Polly.....Don't tell anyone. Hee hee hee!
Hello...new to Dave's Garden and NE Forum :-)
And the movie came out after I was born, so I wasn't named after that.. Who, in their right mind, would name a kid Pollyanna. So that's why I don't tell anyone, Celeste.
Polly...your secret is safe with me. and the entire forum. hehehe! Hannible!!!! I am at the Oswego college (hard at work on a paper) right now. I drive through Hannible to get here! My professor that I have class with tonight teaches Social studies at Hannible!! Cool to have a person so close!
lisabeth: We are kind of new to the forum joined about a year ago, The Northeast Forum had two RU's this year, one in the spring and one in the fall. Have not seen anything yet about a winter one but you never now with this group. If you look around the old post's you will find the Fall RU and the spring RU had lots of post and chit chat. Don't worry if you keep following this forum you will find out about the next RU. You can also go to our Blog at http://jwlwgardens.com and find a post about the Fall RU.
John
A great many of us Bay staters are hanging around. We sort of specialize in irises but do other things, like watch birds.
sewincircle, welcome, welcome!
I did my first three years at Oswego, many moons ago. You probably drive close by my house on your way, I live off Rte 34. You've got a nice commute (not) in the winter to Oswego.
My former boss lived in Elbridge, right near that great big beautiful house on Rte 5. I also love that garden place,on Main St. Is it Anthony DeMarcos?
We have a couple of close by people on the forums, Mittsy is from Cicero, and Starina from Fair Haven.
I also hang around on the iris forum, as does IrisMA. If you like irises come on over there, too. It's a very friendly bunch, as is the NE forum.
lisabeth, it's funny you ask about gardening in Zone 7a...I'm always joking that I feel like I'm gardening in the tropics. So many plants I can grow (or attempt to grow!) here would never survive up in Mass. I've had to reeducate myself. I'm still very much influenced by plants I loved growing up so my gardens will always have a little New England in them.
ya Polly, I drive up through river road rt 7 and that. Its a straight route to the college.
I live less than a mile from the big beautiful house on route 5. I live on Hamilton rd that boarders rt 5. That is great. Anthony DeMarcos is also right around the corner. The poor guy was just in a bad accident though while building his new house. Brain injury.
I am so happy to meet some local people! Thanks a lot.
jeanmarie
Lisabeth, I live in eastern Ma too and escape to southern Vt often to see trees, eat cheese and weed the garden there. I am another addicted gardener and chatter (babbler) on DG. Welcome. Oddly blooming this week in my garden, perhaps in your honor. I already posted this, but I thought it needed an encore. I am a primrose lover too. Patti
Jeanmarie,
That's where my boss lived, on Hamilton Rd. Coming from Rte 5, his house was the second or third on the right, a ranch style, that sat up on a slight hill.
Have you driven to Oswego in the winters, already? It's quite a feat, even on Co Rt 7. A portion of Rte 104 was closed last week in that ice storm.
That's awful about Anthony DeMarco. He may not be who I'm thinking of though, if it's just around the corner from you. The one I'm thinking of is on Main St, heading out of town going east, on the left hand side, a big grey building. A big place to buy perennials, and shrubs.
Ohhhh, that is Squire Gardens. You wont believe it but...my husband has worked there for years!
I love the big old cobblestone building. He has done landscaping since high school. He's in his 40's. Dont tell him I told you that. hehehe! Yes they do have wonderful perennials and shrub. We get most everything there that we dont have.
Yes, this is my third semester in Oswego. Fun stuff driving there. LOL Your boss is just across rt 5 from me I believe. I am on the side going toward Skaneateles. Befor it turns to Jordan road. Small world!!!
Yes, Squire Gardens. I probably have met your husband, then..
Definitely a small world. So nice to see someone else from this area on DG.
Be careful with the drive to Oswego this winter.
Thanks! I will. I am heading up today. You are getting hit with snow now. :(
Have a wonderful day!
Patti - thank you for posting the primrose - I need those right now! (Actually, I need those all the time!)
Nope, no snow here today. I hear Tug Hill area, and up around Altmar got a couple of feet. Those folks can handle it, though.
Ya, I left early and everything! I was not too sad to see roads that were clear though!
hehehe! There will be plenty of other opportunities! ;)
Jeanmarie and Polly - I have enjoyed your discussion of Elbridge and Oswego. I lived on the Hudson farm in Camillus until after college. I did some graduate work several summers at Oswego and I traveled through Plainville and took the back roads. I can't remember the names or numbers of the roads cause it was almost 40 years ago. I traveled through Bowens Corners which is near Hannibal. (My aunt and uncle used to own the little grocery store there) My family used to buy strawberries at a stand just west of the village of Elbridge - think it was Manley's. another place I have frequented is the apple farm west of Elbridge (can't think of the name right now). Most of my relatives live in the Camillus/Baldwinsville area but i don't get out there much anymore. Eleanor
How neat, Eleanor.
That would be county rte 8, which goes very close to my house (within 3 miles). The little grocery store is still there. Good food, and such an out of the way place.
I did my first 3 years in Oswego, and then got my masters from Cornell. Was it you that went to Cornell first? I know someone on here did.
Winters are actually better now than when you were travelling around here. And we don't get the below zero temps we used to back then either, thank heavens. Luckily you only had to travel to Oswego in the summers back then.
Was the Hudson farm an egg farm?
My daughter lives in Lysander, right off county rte 8, and has her dental practice in Baldwinsville.
Definitely a small world.
Sewincircle, you will definitely have other opportunities.
Polly - No, I didn't got to Cornell, but I was close by on the other hill. I went to Ithaca College for music education. I only needed to get 30 extra graduate hours for permanent certification back then (that kinda dates me) and I did that during the summers at both Oswego and Albany. Yes, that's the farm. A while back, the egg and dairy were split up and became separate farms. My uncle who was in charge of the egg farm decided that the dairy and crop farms (my father and another uncle in charge of that portion) would be better off as separate farms - dairy not doing as well as the egg business. The egg farm (still in business) is now located east of Elbridge and the dairy farm and land has been sold. I usually stay in Glens Falls in the winter unless there is an emergency in the Syracuse area. I've had tooooooo many bad winter driving experiences to go to the snow belt without a good reason. Before my father died I was going back and forth several times a week and managed to dodge most of the storms. One time i went out between two storms and made it. In my younger, single days it took me 5 hours once to drive from the Fonda/Fultonville exit to exit 39!! That was during a blizzard and I drove 15 miles/hour the whole way while cars were whizzing by me. I had the last laugh because a few minutes later I drove by them. I think I must have been the only car that actually stayed on the road that night. There have been other winter driving nightmares but I'm much older and wiser now and stay home!!!!! The pic is a scanned photo of my brother standing in the middle of a road filled with snow. We couldn't get out for days. Eleanor
Here is a pic after the road was finally cleaned out. We didn;t have that many feet of snow, but the snow drifted into the road from the fields around it. The old plows they had back in the old days couldn't get through all of the snow, but now the plows are on that road constantly when it snows and keep it clear. Eleanor
love those photos!
Our oldest daughter is a graduate of Ithaca college (theater technician) and also likes to garden. She has a small 'cottage' garden in her front yard as that is where she has sun.
It must have been you I was thinking about, Eleanor.
I love those snow pictures. That's still what it usually looks like here in the winter.
Welcome to our 'small world', IrisMA, with your daughter going to Ithica.
Ooooo All these music folk ....
Nana wanted me to go to either Cornell or Ithaca College, but, silly me, went to Univ of Bflo to study music ..... I wish I had gone to CU or IC.
grammy, oh yes, the Hudson egg farm is near me! How is your Uncle doing? The apple farm is Owens. Dave trip owner is my kids bus driver. Nice family. Manleys sells the strawberries. Good one too. If you are ever in the neighborhhod look me up!
Why do you wish you had gone to Cornell or Ithaca, Willie? UB is great, that's where my daughter went to school. LeMoyne, then UB. UB is an excellent medical/ dental school. She interned at ECMC in the ER.
Jenmarie - I just got a Christmas card from my aunt and uncle and they are doing fine. Last year my two brothers, wives, children, grandchildren and I went to Owens to pick apples. They go every year and I was out there visiting so I went along. When we got back from the orchard we had to all sit in the wagon and wait while my sister-in-law took photos. The people waiting for a ride down to the orchard had to wait a few more minutes for the photo shoot to be finished. I will definitely let you know when i'm out that way but it won't be until spring!! I will also have to check out the nurseries in Elbridge - been by them so many times but never stopped in to browse. IrisMA - when did your daughter graduate from Ithaca? I haven't been back there since I graduated. I hear it has changed a lot. Thanks for the comments on the snow pics - i think the year was 1958.
That would be great! The nurseries are great. There are two large ones right in town and another smaller one with mostly flowers. Would love to meet up and "Do Lunch" hehehe
She graduated about 1985. I was U of Wisconsin 1957 so our college careers were closer. Ithaca has a great theater program, she was in the technical program, not acting.
I really appreciate all the personal history sharing I read throughout the threads. I find it all most interesting. I esp. like to see the photographs which document these stories.
As for why the wish for Cornell University or Ithaca College was that Nana lived 10 minutes away in that beautiful old home I showed y'all a picture of a few threads back. I should have gone and helped Nana keep that old house up and get my education, but at that time, unfortunately, dad was also very sick with all those lovely complications from working as an asbestos insulator for decades. While I am relieved that the house is maintained by the village as their offices, police, judge, etc. I can't help but daydream how nice it would have been to run a B&B out of that quaint Victorian home with the gardens and that old barn out back (which I know was razed sometime in the late 80's).
While UB has an illustrious history of attracting huge names to all of their departments, too many narrow-minded debutant divas drove the music department into the dirt while I was studying there. They insisted on trying to build themselves into some sort of elitist conservatory, instead of further strengthening what it already was, a very strong public university leading the market in education and producing highly qualified teacher. They moved all the education programs to Fredonia, which devalued the degree progam for those who had already graduated from it and those about to.
OK, enough of all that ..... ack!
I really find the Fingerlakes Area (and I am NOT going to say 'gorgeous') simply beautiful. So many fond childhood memories of summers in swimming holes there ......
HEY Jo Ann here. I lived in Ithaca all my life until I married a Cornellian and moved to Rochester.
Ithaca IS Gorges lol
Oh Yeah! My favorite gorge, Taughannock!
If you lived in Ithaca, then surely you knew (or, knew of) my cousin Richard.
You know .... Tri-County Bowling .... a.k.a. Richard's!
I wasn't ever a bowler, I was a CampFire Girl,loved hiking and camping and when at home listened to records and the radio, didnt have transportation to a bolwing alley.
There is still a building on the Trumansburg road that says Bowling I think.
We hung out at the Taghanock park for swimming and Buttermilk Falls and Enfield. One of my girl friends had a car so she was popular.
Most of my swimming was done at Bee Bee Lake I could walk to it from where I lived on College Ave.
Welcome Lisabeth! hope you really enjoy being with us... hope to meet you personally one of these days... this is by far one of my favorite places...
I haven't been out that way in years, but I bet it is still standing and that is what you saw. Though, it is just outside of T-burg, in Covert on 96. An old double Quonset Hut type building, if I recall properly.
Nice roses you have there, Kassia ..... you all settled back into your new old life again yet?
I remember that. When I was assigned to the Rochester barracks for a short time, I would sometimes work in Ithaca, and I would take Rte 96 down whenever I could, rather than 34, as it was such a beautiful drive.
I love Taughannock. It's my very favorite right after Watkins Glen.
The quonset hut is there . Its a bit raggidy but given the increase in wineries and other small industries growing in the area I'm sure it wont be long befor someturnes it into
a resturant. There are a lot of Amish Farms in the area, wonderful people to do business with.
Really fair prices on things.
Those Amish herbs and seasonings are the best! I love shopping at their stores. I like the big Sauders in Seneca Falls.
Absolutly Sauders in SF.
I always stop on my way to Trumansburg to visit My sister.
They have a seven grain hot cereal that's great. When they dont have the pre mixed I just buy seperate ingredients and make my own.
Hello Jo Anne! Ithica is gorgeous.
I love shopping out near Seneca Falls. Fun stuff there!