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I hear there has been some rock and rolling on the west coast. Hope you had no damage. Also big storms in the midwest.
Have had a busy day as we finaaly used the vouchers our family had given us to go over to a volcanic island sanctuary in the middle of the harbour. It was great but I am exhausted and have been in bed for ages because nothing wants to move. Had to have a shower to get dust off. We did a small walk then took a tour but had to walk the final part to the top, very steep and 390 steps. Great day but joints now unhappy.
Big hugs
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Hugs, Alyson, I know if you count the steps that it must be bad!!! I feel for you....
Can't IMAGINE having flowers in the winter!!!!!!!!!!! We just look at white all season, and still are!! It's been a very snowy winter but that's why we decorate inside with such deep colours. Those in warmer climates tend to decorate with softer colours....
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Meant to say - LOVE the camellia picture!! Perfect colouring with that blue-y background, very current.
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Now you can see the shape better, since they put the roof trim on. The plastic was to protect from the storm. It's coming along!!!
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Hi folks popping in:)
Been thinking------always sumpin eh? Thinking of a sister that still reads, but doesn't post much b/c she's too weak. She's in the stage 4 group, but we had worked on one of the threads together along time ago.One of those exciting threads like constipation, but it wasn't that one. I don't want to invade her privacy, so, I won't use her name.
Then I started thinking of the Warm & Fuzzy Owls Kitties and Funny Stuff thread.
At first, it was simply a place to keep things that made us happy that we didn't want to loose over time as the pages turn.
Now maybe something different. When our minds are so heavy, reading complex things can be a chore. But what we are posting on W&F's thread is light , fluffy, easy. They can cheer without having to work at the thought too much. Without having to try to keep track of too many words.
So, when you post something here or on one of your other threads, that's a picture, saying that we all get as BC 'ers. Please, post it there too. Keep it simple i.e. few words.
There are several serenity type threads like Foley's pictorial venues. I'm sure there are more that I'm not aware of.
If anyone thinks this has value, we could ask the others to do transporter links in the topic boxes that would make it even easier for those that need it.
Link to warm and fuzzy owls,kitten,dogs,goats,and other things thread.
http://community.breastcancer.org/forum/102/topic/...
Hope, I'm making sense
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We grow a lot of varieties of camellias where I live. I have a huge one that I really need to prune this spring. It has pretty deep pink blossoms. I have two that have peppermint blossoms and one that has deep red doubles that are small but frilly. The relative to the camellia is the sasanqua, which is also very pretty. I have those planted across the front of my house. They bloom late fall through the early part of winter and the camellias bloom all winter and into the spring. We have blossoms of some kind the year round.
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Carole LA has much the sort of weather as our Brisbane does although I think Brisbane gets a bit more rain. The winters are pretty identical from what I see and I know Camellias grow there all winter as well. I live South Central fairly near the edge of the desert so I get the real heat like the desert and in winter it can be bitter cold and it has been known to snow. I lived here for awake as a child and do remember it snowing although it didn't stick for long.
This year, because of a couple of huge rain storms, we have already had our yearly rainfall so I'm expecting a bumper crop with my fruit trees next summer as there is still more ran to come throughout the winter season.
Barbe I can't imagine just looking at white for many months!! I think I would find it fascinating for one season but not sure I could live with it.
Thanks Sas!
Nancy with the roof edging on it's really staring to look like a little house! I am fascinated by the way you build your roof, it's almost like ply wood that is then covered by a shingle. What are the shingles made of? I guess the roof needs to be fairly light weight to handle the weight of snow in the winter.
The strange oddities of weather are doing there thing here again......lol......for the next few days it is going to be very warm bordering on hot and then on Thursday the temp is to plunge again.........ah Autumn! Don't you just love it?!
Lve n hugs all! Chrissy
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Chrissie, just the opposite! Our roofs have to be VERY strong to withstand the weight of snow! In fact there are wire heaters you can buy to melt the snow to keep the weight off. We used to have to go to our cottage in the winter just to shovel snow off the roof. Over the plywood goes a sheet of tar paper (or the like) and then the shingles. What do you guys do?
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Barbe our roofs are made of corrugated iron or clay tiles over a timber or metal frame. Under that and on top of the frame work is lain a fire retardant sheeting that is also an insulation. In the roof space is placed other insulation to help keep the heat out. We don't have attics and only the some of the very old (over 100 years) houses have cellars.
A lot of the houses have an outside shed of some sort that is used as storage both for our cars and for things that are no longer used in the house as well as tools etc. My house is an old one but at some time in the past the cellar was filled in but I do have what was the stables as my storage shed but it faces the wrong way for me to park my car in it.
When I did my trip over to the USA, I was fascinated with the different styles of homes and the other architecture in general.
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I, too, LOVE to see how places are built around the world!! Ways to keep bugs/snakes out or allow lizards in to eat bugs...that kind of thing (in Mexico the doors don't go all the way to the floor to allow the little guys in to eat the bugs.) I find it all fascinating, too. Why did they stop building cellars?
As for outdoor sheds, I have to laugh at times. Some are painted such garish colours of green!! I can imagine the wife saying "Go buy some grass coloured paint so it blends in." and the husband comes home with a lime green! hehehehehhee
My favourite paint store had a sign that said "Husbands are not allowed to chose paint colours without a letter from their wife." LOVE it!!!!!
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In Australia we have a huge termite problem so a lot of the new houses are being built with metal frames........let's see the little blighters try to sink their teeth into that!........lol. We also use clay brick and what you call cinder block as building materials for basic construction.
Cellars became very expensive to dig and the 'modern' thing was to have a shed in place of it......much cheaper and did the same thing for the storage side of things and a cellar was no longer needed to be used to cool store food as the refrigerator was far easier accessible and again cheaper than digging a cellar.
The outdoor sheds are usually a deep olive or avocado color green or just the shiny silver color of the corrugated iron that they mostly built from although I have seen some pretty horrid other colors that somehow got past the councils but that was more in the country than the city.
I LOVE that sign!.......lol.......perhaps I should print it out and take it to a few of the paint stores here!
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we don't have basements here much..just concrete slab for our floor. What happens is most people use their garages for storage and leave the cars out...
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We mostly use our garages for storage too!! Even here where they cut the grass for us and we don't need the tools for that....I had everything labelled when we moved in but the movers ignored it and just loaded the garage with boxes...sigh. Still going through them when the weather is warm and we've been here 3 years!!! I found some expensive fabric and stuff out there so I was pretty upset to say the least....I wonder what else is hiding out there!
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Barbie---"My favourite paint store had a sign that said "Husbands are not allowed to chose paint colours without a letter from their wife." LOVE it!!!!! TOO
SoCal LOL here in Florida we call it a "florida garage" Translation --filled to capacity with stuff(junk, cast offs etc). Up north never saw such a thing. Here I make an effort in the spring to clean one side to get the one car in during hurricaine season. Someday it will be clean and stay clean. Making headway. DS just in closing process on a house. Hope to send him his Dodge Stealth so he can store it. It now occupies half the garage. He wants to sell it, but it's from 1993. It's reached the classic status. We got it for him as a 16 y/o. WE were the 4th owner. IT was /is such a cool car.
Chrissy what is it about Australia that cellars are hard to dig------volcanic rock?
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Barbe in florida houses are painted many colors of the rainbow. My reaction at times is "what were they thinking". But really laughed at your lime green comment. A house on a heavily traveled connector street, the owners did paint it a garish lime green. It was a reposssd house. I think the owners painted it right before repossession, to piss of the bank. But it sold and the new owners didn't repaint. UGLY!
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My friend's garden shed is painted deep red (to match the upper part of her house) with purple shutters (to match the house trim and front door). The bulk of the house is a nice creamy beige. Another house on her street is purple and has a star magnolia in front. Spectacular in spring, a little much the rest of the year.
Our house needs repainting and we're trying to think about color. It's currently a rose (light adobe) with turquoise trim. The house on one side is dark gray and the other side is dark green. Dark red is one possibility. There's a dark red house in the next block and it looks great. Or we could cover it with siding instead of painting. Hard to know how long we'll be here since we're 73 and 74. At least 10 years I think. DH loves to garden too much to live in a condo.
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Sas, the soils here are very varied.......some are really sandy so are unstable, others are almost pure clay which expands and contract too much for a cellar and then there is volcanic rock and limestone.
Where I live is limestone and even the trees have a job to get through it. I have a couple of fruit trees down the backyard but they are now stunted and they don't produce much fruit as they have hit the limestone so struggle. I really should cut them down and pull out the root, recondition the soil and plant some others but I neither have the strength nor the energy to undertake such a job.........a few years ago I wouldn't have thought twice about it.
Wren my house trim needs painting but because I live in a Heritage Listed area there are only a few of the heritage colors to choose from........at the moment my trim is a very deep avocado green and cream and if it's gets painted I would do it the same as I rather like those colors against the old stone work. My house was build in about 1845 so is very old.
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We live in a condo townhouse. Our lawns are mowed but we can do our own gardens around what has been planted already. So no trees but we can do flowers and bushes. It's enough for me. If we want the guys to weed it we just leave it, but if we want to do it ourselves, we have to put in two wooden stakes to signal the landscape team to leave it alone. I haven't put in two stakes, needless to say! Love coming out and seeing it weeded and trimmed!
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Barbe that sounds like heaven! I would love to be able to walk out and see my garden weeded and trimmed! I can do a little bit but DH is pretty good if I tell him what needs doing...........the only thing is, if I don't tell him then it doesn't get done!!!!......lol. How come men don't see weeds or dust?
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Or the mud they just tracked in.
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..or the crumbs on the counter and the crap in the kitchen sink drain???
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Barbe, what luxury to have your flower beds weeded and the lawn mowed. My fantasy is to have a gardener.
Chrissy, your house sounds lovely.
I bought paint for the living room last Mon. and it just sits there on the floor. Seems I'm gonna have to crack open one of the lids tomorrow and get started painting. First, I have to go to my WW meeting and weigh in.
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Carole, What color did you decide on?
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yes, carole, what color?
chrissy, we do our roofs pretty much like barbe. With tar paper and flashing over the wood, then asphalt shingles which come in about 6 different colors. Most of the roofs are slanted so the snow slides off, but the flat roofs have to be shoveled. Here in the NE US we use a lot of wood (cedar) shingles to side the house. It saves us from having to paint because they weather to a grey. So the little house will be stucco covered concrete on the white parts then shingled on the top wooden parts. I think we will probably go with a charcoal grey roof shingle too. It is just sitting on a slab, but most houses here have basements (cellars).
The house I live in now is newer (built in 1985) it was built into the side of a hill so there is a walk out basement and also windows in the west facing wall so we get afternoon sun in the shop. From the front of the house, it only looks like it is 2 floors, but from the back it looks huge (3 floors). I had it sided in vinyl siding in a pale yellow, for the price and the ease of not painting.
I love the old buildings in older countries. I really liked the cottages in Ireland. That's what I picture your house looks like, chrissy.
What else were we talking about? I can't remember.
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oooooh, beautiful Lisa. Is that your pool?
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It is.
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This is my house.
This was taken not long after we moved here so there are still boxes on the verandah. What you are looking right at is my lounge and hind that is our bedroom. In to the courtyard and turning to the left is my kitchen and dinning room and next to that is the bathroom. In the return is my guest room and craft room that also has a bed for when all the kids come to stay. This is my laundry.
It completes the square to form the courtyard. Don't mind the torn bag of compost leaning against the wall.....lol. I shade cloth over the courtyard so we can use it to sit, have coffee and a meal in the fine weather.........which there is a lot of here it just depends on how hot or cold.
Nancy I can't wait to see it all complete and thank you so much for sharing it's transformation with us.
Lisa that is indeed a beautiful pool!
It's a little overcast here today but still warm but by the end of the week it is supposed to cool off considerably. I'm off down to the city again tomorrow for another treatment and then I will stay with DD2 overnight so I can have my hair cut on Wednesday morning before heading home once again.
Have a great day all!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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I love your pool, Lisa. We don't really have a suitable place to put one here but it would surely be nice in our hot summers.
Nancy, your house is really shaping up now and is looking better and better. Will you be in the upstairs bedroom with the porch?
And Chrissy, I love your cottage. It's exactly what I pictured you living in, too.
Most roofs here are tarpaper over wood, then asphalt shingles which can be gotten in just about any color. Our house is brick and has a black hip roof. In the fall and winter, leaves get on the roof and DH always gets the ladder and walks around up there getting them off. I absolutely forbid him to do it but we all know that does no good. He just waits until I'm gone for a couple of hours and does it then. He always gets huffy about me thinking he's too old to do it, too.
Hope everyone has a good week!
Kathy
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In florida , I've redone the landscaping in front of the house twice. The first was the original. The second was SUPPOSED to be xeriscaping----------not grow much, tolerant to climate, with little watering. Overgrew some, others not living up to there description of how hardy they were per the installer--out it came after freezing and dieing over several seasons.
Really, then the third time did zeroscaping next, Wrought iron, Art objects, bench, and teracotta/gravel stone. From the street and at house side it always looks very trimmed and neat------not a flower to be seen. Looks constantly fresh. I totally love landscaping , but here landscaping can be wiped out by weather sooo fast. I was tired of loosing $$$$. LOL
I did include forever plant plantars with the third change, but then DINI the lizard chasing lab/pit mix came. Destroyed the plantars and forever flowers which the lizards frequented. Chose not to replace. It works.
Miss the one plantar from california-irreplacable. It was so artistic. When Dini knocked it over I thought a Rocket blew up. It was a couple hundred pounds.
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