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Let’s enjoy the garden before I kill all the flowers.
Is that one of your pictures SN?
Yeah, it is. I bought these flowers but can’t dig down enough in my “soil” to plant them, so I just put them in a container.
I kill everything I try to grow — lucky for me, the woods are self-starters.
You did an excellent job with your camera. You’re like Olivia, you’ve got talent.
Thanks, but these cameras are like little robots – they do everything for you.
That is so PURDY!!!
Still not a lot out there but enough for a little collage.
4/10/2006
Yay – growing things! Very pretty.
Not really that exciting (especially compared to your, olivia, and IVG’s flowers) but I’m just so damned happy to see things popping out. I can’t wait for the dogwoods to flower.
I remember well almost crying with relief when spring finally arrived up there. It’s really a gift up north.
Are you saying July and August aren’t a gift down here?
They’re a gift to the makers of air-conditioners. Do you ever get used to the heat? I just hibernate all summer long like I used to do in the winter back home. It’s a draw.
As I’ve gotten older the heat kills me, but when I was younger it didn’t bother me at all. I think it’s the extra poundage I’ve put on.
Everybody is getting too damn good with these marco shots. Olivia has started something.
here’s a view down the back yards of our little suburbia, still under development.
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It’s just too nice out to remain inside, so 15-20 from now I’m headed for the fresh air.
(Hmmm, somehow I like the country landscape a little better. I like vistas with a horizon on them. Oh, well, the city has its amenities. )
There are no trees!
Are you above timberline? 🙂
No such thing in ND. We joke, The biggest hill around is an interstate overpass. Well, for much of the state, especially the eastern 1/3 that is actually the truth.
Yeah, this area was just developed. The street we’re on is all twinhomes, built within the last few years. Upper right corner of photo see black dirt, lots yet to be built upon.
Other than the trees along the rivers we only have two forests in ND,that I know of, Pembina forest, up in the NE corner of the state, and a weird little chunk of cedar forest out in SW corner.
Good plan!
I can deal with treeless landscapes if they are covered with interesting rocks or rolling hills of prairie grass but otherwise it really does freak me out when there are no trees.
Hey NDD! Hope your soil isn’t like what most developers do around here… they fill everything in with clay, which makes it almost impossible to grow decent flowers or even grass in some places. I would never consider buying such a place, but we got lucky with our yard, which has that famous black IA dirt and very little clay, so we hardly ever fertilize with anything other than our home made compost.
Howdy SN, Andi, FM, DJ and all… can’t stay long, but wanted to pop in and say hi. Great pic of the Seascape daisies up there SN! I love that shade of purple.
Maybe I’ll get a chance to pop in later, but a busy night at home tonight … we’re hitting Popeye’s for dinner on the way home from work, then a bit more cleaning up out front in the garden.
For some reason NDD I pictured you living out in the country.
I’ve got a country place too, where I used to farm, and now my brother farms. He doesn’t live there though. We may retire there if/when we get tired of city living.
So the sunrise/landscape photos come from that location, unless otherwise noted.
Sounds sort of like my situation. My brothers and sister own the family farm, but I get to use it from time to time. Just wish I had the money to buy into it.
That’s it, I’ll buy a lottery ticket and win millions. Of course I have to drive 500 miles to a state that has one.
maybe we can all pitch in and buy it as the official bootrib meetup place.
Are you kidding. If I won the lottery I don’t think they would part with it. Of course I could buy in, but it would still be all family.
Hey if I did buy in we could use it as a bootrib meetup place. You would really have to like the country, sitting on the porch swings watching car go by (you’d have to wave even if you didn’t know the people), and an old creaky house with a resident ghost. Mr. Wilson.
It could be just like when my Grandparents were alive. The womenfolk would be in the kitchen cookin vittles and the menfolk would be in the den discussing manly things.
For some reason I don’t think that would go over too well for a bootrib meeting.
I don’t know how to cook vittles. Sounds vaguely yiddish…maybe Andi knows. I can totally imagine the womenfolk in the kitchen…not.
How about you in your overalls cooking vittles and critter du jour and we’ll drink lemonade on the porch and wave to your wacky neighbors.
That will work too. We’ll have to wait for just the right kind of roadkill though.
My favorite is possum, but if’n they’re not running that time o’year I’ll settle for squirrel.
Squirrel or possum aren’t bad, but actually if it has been run over enough times you get that smokey tar flavor you only get from old tires. To get just the right flavor you have to go out and re-run over them a couple of times. Tenderizes it too.
Oh, you Canadians and your weird bacon think you’re better than us just because you don’t eat roadkill.
OK Olivia what is a way up yonder wonder food?
your dialectic intonation is all wrong…it’s dub-ya :{)
that were probably cooking in FM’s grandparents’ time would be likely to get called chazzerai.
Exactly what my Grandma said.
“No wonder my grandson is fat! All my daughter-in-law feeds him is chazzerai!
Oy, what kind of bubbe would worry that her grandchild was fat? In fact, he is too skinny because all she feeds him is chazzerai so he’s isn’t eating enough. Ess, ess mein kinder. I know you’ve just eaten but I can tell you’re still hungry. Here, just have a sliver.
I googled chazzerai and came to a site called “Bubby-gram….Pick a Schtick!”
So I figured out that you are my khaverte. Unless that somehow means we slept together and then it’s quite possible I got the meaning wrong.
Well that one threw me because I’ve never seen it before but I think it must be alternative spelling of chaver (in a female form). Either way, I agree.
What’s more, you are a shayna (in all meanings of the word) chaver.
Aw, well aren’t you a gelibte?!
I hadn’t ever heard — but as I said my yiddish vocabulary acquisition was most insults and profanities.
And I never knew Yiddish looked like the word “Oy” coupled with algebra equations.
I’m finding a lot of the Yiddish words I know are dirty words. Why do people always learn the dirty words first?
Yiddish is basically a form of german but it is written in hebrew. Go figure.
This picture of Smooch that I took this morning turned out comically like one of those portraits with the second, disembodied head floating above the real one. If you look closely you can see where she singed her eyebrows and whiskers when she jumped up onto the table and sniffed a lighted candle.
She’s cute.
Time to listen to BooMan – wonder if I can get it.
I’m running it through my iTunes with no problem.
Got it – he’s on!
Singed whiskers??
Are you sure Smooch isn’t taking bong hits?? 🙂
No wonder she’s been running around like DJ after a Hummer with a W-04 sticker on it!
Got to go for a minute.
Be back in a little while.
Hopefully we are doing well today, it being Monday and all.
Double shot for MythMother!
Having a busy AND productive day woo hoo!
Dropping 4’s and then I’ll play later…
Wow – a kitty and Chewbacca!!! 🙂
enjoy.
He seems proud of his own idiocy.
…that might one of the more frightening things I’ve seen in a long time.
Frightening in combo w/ the recent news by Hersh et al.
Can’t stay, but am thinking about y’all, and wanted to ask a favor — if anyone has a Gmail invite they need to unload, please hook me up. I need a couple new email addresses that aren’t connected to my ISP. Thanks {{{Cafe}}}!
My son has a bunch but he won’t be home until after 6. If you still need it then I’ll have him send you an invite.
What exactly is a gmail invite?
is still trying to keep itself “exclusive” — someone who likes you will send you an invitation for a Gmail account (especially if you say “pretty please with double dark chocolate on top” 😉 ). Then, when you sign up, you’ll get a bunch of invitations you can send out (I think I got about 18 or so when I joined up).
Pluses of Gmail:
1GB storage
Can check from anywhere — not tied to a particular ISP (good especially for travelers)
Relatively clean interface
Easy to search for messages you want/need
Got to admit I really like my Gmail account… 🙂
Thanks Cali. I had heard of it, but didn’t know exactly what it was.
Thanks! We’re going to have DSL on the other end and I’m finally going to kill the AOL (yay). I’m so excited, but I don’t want to be out of contact so I figured switching over to something like Gmail would take care of that.
(((Indy)))) I think Cali Scribe has some.
I only have g-strings.
That’ll have to wait ’til we meet in person. 😀
tee hee 🙂
Just sent you one (and a howdy note)… 🙂
I can just hear the little kitty
“Yeah, think you’re so big and so bad… well you ain’t shi…”
THWAP
This same scenario plays out every day in my house. Little pootie aggravates Fattypuss until she just whomps her in the dust.
Happy Hour open!