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Comments (28)Mercer is held twice a year, spring and fall at Mercer Arboreteum in Houston, Tx. Jennifer does all the leg work and posts it on the Texas exchange forum. Galveston County master gardeners have a spring swap, it used to be twice a year, at Jack Brooks park in Dickinson, or is it League City?. Yadda usually organizes a swap in Ft. Bend in late Spring, there are only a few of us that show up there. All of these will be posted on the Texas exchange page. With our climate things grow very well, sometimes too well, so always trying to find homes for things. It is easier to just load up someones car for sure. Josh, I don't grow any jades. They really don't like the humidity here on the island. I've got tons of other stuff though I'll work on a list next week when I'm off. Aloes, oputania, agaves, tropicals... PG, there are tons of plant societies in Houston, which meet about 80 miles from my house, usually on weekday nights so I haven't joined any. Just can't do the long drive through Houston traffic. Here on the island, nothing. We don't even have a really active garden club. Of course, our population is really down, around 45,000 of us left. Jim of Jimbos in Santa Fe raises bromeliads and other tropicals. He is a member of several societies and I may start car pooling to meetings with him. He's very active in the bromeliad community so I've gleaned tons of information from him, and like me he likes weird stuff, including cacti/succulents. I still trade on line, especially when the banana canna gets out of hand, $20 a rhizome!! And it's the fastet growing canna in the yard. Anyone want any let me know LOL! Tally HO!...See MoreOT -- I feel pitiful
Comments (12)It's true. I might get a better job. The salary I'm getting now is pretty good, but there are plenty of people in my field making a lot more than I am. I've been with this company for three years. My boss has offered to be a reference. I've learned a lot while I've been here. I was hired just as a writer and editor. I politely nudged for my duties to be expanded so that I was working more IT, and now I'm doing website support and hard coding in HTML for online documents. And I plan to get some software and fill some of the gaps in my IT knowledge. And I plan to dye my hair. It's getting awfully grey, and I've been letting it go. I just wish I could lose more weight before I have to go interview. At least the tooth I lost is a molar, not one in front. I should have asked to keep it. I could have put it under my pillow! My dentists are pretty nice, and they know what they're doing. I think this all started when I went to a dentist who was an idiot. He filled this tooth because the old filling was cracked. He should have done a root canal, but he didn't. A year or so later, it began to hurt, so I went to my current dentist. They did the root canal and put a temporary filling in it in preparation for a crown. Well, I let it go too long. I lost track of how long it had been. When that temp filling fell out, I called and made an appointment, but it was too late for the tooth. If only that first dentist had done the root canal that he should have, I would probably still have my tooth. And he was way too expensive, too. Over $400 to put a filling into a molar. He said that that was because it was an emergency appointment. But I made it a week ahead of time, and I didn't ask for an emergency appointment. (Compost)head. I wish I could afford the extra money to get an implant instead of a bridge!...See MoreSlightly OT: How many people on this forum have Pets?
Comments (86)When I vacuum and put the kids floor pillows on the chair Her Royal Highness assumes her position: I had a post written up this morning that i forgot to post and subsequently closed the browser thinking I'd posted. Much shorter now: Replaced our worn out sofa w/ a white machine washable slipcovered one. I purposely bought it so that the dog could be on it. I throw the slips in the laundry w/ a crap load of bleach and they come out fantastically and the only thing that I haven't been able to fully get out was the gel ink stain from a pen that exploded a few weeks ago. Oh well! I have a white metalasse' throw that I put over the back of it because Poochina likes to lay on the back of the sofa and observe what goes on outside. I currently have faux leather chairs that wipe off easily and cleanly. When they are totally trashed someday I will replace w/ real leather because I know it works for my needs. I gave up heavy comforters a few yrs ago in lieu of machine washable quilts that I turn down when I'm home and the gal is following me around and when we go to work I pull it up all of the way and she sleeps up there until we come home. On her white sofa: Proving that no space is too small for her to squeeze into and cuddle w/ someone....See MoreTotally OT, as if this forum were ever ON topic
Comments (24)Outside playing, my busyness seems to come and go. But there's nothing like a day spent with other women and my kids' peers to remind me how good I really have it. My kids are healthy even though they're a lot of work (and they aren't little!) my parents are mentally and mostly physically healthy and alive and nearby if frail and 90+, I have a pretty supportive DH, my living room does not have a foot (or 6!) of water in it, I can kind of choose my hours, I don't run my Roomba with a new puppy in the house (has everyone seen that story?) etc. robo, your grandmother is very perceptive! With the caregivers I can go back to being a daughter mostly. My next step is to hire a maintenance service to look after the house (things like checking the gutters and basement and tending to the issues that arrise), because I spent a week mentally berating a sibling for thinking that "that leak isn't so bad" while I sucked up gallons of water with my floor machine. I don't mind the cleaning as much as the berating: one is execise, the other is bad for my spirit. Yes, another option would be to move them out of the house, but who are we kidding? Today, of course, brings a new issue: the hospital wouldn't do a "full admit", but "admit for observation". Argh. Medicare and I have a love-hate relationship. I don't do that kind of bookkeeping well....See More
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