For those of you in the North!

[Rudy33]

Crocs, gators, heat, earthquakes, hurricanes - what is all this stuff? In the winter here its COLD and then it gets real COLD with a 75 degree day thrown in, the spring is cold but not as cold as winter and it rains alot, summer is warmer and then it gets hot (humid) and fall is cold one day and then hot again but it has been known to snow but its pretty.

We don't have much that is poisonous or dangerous (bears, copperhead snakes and those spiders that cause flesh eating disease) - heck nothing wants to live in New England but us. I think you have to be born here to love it.

 

[classwife]

I feel so bad for all the cold weather states.....really makes me hurt just thinking about having to deal with that....did my time in it....

 

[Mary Kay]

Ha! You forgot to mention your Grandma's and grandpa's you sent down to Florida to thaw out!

 

[Seabrook]

I have a lake behind my house that has an alligator in it !!!/QUOTE]


This is just too scary! Can't you just call Animal Control to come and get it out of your lake?

 

[DawnsFolly]

Too funny MaryKay! The croc explaination is just great.
Yup, we've got gators everywhere, in every body of water, including in the storm sewer, but they were here first. They don't bother you at all unless people have been feeding them.

 

[classwife]

I have a lake behind my house that has an alligator in it !!!/QUOTE]


This is just too scary! Can't you just call Animal Control to come and get it out of your lake?

But I like having him there !!! I think he is cool !!!




Edit:Comment- Wow...that quote posted wierd !!

 

[AngeLsLuv]

How do you stand it? I have only been home today and I am about to go nuts, course the DH isn't helping...LOL

*LOL* I've been getting used to it through the years.. If I have a tv and the net, I'm fine.. With my medical problems, I tend to be home all the time anyway.. Plus with winter, my pain is more intense, so I get out usually about once or twice a month anyway..

 

[Seabrook]

But I like having him there !!! I think he is cool !!!

Well that's cool if you like him and want to keep him around. But maybe then you should give him a name? From a previous post above, I had no idea they were everywhere. I just thought they were in the swamps and perhaps a little further away from the public.

I personally can't even go to bed if I know I have a spider on the wall or a fly in the house. Sometimes I even get my step ladder out to swat. When I see them in the yard where they're supposed to stay, I leave them be to enjoy themselves, but eek, not in my home.

 

[Fudgey]

*LOL* I've been getting used to it through the years.. If I have a tv and the net, I'm fine.. With my medical problems, I tend to be home all the time anyway.. Plus with winter, my pain is more intense, so I get out usually about once or twice a month anyway..

It would take me some time to get used to being home all the time, especially with the DH there all the time. Sorry about your medical problems

 

[AngeLsLuv]

It would take me some time to get used to being home all the time, especially with the DH there all the time. Sorry about your medical problems

Well thankys.. My health is just a pain in the .... for me, not really a big deal.. Don't mind being stuck here in the most part, except for weekends when there is nothing on tv *LOL*

 

[Fudgey]

Well thankys.. My health is just a pain in the .... for me, not really a big deal.. Don't mind being stuck here in the most part, except for weekends when there is nothing on tv *LOL*

Weekend TV is for the birds BTW.... I love you avi....too cute!!!

 

[Kimerpuff]

I got out the shorts today! it was over 35 degrees! wow.. hello sunshine!

 

[Lisa66]

I got out the shorts today! it was over 35 degrees! wow.. hello sunshine!

Yes, isn't it funny how anything this time of year above freezing with a little sun feels like a treat? Yesterday traffic was crazy - just like in June!

 

[Mary Kay]

I have had my container garden all bunched up in my little front garden so I can throw a sheet over it on cold nights. Today I decided I wanted to spread it out and put all the little garden decoration in. now I have to worry about a late freeze! Oh well, if I have to I can bunch them up again..lol
It was so nice get get outside to do a little project that didn't involve raking or bagging..no fun!

 

[Seabrook]

Oh, Mary Kay, a container garden? That's just too awesome. Are they herbs, salad greens or a vegetable mix? I wish you luck on that.

 

[Fudgey]

68 here and sunny.....wooohooo!!!!

 

[classwife]

Yeah !! Fudgey is thawing out !!

 

[Mary Kay]

In the front yard there is a little triangle shaped by the drive way and walkway. I put my little garden in there. Right now it has green peppers, pimento, tomatos (I threw all the bird picked, gone bad and fallen tomato's from last years garden in a pot with dirt..they are coming up already!) pineapple plant and herbs. As soon as it's safe I will put flowers in between to attract bees.
The back yard will have my hanging tomatos and more veggies (in containers).

 

[Seabrook]

Yaay for Fudgey warming up. I'm happy for you lil buddy!

Mary Kay, a pineapple plant? Will it turn into a real pineapple plant that you eat, or will it be for an ornamental? That's impressive. And excuse my ignorance, but IDK what a pimento is other than it's a little doodad that sticks out of green olives sometimes. I'll have to look that one up. But y'all in FL are probably like us in CA that we can grow tomatoes year-round, right? You must be a gardening pro!

As a very young wife and mother (17 y.o.), I grew my first garden, and I had waaay too many tomatoes, so I made about 100 qts of tomato soup. Yeah, I know, OMG. It was so good that I've never been able to eat Campbell's since. I love homemade and homegrown. It's just absolutely the best. Those round red things in the store they call tomatoes don't even taste anything like a tomato to me. To make salads at home I buy canned tomatoes b/c they at least have some flavor after they've been processed.

I'm going to try that "Square Foot Gardening" method this spring and will elevate my boxes up three levels just to see how that works out. I have the new improved book, and it looks really hassle-free and easy to do. I get a lot of bees here b/c we have flower fields and a botanical garden nearby. I also get tons of butterflies in my yard every year. They like my fruit trees, especially my orange tree. Glad to hear your tomatoes are already up.

 

[Mary Kay]

I will start or you can..a garden thread. We can trade pics as soon as I get off my duff and go take one...lol! Pimentos are red green pepper looking things. They are kind of spicy/peppery tasting and can sub as a bell pepper in any thing. I bought just to see what it was! When the thread is ready I will link my hanging tomato pics from last year.