Weird weather of '09!! ... #9

I have yellow violets and wild ginger. Lots of both if anyone wants some.

Susan 105, did you get the storm? I just got back on line. We lost our power, cable and internet. It was only a day but had everyone scrambling. The undersheriff had to go to a downed pole with transformer and he said "I never saw snow on fire before". He tries to be funny because he knows most of the town has scanners. It's 40 and melting fast. We got about 4". But we sure need the water in the resouvoir. [never could spell that word].

I have problems with that word too! I also don't think that I would like talking if I knew that the whole town was listening...... But, you have to admit, that would have been an interesting sight to see. Glad that everything is back up and running for you! That picture up above sure doesn't look much like spring, hopefully it's all gone by today.

ok.... i'm getting the word out about the new thread going on, took me a while to do it though...

It's a thread to show whatever is going on in your garden or whatever garden you want to show! Any type of plant, any garden subject (I love pics of work projects, the down and dirty stuff), just to show everyone what's going on in our plant worlds! Welcome to anyone who's Northwest of somewhere! http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/973344/ please join in!

April showers bring May flowers...April showers bring May flowers...April showers bring May flowers.....

lol

that's your opinion and you're sticking to it, right?

It's called self-brain washing. I woke up all down today because I knew it was going to be cloudy and rainy so what did I do? I went to a nursery! I got a beautiful evergreen clematis (I would go look at the tag to see the correct name but it's raining...) that I have wanted. I will plant it to climb up the wall of my old 1905 garage. i also got a packet of sweet pea seeds to plant with the sugar snap peas to climb up a very rustic looking teepee I made with some branches I had from trimming stuff. I will post a pic when it all starts to grow. So, my day looks a little brighter!

Hmmmm-I use chocolate for an upper!!!! :-)

I didn't read everything, so I don't know if anyone else answered this. The comment about dogs rolling in stinky stuff, I think I know the answer to. My labrador puppy used to roll in cow patties. I was so disgusted. Then I read that as hunting dogs, they do that to disguise their own scent.

Well Mortswife97630 - why the 97630? How many wives does Mort have? I stopped at the market on the way home to get fresh stuff for salad and I got 2 chocolate bars and devoured one in the car. A near perfect remedy to gloomy weather.

I am dying laughing, Judi.

How many wives. - roaring

fresh stuff for salad and got 2 choc. bars and DEVOURED one - roaring even louder. I do that. It doesn't even get in the shopping bag. LOL How many of you hid stuff from the kids, so you could eat it all yourself?

I'm his first wife [45 yrs] :-)

Oh, yeh. When my kids were little and I was 40# heavier I made fudge and put it in the freezer in Tupperware. Everyone knows no one bothers to look in frozen packages.

I didn't hide food but I would tell the family I had to do an errand and then I would park my car and just read a magazine. I also took up running because no one wanted to go with me. When you have 7 kids you have to be creative.

I had 5 older brothers, and when one did something no one would tell, so dad would line them up and givew them all a licking with the razor strop. He knew he got the guilty one that way.

Oh my I do not agree with that kind of punishment. Our household was a non-screaming-non-violent type!

Times were different then; we had a farm and everyone worked. Dad started with one logging truck and when he died he had $1.5 m, which my brother got all of. They all hate each other and dad wouldn't even let any of us come to his burial. Yes, it was mean.

I am so sorry that you have those bad memories. Families are supposed to be supportive!

Hey, I'm pretty tough. comes from years of pastoring churches and being married to a mortician.

I'm trying to catch up and I see the post from Light_For_Jesus about dogs rolling in stinky stuff - and I think that pretty much explains it. I knew it had to be instinct of some kind.

Then I scroll down and find mortswife saying her daddy was so mean he wouldn't even let anyone attend his burial. I must admit to scratching my head on that one. I'm sitting here wondering: how could he have prevented anyone from coming? LOL! I think it would have been worthy to give him a big old funeral and have everyone come just to spite the old **&^!

Mortswife, your story about the razor strop reminded me of my great grandfather who was a barber in Texas. He had several of those strops hanging in the bathroom. I was told he used them for more than sharpening razors, but I never had any evidence of it. You are right, times were different then. I'm glad times have changed. I cannot imagine raising a hand to either of my children. I swatted my daughter on the bottom once when she was about 2 and was thwarting me running into the street. It just about killed me. I cried and cried. She barely felt it, but it was the thought that counted. And that was swatting through the diapers with an open hand! I never raised a hand to her again, and I never even bothered trying with my son.

Your father leaving all the $$ to the brothers reminds me of my husband's grandfather. He started a business in Tennessee making fiberglass wellcaps. He died a millionaire many times over and my mother-in-law and her sister never saw a penny of it. The sister's husband worked for the business so he took over part of it, but that's the only way she got any kind of inheritance, through the husband. How's that for valuing daughters? It just made me sick and it wasn't about the money, either. I think that just hurts horribly. If the brothers had been the least bit honorable, they would have given the sisters their share, but unfortunately they inherited the same backwards values that the parents had and they fought amongst themselves about it for years. When the grandfather died he still lived in the same house he had built when he first married. It looked about the same as it did then, too. He left a second wife, to whom he'd been married for about 15 years after the death of my DH's grandmother. The brothers made sure she moved out of the house, which had been her home, and didn't get a penny of his estate, even though she was completely devoted to him for 15 years. They never forgave her for marrying him. Needless to say, we don't visit very often.

I keep thinking along with Judi.....April showers bring May flowers and at least we don't have snow (at least not right now). But cold and damp is getting very old and more of the same is on the way. I've got tomato plants in my bathtub!!

When my son was 19 and 6' tall he smarted off at me and I slapped his face so fast we were both shocked. The next day his dad took him down to Stockton to enlist in the military. He retired fromn the AF a couple of years ago. Good note----he now has 5 kids of his own. My mother's words still haunt me-"you reap what you sow". About my dad-he paid our mortician friend to hire 6 casketberers and a limo to take him to the cemetery on a sunday afternoon. Dad's great grandmother was a MARTIN from Kentucky. Odd family!

My parents never struck any of us five kids - with the exception of one time. I was a freshman in high school and my older sister was home from college for the summer. We were having a fun sister-time and she put mascara on me. I was not allowed to wear makeup and when I walked in the kitchen my mother took one look and smacked me across the face really hard. That is one of the moments I remember most about my mother.
My ex-husband was beaten by his father with a paddle his father called 'the board of education' and I told my husband that if he ever ever hit one of children that would be the end. He never did.

I don't hold grudges. I guess I alwas felt grateful for the family I had even if I was adopted. My mother left me at the hospital when I was 2 because I needed much more surgery for a cleft palate. My great aunt took me. I could have been much worse off if that hadn't happened. I knew both parents.

Sally, you're too funny!!!

Tomato plants in the bathtub! Are they in pots or have you filled your tub with soil? New meaning for a mud bath!

I am waiting around for the rain to stop and then I will put my new climbing rose in the ground!

No, not a mud bath. I over winter cymbidiums in the tub. There's a skylight over it, so it works quite well. I also have orchids hanging under the skylight. They'll go back outside if it ever warms up enough. I've been keeping the tomatoes there too, easier to water them and they get the light.

It was dry today, but the soil is still way to wet to do much. Pulled some weeds, tried not to take all the soil with them. How do weeds know that it's hardest to get them when they grow up in the middle of something you want to keep? LOL

Just heard the forecast, OUCH! We're going down to the low 30's at night again. Just when I was getting used to this. Hasn't been warm, but not freezing.

mortswife, no we didn't get the snow at all. Thank goodness! At least yours melted quickly.

Sally, at least you're not going to be in the 20's at night like we are. It's supposed to be 24° tonight and 21° tomorrow night. YIPEE!!! Our irrigation water came in last Thurs, but we're not going to start irrigating until next week since it's going to be so cold at night.

We're going to Vancouver to see our DD and GKs. I talked to her on the phone Fri to let her know that the kids' Easter cards were in the mail but they probably wouldn't get them until today. She told me they were more excited about us coming up this weekend than Easter. THAT made me feel good.

Laura, I know what you're going through as far as pain in your knee. Our DD tore a ligament in hers in track when she was 14. She had orthoscopic surgery done on it but she still suffers when it gets cold and especially when it's rainy (which is most of the time in Vancouver). Her knee swells to the size of a football. She's had it checked over the yrs and the Drs always tell her that it's in her head, yah right, tell that to her knee when it's swollen. Good luck with yours.

TTYL

Susan105

Good grief....... that white crap is coming down again outside!!!:-( Darn it.


Susan, I heard on the news tonight that your area could very well get 3-5" of the stuff again tonight.

better you than me, red :-)

yeah right. so many flowers will go bye bye if it sticks :-(

We got something that looked a lot like hail, and it was just absolutely pouring.

crazy!

I was afraid that would happen rc. We got hail in town today. And yes Susan I am glad it's no colder than it is. But like rc says, going up and down like this is horrible for the flowers. Some of the things are just starting to come up and are really tender right now. We're supposed to be up to 75 by Sunday, but still only 40 at night.

Just saw a prediction for 'possible thunderstorms that could produce hail' for tonight and tomorrow.

I love a good thunderstorm...... minus the hail on young flowers. Mid summer is ok. Not now. I guess it's just wait, and see, and hope! Hopefully nobody will get stuck with the snow, it's getting late for all of us!

Well I suppose that's a good side to all of my stuff not wanting to do anything, maybe they wait until the bad weather is over and then spring into action.

It's getting late to have snow up north of here.