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Pond Detectives: Retrofitting a 70 year old pond.
Comments (4)Thanks, Gilroy! I wonder if anyone has success posting images from their libraries directly to gardenweb? We've gone back and forth--from making the pond into a firepit--which would mean somehow making it drain snow melt and rainwater, to reviving the pond, which means a bigger financial and time committment, plus lots more to learn (just trying to figure out the GPH and the lift and the head height and immersible vs external and direct drives vs mag drives...! Yikes!) We've also talked about making it a firepit surrounded by a pond or somehow making it into a hot tub or outdoor pizza oven. It's the focal point of our backyard and letting it fill up with algae and Mosquitos and weeds every summer just isn't working. Our neighbor put in a swimming pool and all the noisy equipment sits atop the hill just above the pond's retaining wall and behind a hideous chain link fence. We're hoping to cover up the noise with the waterfall sounds and eventually put up our own wooden fence to hide the chain link. But, wow, what a lot of work and expense. I love old houses and am glad you're trying to stay true to the design of your home's era. Have you posted any photos of your home and where the pond is sited in relation to the house? Good luck!...See MoreAriens snow blower transmissions vs. everybody else
Comments (1)I'm not sure about the newer models, but I have a ariens 824 classic deluxe which has a heavy duty transmission with a pin lock on the left side tire. I can lock the different by turning a knob on the wheel which engages a pin to lock the differential. To be honest, I've only used it a few times in 6 years and my drive way is pretty steep. I'll state the obvious, but its a pain to turn with the diff locked. I find it easier to make smaller passes than to lock the diff. The 2 or 3 times I've used it is when its super icy and I'm going up the hill in my driveway....See More70 years ago tonight...
Comments (13)I think Vivien Leigh's other famous roles were as Anna Karenina and as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire. Considering the incredible acting job she did in GWTW, including her southern accent (she was British), her later roles were mostly unexciting. For some reason, that seems to happen a lot to Oscar winners. Marisa Tomei jumps to mind (she was incredible in My Cousin Vinny, and has done nothing but c-r-a-p since). I have seen Ship of Fools, Leigh's final picture. It's a realllly good movie - great character studies - catch it if you can. She plays a fairly blah character in that one as well. She seems tired and lackluster in it, I wonder if she was already sick at that time. Here is a link that might be useful: Her movies...See MoreHow's everybody's growing season going so far?
Comments (17)What can I say, this has been the weirdest growing season ever, Brita's Foot Long has really produced lots of beans, lots of seed and is finished pole pulled. Barksdale planted the same day is just flowering now and starting to produce pods, mind you the vines have gone wild, gone up the pole, down the pole, up again and reaching out for anything it could grab hold of like my clothesline. Several other varieties are behaving the same way like they're on steroids. Grandma Nellie's and Frank Barnett are also finished, got a bumper crop of seed from 8 plants planted of both of these. Had a bit of a boo boo with Rattlesnake and Louisiana Snap, the seed looks identical and before I realized what I'd done I threw the first dried seed from L.S. in with the Rattlesnake seed I'd already collected, dumb, dumb, dumb. Oh well lots more pods to pick of Rattlesnake so threw that lot of seed in a jar in the kitchen to be used in some recipe or other. Had a couple of failures but the sample of seed given me could have been old Chevrier Vert didn't germinate and Flaro French Flageolet I ended up with one plant. Surprisingly enough I have a tub of Fagiolina del Traimento producing beans, Yancheng Bush looks healthy enough but hasn't begin to flower yet. The runner I'm growing this year Aeron Purple Star has produced fantastically for me, we've had a few meals and now the rest have been left for seed. I have a few pods that didn't turn Purple and as the vines are so intertwined I couldn't find which plant to pull :). Next year I'll only plant half as many plants with a vulgaris variety in between so I can rouge out anything that only produces green pods, mind you that will probably be too late due to the bees. I'll only plant seed from purple pods and keep my fingers crossed. The first Big Mama I planted turned out to be a purple bush bean not a pole variety, have no idea what they are so will scrap them. I managed to find another source for this Big Mama, although planted late it's almost at the top of it's pole and is flowering so there's hope for this one even if I have to put an umbrella over it in the fall. It seems this is another heirloom that is endangered so will grow it again next year. Bosnian Pole is producing lots of beans, not quite at the full bean stage, my trial of the 3 different Tennessee Cutshorts is just about ready for picking and comparing and the samples of quite a few of the other beans I'm growing, seed already picked. I'll come back later with final results, lots of beans at different stages of development yet to report on. This has been one H*ll of a summer I have to admit the heat has been knocking the stuffing out of me, yeah I know the 90's are just warm to some of you but when you are used to most of the summer being in the low 70's it makes a difference. On the the other hand when we were in Arizona one December temps were in the mid 70's during the day and we were all hitting the pool at the motel we were staying at :) the residents all thought we were crazy. They were all sitting around bundled up and some even wore socks to bed at night to keep their feet warm, or so we were told. it's all what you're used too. Annette...See More- 10 years ago
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ImhappyandIknowit, my birthday is the 11th of October. My daughter's is the 6th. I am not crazy about getting older, but compared to the alternative, it's not so bad. ;) I am healthy and I stay busy. The only time I feel old is when I look in the mirror. In my mind, I am still a 12 year old, horse loving kid. This is my favorite horse, Mariah, and me made on my 68th birthday, when I started back to riding after not riding for over 20 years. (I always had horses, but they were old. I was busy taking care of my daughter and my mother and a dear friend, and when my daughter moved away and my mother and friend died, I decided to do something for myself, so I found Mariah on Facebook and went to Mississippi and bought her.) - 10 years ago
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