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The leaves seemed to look the same to me.

Now Kassy, don't do anything rash to poor footless :) If he only knew...

You are probably right...nothing is gelling today.

Dave, check your d-mail
I sent you info on spyware, and am looking up that other problem you have ^_^

Hey, Ican, I hand feed him and yell at the other rooster when he chases him, and what thanks did I get? Footless tried to fight with me last time I was there...........LOL

He's asking to be Legless....

LOL

Look Jean, more mushrooms.....

"What's for dinner tonight?"
"Oh nothing...."

And you were right Ican, all I do is water that big plant, nothing else................LOL
But then it has been transplanted maybe 3 times in 9 years if that counts?

"Footless and Fancy Free."

Maybe that's what I need to do. Mine looks better than it did, it's putting off plenty of new growth. It is in a lower light location, maybe that's an issue. I just don't have anywhere else to put it at the moment.

I knew you would say that. That's the only answer I have for my plants if someone asks. Ah well. Your grape ivy loves you.

LOL Jim!

LOL JIm

Well it better not attach itself to me :p

More mushrooms?

Here's some unusual puffball-like mushrooms from the Kilauea Forest.

I have more too......................LOL

mushrooms in a half circle

Dave, 12 of the Puff Balls the Chickens got :(
12 of them are growing in the chicken run.
3 are by the apple tree where they usually come up ^_^

oh cool! you almost have a full fairy ring Kassy. Legend has it that a ring of mushrooms is a doorway between our world and the fairy world.

Checking out someone else's world could be fun; but I bet trying on those fairy boots could be hell!

ROFL!!!!

They would be toe-shoes for us, Dave....maybe that is how they keep gardeners on their toes.

Fancy-free would be a good name for footless.....way to go Jim...grin

So, Kassy, how does the BF like the coop? grin 80% of your crop was "for the birds"

I have a Violet fairy in the garden. My coltsfoot violet grows in circles.

Boots?? Did I hear someone mention boots?! I'll try them :)
I've been trying to make a fairy garden for the kids....somehow they got the creepy cornstalks instead lol

There's a park not too far from us that has a fairy celebration weekend, you can observe or participate in building your own fairy dwellings all along a wooded trail and some kids dress up in wings and stuff, it's so cute.

Too cool. I bet your girls get a kick out of that. We had fairies at our old house and I dearly wanted them to come with us to the new house. Don't think they took me up on the invite as they were camphor fairies....guess they were not happy we left, cuz the camphor tree died that summer and had to be taken out.....not a good idea to tick off a fairy.....

They used only natural things in constructing the dwellings, bark, twigs, sticks, grasses, acorns, leaves...a hosta leaf is huge in the fairy world...just a great way to let your imaginaton run........

It would seem that these days kids' imaginations don't get nearly enough exercise...a friend gave me a small gnome for the garden...named him Vern and parked him in the fern bed....when GSJordan was younger we would sit in the swing under the live oak and he would make up stories about Vern's day...X-box ended that....darn it.

there's a lake in a nearby town that is built near the water supply, there's lots of cool stonework there, a big stone tower with an iron gate...when we drive past i tell the kids it's the mermaid's house ssshh! if we're quiet we might see her!

Good on you....life without fantasy and whimsy is just another day in mundania.....mermaids sing....they just might hear her...grin

yeah, it is a shame how technology has made the imagination a little more obsolete with every new gadget. I'm used to grabbing a pencil and graph paper when an idea comes to me for a quilt block. I got a fancy new program called EQ6 that's supposed to help me zip through it but I sat here last night fighting with it for 3 hours, getting frustrated and went back to the paper and pencil. I'm not going to give up on it though, I will master it. The one thing I can't live without is my camera. I love to stop and snap a few pics of a particularly interesting garden arrangement if I happen to pass by while driving. I do put the car in park:) it's too dangerous to snap and drive! you know what I just realized? I didn't see one frog or toad this season. Not even a flattened one on the street.

I can loan you a few of ours if you are missing them Babeegirl...I love the chorus everynight and now we have a new morphing of cicadas out there so it is really loud....I love the full moon so we can all sing together....grin

I am the same way, use a pencil and paper instead of a calculator and graph paper for plotting out garden beds instead of the fancy landscaping program.....grin

Good on you for parking...grin

you guys are better than me, I use scraps and crayons hahaha probably why I have to re-do stuff all the time.

They just recently started letting me have sharp objects again and i am taking advantage of it....grin

my fiance moved here from Idaho and he had never heard cicadas before. He came running inside earlier this summer and wondered what in the heck that sound was. I love the cicadas, tree frogs and crickets at night but to him it sounds like a cacophony of insane insects. I heard a lone cicada last night kind of far off so I think they are winding down finally.

my parents took us on vacation to a mountain chalet when we were little, they put us to bed and a few minutes later we were tearing out screaming about men in the woods with flashlights.... they were fireflies! LOL

very funny Moon! *grin*

never get too old to learn ya don't. Never new the proper name for them we always call them kadadids. Ever wonder where those millions go in the winter and why they don't take over the earth because obviously there are more of them than us lol

When my kids were little the used to talk about the elves that lived in the tree....swore they could hear them talking....it was the gekkos chirping.....but I really liked the idea of elves

Too funny on the fireflies Lynnie....

will have to try that on mine, still have little ones that would love that story. Mom might kill me but I like it.

Jean, you have my oldest brother in your garden, only trust me, he was mush bigger then a gnome! MUCH bigger!!

BF is not in the chicken coop yet, I'm still at home.
We have company coming in from Florida tonight, so I'm getting my bedroom ready for them..................Yes, I give up my room every year, lucky me!

And have to run to the store at some point to pick up meds, and am trying to get the dog clipped. I'm seeing a bump on him I want the vet to check out, so that will have to be done either before I leave or as soon as I get back. Found it while I was clipping him.

I'm not trying on any fairy boots Dave :p

That would be the in-laws Kassy? Good of you to make them welcome that way.

Probably a papilloma on the dog....groomer knicked one on Chester's back last time. Get it checked out, but SIL is a vet in Sacremento and she said if papilloma, no need to worry or remove unless the dog irritates it by chewing.....

Since you are giving up your fluffy bed, guess you'll be paying penance and doing dial-up....grin