Beautiful house Susie, glad you finally got moved.
Welcome home Susie
Your new home is gorgeous and I know that you will enjoy Texas' year around sunshine, warm temperatures, and acres of land to create your garden beds. You will be able to grow your beautiful Brugs 365 days a year, because YOU have entered THE TROPICAL ZONE!!! :~)
P.S. Please send us all some of that wonderful sunshine and warmer temps., we could all use it right about NOW!
Where in South Texas? She may be my new neighbor... :)
Lucky you! But her zone is 10!
Oh Susie! That's amazing! You lucky girl! We need lots more pictures.
Oh, she must be down in the Valley -- the Rio Grande Valley... I love it down there. So close to a great little Mexican border town where I like to bargain hunt. Lucky her!
Susie, looks like you have a great location and will be lots of room for plants. Hope you get connected before too long. Donna
OH SUSIE......come on out and play.......
She still doesn't have the internet. Well she has the cd to hook up the internet. (yes she has to go back to dial up) but her cd rom is broke on her computer. So she has to find someplace to get her puter worked on. But right now she is just busy trying to get all her plants in the ground. Figured she would get more done without the internet around anyway. lol
I just talked to Suzz. The computer guy came when we were talking so hopefully she will be back SOON!!!
Her plants are growing well already. She is full of incredible plant plans. And has tons of room to go nuts. She has already planted a tropical garden around her pool. Now she can swim in paradise! She is one very happy girl!!
Good for you, Susie girl. You deserve this tropical paradise. What fun you are going to have.
Sounds like a new RU site to me .....;-P
Well, I'm here, barely. I've tried to reply to this thread twice, but got disconnected before I got thru typing. (I hate dial-up)
I am in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. I'll try to post more later.
She's Back!! Yippee!!
Hey, great to see you with a computer at hand again. I feel badly that you have to deal with dial up. Is there such a thing as getting a connection through a dish? Hope you get back soon Susie.
I called about one dish network, it was very expensive($99 per month) that's too much, I can buy lots of potting soil for that much money. I'm going to check on another one that the computer repairman recommended.
I tried to say earlier, Root, I need a gardener, so come on down. The soil is wonderful, nice black, rich, easy to plant in.
CC and anyone else that wants to come on down, the weather is fine, the pool is heated and there are fish in the resaca and I have plenty of sleeping room!
OH SURE, rub it in!!! hehe
IT IS COLD AND SNOWING HERE IN SOUTH JERSEY!!!
WELCOME BACK SUSIE and GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR NEW HOME!!!!!!
sue
It is so good to see you back! We have missed you. We need more photos ... Wow what a beautiful home you found. Welcome back. Did I tell you I love to mow!!!
WoooooHoooo!!!Let me get my swimmin trunks!!!
Okay, what is a resaca? I've never heard or seen that word before. Can't even find it in the online dictionary that I have on here.
calling about a ticket......
I was wondering the same thing. Is it a pond of some sort?
A Resaca is a fancy irrigation ditch, lol. They are deep and look like long skinny lakes. They have fresh moving water and some are stocked with fish(ours has bass, bluegill and some other kind I can't remember). I will take a picture of ours and a few others. You pay a yearly fee to use all the water you want. Ours has a pump that is attached to a sprinkler system. We haven't had to use it yet because this is our rainy season. Our resaca also has a resident 10 ft alligator! There are all kinds of waterfowl on it as well as songbirds, hawks and owls in the trees. The coyotes come down at dusk to drink, the raccoons mosey along the bank at night and I saw a bunch of huge crawdads in the edge of the water. It is a great place to stick cuttings to root at the edge of the water because the soil is sandy and easy to just stick the cuttings in.
I will take pics of the house and other stuff tomorrow if I don't forget. I also have some plants I can't identify that I need to get pics of.
There are lots of tropical nurseries down here, even one huge wholesale operation.
Sounds like a tough life, I'm so sorry. I know you'll adjust.
You have mail.
Larry
She already has, everytime I talk to her she is cold at 50 degrees, poor baby! To think she has to live like this is just ridiculous! I am so happy for you! Now if I can just convince Peggy, she can make it here, much easier than Powell, we can make it to Texas.
Come on down Tracey and Peggy, we will have a round-up! I have a big yard or we can go to one of the parks. There are two really nice parks on the Island with big pavillions for gatherings and lots of parking. We just don't want to do it during spring break, it's a mad house down here then--wall to wall teenagers and college students.
Wow good to see ya posting Susie. We sure missed ya around here. Tracey I am not promising anything but sure would like to.
Susie, so glad you are back!!!! Plants you can't identify? Whoa, those must be tough!! Brenda
LOL,i actually picked up the phone to call about a ticket and realized I don't know what airport...and with my luck a snow storm would hit and I'd be sitting at the airport....
I'm ready to come down NOW,we have been having days on end of below -0 temps and SNOW.....Lake effect day after day.I have shoveled the roof 2x's and the snow was thigh deep.....I had to shovel away from the GH cause cause it was up to my chin from the snow sliding off the GH and blocking the light.....
I NEED to go south...gator or no gator....
Round up...did I hear round up?
Poppysue....I think you need to go with me....
Can you see my pond?
Karyn, the airport you'd want to fly into is Valley International in Harlingen. It's north of me, but much easier to get into than Brownsville.
No snow here, homegrown veggies are in season right now and they are still harvesting oranges and grapefruit.
I've been watching the weather channel and saw the snow and saw where Poppysue was getting frozen pretty bad too.
Welcome to Texas -- we are truly blessed to have you among us!!! Gretchen
We will get there! Ashley is convinced. We may have her strapped to the top of the truck by the time we get there but, we will make it.
Oh Cala! I am so happy that you finally made it to your dream house....and zone. Welcome to Texas, we missed you when you were gone!
Sounds so nice there except for the gator. I could do without that. Thanks for the definition. I guess it wouldn't be a common word used in Iowa.
Yeah! Your back on line! Your new place sounds like a dream and it's SO pretty! I'm very happy for you. Watch that 10 foot gator! They scare the heck out of me, 10 feet or not.
* Take LOTS of pictures **PLEASE** we are at 8F with a snow/ice storm on the way....
Hi Susie! I am so glad you are there safe and sound and back on the computer too. :) After seeing what you did with a zone 7 lot, I sure can't wait to see what you do with zone 10 with your creativity and talent. And you get a water source and good dirt?? Hmmm, I don't know if I like you anymore. Okay, I still love ya, but I turned green!!!
Susie, sounds as if you're living in Paradise. SA is only about 250 miles North of you, but we have several light freezes here, so everything looks pretty dead. Your new home is beautiful, and I can just imagine what it will look like by Summer.
So happy you are back with us, even if you do have to use dial up. That's all I've ever had, so don't know any different.
She Ain't got no Gator!!!!!!!!
She is just saying that to keep me and CC from making a Brugraid!!!!!!
Notice that Gator hangs out right where the cuttings will be rootiing!!!!
Dial up here also, don't know any different.
If you do try cuttings there, get rid of that gator, can't you feed him some brugs, or something that's bad for him?