Describe the last period you ever had
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Have you ever had a sport that is just a different size?
Comments (8)I agree with Shade Tolerant, whack the Eiffel Tower division out and plant it separately. You won't be able to determine if it's really a larger sport for several years, but there is no point in being annoyed every time you look at an uneven plant. While you are doing the requisite surgery, take the time to completely untangle and separate all the roots if you haven't already done so. This can be quite a job with a badly pot bound hosta, but it's well worth the time. Even if you have to cut off a few roots, or quite a few roots, get the entire root ball separated and fanned out before putting both divisions back in the ground. Unless you do this, a pot bound hosta can remain stunted for years. When I buy a seriously root bound hosta and it proves impossible to untangle and separate the roots, I take a serrated knife and cut straight down between divisions to divide the plant, roots and all, into smaller sections. If I still can't untangle the roots, I cut it into smaller sections. Think of it as cutting a really tall pie into wedges. A hosta will do better with this treatment than if left with tangled roots. Once you can untangle all the roots, you can either plant those pieces out or cut them into smaller sections if there is enough root growth to support the divisions....See MoreHave you ever had a tree branch fall on your house?
Comments (27)I have never had property damage due to falling trees. However when we lived in Wilmington NC we had three hurricanes in a couple of months, The worst was Fran. In those storms we lost 30 trees on our 0.6 acre lot, ranging from mature saplings to one white pine that was about 30" at the base. All of those trees fell parallel to the front and back of the house. The only damage we received was an inch tear in one of the screens. Our whole neighborhood of about 70 house was equally lucky, a lot of trees were lost but like ours most fell parallel to the houses, Of the neighborhood only 3 or 4 took damage....See MoreWhat is the longest you have ever had to live without electricity?
Comments (58)About a year and a half. I never remember being without electricity when I was a child in Ontario: I don't know when electricity first came to our home. Grandpa had bought our farm near London, on a major highway about a mile and a quarter from a village, in 1917 and Dad and Mom took over the farm some time after their marriage in 1925. I was born in 1929 and I remember us getting a small table radio about 1940. Dad had bronchial trouble and was concerned that he was on the way to becoming asthmatic, and moved to Saskatchewan just after World War II, in 1946. He sharecropped a farm about 10 miles from the capital, Regina, owned by a man whom Grandpa had helped get an education around 1900, who moved to the prairies with his brother as young men. We arrived in the spring of 1946, we three boys drove four miles to school and I stayed home for a week or so later in the spring to help put in the crops. I was the only student in Grade 11 and I think that the principal (operating Grades 9 - 12) in the one-room high school, spent more than usual time with me to get me up to speed. I should perhaps be embarrassed to report hat my average in that school year was higher than the next, my final year, when I was there for the full year. The power line was a mile and a half from the house where we lived and our landlord hadn't chosen to install a connection to it ... but he did, a few years later, after Dad had bought a farm, when the landlord retired and moved from the city out to that farmhouse. A year and almost a half after our move, I went to university in Saskatchewan's second largest city, Saskatoon ... there's a bush berry beloved of people in that part of the prairies that bears its name. After my first year, I returned to the farm so lived without electricity from May till September of that year, as well. We had an oil-fired cookstove, a battery radio and kerosene-powered lamps and lanterns that pushed kerosene under pressure up a tube by a conical mesh where it was vapourized and then burned as the vapour hit the mesh, to provide light that was quite bright - and warmth, as well (which was appreciated in winter). By the way ... my first encounter with a bathroom, which requires water under pressure, in my place of residence was when I went to university and lived in a dorm, in the fall of 1947, when I was 18. ole joyfuelled...See MoreHave you ever made/had sweet potato cornbread?
Comments (12)Well dang! I thought I had gotten it off Facebook or Pinterest but I can't find it and I'm not at home. I can add the recipe later. It's mashed sweet potatoes, white cornmeal mix, pumpkin pie spice (which I don't like so I used cinnamon), eggs, butter, a little sugar. I think that was all. It was really good....See Moreceleste_meno
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