Do you have vacation plans yet?
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Do you have vacation plans yet?
| Sat, 06-19-2004 - 12:20am |
What interesting things do you have planned for your summer? Are you going wandering like me or just staying home? Are your plans going to take you away from your internet buddies? I ask because some of us worry when we don't see you are here like usual.
If you are going to be gone before I get back myself, I hope you ahve a wonderful time and I hope you will tell us all about it!
Mary Frances
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Lynn
Well, we went to Mexico for a week (Ixtapa).
Nancy
am hoping to get some stuff in house organized this weekend....and maybe get rid of some space wasting things!!
anyway next weekend will be going to the dog show in my old town...sister lives there and is one of those in charge.
all my vacation time the last few years has been planned to match dog shows but i havent gotten to any except sisters show. am hoping now that i am a lot more mobile will be able to start going again.
other possibility is if im good and save some money up i might be able to go on another bead hunting expedition. then i can get busy making beaded jewelry!!
I can understand. I resolved to get rid of all my pots when I moved to my new home 12 years ago.
I usually cant really decide what tomatoes to plant, then also I am on the cheap side. So when i have the option of buying one at $3.79 or a 4 pac at $2.19 is seems wasteful to buy just one. Also have had times when i accidently killed a few plants, so i do sorta like to have 2 of each kind. Also to be honest 2 of them are really ground cherries....sort of like a sweet tomato. i have seem them advertised as tomatillo but they are NOT the same at all.
IF I get my old auto watering connector working again....then it will auto water twice a day...i usually set it for 5-8 minutes. that way everything gets watered even if im not around. Its not that much work once i get it set up...have to weed a little, and I confess in the past I did enjoy coming home at nite or at noon and grazing on the cherry tomatoes as they came ripe.
Gee you reminded me, i was gonna try to get swiss chard to grow. I loved that as a kid. When I see it though it the store it along with the bok choy, and all the other semi similar veggies seem so weather beaten and wilted. I havent been very good lately eating veggies and am hoping the garden will encourage me. I may still plant some swiss chard...i have the seeds for it, but will have to see if i can get them to grow.
I do have a whole slew of herbs too...and those I am giving some small pots of away to coworkers. I was talking to a cashier at the store I often stop at...she told me the mexican oregano is spicer...so im sorta wondering how it will be in salads and that. the leaves look like a succulant plant.
i counted tonite and so far i have about 40 pots of plants in my driveway!! Depending on where i put the flowers there may be a few more! I do sorta miss the strawberries, which i had been growing up until i think this past summer. they had dried out and i didnt start watering them over the winter....so i would have to buy new plants. Those are a definite war with the birds, squirrels, bunnies etc to get em growing...although it was fun the one year when spring came really early in March. That year,they were wintering on my back porch and when they started sprouting i started watering and I even had fresh strawberries in early april!! For Wisconsin that is sort of a miracle.
I confess I think planting in the ground would be loads easier. Thankfully i have my kids wagon(best investment i made when I first moved in). That wagon has hauled many many things. That way I did have to lift the pots into and out of the wagon, but didnt have to walk a long distance with 20-30 pots!
I do feel pretty darn good though that I have managed to pot as much as i have. last summer after i first got diagnosed, i was so busy going to the Y that I had bought a few cherry tomato plants and maybe 1 other...but never got to potting any. i did still get a few cherry tomatoes of those little plants. So this year maybe i got a wee bit carried away cuz i did nothing last year. Will say it had better NOT keep increasing at the same rate it has in the past 6 years.....or i wont have room for my van before long!!
Hey Tara -
There's a bunch of posters here that are in CA - me, Mary Frances and Marsha are three of them.
Blueliner4
(aka The Pixie Princess)
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