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[ShowMeTwice]

The multi color looks like Josephs Coat but that is a small climber. It is definitely a semi double, probably a floribunda but that could be any of a thousand. The white looks like JFK or Pascali and is a hybrid tea. Might be Full Sail. Think I need more info, post pics when the bloom opens, tell me if the roses have thorns and post a pic of the leaf.

Reason for the names is because they are patented so need a different name, can't just be a 'white rose'. Also, for sale purposes, needs a name. This is 'Pure Poetry', no longer available anywhere. I had to leave it behind when I moved from GA.

Thanks Rose. Never know rose names were patented. But yeah, makes sense. And, I'll have to be, ummm, covert in gathering more info for you or they will surely ask what I'm up to. Trying to avoid that. They never believe my standard answer... "nothing".

 

[ShowMeTwice]

LovesButtercups, Willie and Diver9543... thanks for sharing some of your stories. I enjoyed reading them.

 

[ShowMeTwice]

When I was very young my first job was entrepreneurial in nature. I collected mostly flat rocks from a nearby creek, a river and some from the railroad tracks. Brought them home, cleaned 'em and painted stuff on them. Like ya know houses and flowers and cars and trains ( ). Wasn't a very good artist at that young age.

When I had a shoebox full I went door to door in and around our neighborhood selling them. Just like the Fuller Brush Man, except my rocks were way cooler. It felt like I hit the Big Time as a little kid earning a dime, fifteen cents, a quarter or even fifty cents for each painted rock.

I got a paper route for my next kid job. Better pay.

 

[Nermal]

When I was very young my first job was entrepreneurial in nature. I collected mostly flat rocks from a nearby creek, a river and some from the railroad tracks. Brought them home, cleaned 'em and painted stuff on them. Like ya know houses and flowers and cars and trains ( ). Wasn't a very good artist at that young age.

When I had a shoebox full I went door to door in and around our neighborhood selling them. Just like the Fuller Brush Man, except my rocks were way cooler. It felt like I hit the Big Time as a little kid earning a dime, fifteen cents, a quarter or even fifty cents for each painted rock.

I got a paper route for my next kid job. Better pay.

When I was a kid, we captured crawdads from the Arkansas river and tried selling them door to door - as pets.

No takers

 

[rosesense]

My computer died. Gosh, it is hard to use the phone for posting.

 

[Nermal]

My computer died. Gosh, it is hard to use the phone for posting.

My computer took a notion to slow down drastically. I got a rebuild and asked the shop to transfer everything to the 'new' one. Suddenly, I'm having to fight to do anything on the computer. Thanks for nothing, guys.

 

[LovesButtercups]

My first paying job was at Hardee’s, started the day after I turned 16. I am surprised that I didn’t gain 30 pounds those first weeks, eating gravy and biscuits on all those weekend morning shifts! My dad grew tobacco for years, and I helped out every year as soon as I was big enough to be useful. I remember being in a hurry to get a job so that I wouldn’t have to be in the tobacco field/barn so much. Dad bought me a (very very used) car when I got my job (he had to be at work super early, and he’d be in bed before I got off work some nights). I thought I was so cool, having a car and my own spending money, after gas and car insurance was paid. I was sorely disappointed to find I still had to spend a lot of time working the tobacco! It probably helped keep me out of trouble because I was too tired to get up to no good.

Mom would spend days canning vegetables from the garden. We had one of those big radio console things with the record player (and maybe an 8-track tape player, can’t remember for sure). Mom would play records so we’d have music to sweat to lol. Some of her favorites were Muddy Waters, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Willie Nelson, and Marty Robbins. I can clearly remember sitting in the living room floor in the mornings, stringing and snapping green beans, listening to music and the sounds of those jars and lids rattling together while mom was working on getting stuff ready to go in the kitchen. I didn’t mind helping plant the garden or picking veggies when they were ready, but I sure hated canning. I have always been a bit of a klutz and I’d usually burn myself at least once, no matter how careful I tried to be!

 

[DavidOck]

Morning, lizards.

Fall like weather continues here, although the rumors of rain still seem exaggerated. As in none.

My computer died. Gosh, it is hard to use the phone for posting.

That's not good! What's the "failure mode"? There may be hope, depending...

 

[MikeE3]

Been AWOL from the lounge the past few days. Janet and I have been spending most of our time house shopping on-line and in person. Went to see a couple places yesterday that looked great and met most of our check-list items for what we are looking for. Damn those professional real estate photographers. They know their job too well. What looks great in the listing pictures turns out quite different when seen in person.

I'm starting to feel like a bi-polar OCD fanatic at times being so lazer focused on the MLS portal our realtor setup for us. We may just wind up buying a big RV rig and become road gypsies. Would be easier to find one of those for sale than a house in the location we're trying to relocate to.

Been finding potential fits close to our daughter but no closer to our son then we are now and vice versa. Yep the real estate game really is location, location, location. Then hoping to find something in that location within budget.

ugh!

 

[FranC]

Been AWOL from the lounge the past few days. Janet and I have been spending most of our time house shopping on-line and in person. Went to see a couple places yesterday that looked great and met most of our check-list items for what we are looking for. Damn those professional real estate photographers. They know their job too well. What looks great in the listing pictures turns out quite different when seen in person.

I'm starting to feel like a bi-polar OCD fanatic at times being so lazer focused on the MLS portal our realtor setup for us. We may just wind up buying a big RV rig and become road gypsies. Would be easier to find one of those for sale than a house in the location we're trying to relocate to.

Been finding potential fits close to our daughter but no closer to our son then we are now and vice versa. Yep the real estate game really is location, location, location. Then hoping to find something in that location within budget.

ugh!

I wish you two much good luck.

 

[LovesButtercups]

I mowed mom’s yard today, and found what appeared to be a bee hive in a hole in the ground. They looked to be about the size of honey bees, but most things I read tell me that honey bees don’t build hives underground. They were too small to be bumble bees, and they certainly weren’t yellow jackets (been there, done that - those suckers are MEAN). It was just a hole in the yard, not next to or under a stump or a bush or anything, and I’ve mowed that spot for ages and never seen them there before. I was fascinated, but scared to hang around too long. I could see bees flying in and out, but it wasn’t like a giant swarm or anything. I could see what looked like honeycomb in there but it was dark brown/almost black. I sure wish my dad was still alive…he knew all kinds of stuff about bees, and used to keep bees when I was little.

Other than yard work, I am being somewhat lazy. Hubs wants to go fishing tomorrow, so I’m doing some of the laundry today. That’s about it, though. I hope you all are having a great weekend!

 

[DavidOck]

We have similar ground living critters, and yep, they can be nasty little buggers. If they'd stay out of garden areas I'd leave them alone...

But when they do, well, get a good wasp spray, wait until dark so they're all home, and soak it down well. Usually works on the first try, but if the nest is too deep it may need another dose.

Barring that, I've read that a couple teaspoons of dish soap in a water sprayer can work, but I've not tried that.

It may also be possible to encourage them to move, by REALLY soaking the nest with the garden hose. Yeah, right, I'm going to stand near a wasp nest and hose it down.

 

[Nermal]

It may also be possible to encourage them to move, by REALLY soaking the nest with the garden hose. Yeah, right, I'm going to stand near a wasp nest and hose it down.

Yeah, I have heard better ideas

 

[LovesButtercups]

We have similar ground living critters, and yep, they can be nasty little buggers. If they'd stay out of garden areas I'd leave them alone...

But when they do, well, get a good wasp spray, wait until dark so they're all home, and soak it down well. Usually works on the first try, but if the nest is too deep it may need another dose.

Barring that, I've read that a couple teaspoons of dish soap in a water sprayer can work, but I've not tried that.

It may also be possible to encourage them to move, by REALLY soaking the nest with the garden hose. Yeah, right, I'm going to stand near a wasp nest and hose it down.

My mom just talked to my uncle, and he said it was likely what‘s left of a yellow jacket nest. He said the hole was probably a lot smaller, but an armadillo could have came along and dug it out to eat the critters. What was left were probably just babies, more or less, and may be why I didn’t get stung? He then suggested I pour used motor oil and kerosene in there and light it up. Uhhhhh, no…that’s pretty bad for the environment, AND I don’t want to end up on the evening news. I think I’ll try a can or two of wasp spray first!

I had no idea armadillos would eat them, but if so, they can have ‘em all! I’ve had one run-in with yellow jackets and that was plenty enough.

 

[rosesense]

Morning, lizards.

Fall like weather continues here, although the rumors of rain still seem exaggerated. As in none.



That's not good! What's the "failure mode"? There may be hope, depending...

It turned off and when u try to turn on it flashes once then nothing. My daughter tried a new power cord but that didn't work.

 

[DavidOck]

Morning all, and happy Sunday.

Which we may or may not see, although the overcast doesn't really promise any rain here.

"It turned off and when u try to turn on it flashes once then nothing. My daughter tried a new power cord but that didn't work."

Dang. Any sound at that time? BIOS error codes are usually audible, and just one beep points to a hardware failure on the mother board. Not sure how the blink relates. If a Windows box, even with a bricked operating system it should at least boot and tell your there's a problem with that. Since it doesn't even get there, yeah, maybe a hardware failure. The upside is that if that's the case, the hard drive is probably ok, so all your data can be recovered.

But also do a search for "BIOS error blink codes" for your specific make and model, as there are some variations.

 

[Janet H]

Hola ..

I'm going to head to Nashville either later today or early tomorrow and get off the grid for a time .. I need a change of scenery, some live music ..

'The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band' is playing at the Ryman on Saturday and I've got a couple good seats .. won't be hard to find a partner to take along ..

Wish you'd be there .. nothing like the Ryman .. gives me chills when I walk in the doors ..

Hallowed ground, for sure ..

Geez, I've been MIA here this week so I guess Willie has been gone and back by now. Hope you had a great trip!

Wake up everybody. We aren't getting any younger.

I am so sore from cleaning at the new house yesterday. I will be glad when the move is over and hopefully this one sells.

Even with all the work I envy you that you have a place to move to. I always thought we needed to find a house to buy first and then put ours on the market. Well, we accidently sold our house to our neighbor so it never went on the market and now we're scrambling to find a new house to buy. We'd have a lot less trouble if we'd hit the lottery or Michael Anthony would show up with his cashiers check for $1M.

We have similar ground living critters, and yep, they can be nasty little buggers. If they'd stay out of garden areas I'd leave them alone...

But when they do, well, get a good wasp spray, wait until dark so they're all home, and soak it down well. Usually works on the first try, but if the nest is too deep it may need another dose.

Barring that, I've read that a couple teaspoons of dish soap in a water sprayer can work, but I've not tried that.

It may also be possible to encourage them to move, by REALLY soaking the nest with the garden hose. Yeah, right, I'm going to stand near a wasp nest and hose it down.

When I water my deck plants I can also water the plants on the ground below the deck. I noticed bees flying out of a hole in the ground by a bush that's dying so I drenched the hole over a few days and the bees either drowned or left for new digs because they're gone now. So I guess drenching the hole does work as long as you can do it from far enough away.

 

[DavidOck]

Michael Anthony would show up with his cashiers check for $1M.

Yeah, where's that guy when we need him?! And I bet I could be one who doesn't say where it came from

 

[Janet H]

Yesterday was a beautiful day for apple picking! I picked 28 lbs of apples so I guess I'm just going to have to make some apple crisp today. Yeah, that'll put a real dent in our diets, but I'm willing to make the sacrifice. Maybe I'll make a double batch and take some to the neighbors so we can all get fat together.

 

[rosesense]

Good day. Still packing. I never want to do this again but will have to unfortunately.