Visions of Spring '08! - Part 2

i didn't have tulips until very late April/early May last year, so i don't think it will be a problem.
We are going to a theatre conference in Houston - we'll be too busy to see much of Houston, but i am totally psyched - going to spend one whole day training on a cool new light board (woo hoo, right?)!

Is that a surfing board? No kidding, theatre, right? DH did lots through college in Cambridge at the Loeb and for the Hasty Pudding Club. He has done a few things since, but not enough, because he loved it. I did some design work, but no roles on stage. Patti

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Come visit my theatrical thread - i do try not to infect the other threads with the theatre bug...
; )

Thank you Victor, yet again! I've already posted...I'm excited, although I'm about to drop my car off at the mechanics...seems like every time I do drop the car off, it's $100...like a flat rate or something. And, it's going to be there, "probably all day." That to me already sounds like several $100...oye. Maybe the post office should have a mechanics garage attached with these "supposed" flat rates...lol...might work out nicely ;-)

Thanks for posting, YankeeCat--I'm glad you, too, saw the wolf. Now if someone can only convince DEP we have wolves & cougars! They just don't want to admit it! Patti---I can't believe you have all those deer--did they swim to Nantucket? Get some guinea hens--they'll eat all your ticks--of, course, their noise will drive you around the bend! Loved the cleaning lady stories--I HATE to clean--but my Mom & sister come every week for Sun. dinner, so I must---my GSP mix sheds constantly--you can't believe how those little short hairs end up in everything--& the car! I'd like to sell it soon---we had to replace the front bucket seat yesterday because of complete chewiness--thank God they found one at the junk yard--also bought a gate for back of Tahoe---MAYBE that will keep her nose out of things!

I spend time shoveling up old nasty white rock (not good quartiz, this is stuff more closely resembled chalk, nasty stuff!). Then weed barrier & fresh bark. Moved a bench onto the area - now I need to finish the REST of the area on the opposite side of the side walk. I started but I decided I wanted a post with a bird house on it. I have the post, I need my husband to cut this 6x6 so I can attach a bird house & cement it. THEN I can continue to lay weed barrier & bark.

I put a "dry river" thru it with free river rock I picked up from another homeowner that wanted it GONE. I can finish THAT when the weed barrier is done AFTER the post! It is a wonder I can even move today after moving the white rock, the bark and then the river rock. PROGRESS is being made!

No, someone brought a pregnant one to Nantucket in the 1926 from Michigan. Supposedly someone felt sorry for the lone female and brought a male the next year. Now we have the highest deer density in the state of Ma. I have seen them swimming in the harbor to escape from the hunters, but doubt they could make it to the mainland. Even the Vineyard is something like 8 miles of open water. Patti

Spirea 'Ogon' getting ready to leaf out.

One of my new JM's currently in my garage.

Oh, bad deer story--people don't think! Nice plant pictures, Victor--can't wait for green stuff!

There are laws against invasive plants - why not invasive animals?

Robin (and Cat) - are you sure it was not a large coyote?

No--not a coyote--unfortunately, these people see coyotes on a regular basis--both stated without a doubt--wolf--&the one shot in Shelbourne, MA(with lamb in his stomach) was a pure wolf--no hybrid DNA, & there was another article in the Courant today--DEP 'hedging about wolves & cougars in CT-'-just exactly what does' hedging' mean? It means, I think, they don't want to alarm general populace.

That's certainly what it means. There have been reports of mountain lions in this general area too, but the authorities keep dismissing it.

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(really, i loved this...)

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Here is my Vt kitty. He ate a few of the neighbors cats we think, but a great beauty to see out my barn window on a snowy day. Patti

Oh Patti, your so lucky! I haven't seen one up close around here in over 15 yrs. I have to go up North to get my fix now!

Beautiful lynx, Patti. I've never seen one here, but we do have bobcats. One of my airedales climbed into the ledges behind the dam, & had a torn, bloodied ear & I always suspected a bobcat--then last summer, at dusk, one jumped the guardrail in front of my car, & went into dam property.

ahem...

That was funny Amy.

Very cute and very true Amy. ☺

Good cartoon, Amy--I,ve got the vac ready!