Gardening, anyone?
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Jazzy, beautiful pots and flowers. I love them! I love NM, we lived in Alamogordo for a few years and loved it. We could go up to Cloud Croft for snow then go back to the valley for ice cream in the same day. NM is a beautiful state of mind 😍
DH is thinking some place across the ocean. Australia, Italy, Rome, Greece etc. travel time will depend on what season it is where we'll be going.
Lucy, thank you so much for offering a place for us to stay! What a wonderful time we'd have! DH reminded me when we first met we both dreamed of going to Australia and I think that's where I'd like to go first. What would be the best time of year to visit? We like warm but not melting our brains outwarm lol
Hmmmm a lot to think about for sure :-)
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We've been working on our garden plot all weekend. We've got it cleared, sprayed with Roundup, mowed and my first bales moved into place. I will be getting more straw bales tomorrow. I'm so excited! My DH has his doubts that it'll work but I'm going for it anyway!
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Lori, I was going to suggest Tahiti or Figi, but Australia would be lovely. I would love to photograph and snorkel the great barrier reef. You'll have to post photos so we can live vicariously.
Dh planted the two big hollies today and cursed the whole time because I chose and area with packed clay that took him forever to dig. Lol
Scottie
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Jazzy ..Your pots ( even by themselves ) and plants make a beautiful colour statement !!
Lori ..Woot Woot ..Come !! We will definately have fun ☺ I live an hour north of Brisbane on the coast . Any time of the year would be good for you to come ..Except summer probably ..Too Hot for site seeing then ..Winter is still very mild here ..I'm getting excited ! ☺
Scottie ..Love your spring cactus !!
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Wench- Europe is great in the summer. Go earlier though as the Europeans often have vacation later in the summer and it can be very busy. My first time in Europe was in June 1994 and I went to France, Monte Carlo, Italy, Greece and England. I did a Mediterranean cruise as part of my time there from Monte Carlo to Athens with stops along the way and LOVED it. I also did Italy in the fall one time too and also very nice.
How nice you have an invite from a sister in Australia. We will want pics if you go!
Also, after my sister and I finished treatment in 2013 (me in March, her in July) we went to the Big Island of Hawaii for a week/10 days. It is really great to take a trip to give yourself permission to start enjoying life again. Vacations will help with that.
Lucy- I love color and since I live in a place that is pretty brown (with touches of green in the summer as well as amazing colors in the sky), I focus a lot on putting color in the yard. My fav nursery has the best pottery, many of those pots are from that location. I did not buy any the other day, but was eyeing one. They are pricey, so I usually wait until they go on sale a bit. Thanks for the complements!
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Lori, Perhaps make Fiji or Tahiti a stop on the way to Australia. It's a really really long flight.
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KB, what fun your chickens sound. They know where to go to get the good stuff to eat! I wanted to get chickens so we could have fresh eggs all the time. My DH brings eggs home that a co-worker gives us. I've found that I can't eat fresh eggs for some reason so I've canceled the getting chickens idea :-/
Scottie & Wren, Tahiti or Figi on the way to visit Lucy? I can see me on a warm beach with a cold drink in my hand....aaahhhh
Jazzy, my DH had applied for jobs in Italy the past few years and he talked about all the places we could visit from there. We spent 12 days in Hawaii in 2003. HD had to go there for his work and I got to tag along with him. He'd tease me about going to bed early. It was 4am our time! We had a great time. It was the first and last time ever that I almost got car sick driving the coastal roads on Maui. Our drive started in day light and ended late at night. I knew the cliff was on my side of the road and DH was driving faster than I was comfortable with. lol
An Alaskan cruise sounds like fun but I'd like to be off the boat more for sightseeing. I'll have to stop by a travel agent and pick up some brochures to see what's where on the way to Lucy's house
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Well its time for me to start prepping the garden area and other areas where I plant. Can't really plant anything until mid to late May after the threats of freezing and frosts are gone. So far my flowerbed is de-junked of the dead stuff from last year. This weekend I will get my half-barrel, area around my Japanese Maple and flower boxes de-junked. Probably will use the cultivator to get the soil in the garden loosened up.
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Lori ..Going to start weeding the garden now , to get it into tip top shape for your visit 😘
Mommy ..Great to see you over here in the garden thread .Enjoy your weekend in the garden .!
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Hi ladies- I have been inviting some of the sister on another thread who enjoy gardening to come over here and join us! Glad to see a few more familiar names here. Let the fun continue........
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We're expecting some storms late tonight with high winds possible so I took a picture of my Magnolia Jane before the storm blew all of the flowers off as well as our old apple tree that's just starting to bloom. I was tyding up the irises, glads and tulips when I noticed my rose bushthay I planted 2 years ago that had died is growing this year. I asked DH if he planted a new one there before I got to excited and he said nope, he hasn't touched it. Very weird for it to die off then come back 2 years later but I'm glad it did! And before I bought a new one to plant there.
After setting up my small 10 bale straw garden DH decided after I explained to him how it works that I need to have more to plant... so he sent me to the nursery to get 20 more bales of straw this morning. He's doing all of the heavy lifting (with his tractor) so I just said alrighty then!
Old apple tree
Magnolia Jane
I forgot how much arguing goes on between Mama and Papa Goose once she starts to make hernest. I'm surprised she doesn't beat him over the head with her wing to get him to shut up! Goodness gracious he's loud!
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Hmmmm I'm missing a picture lol
Old apple tree
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Thanks Lucy
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Jazzy ..Great idea ..The more happy gardeners in our group the merrier ☺
Lori ..Lucky you got those beautiful photos of your magnolia before the winds came !
Today is lawn mowing day for us here ..My 6 year old grand daughter is coming for 3 night sleep over on Wednesday , and I don't want to have jobs to do a while she's here . I know she'll have us busy going to Inflatable World , McDonalds and the beach ...Her favourite places !!! The beach is mine too !!!
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Lucy, sounds like you have a very nice time planned for your DGD. Can we go to Inflatable World, McDonalds and the beach too? 😜
I'm completely wiped out from over doing it in the yard/garden this past weekend. Ugh! I feel like someone let the air out of my balloon. Who would do such a thing? Hopefully it'll be re-inflalated by this weekend!
Waving hello to everyone 👋
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Lori ..Of course ! They are the first three activities I have written up on your holiday itenerary ☺
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A little spring greeting from my backyard. I found this wonderful pot of tulips on Monday at Sam's Club (were not opened yet), and they started opening up yesterday and wide open today. I will find a good place to plant the bulbs this fall.......
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Very pretty
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Lovely arrangement Jazzy. Our Sam's Club just got their outdoor plants set up. I caught a glimpse while picking up a scrip today. Will have to find an excuse to go back Saturday to shop the plants. I'm sure Dh will growl as he already has 4 lilacs, 4 purple roses and several small plants to put in the ground.
Scottie
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Looks like I might get a chance to get out into my garden and start loosening the soil
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Mommy, yay! There's nothing better than playing in the dirt!
We stopped by our local nursery and my DH tried to talk me into getting more seeds! I can't fit anything else in my straw bale garden lol
Here are some wildflowers I came across while I snuck over to count goose eggs. I counted 6 so far!
Wild flaux (sp)
Trillium
My Tulips
Our Rosy Minnows
Feeding our catfish
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Wench- the top one looks like wild purple phlox? I have some pink phlox in my rock garden
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Today's haul. . .Dh and I resting before he starts planting. I'm exhausted and we only went to Home Depot and one local nursery.
The two palms and the two knockout roses are replacements for ones that died out or we lost to the beavers. The native azaleas will go in the shade garden around our new magnolia.
Scottie
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Jazzy, I think it's wild phlox too. I just spelt it wrong lol
Scottie, beautiful plants. I can't wait to see how nice they will all look in their new home in your garden!
I was out puttering around the yard when I noticed my 3 blueberry trees survived the winter! I couldn't even find them last spring. But then again, everything seems to be just like me. A day late and a dollar short! My Giant African Blackberry bush is full of soon to be huge berries. Their supposed to get as long as your hand, palm to fingertip. I need to finish cleaning up the area and get my bird netting up ASAP or they will be all gone!
My straw bale garden is just a"maze"ing! And coming along nicely, just need to put up the wire for the climbers to grow on and a few more days "conditioning" the bales and then I can start planting. It's going to be a very late garden this year. BUT next year I'll be ahead of the game as I'll get my bales this fall and they can be conditioned all thru the winter! Whoop whoop!
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Scottie , Jazz and Lori ..I love all your photos. !!!
Just want to wish you all a very Happy Easter !!!☺
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Lucy- thank you friend. We will have lots more as gardening season is just getting started!
Wishing you and all the sisters here a lovely Easter too. Passover as well.
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Got my seed packets for my beans and peas Saturday.
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M0mmyof2: What did you think of yesterday's 80+ temps? I'm guessing we'll be smacked by crapola weather soon, though, to make up for it, hahaha! DH and I started our tomatoes, beans, lettuce, cukes, and scallions in terrarium boxes, and they've already sprouted. W0000000T! Watching things grow is just so cool!
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6feet, you are probably right. It seems like we start getting nice days and then Mama Nature laughs at us
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Mommy, yay for seeds! I order all my seeds through Amazon. I love it when they start arriving, it makes it feel like Spring is closer
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