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The acre next to me is still for sale ~ ; o )

Thanks so much for the warm welcome to the PNW!!!! Makes me feel so much better about being here!!! :)

Welcome Misty, Out here you would in fact be a misty gardener. We have lots of it. Mist that is. My DH's parents came from Maryville MO and I was born in Indiana.

Thanks, Willow! Not sure where Maryville is? I know where my dad and his gf lived on the Oregon/Washington border it rained ALL the time. Mist I could handle, though. :)

Well its a heavy mist sometimes!! ;-) But its the best enviroment to grow darn near anything if you are careful!!

Oh shoot, I forgot to post my pic here! Its that CRS kicking in ya know! :)
So long as the heavy mist is just sometimes, thats ok, too! LOL

This is MOST of what I have been working on the last two days, but not ALL, cause they are sitting all over the house! LOL

Ok now you have enough to start your DG garden! The tropics in Mo, by mistygardener!! Sounds good and you have enough to do it Tammy!

NoNoNo, I need MOOOOOOOOOOOOREEEEEEEEEEEE LOL

Hey, MG!! Looks like you've been a busy girl.

It's the gray sky that usually frustrates people. Rain we can handle (though sometimes begrudgingly), but people here are so grateful when we get the sunshine.

On the other hand, we know it's what keeps things so green year 'round.

A native knows that for every sunny day, two days of rain. Which is fine if you think that it rained for the last 10 days staight , so I got 5 days of sunshine to look forward to!! It's all in the mind set!

Katie, I have been pretty busy, yes! :) It has to be better there than in Alaska with their 6 months of daylight and 6 months of darkness. I couldn't handle it! LOL

Gordon, DH always says if you don't have a mind it don't matter! LOL

I have a jacuzzi room that looks just like your picture. Everything I don't have a place for right at this moment is out there.

I just hope it gets DH to realize we MUST get the rest of the GH finished! LOL

MG - what do you mean 6 months of daylight? Hehe I'm from Fairbanks. It's 3 months of daylight and 9 months of darker than daylight. It's one of those places that, if you're going to live there, you really should have a good reason. LOL

OMG Katie! TOO funny! LOL My Dad LOVES it there, but his GF is a native of California and a couple years was all she could handle without going senile!!! :oP

It was a great place to grow up, but I don't know HOW my parents relocated there in their late 30's without going completely insane. That having been said, it's one of the most beautiful places on earth - nobody around, complete still, 5 feet of snow as far as you can see and light reflected off the snow. And then you look up and the sky is dancing with the Northern Lights. It's amazing. Then you go in and get your feet warmed up enough that you can feel them again. :-)

The pictures he has brought back have been gorgeous and I would love to visit some day, but never live there. When I grow up I am moving somewhere warm! LOL I can't imagine those that live in Zone 3! How could you ever have a garden without a green house?! I still have mementos from his first trip when I was a kid I'd never get rid of, and would love to add to them some day. He still goes every great once in a while to work with his friend that owns one of those big fishing boats, but of course it is warm then! LOL

And Alaska is pretty vast - encompass lots of different ecosystems and climates. The southeast part is milder in some ways than the interior desert part - Fairbanks is 350 miles north of Anchorage. On the other hand, there's more wind and moisture in Anchorage and the southeast, which can chill you to your bones.

When I moved down to Seattle, I was always cold when I was inside and people woud give me a hard time. I told them that houses in Fairbanks had to be better insulated (there were no drafts at the windows) and that the cold was a dry cold (you couldn't even make a snowball, the snow was so powdery).

I don't remember now where they lived, but I remember they were 5 hours from a Wally World, now that was bad! LOL
All that snow and not a single snow ball? That wouldn't be fun at all! How about snow ice cream, could you have that? Oh how I miss that! Only that, not the snow! LOL

Ah...the Northern Lights. I would give my eye teeth to see them. For DH's 60th and my mom's 70th, the whole family is cruising to Alaska and my greatest hope is that the light faeries will grant me my wish ~

Hmmmm - we didn't do snow ice cream. It was cool, though, that you could play in the snow and not be really wet - except where it stuck to you knit scarf. I can still remember the smell of wet clothes in the classroom after we had all gotten to school and hung up our stuff in the classroom closets. Not a nice smell, per se, but definitely specific.

We did do snow angels. And you could shovel the driveway pretty (relatively) quickly - you could carefully break off and pick up 4 feet of snow in one shovelfull - the challenge was to carefully get it to its destination without spilling. I can still remember the sound of the shovel on the packed ice/snow on the sidewalk, too.

I hope the fairies grant your wish! :)

Four feet of snow on one shovel, WOW! I would love to see that one! :)

Snow angels rock. A great feeling to fall straight back and lay in the soft snow. We had a lot of snow in Arizona (7000') and partook of snow play as often as possible. But Kathy, you're right. It was a much drier cold and didn't feel so "chilled to the bone" as it does here. 0 degrees didn't feel as cold as 40 feels here (but I'm NOT complaining!)

That is what my dad always said about the cold being so different. Still, I think I'd be afraid of -30º! :)

Once it gets to zero, it all feels the same. It's just danged cold.

Is that cause you are already so frozen you can't tell it anymore!?! :oP

Remember they have longer day in the summer so thing grow more quickly.

I love snow ice cream. A little mild and vanilla. Yum!

And so to dream-really this time.

Sheri -

I don't know if you'll see the Northern Lights because you'll need clear and cold skies (like 40 below) and anything along the cruise line is likely to have more maritime temps and cloud cover. But I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!!

Ummmmm ~ 40 below? Maybe I'll take a pass on it this time. I'm not planning on taking my winter coat. . .we're going in September. Someday. . .the northern lights and a polar bear. Yep. . .

Welcome Misty! Just an FYI all of us PNW's have webbed feet, they really help out on those rainy days! Hope you won't hold it against us :0)!

Thanks rachie, I won't hold it against you! Wonder why Gordon left that part out?! LOL

He can be a little shy sometimes :0) Hehehehhe! Not!

LOL Nope, not Gordon! HA HA HA

you forgot the permanently attached foul-weather gear!
...and some of us have duck bills.

I can see it now, Gordon with a duck bill!!! TEEEEEEHEEEEEEEEEHEEEEEEE

Work all day to come home and see you all making fun of my duck bill!! LOL I;m a native so I also have the permanent rust color too!!!
I have never been to Alaska but I want to after hearing about it!Do you think the cruise liners allow plants on board? I would eventually end up in a nursery no matter where I am!!!

Quack Quack all the way to the boat, Gordon, what would they do?! LOL

Hey Gordon, sure hope you are feeling better! Wanted to share this with all of you as it really brought warmth to my heart! :)

http://www.allright.com/Poems/TOLRailway/TOL.htm

Hi all, I just signed my mom up for DG... can you all come wish her a warm DG welcome (Please?!)
Thanks, Anjl

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