DonnieBrook's Subtropical Adventures 2

Yes - I would love more property, fewer and further neighbors and a slightly smaller house.

New Hampshire may be your answer, Harper! Wanta be neighbors?

Too much snow and cold!

I would move there in a heartbeat if I wasn't married to the guy I'm married to.

Uh oh. ^_^

Well I'm just saying...

He hates snow.

So do I.

Yeah! You all get it, huh? Well, Louise, the cold does get to me. I don't do well in cold. I stay in bed all day. Endless money would help pay for the heating bill. But, if I can't go outside for six months out of the year, what good is acreage? Endless money would buy me a great greenhouse too. I get preoccupied with these thoughts. I have to weigh each pro and con out to the n'th degree. Community means a lot to me too. Gotta have a few artists nearby. Ugh. What an undertaking. What have I done to myself?

Tahiti??

Are there jobs in Tahiti? I was kinda thinking inside the 48 contiguous.

Picky!

I know, I know. My brother thinks Portland, OR would be best for me. Hmmmm... lotsa rain?

For sure. But the PNW does look nice. Can't wait to visit.

Yeah, I'd like to visit first too.

How about Lake Lure, NC which is near Asheville that has a huge artsy area.

Love Asheville!

NC would be too hot for me. Spent a summer in Raleigh when I was much younger & found it difficult.

Would it be cooler near Asheville since it up in the mountains?

Yes it is. I would not go near the shore either.

I love the Carolina Shore, but then again I love the Jersey shore, the Gulf shore, and the...
I think you get the idea. It might have something to do with saltwater fishing. LOL Ric

The PNW is tres beautiful. I lived there for 3 years but you had better like rain as in a monsoon for 4 to 5 months in winter. I couldn't do it. I would rather throw snowballs.

Looks like fantastic hiking country, as well as great growing.

Looks like you'll have to snowbird with us!! LOL

I have always wanted to visit the Asheville area. Good one!

Snowbirding would be nice.

Not sure which I dislike less... tons of rain, or bitter cold. I think I dislike bitter cold, although I'd have to try out tons of rain.

Ahhh but there are winter fairys and snowball fights and red mittens and interesting frost stories on your windows every morning and moonlit sparkley snow on evening walks and .... ^_^

that comment makes me feel uneasy!!!.. the only thing happy I see is the fairy part

Yeahh Allison
What about frozen slush that trips you when you walk in parking lots and stuff.
What about frozen nose hairs? and tearing eyes so you cant see where your going?Dahlianut.
The only time snow is pretty is the first snowfall in Nivember,by now I am sick of it.

yeah I am done with it as well... if the 3 inches of ice & snow would get the heck off my lawn maybe we could get the decorations up.. the miles of cord are buried still.. not sure how we are going to do this

Same here, pluss there is a ton of birdseed burrried.

I think the cords melted the snow just enough to make ice right over the top of them.. we tried getting some of them up.. with no luck.. I told Randy we need to install heat cords under the grass.. LOL.. I am hoping this coming week will let the stuff go supposed to get a few days in a row in the 40's.. the real down side to putting all this stuff out is me getting aggravated we can't get it in.. not that I mind so much but I don't want to be that neighbor .. told him I am going out with a torch next!!

I wish we had more snow down here, I just love the stuff.

You could always move near me Allison, the house diagonally behind us is for sale(4 bdr 2.5 bath $360K 1.05 acre). and a flat yard!!! Dead end lot next to the back corner of a nursery., you'd want to make friends with them, you should see her house.

Nice! (Except the perfectly flat part. I would be making berms.)

Speaking of birdseed buried. I think a squirrel made off with my suet cage.

They ran off with three of mine one year, found them just into the woods in spring. Crafty little tree rats.

Wow. They take the whole thing?!

The whole thing!

Same thing happened to me last year, along with my nyjer seed sock. I hate those tree rats.

sounds like my kinda place Jen!!!

I guess tomorrow I'll go out and look for the suet cage. The squirrels have made bird feeding such a hassle for me. I'm darn near ready to throw in the bag.

Used hot pepper suet in new suet feeder. So far, so good.