Happy birthday, Gloria125

Wishing you a happy birthday and may you unearth only happiness and joy forever.

Pirl

Happy Birthday, Gloria! You're a wonderful addition to our group and I wish you much health and happiness!

Happy Birthday Gloria! Like Victor said, we so glad you stop by the NE forum, you have enriched our lives!!

Happy birthday Gloria!

Brrrr-day greetings from the north country to you, Gloria!! Hope you are warm in the south! Eleanor

Happy Birthday to you Gloria! Have a great day. :)

Happy Birthday Gloria and thank you for all the great things you share with us !

And from me, Gloria,
Happy Birthday...

Have a very happy happy birthday, Gloria! I wish I had a pretty flower to share... Here, not mine, but one I'm working with. xxxx, Carrie

Gloria125, mountains of great books, and a garden full of blooms. Happy B-day to you. Patti

Happy Birthday! ☺

Oh you guys. I am embarrassed.

Thanks for the wishes, and same to you'all.


Ive never been a northeasterner but I was a northerner once.

Here is a photo of my backyard at home in Michigan.

Beautiful!! Why did you leave?

Looks like that first step might get 'ya.

I wonder how far a paper airplane would go... ☺

This place is called the High Roll Way. It was an Indian Overlook, and an historic log roll. The river is the Manistee. Nearly every year some southener would try to swim the river and drown. There a very strong undertows, you can't swim across it.

We didn't really own it. It is part of a National Reserve, but my grandfather rented land there and pastured his cattle there. May grandfather ran away from home when he was a kid and joined the circus and traveled out west. He always wore a cowboy hat and rode a horse.

I guess that's why I left home. I thought there was something better somewhere else.

Wow. What a great family story to grow up with, Gloria! x, Carrie

Happy Birthday Gloria!

Wonderful photo, Gloria.

Thanks Deb. My sister took the photo. She still lives at the old home place in Michigan.

Looks beautiful, Gloria. You did work in NYC for a while, though.

Gloria, you sly minx, leaving your name off the birthday list. Good thing you give us all a clue in your screen name. This is a very special day. Some of the best and most wonderful people in my life share this birthday.

Happy birthday, dear Gloria. Have a wonderful day and a wonderful vertigo-free year, full of good fortune, beautiful flowers, and lots of time for relaxation.

Cant think of anything more wonderful than a rose from Zuzu. Thanks, Zu. You must know a lot of Aquarius -es.

I believe I am featuring a Dorothy Perkins that you grew in my latest article -- Skyscape Roses.

Victor. Yes. I left Michigan Tech at Houghton Michigan for the big city in 1958. (Oh. Oh. Now you know I am 100 years old.) While I was in NYC I worked at 60 Pine Street for Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner and Smith. Soon left though for California where I worked on missiles at Vandenberg AFB === The Titan II Missile. We had a picture of a Titan II launch with a caption that said, "When You Care Enough To Send the Very Best". We blew a lot of them up though. Since I knew how to read and type chemical symbols I worked as a tech writer/editor.

And then. I started back to school at Allan Hancock Jr. College in Santa Maria, Calif. It had been a WWII flight training school. etc. etc.
and so life goes, you know.

What an interesting life you've had so far, Gloria! I hope this birthday is just the beginning of many more accomplishments and much, much happiness. Here's to you!

DonnieBrook: What an interesting flower! What is it?

Oddly (or perhaps not), Gloria, most of my friends of long standing are Aquarians, possibly because I'm one myself. Maybe we're so bizarre that we're the only ones who can tolerate each other's eccentricities over the long range.

So here's where the party is!
What's a nice lil southerner doing hidden away back here in the Northeast Gardening Forum!

For you my dear, on your birthday, because you will appreciate my warped sense of humor-
http://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/cheshire/IMAGES/watch_earthworm.jpg

Actually, I don't think Ive ever known another Aquarian except for my mother. Ive had to be alone in my weirdness. But I must say, I never cease to entertain myself.

Do you have any photos from Vandenberg, Gloria? Those were the go go days in rockets. Our lab was at the forefront of lots of the early nuclear work - both civilian and government. And FM inventor Edwin Armstrong's papers and effects were in our building. The famous (or infamous) Admiral Rickover visited our laboratory a few times. He and the then dean of engineering had tremendous egos and clashed. So Rickover pulled the contract and ripped out every piece of equipment the navy paid for and sent it up to GE. One last bit of trivia, the musical group Sha Na Na, made up mostly of Columbia grads, used to practice in our building.

Equilibrium! I should have known you wouldn't come without bringing one of your slimey little friends!

Welcome to both of you.

What am I doing over here in the NE forum. Look around! This is where the best people are! And now you are here.

Perfect.

gloria125.

That looks native, Lauren.

Gloria - the flower is a red-leafed hibiscus. Here it is commonly called a cranberry hibiscus. The foliage is a deep cranberry color. My neighbor rooted it for me and we planted it when we got here. Today it was just bursting with flowers. I think it must have known it was your birthday! LOL

"alone in my weirdness...."

sounds like the name of a new musical, where's Amy?

Doesn't look as if you are very alone, Gloria.......I have never seen so many flowers.

Maybe Albert will be entertained by Equil's guest.

Do you mean you were at Vandenberg, Victor? I did work both on the Atlas (GD) and the Titan II. Later I worked in a chemistry lab for manufacturing liquid oxygen at Coyote California. (This is probably all top security information). Maybe we had some of your equipment, but I was there long before your time.

I don't have any photographs, but how about the Film, "Friendship 7". The film was made my a group of technical photographers in our company.

Probably the most memorable scene that I don't have pictures of are the Burpee Seed test gardens near Lompoc California. When I lived in Santa Barbara it was 70 miles from work at Vandenberg. But coming down from the San Ynez mountains onto the Burpee flower fields and then to the Pacific Ocean was a trip I never got bored with.

Happy Birthday Gloria! I haven't noticed any wierdness in Aquarians. Love your backyard in Michigan. Of the places you've lived, do you have a favorite?
My mom used to get very annoyed when I was a small kid because I brought her worms all the time. I liked the way they wiggled in my palm.

No, I'm speaking of our bldg at Columbia U.

Of course you know Zu is a singer as well. Is or Was. I asked her once if she sang with the Kingston Trio. She said no, she DRANK with the Kingston trio.

Hey Victor! I think that's a big old fat & juicy Lumbricus terrestris. European.

Here Gloria, I've been saving this photo for a special day. Today's a special day-

Anyone you know? I love the red plastic cup - really completes the photo!

Eq. He sure looks like he's been dead along time.

Is this from Dinosaur National Monument?