no problem it being my daily driver and shopping wise it would hold most of what I'd need to purchase. I'd just have to plan better and make sure to take the right vehicle if I was getting something bulky. We are rural so don't really travel far to make bulky purchases without planning anyways and we do have a truck although it has almost 200K miles, but a diesel so just broken in that we use for towing so I wouldn't be stuck if my daughter for some reason wouldn't want to drive the Corvette.

Everything Jennifer said is what has been holding me back although I could make the money back fairly soon, but at the expense of some other things probably. However one thing I know for sure is that I won't be able to retire until I can get Medicare with or without buying a Corvette due to health insurance costs.

I used mid-life crisis in that I think it describes what my feelings are and I don't find it derogatory, but that is a different discussion. I've realized my mortality and that I may face limitations earlier than I would like and although I'd like a long retirement I right now feel like I won't have one. My mom got 10 years after retiring before Alzheimer's had her in it's grip and she retired early. My step dad died of cancer 5 years after retiring. I've got some weird medical things going on, and had a 20cm long blood clot a little over a year ago too, so I really have that feeling that I want to live now.

I did contact the dealer to see if they can locate and dealer trade the one I want with the right trim level and color. My first choice by far is a Cacti Green one. In some pictures it looks seafoam green, but it actually is more of a greyish green and leans more like a darker sage. This picture is an accurate representation on my screen of the color (not necessarily the exterior options.) Although some would say the car is probably flashy I'm not a fan of bright colors. My second choice is plain white.



BTW is it the price range that make you call it a luxury car? I'm more in the camp of performance car or sports car. It certainly doesn't have all the features of what is even the lower level luxury cars.

Just a note I started out with looking at the Porsche Cayman, but it just didn't have the same kick, but it did have more luxury features. Also looked at some other sports cars until my DH said what about a Corvette and there I went up in price again. After driving it though I'm in love. I love the Torque.

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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b commented on a discussion: What is Your Favorite and Least Favorite Nut?
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gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)

Water chestnuts are not nuts but the edible corm of a water dwelling sedge or grass and taste nothing like a real chestnut, which need to be cooked before use. Chestnut trees do grow in CA, get quite large with wide spreading canopies but are not very noticeable aside from their long white flower spikes in late spring or early summer. The Asian or European varieties of chestnut are most often the types found for sale as nuts. American chestnuts are much smaller and less tasty.

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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b

Just thinking about what things were like 3 years ago - early 2021...

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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b commented on a discussion: Soil high in calcium but End Blossom Rot
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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b

Does temperature affect calcium uptake as well?

And I agree that variety may be a factor.

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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b

Just wanted to mention that despite the damage, the rest of those green tomatoes are likely still OK to eat - I like to cook with mine after trimming off any bad parts. I make a yummy pasta topper with sauteed sausage, onions, garlic, parsley and chopped green tomatoes - I also add them to stews, taco meat, chicken & rice, etc...

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vgkg Z-7 Va

" THOUGHT ON ADDING CALCIUM CHLORIDE to the soil?? At least when planting or at some point?? "


As I mentioned it would be best to experiment on a couple of plants this season to judge the outcome compared to your untreated plants. CaCl is typically the main ingredient in those commercial BER sprays where the Ca solution is absorbed through the plant foliage. Whether it works as advertised is questionable but transporting Ca via the root system seems like a more reasonable approach. I add a teaspoon of CaCl to my regular fertilizer soil application about 2 weeks before planting but probably the most critical timing would be to apply it during the initial blooming period. It dissolves easily in water and can be used in that manner too when watering the plants.

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daninthedirt (USDA 9a, HZ9, CentTX, Sunset z30, Cfa)

Again, adding calcium to soil that is already rich in calcium is just avoiding what might be the real problem. Yes, calcium deficiency is what can cause BER, but you appear to have loads of it. Now, if you don't trust your soil analysis, all bets are off. Not having air to breathe can cause asphyxiation and death, but as long as you have air to breathe there isn't much point in trying to get more.

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sealavender

He loved fruit!


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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b likes a comment on a discussion: Trader Joe's dropped my ginger cookies!
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lily316

I'm heading out to Aldi and TJs and will report new finds...lol

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roxanna

rob -- I'd be happy to add you to my garden -- do you prefer sitting on a bench in the shade or in the sun? Iced tea or wine? I have chocolate... =) Hope you do enlarge the photos!


My mother had a few flower beds (dad had the vegetables) and she & I would perambulate around checking their progress whenever I came home from college. It was our time to catch up with each other. But I never really did any garden work until long after I married. I tried to have a tiny garden at our first apartment in San Antonio, which was a dismal failure. 50 years ago we moved back to MA, and I did some gardens there, tho minimal as the kids were young.


Moving here 25 years ago finally gave me plenty of space to indulge myself in a big way. Once the first layout was in place, I gradually greatly expanded the size of all those beds and began to dig out several new ones. Worst job was to heft those stone edging blocks up front and move & reset them to widen the beds -- those are actual cobblestones, and weigh a ton each. I could not do it today, lol.


I've enjoyed posting my photos, but doing so has encouraged me to succumb to the desire to increase the spring bulbs displays since the sun pattern has changed to the ever-growing height of all the trees here. So, two nights ago I sent in an order for a bunch of pretty stuff that I could not resist. Some will be put into containers, some into the ground. I must be mad....


xoxoxox



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