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Comments (16)I don't know if McDonald's food will rot or not, but Dolly Madison's Red Coconut Zingers will not rot. I worked as a computer network administrator before my retirement in 2000. At my last job we had an on-going joke in the department where ownership of a package of the red coconut Zingers was passed from one person to another whenever they earned our honorary "Super Geek" junk food trophy. Photo taken 31 Aug 2010 Whoever had last been awarded the Zingers, would at their discretion, award them to the next recipient based upon that person performing some feat of extraordinary technical brilliance. When I first awarded this trophy to one of my coworkers, I had planned to use a package of plain Twinkies which we would often share a pack of when working late, but the vending machine in the break room was sold out that day. The dyed red coconut Zingers looked even better for the purpose, so I dropped in my quarters. After 5 years being passed respectfully and gingerly from one recipient to another the trophy had made it to everyone in the department. Every recipient kept it on display in a prominent place in their cubicle. The Zingers are still red and all the coconut is still glued to the surface of the cakes. The cakes were as hard as a stone after about 3 years. The cellophane was beginning to turn yellow, and the writing on the package began to fade, so everyone avoided displaying it in a sunny location after 3 years. When I retired in 2000, the department retired the trophy as well and gave it to me to take home. These Zingers are now 15 years old and do not have a single speck of mold on them. They are every bit as un-wholesome looking now as they were when they were brand new....See MoreSaw an Interesting Hoya (Hybrid?) Today
Comments (9)Success! I got my cutting today, woo-hooo. Well not a cutting really, another separate plant of it. Turns out the original plant I fell for has been cut back a lot. Owner decided she didn't want to cut more yet & decided to send me to the co-worker from whom she got it 4 yrs. ago & she said the original was large. Well, turns out that one has also been cut back a lot (this 2nd woman also doesn't know what Hoyas are & has it quite overpotted), nice growth around the circumference of the pot, middle growth lookes like it & its rootball were pulled up out of the mix & look bad. Apparently on reflection the owner didn't think this was a good enough plant to share & she showed up at my desk today w/ an entirely separate plant which she said she had at home. The good part is that it's a nice sized chunk, likely big enough to cut in 1/2 by Spring, very nice roots, seems very well grown & happy. The bad part is that it doesn't look much like the actual plant I got smitten w/ (by?) But I can sort of see how it might grow into it. 'Til I can get a camera that's all for now; for the moment I'm guessing it to be a cross btwn Obovata & Carnosa. Cross yr. fingers pls. everybody!! Nice deal huh, no cost, no shipping charges either. I've decided I'm going to give the giver a lb. can of my Hoya mix (coir & pumice, mixed w/ a bit of what looks like peat that she had this plant in) & am also going to offer her a couple of small cuttings of Obscura....See MoreI Thought You Might Enjoy Seeing . . .
Comments (59)I have sort of a "natural experiment" (aka "by accident") going on with restricting the size of Fortuniana by not irrigating it in summer. Late last winter I moved a 'Fabvier' up to a spot at the very edge of the cared-for part of my garden and grabbed the water line of the Fortuniana I also have growing up there (wild-and-crazy and regularly pruned) and gave it to 'Fabvier', figuring I would get around to fixing something up for Fortuniana later. Well, the summer went along and then it was fall without me getting around to it and I'm realizing that the Fortuniana still looked fine, though not putting on lots of new growth. Never did give it irrigation, and rains started in early November. Looked at it this morning -- lots of new leaves and flower buds, but no wild-and-crazy octopus canes yet, which it used to produce all the time when it got summer irrigation. I know of at least a few banksia roses at old houses around town that don't get any summer water but have persisted for a long, long time, and I am curious now to see how Fortuniana fares under that regime. Imagine this strategy wouldn't work in Florida, though, jin......See MoreI thought you might like to see some pics taken hanging upside down.
Comments (22)Bonnie, I just cut the grass, sprayed weed killer and Deer Fence repellent was dragged across the yard by Shasta going after a rabbit and standing for 10 minutes alongside my shed because she wouldn't leave where the rabbit hid and now I am going out to trim the grass.....so, it looks nice but right now I'm not in love. BUT, thank you, I appreciate it....See More- 5 years ago
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