Yeah, Jen.......I'm beginning to think the plan wasn't such a bad one! LOL (But, I'm just about ready to head north since the long, wiggling things are coming out..eeewwww.
Region Envy - where do you wish you could garden??
But Louise, that's not envy, that's content!
True, Carrie....Envy is not one of my seven deadly sins.......but I make up for not having that one!!! LOL
Can't think of a clever comeback! I'm stumped. I was trying to think of an appropriate sin to substitute, but on this family-friendly site, i can't.
Jen - Quite a lot! I think the annual average is around 85 inches. I like it, though. This winter was pretty nice b/c around the time one usually gets sick of the stuff, early February, it just stopped snowing for some reason. It's been very dry here since then up until this last week, though fairly cold.
Victor - Not all the summers here are like that. I think it was summer 2007, the east coast drought year, when it frequently hit 90. Buffalo's apparently one of just two American cities never to hit 100 degrees. The other is Honolulu.
I never knew it didn't get that hot up there.
I don't have a specific place in mind... but I would like 1 or 2 zones higher... just so the winter doesn't last as long as it does here... I don't mind the 4 seasons... but just wish it was a bit warmer
Carrie, what I have actually been contemplating in the far recesses of my brain is "WHAT" to plant when I eventually do move. I will be leaving any terracing, stone(s) and the incredible soil here when I do leave. I think I might buy a whole bunch of Stella D'oro's and some of the mediovariegated Hosta, and plant them everywhere so the place doesn't look so bare when I uproot most of what I will take with me.
Victor-I lived in the Wilmington/Jacksonville area for almost 4 years, and have missed it every day since I moved back home. I'm not sure if I'm repeating myself or not, but the whole time I resided there it snowed ONE time, UNO, ONCE, 1 time...and what it did snow was about 1/4"...that's not a typo...one quarter of an inch! And everything closed, schools, colleges, the MALL, closed...they also don't have any snow removal equipment...lol.
Still dreaming...atleast the crocuses are blooming now!
Funny, Thom!
Thom - I agree with you about North Carolina. I lived there for 10 years and loved it. The coastal area is especially nice. When it snowed, school was closed for a week even with an inch or two. Until the last drop melted, the school buses couldn't run because of the lack of snow plow equipment. LOL
Where in NC, Louise? I loved the Asheville area. I'm more a mountain person than a coast person.
Ya, me too Victor.. but I'd like to be within driving distance of the beach though.
Yes, though lake beaches are nice too. Just hate touching the muck on the lake bottom though!
Yeah, it's nasty when your feet sink into it...living on a lake I got used to it though...we used to have the best mud fights with that stuff.
Always seemed like I was going to sink in!
Eeek!
I like lakes when you are in a boat, and you jump in where it is too deep to feel the bottom ;)
Ooh yeah I did that once - it was Very cold! brrr
da dum, da dum, da dum
(ya know the music from Jaws?)
ROTFL! : )
Skinny dip, Sherrie?!
Too many hooks!
I wish I had been in Miami, I did it some where off the Danvers Waterfront in MA! Very nippy.
Ooh - that's chilly, Meredith. I did in a lake too and it was cold!
I was sitting at the edge of a pond with my feet in the water - and a fish kept nibbling on my toes. It kept bothering me enough to move out of the water and I had little slimy things attached to my feet that the fish must of been eating. YUCK!! Never did that again. It was a swimming hole.
Ick! Can't blame you.
I lived in Los Angeles for 5 years.. I'd give anything to know then what I know now about gardening! The things I would have and could have grown.. it makes me sick! I was always working in the yard and I had no idea of the possibilities! I did have pretty flowers and things growing but there was soooooo much more I could have done! Now I live in the desert where the temp extremes in the winter limit me soooo much.
Welcome Tammie! Don't we always want what we don't have?!
don't get me wrong here.. I love my parents.. but.. when they are gone... I'm out of here! That is the ONLY reason I am in Odessa, TX! By then, I will probably be too old to start a new yard... they are very healthy 70 somethings! LOL I do a lot of gardening with my mother.
Aw, I think that is very sweet that you stick around because your parents are there. My family is now spread all across this country and I really miss having them around. Not quite enough to go live where they do, however! I like to visit my parents in SC in the Spring, but could never survive there thru a summer. My brother is leaving Oregon next summer to go teach at West Point, so there goes my only connection to the alluring Pacific Northwest, drat.
Weeellll, I am single.. never married and mom really wanted me here so I could not come up with a good excuse not to move back from Los Angeles.. I still had my house here so I moved...I still hate it here. LOL The good thing is I have their yard to play in.. it is 10 times (or more) bigger than mine and mom lets me plant almost anything I want to try... I said ALMOST anything....I have to promise to take it out if she does not like it...and some things she has not let me plant in her beds... I have a tiny yard.. I keep shoving things in here and there. I have yet to convince her that everything does NOT have to have a huge space between it though... slowly working on that! LOL
hey people pay a lot of money to have fish eat the dead skin off there feet... pedicure treatment
ewww, really????
They really nibble if you're wearing toe nail polish.
They say it's a fish but it's really a weird guy in a raincoat with a fetish.