Yards except for garden is all clean and ready for winter... Started my winter garden and so far so good. I might be happy,lol. Been canning up a storm, one of our river friends knows this so he brought me a load of pears off of his tree. Veggies are fun,,, jams will be done after this last load of strawberrys. One of my neices is coming over Saturday she wants to learn.
Meanwhile stepping away from the stove,,,, I have successfully quit smoking. With the help of chantix that is, then again who cares,,,its over! yaaay me!! On the bad side,,,had to put my Rogerbuddy cat down, we tried everything bit to no glory. So its us and Lira the dame social butterfly.whom goes with us everywhere we can take her...
Parties are over at the river,,,thank goodness, planning next years stuff all ready and I think they will be moved so all of them are on our end of the park, to many people are complaining when they are on the north end. Its a bit stuffy there,lmao.
And now that the filter is coming back to my mouth,,,
Hey hi how are ya!!!!!
I'm near L.A. Fall here just means it went from 95-100 degrees to 80-85.
Girl you just don't slow down :lol:
Sorry about Rogerbuddy MeLady.
Quote from: Dr. Meh on September 30, 2013, 01:41:15 PM
I'm near L.A. Fall here just means it went from 95-100 degrees to 80-85.
:lol:
Cooler humidity.
Quote from: Dr. Meh on September 30, 2013, 01:41:15 PM
I'm near L.A. Fall here just means it went from 95-100 degrees to 80-85.
lol,,,nice,lol... We're just going to get ready for winter here in the midwest,,, The windy city blows those cold winds this a way... and if I can avoid going out shopping I do,lol.
Nice to meet you,,,been here long?
Quote from: walkstall on September 30, 2013, 03:11:40 PM
Girl you just don't slow down :lol:
Sorry about Rogerbuddy MeLady.
well now,,,I'm slowed down now,lmao....
Quote from: Elfie on September 30, 2013, 07:40:48 PM
lol,,,nice,lol... We're just going to get ready for winter here in the midwest,,, The windy city blows those cold winds this a way... and if I can avoid going out shopping I do,lol.
Nice to meet you,,,been here long?
Nice to meet you. No, no long at all. Couple months or so. I had a regular forum I used to attend but all the hippy libs ruined it with rude comments and trolling. So I jumped ship and came here. I'm liking it so far as the people seem a lot nicer.
Sorry about your feline pal, Elfster. Glad to see you slowed down long enough to post.
Quote from: quiller on October 02, 2013, 07:30:07 PM
Sorry about your feline pal, Elfster. Glad to see you slowed down long enough to post.
Thanks Quiller. he was a good ol boy. So I then had to rip a huge area rug out with the hepl of my SIL,,,then scrub down the floors where he, lets say, couldnt control himself, it happens with sick ones,,,then I had to clean the couches,lol...
THENNNN,lololol, off to the cabin so we can start the scrub down put away for winter. While at the same time,lmao,,,teaching my niece how to make jam,,,yaaaay,lmao....
:smile:
Quote from: Dr. Meh on September 30, 2013, 08:31:10 PM
Nice to meet you. No, no long at all. Couple months or so. I had a regular forum I used to attend but all the hippy libs ruined it with rude comments and trolling. So I jumped ship and came here. I'm liking it so far as the people seem a lot nicer.
Yep they work hard at keepin it nice here.... I am glad you like it... I like it to...
Quote from: Elfie on September 30, 2013, 07:43:19 PM
well now,,,I'm slowed down now,lmao....
It's warming up here...Spring is in the air. I've been away fishing for a bit but came home with a new coconut palm and several boxes of bromeliads...the garden is never far from our thoughts.
Greg
Quote from: gtopa1 on October 10, 2013, 02:45:22 AM
It's warming up here...Spring is in the air. I've been away fishing for a bit but came home with a new coconut palm and several boxes of bromeliads...the garden is never far from our thoughts.
Greg
Where in Australia do you live? I lived in perth for a year during the infamous reign of Howard :laugh: I tell ya one thing, I certainly don't miss the spiders and shit. But very nice country nonetheless.
I'm in Norway and its winter soon now, about 5-15 degrees now with frost on the grass in the morning. And it just keeps on raining most days. Then again summer ended 2 months ago up here :laugh:
Quote from: Mountainshield on October 11, 2013, 09:14:23 AM
Where in Australia do you live? I lived in perth for a year during the infamous reign of Howard :laugh: I tell ya one thing, I certainly don't miss the spiders and shit. But very nice country nonetheless.
I'm in Norway and its winter soon now, about 5-15 degrees now with frost on the grass in the morning. And it just keeps on raining most days. Then again summer ended 2 months ago up here :laugh:
Dear Mountie,
I'm up in Queensland...a little city called Toowoomba. It has rained a little bit here since May but we're slipping back into drought...not a big deal as we have our own bore and stuff. The local big dams are full but strange as it may seem I didn't even see snow until I was about 50 and went to Europe on holidays. it's cool stuff...pardon the pun.
Perth is good so I hear but a bit away from my usual haunts...never actually been there. I did advise a backpacker in Europe who was planning to walk from Cairns to Perth to take a cut lunch.
OK: in Europe you have Bear Grylls and "Man against Wild"...here we call it camping. The spiders are great and I enjoy taking my pet funnel web for walkies. It also keeps the cats away.
Greg
The swallows and swifts are migrating thru Oregon and are dyeing by the thousands.
It has been so cold here the bugs are dead. (most) or hiding.
Sad
Quote from: darroll on October 12, 2013, 04:12:34 PM
The swallows and swifts are migrating thru Oregon and are dyeing by the thousands.
It has been so cold here the bugs are dead. (most) or hiding.
Sad
Global warming, or wind turbines? j/k :wink:
Quote from: gtopa1 on October 11, 2013, 03:15:24 PM
Dear Mountie,
I'm up in Queensland...a little city called Toowoomba. It has rained a little bit here since May but we're slipping back into drought...not a big deal as we have our own bore and stuff. The local big dams are full but strange as it may seem I didn't even see snow until I was about 50 and went to Europe on holidays. it's cool stuff...pardon the pun.
Perth is good so I hear but a bit away from my usual haunts...never actually been there. I did advise a backpacker in Europe who was planning to walk from Cairns to Perth to take a cut lunch.
OK: in Europe you have Bear Grylls and "Man against Wild"...here we call it camping. The spiders are great and I enjoy taking my pet funnel web for walkies. It also keeps the cats away.
Greg
I can't tell if you are joking or not, the most hard and strong endurance persons I have met are australians. While I lived in Perth with my single mother my neighbour sort of became my surrogate father for my time there and he was crazy, he used to live in the outback catching wild sheep for a living, walked barefoot on scorching pavement, strong and didnt mind hard work even in 45 degree heat. Picked up huge spiders with his hands and threw them out into the bush as he didnt want to hurt them or kill them, same with snakes and scorpions.
I have been to Cairns, Melbourne and Sydney too but Perth was the more beautiful city in my opinion. Mostly because the city center is very concentrated over a small area with the rest being suburbs. Sydney had too many immigrant and slums for my taste, and you could see fires everyday from insurance scams. Melbourne climate reminded me too much of Norway and I only spent 3 days there.
Quote from: Mountainshield on October 13, 2013, 01:02:00 AM
I can't tell if you are joking or not, the most hard and strong endurance persons I have met are australians. While I lived in Perth with my single mother my neighbour sort of became my surrogate father for my time there and he was crazy, he used to live in the outback catching wild sheep for a living, walked barefoot on scorching pavement, strong and didnt mind hard work even in 45 degree heat. Picked up huge spiders with his hands and threw them out into the bush as he didnt want to hurt them or kill them, same with snakes and scorpions.
I have been to Cairns, Melbourne and Sydney too but Perth was the more beautiful city in my opinion. Mostly because the city center is very concentrated over a small area with the rest being suburbs. Sydney had too many immigrant and slums for my taste, and you could see fires everyday from insurance scams. Melbourne climate reminded me too much of Norway and I only spent 3 days there.
Sorry 'bout that, mate. The bit after OK is fake....though I do enjoy camping. The funnel web is a large local spider.....just joking about having one as a pet. I haven't worked with stock but I've worked on farms during Uni holidays and dad always had a hobby farm....plus a factory that made Besser Blocks....so am no stranger to hard work. I've known blokes like your mum's neighbour and have done contract fencing in that sort of heat...but snakes are best avoided unless you know that they're only carpet pythons. I avoid venomous ones. I did have a pet bearded dragon lizard though when I was a kid...used to rest him on my shoulder and walk up Surfers Paradise with it...but that was when I was twelve. I've been through both bushfires (1983: Adelaide Hills) and floods quite regularly...but such is life.
I haven't been to Norway or the States, but I lived in the UK for a year and have done a couple of other trips OS....and intend to again. I did the "big leg" from Bulgaria to Ireland stopping at many places in between and really enjoyed walking ...loved the Lakes District and their low "Mountains"....though used my sandals when walking in Spring/summer. Winter was different...full cold weather kit of course.
The city I prefer is Adelaide but as I said I haven't been to Perth. But maybe one day.
Greg
Quote from: gtopa1 on October 13, 2013, 03:56:01 AM
Sorry 'bout that, mate. The bit after OK is fake....though I do enjoy camping. The funnel web is a large local spider.....just joking about having one as a pet. I haven't worked with stock but I've worked on farms during Uni holidays and dad always had a hobby farm....plus a factory that made Besser Blocks....so am no stranger to hard work. I've known blokes like your mum's neighbour and have done contract fencing in that sort of heat...but snakes are best avoided unless you know that they're only carpet pythons. I avoid venomous ones. I did have a pet bearded dragon lizard though when I was a kid...used to rest him on my shoulder and walk up Surfers Paradise with it...but that was when I was twelve. I've been through both bushfires (1983: Adelaide Hills) and floods quite regularly...but such is life.
I haven't been to Norway or the States, but I lived in the UK for a year and have done a couple of other trips OS....and intend to again. I did the "big leg" from Bulgaria to Ireland stopping at many places in between and really enjoyed walking ...loved the Lakes District and their low "Mountains"....though used my sandals when walking in Spring/summer. Winter was different...full cold weather kit of course.
The city I prefer is Adelaide but as I said I haven't been to Perth. But maybe one day.
Greg
Most of my friends are in Melbourne, Greg.
Is that far from you?
I'd like to take a trip on the Ghan train.
A cold winter is predicted.
The birds and squirrels are sure busy burying seeds.
Our wild geese are too lazy to fly south.
Quote from: gtopa1 on October 10, 2013, 02:45:22 AM
It's warming up here...Spring is in the air. I've been away fishing for a bit but came home with a new coconut palm and several boxes of bromeliads...the garden is never far from our thoughts.
Greg
Nice! Now if you do any walk abouts I must know,lol. I am trying hard to get spring and summer in doors,lol. I think it will make me nuts this first time out. But for now I am busting out all things fall andf gathering for the winter stock.
Nice to meet you.
;)
Quote from: darroll on October 13, 2013, 04:35:14 PM
A cold winter is predicted.
The birds and squirrels are sure busy burying seeds.
Our wild geese are too lazy to fly south.
We are expecting the same. The geese are on the move here so in comes the hummingbird feeders since they hitch a ride on the backs of geese to go to where ever they go.. So it begins the crunch time for putting the yards aslepp for the snow.
:)
Took my pears to the cabin this weekend, going to finish them up here at home today or tomorrow. Today is gonna be a bust it day. Must pull the gardens and do the lawns and put away the deck for winter time. Meanwhile I am figuring out how to do a salad garden inside. so far so good, buit I am seriously knocking wood,lmao.
Ok, outside I go, Lira is w3atching for squirrels and I have produce to collect....yaaay,lol
Quote from: Elfie on October 14, 2013, 05:51:58 AM
Nice! Now if you do any walk abouts I must know,lol. I am trying hard to get spring and summer in doors,lol. I think it will make me nuts this first time out. But for now I am busting out all things fall andf gathering for the winter stock.
Nice to meet you.
;)
Funny you should say that. The traditional walkabout was an aboriginal thing; just leave for a few months and then reappear in one's own time. I enjoy bush walking nearby so that is as much as I do nowdays...though I did go on a three day hike a few weeks ago. Full moon in the Oz bush at night....wonderful.
Greg
Quote from: gtopa1 on October 19, 2013, 02:37:20 AM
Funny you should say that. The traditional walkabout was an aboriginal thing; just leave for a few months and then reappear in one's own time. I enjoy bush walking nearby so that is as much as I do nowdays...though I did go on a three day hike a few weeks ago. Full moon in the Oz bush at night....wonderful.
Greg
There is some of us here that get to go for that long and some of us that do the small walking trips.lol...not me I do the camper thing,lol. Although I cant wait til we can just be gone!,lol. Til then I'll just have to deal with it... :biggrin:
Quote from: Elfie on October 21, 2013, 07:04:12 AM
There is some of us here that get to go for that long and some of us that do the small walking trips.lol...not me I do the camper thing,lol. Although I cant wait til we can just be gone!,lol. Til then I'll just have to deal with it... :biggrin:
Some of us must suffer with year round "Real Crappy Weekends™" :wink:
Quote from: walkstall on October 21, 2013, 07:17:17 AM
Some of us must suffer with year round "Real Crappy Weekends™" :wink:
True,,, but someone has to be stuck with that curse,lol
Quote from: Elfie on October 21, 2013, 07:23:59 AM
True,,, but someone has to be stuck with that curse,lol
:lol: we are suffering this week with 70º and it's been 80º+ in the sun.
Quote from: walkstall on October 21, 2013, 07:31:13 AM
:lol: we are suffering this week with 70º and it's been 80º+ in the sun.
We had almost winter,lol...
Quote from: Elfie on October 21, 2013, 08:34:34 AM
We had almost winter,lol...
Looks like you have a big cold front moving in on you MeLady, time for the stay puft suit.
Quote from: walkstall on October 21, 2013, 09:26:37 AM
Looks like you have a big cold front moving in on you MeLady, time for the stay puft suit.
Yes we do. Its ok,,, I got my suit all ready to go (its been with me since Friday night),lol. I'm ready to hunker down and fire up the wood burner if I have to. :thumbsup:
Here in Meeeeshigoon, the trees are starting to turn color but this year the hues are muted and not all that pretty in the relentless cloudy weather we seem to have had lately. N and I have wandered the tri-county area as I search for my annual color tour shots...and I'm drawing big blanks. It's all out of synch, vast patches of green and isolated color...and wet.
Ahem. That was Sunday. Our version of a really crappy weekend.
:wink:
Quote from: quiller on October 21, 2013, 09:34:24 PM
Here in Meeeeshigoon, the trees are starting to turn color but this year the hues are muted and not all that pretty in the relentless cloudy weather we seem to have had lately. N and I have wandered the tri-county area as I search for my annual color tour shots...and I'm drawing big blanks. It's all out of synch, vast patches of green and isolated color...and wet.
Ahem. That was Sunday. Our version of a really crappy weekend.
:wink:
That sounds like a nice relaxing way top spend the day. We have the same thing going on... Maybe this blast of frost will kick it up... who knows,lol... I sure hope so...
Here in central Ohio, it has been the prettiest, gentlest, nicest fall of my life -- and that's a LOT of falls! :tounge:
It breaks my heart that Mrs. Tbone missed it all. She would have loved it.
Quote from: TboneAgain on October 22, 2013, 03:09:27 PM
Here in central Ohio, it has been the prettiest, gentlest, nicest fall of my life -- and that's a LOT of falls! :tounge:
It breaks my heart that Mrs. Tbone missed it all. She would have loved it.
It will get easier I promise...
We don't have pretty colors yet..Hopefully this weekend will produce some. but we did have this a couple of weeks ago....
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Quote from: Elfie on October 24, 2013, 10:29:49 AM
It will get easier I promise...
We don't have pretty colors yet..Hopefully this weekend will produce some. but we did have this a couple of weeks ago....
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What do you mean, you don't have pretty colors? I think they're beautiful!
yes TBone, it is pretty at that,,, I sure would have liked that shot all fired up in autum color... :smile:
Quote from: Elfie on October 24, 2013, 04:37:22 PM
yes TBone, it is pretty at that,,, I sure would have liked that shot all fired up in autum color... :smile:
Hmm.. Next week MeLady.
Quote from: walkstall on October 24, 2013, 06:10:55 PM
Hmm.. Next week MeLady.
Hope so,,, been in the 20's and 30's here at night... Maybe that will snap it into color.
;)
Quote from: Elfie on October 25, 2013, 07:25:18 AM
Hope so,,, been in the 20's and 30's here at night... Maybe that will snap it into color.
;)
My tree leaves are all yellow now and starting to drop. I have roses in the back yard coming on yet. All the miniature roses in front are in full bloom and I see buds coming on yet.
Quote from: walkstall on October 25, 2013, 03:16:45 PM
My tree leaves are all yellow now and starting to drop. I have roses in the back yard coming on yet. All the miniature roses in front are in full bloom and I see buds coming on yet.
We're in full color as well, though I don't see any change here in the forest of conifers, but the foothills do.
We STILL have green!!! this is just nuts......
Quote from: Elfie on November 01, 2013, 08:44:10 AM
We STILL have green!!! this is just nuts......
YOU have G/Warming yet!
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Quote from: walkstall on November 01, 2013, 09:48:05 AM
YOU have G/Warming yet!
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Don't know about GW but it has been dry and warm over spring...quite hot yesterday. Lovely though...just wish we had enough tank water to fill the pool.
Greg
we have color now... give me a while and I will post the pic... Its going to be a pretty day til the rains come...
Quote from: Elfie on November 04, 2013, 05:39:55 AM
we have color now... give me a while and I will post the pic... Its going to be a pretty day til the rains come...
Hmm...Did himself get all the things done at the river for the winter? We are starting to dip in to mid low 30's at night now. Chance of rain over the next 10 days runs from 10% to 50% but it only rains for 1 to 2 hrs. this time a year then it goes East. :lol:
32 degrees this morning. Wood stove going so I am comfortable.
Toy
Quote from: walkstall on November 04, 2013, 05:54:03 AM
Hmm...Did himself get all the things done at the river for the winter? We are starting to dip in to mid low 30's at night now. Chance of rain over the next 10 days runs from 10% to 50% but it only rains for 1 to 2 hrs. this time a year then it goes East. :lol:
Yes he did,,,just have to move our camper,,, where we move it is blocked by a electric pole size log,,they are going to move it this week for him. Its hittin mid 30's here,,,, but today I could hang clothes out,lol and mow!