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Comments (40)You know, it's funny...the weather guy actually mentioned that we'd gone from normal October weather/temps directly to normal January weather/temps and completely skipped November and December! lol. I don't know, but I could swear this year is closer to what we used to get when I was a kid. I can remember snow almost touching the power lines because we used to get so much and nowhere for the road crews to put it so they just kept cutting the tops back further and further, and the hunters complaining they had to wade through waist deep snow to track the deer on Thanksgiving day, and sledding down mountains of snow! I had to ask my step-mom if I was just imagining we used to get that much and she said I wasn't - that we really did used to get it as tall as the lines. Now that I'm old, less snow seems like a much better idea. I'll just have to keep chanting - "It's protecting my plants and ws jugs, it's protecting my plants and ws jugs. Really, it is!" lol....See MoreDecember Reading ... before we turn the page on 2016
Comments (66)Under the Flamboya Tree by Clara Kelly was an 'easy' read of a difficult subject. Clara was a Dutch child who grew up on the island of Java at the time of the Japanese invasion. Her father was taken to work on the notorious Burma railway and her Mother with three children, the baby only six weeks old, were put into a camp where they endured ill-treatment, starvation and disease until the end of 1945.They fared little better after their release and another year in a holding 'facility' before their eventual repatriation to Holland on an overcrowded cargo ship. Clare was only four when her ordeal began so her memories are very general. The heat, hunger, beatings and death . . . and the boredom, not forgetting the fights between the inmates that all became 'everyday' events. Even the 'native' people felt ill-will and animosity towards the Dutch and seemed glad to see the women and children suffer. Her Father was reunited with them but had lost interest in the family and had even forgotten that his wife was pregnant when he was imprisoned. The story is really about the courage and strong will to live shown by the Mother and how the three children managed to make new lives for themselves when they became adults....See MoreSLUGGO might not be as safe as we thought?
Comments (2)I don't worry about using Slug-Go. I normally only have to use it once or twice at the beginning of the year and that's it for the year. I use it more for sow bugs and pill bugs than for slugs or snails. When I first learned it had EDTA in it, I wasn't happy. However, all our pets are fenced out of our garden by an 8' tall fence, so I can control whether they are allowed in the garden or not and I simply don't let them into the garden for a few days after I've put out Slug-Go Plus. We still have plenty of earthworms, so if it is killing ours, I cannot tell. Again, though, I only put it out once or twice and year and it disappears pretty quickly. Since we use lots of mulch, the Slug-Go disappears into the mulch anyway, so I doubt a dog or cat could find it in the mulch like they could if it was sprinkled on bare soil. When we are discussing the use of organic vs. synthetic products, I try to always emphasize that a product is not necessarily safe just because it is organic. There's several organic things I won't use....including Rotenone and Sabadilla. Actually, the older I get, the more things that move onto my "don't use" list. At the rate I'm going, there's not going to be much of anything left that I do use, except for hand-picking or cutting pests in half with scissors....See MoreDecember 2018 - What We're Reading
Comments (72)Donnamira, I am full of admiration! I believe that you are not compelled to vote either as we are in Australia. However, I can postal vote in advance or opt for going to an Early Voting booth, which is in my local shopping centre and this best suits me as there is rarely a queue. On the actual voting day, charities have a "Democracy Sausage Sizzle" so that one can at least get something to eat while waiting. Amusingly there is a difference between the States on the presentation. The Eastern States like the sausage folded in a slice of white bread while we in the West have ours in a long bun. Then there is the case for fried onions, top or bottom? Quite Lilliputian?...See More- 7 years ago
Sure! I took some with the lights(the real lights) on and some with them off and just the Christmas lights on,which is how I like to have them when I am here.
This is the "other side" where people come in to get their paperwork. That is National Lampoons on the projector.
Another view from that side.
My side
More on my side.
The ceiling. Part of it anyway. Sorry my phone camera lens is broken and doesn't take the best pictures, but I think you can get the gist...There are 14 large tiles,8 medium tiles,and 3 small tiles. They each have a different paper.
Lights on! The big file cabinet.
And the little one. The paper is a little frayed already,because SOME PEOPLE JUST CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS!!!!! And yes,that is the leg lamp on top of it.
Where we make the coffee...
Another ceiling pic....
The view of the other side from my chair....did I mention that I also wrap the walls? And the fridge?
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