Hi Turtle,
I hope your birthday is as wonderful as you are !! ^_^
Lynn
Happy Birthday Susan!!
SuzyQ: Happy, Happy Birthday! I hope you are having a glorious day, with lots of pretty blooms, cake and ice cream and whatever makes your heart happy!
... and speaking of pretty blooms, this is one of the Plumeria's I got from you in a trade a long time ago!
oh i hope you have a wonderful birthday & then some.
bonnie
Happy Birthday!!!
Happy Birthday girl,hope your having a great day ^_^
I just got in from work and air is froze...LOL I am having a wonderful birthday... ^_^ That plumeria is beautiful Lin... Thank you all for the great wishes.... going to put my feet up for a few ... It is HOT....
Hugs,
Susan
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday, Susan!!! I have blooms from your beautiful plumerias, too. Too hot to get outside to take pics. Even the variegated one is looking good.
Hope you got whatever you wanted for this important day!
Love
gail
Happy Birthday! I hope all your plants are in bloom!
Pat
Happy Birthday Susan!
I almost made it in time!
Happy Birthday Susan!
I hope you had a great day!
I hope that you had a wonderful day!!
Meag........what in the world are you doing up at 3:05am??? (smiling)
LOL, with five children, in order to have your own time you had to get it in the morning before they all got up. You couldn't get it at night, after they went to bed because you were exausted. Now with all children grown and gone, it's become a habit. I love it. So peaceful and quiet. Needless to say....I'm in bed by 8. LOL!!
Oh Susan
Hope you got my Message and I hope you had a Great Birthday you no me just been working so tired but its for a good cause I have a house
Happy Birthday sweetie
Love Ya
Kimmy
Thank you all for the wishes.... I understand about being up at all hours to have some time for ourselfs.... I have 4 sons and some times they come to often and that sounds awful.... I would miss them if they did not come I guess? Ok going to mow the back forty...LOL
Hugs,
Susan
happy birthday susan
here is a hosta flower for you, they just opened last night!
I hope you members who live in cool climates with hostas know we hate you!!! (LOL)
That's okay Gail...LOL...those of us in cooler zones wish we could grow things from the South and tropicals......but we don't hate you....just a little zone envy ^_^. But you can have your giant bugs....I don't mind at all !!
Lynn
Every plant outside is a magnet for pests.........then they come in the house. Last summer when we had plenty of rain, I had no mealybugs or anything else in the house. I found mealy bugs on two streps so now I have to treat everything..............bummer........
"Lord, please send us rain"...........
gail
I hope all of you that live in drought stricken areas get some rain soon.!!
I hate to say this but I am so happy that I went on ebay and sold most all of my hoyas when I heard we were headed for a drought that would last................they would be dead by now........am struggling to keep the ones I do have alive outside.
Im really late but happy belated birthday,hope you had a great day
JIM
The South does have it' share of "Bugs" ... we have a company that comes to spray the outside perimeter around the house once in awhile and we have hundreds of the little lizards that eat the bugs! I could not live with bugs inside my house! Yech! Ick! EEek! I don't like bugs! ^_^
Everything you said Lin,but multiply by 10...LOL. How can I love plants and flowers and hate bugs ?? Especially hornets and wasps EEEK !!.
i dont care for spiders or wasps ,or yellow jackets,i freak out when they get near me
JIM
You would never be able to live down here in the country. I have every possible kind of spiders, scorpions, bees, etc. in my house. Lots of salamanders, too.....I have gotten good about catching them with a paper towel and taking them back outside.
In our drought, we have now passed the urgency of the 1916 drought.......worse recorded in history for us. Yesterday when I went outside to turn the water hose and sprinkler on for the safety of my foundation, I found 12".....yes, 12" cracks in the yard. I started trying to fill the cracks and holes with water.........that didn't work as I couldn't fill it but it did force many snakes out of the ground.
To say that this is depressing is to understate what is going on. My utility room fell 2" away from the house yesterday and I have towels stuffed on the floor against the sides so I don't have 2" gaps to the underneath of the house.
If I could leave, I would. However, moving is not even a possibility.......got to hang in here to protect what I can with the house shifting.
I took these pictures before I found the utility room shifting away from the house. These pics are not of sheet rock which could be repaired. These are cracks in my kitchen of knotty pink wood buckling.........which cannot be repaired.........I don't even know where to go to even buy knotty pine wood again.........these walls were in the original farm house.
One other place on an opposite wall in the kitchen area........
Gail - it might stink, but maybe you could fill in those cracks with some of the cow poop? Not only would it be good fertilizer, it would at least fill in the worst of the cracks . . .
Jim,I am so glad to hear I am not the only one freaked out by bugs.It is pretty common for my bed in the back yard to have tons of bees and as many as a hundred black and blue wasps.I stay a few feet away....LOL.
Gail, I am so sorry to see what is happening there!! It's awful.
Lynn
Thank you, Lynn..........
I am very proud of myself that I have learned to kill rattlesnakes again. I could do it as a child but then left home for most of my adult life ...........forgot how.
Now I can kill snakes with a hoe..........and knock down all the nest of bees under the eaves and overhangs of the house. (They need removing right now).......
My brother does it with fire.......I am too afraid of fire, so I get my water hose with the little strong spray handle and knock them to the ground.
Then I get that spray can that shoots 20 feet and make sure all the bees are gone........
PS^_^ to you , Nichole for your good ideas on the broken walls......maybe cow manure will work for the utility room falling away from my house......
I wasn't talking about the walls, I was referring to the cracks in the ground!
I thought that sounded kinda weird (LOL)
Yup, that would be a really great idea for the ground........it needs organic matter badly ..........^_^
Gail,
I hope your drought ends soon. We have had them in here in Orlando and when they happen we end up with sink holes and everyone starts worrying about that. We will pray for rain for your part of the country.
Pat
Thanks, Pat but I just got the news today from my brother who is at a convention in Beaver Creek, Colorado that we are not expected to get a hurricane or any rain until January 2010!!!! Keep those prayers coming......we appreciate it.