To our Honorary Easternmost PNWerner

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py New Year, Laurie!!

It's a little late, but was thinking of you - just couldn't get to the computer.

Hope you're out having fun.

K

Laurie - Stand up!
Now, take a bow!
You got there first!
Happy New Year!
K

Why thank you ladies - I'm deeply touched. AND my prediction for the new year (hey, my husband makes a living as a forecaster, I've been schooled!) THIS IS GOING TO BE A GREAT GARDENING YEAR - FOR ALL OF US!!

Genuinely, sent with love. Happy new year everyone.

A forecaster - as in weather forecaster? Where does he report? That's very cool. And even more cool that it's going to be a great gardening year . . . now if I can just talk those stinkin' moles into staying out of my yard . . .

Oh Katie Moles are tough I Have them in the front pasture and the dogs are always out there digging which they aren't supposed to. I don't think they will ever get one but they try. My Jessie girl did catch two under thefabric at the nursery last year. There is a guy that is called mole control and he will come trap (kill ) your moles for 40 a peice. This is his business and he is busy. I think he uses these snap trap things with some sort of attractant smell. He can leave you with the bodies if you like. The moles like earthworms so at least you have good soil. We work for biologest from the U W who have studied mole their who life and they are in their 80's now say that all the gagets don't work just traps. Good luck. I have them in my flower beds. Oh the challenges of gardening. Heidi and Dragonfly

Hey Heidi -

I just can't bring myself to kill them - everybody has to eat and all that. Of course, I'm getting pretty close to hunting coyotes (not really). I heard one of them yipping in the woods today, doing that "lure the prey dog with a nice sound so the pack can get him" thing. Grrrrr. However, I am okay with the dogs hunting - somebody got a mole early on when I moved here - I think it was a cat, though, because the dogs would have eaten it. I think Bug would get a coyote if I let him - Borzoi were bred by the Russians to hunt wolves. That's what I love about Silkens - they can hunt coyotes and then play with other dogs. And mine are good with the cats. Guess I can't complain.

Good info about what doesn't work - at least I won't spend my money on that other stuff. They have moved mostly to the front yard, so I'm thinking that the dogs are a deterrent. The cats used to be, but I don't let them out now since the coyotes are so brazen. Killed my best hunter this summer.

So I'm building bulb containers out of wire - getting tired of doing the invidividual containers - I think I might try to build a long wall along the side of one bed - we'll see if it works. Glad to hear that the soil is good, though, if heavy.

Last year I had all these beautiful tulip in orange and purple come up and before they opened they wilted over and I tugged on they and something munched of all the stems. I don't kill them either I work around them. They just are areators the Rausches (mole people) would say. Heidi

I like that. :-) I don't use chemicals on my lawn, either, and have decided that it's more of a meadow, anyway. Now I have a meadow with automatic aeration. LOL

WEATHER - he wishes (he does know all of the cloud types! Does that count). No, my DH forecasts in the energy sector - and for all of you that have an MBA and had to sit through Decision Analysis/Science, those were his books you were reading. He zooms around the world telling people how to think about regulating/deregulating energy markets. I can do a much more indepth speil on this, but trust me, talking about moles is a lot more fun.

Laurie, I think this would be fascinating to hear about, as long as I was sitting in a comfy chair, in front of a fire, sipping an adult beverage....

Thank you Katye - I think there are much better DH stories to tell, but the adult beverage sounds good.

I must of missed this tread,
Laurie you are the best, and I will still keep trying to get that purple bus>>>>

My dog got a mole, I thought he was digging up the lawn, and it was a very funny chase, when he got it out of the hole. Dog, cat and me chasing it, to funny



Here where I first met Laurie.

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/702629/

Tyler got digging

And this is what he caught, After the great chase Sassy in the lead, Tyler in second place and me with flower pot bring up the rear to ketch it so it didn't dig back down in my new garden, it was not killed was taken way out in the woods and turned loose.

GOOD BOY TYLER!!

Good doggie, Tyler.

Bless you, Mary, for saving the little guy and taking him out of your yard.

Oh Tilly that is great. Good tyler. Turtle had a little tiny vole once playing with is It would jump and turtle jumped higher scared of it. Butter tries to clean them and also is very gentle then comes the killer Jessie and Boo. All over. Boo walked by my once kind of hunched over funny and I said boo and he looked up with just a wiggling tail sticking out of his mouth, It reminded me of Tom and Jerry. Another time we were putting in a new landscaping just got the lawn hydroseeded and I was planting a few more plants and the homeowner said very calmly I think she's going to get it. I looked up and Butter had dug 20' across the new lawn after a mole. stealth. Unbelievable. She is the noisest dog on the face of the earth and she knows she isn't supposed to dig especially in a 30,000 dollar project. I was upset the homeowner thought is was great. I had worked so hard and she had made a mess. She knew she had his approval and if she would have made a peep she would have been in trouble. Still to this day I remember will saying I think shes going to get it.

Boy I feel so lost even tho I have been trying to catch up and read all the threads...first... Happy New Year Laurie, you made it there before the rest of us...going where none of us has been before....how is it ahead of time? at least ours anyway...let us know of anything special happening...ie new plants, sales of course, and any other bits of interest.
Hope you had a wonderful holiday!
Carla

Thank you cocoa - the fact is, NYEve around here is pretty low key - I can't remember the last one I actually managed to stay awake for - but I do always intend to. does that count?

Moles are so ugly they are cute! Good job to Tyler and thanks to Tils for setting it free in the forest. I bet that was quite a site; Sassy, Tyler, and Tils with her flowerpot!

Heidi- I bet Butter was pretty darn proud of herself!

LOL Heidie, I Soooo glad Tyler didn't do that much tracking to get it, Or I don't know what I would of done. He only made a small hole and had it, was to funny tho I wish someone had the camera out and videoing it, I still laugh when I see the pics.

Hey Coco, how have you been? Glad to hear from you. Catch up, good luck I lost 2 days and still trying, gave up and just joined back in. LOL

Miss Sassy, kitty wonder?

tills, that is the most mysterious photo - what in the world is the little black animal in the foreground?

The little black animal is a statue of a black Lab. Sassy was lying on Buddy's grave.( He was killed in a car accident in 2003 My DH and him where T-boned at a intersection ) He was a old dog a died of a heart attack.


I didn't realize how bad the pic looked, sorry

Actually I think it is a fab photo - there are contemporary photo exhibitions that struggle for this kind of mystery. Isn't it interesting where animals pick to take a nap.

Hi Laurie, Belated Happy New Year! This is somewhat odd, but I've got a book called "Feng Shui For You and Your Cat" and their theory was that cats "fix" energy flow, so that when they are lying in the middle of the path or whatever, they are correcting a Feng Shui energy problem...The book also says that if your garden has the right balance, the garden will be a place a cat can relax.

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thank you susybell - Tills cats definately do that Feng Shui thing - they just seem to go around adjusting everything, just doing fine tuning - one of my favourite photo last year was, I think, Miss Sassy sprawling in a cage of her own choosing. It just happened to be sitting on a tree stump she wanted. And then there is that great cat tuning exercise of realigning cars after they have been driven: jump on bonnet - sorry, hood, and purr in harmony while auto's vibes are reattuned to home.

Interesting Susy . . . I totally buy that. When I was taking one of my Reiki classes years ago, the instructor said that cats and horses are totaly "energy" hogs. They love to be "treated". Mine certainly seem to, although a few of them need to think it's their own idea before they can really relax.

OOO Susy you have just answered the Q's I always had " Why are they doing that"
When My DH was sick my male cat wanted to always lay on his chest, when he got better, Rat didnt do it anymore and he did it again when I was sick. And that also goes for when they are underfoot and wont move. Gotta get that book.

Laurie, that was Tilly. I know to many to remember.

And Tilly
On the car hood

This is Sassy on my desk above my keyboard, while I was typing, to talk to my friends at DG. something there??? mmm

I love that picture! It is sooooo cat.

Oh Sassy ! too cute. I remember trying to lay the comics on the carpet when I was a kid = our cat would always promptly come over, spread out and make himself comfy.

That mole hand really creeps me out!!!!!! ick! I hope you gave your doggy a treat for that : )

Tilly on the car hood has an air of authority - the kind that is backed by verbal warnings & claws. I would do whatever she wanted with those eyes looking at me!
Not mean or anything - just SERIOUS!

Looks like she is giving you a talking to in that picture Tills! My manx (no tail) Georgia is sitting next to my laptop right now. She loves the CPU fan because it blows out warm air. I will be typing away and she will just lay right down on the keys. She is the queen!

My little guy, Topaz, is disabled from CH, and he has trouble walking and climbing. That doesn't stop him, though. He falls all the time, poor baby. He just fell off the ottoman and hit the floor with a thud. I can't help but go get him and coddle him when that happens, though he doesn't want it. Anyway, we just had a nice little session and I got him settled in his favorite chair.

Unfortunately, that's Bug's favorite chair, too. Maybe when Topaz has finished his bath, I'll put him on my lap to watch a movie and Bug can have his chair back. That is, of course, if there's any room for me on the couch. :-)

Here he is earlier this year in "his" chair:

And Topaz loves the dogs. Here he is sleeping with Nick. They are both too tired to be worried about one another.

This is the old lady of the house, I rescued her and he brother from the back of the building I worked in. We had a bad accident on the Hood Canal bridge ( I think that was in 1996 or 97), and traffic was stop for hours ( someone rear-ended a boat had the bridge closed). A person came in and said she heard meowing in are cardboard bin, two of us went out to look and found a depends box (of all things) all tape up with duct tape and inside was stuffed with news papers and two baby kittens about 4 or 5 weeks old, in a very sad state. So I took them home. I lost the male to coyotes a few years later, and since then Corky never leaves the house, only goes outside if I am out there.

She is always where I am, if I'm not home she stays on my bed.

How wonderful that you brought them home! People who do things like that to baby animals ( or people) make me so upset. She looks very content.

The author of the Feng Shui book is Alison Daniels. It's full of nice illustrations and great cat pictures and has a section about gardening, too. Remind me and I'll bring it along to one of our get togethers and you can look through it. It was a gift, so it's not one that I want to loan out.

I'm not sure that I've ever posted any pictures of my furry friends. Here's Sophie on the floor right at the top of the stairs in the middle of the hall, no doubt correcting the Feng Shui...

Sophis, is so pretty, and no, I dont think I have seen your babies.

I would like to see the book, maybe I might be able to order one from our book store, they will try to locate books for you if they can. Cant wait to meet you LOL

This pics is kinda funny, I mowed the lawn and dumped all the clippings in a large hole Im trying to fill, and my DH said grab you camera and come here.

Thats Sassy



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I'll bet that grass is soft and warm.

Sophie says thanks for the compliment. She's curled up on a cushion on top of my filing cabinet next to my desk.

I love everyones fur baby pictures! Susy, where are the pictures of the rest of your clan. I'm sure that Sophie isn't the only one.. She and our Cleo look similar, here is a pic of Cleo.